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Example sentences for "offices"

Lexicographically close words:
officeholders; officer; officered; officering; officers; officia; official; officialdom; officiales; officialism
  1. The principal entrance is at the south front from Duncan-street, on each side of which are three large shops fronting the street, with a suite of six offices above.

  2. In the following year the secretary of state was appointed secretary at war also, and the duties of the two offices amalgamated.

  3. A further difficulty lay in the existence of the offices called Colonel-General, Marshal-General and Grand Master of Artillery, between whom no common administration was possible.

  4. He was reinstated in all his offices by Elizabeth, served as high constable at her coronation, and was visited several times by the queen at Nonsuch in Surrey.

  5. You have hundreds of Germans in your army to-day, while your public offices are full of men, and women too for that matter, of German parentage and with German sympathies.

  6. They take jobs in our offices for hardly any wage, and then when they have learned our secrets, and the names of our customers, they just play against us.

  7. He had offices in the Guaranty Building and lived in the Monarch apartment-house on Park Avenue.

  8. Will you be at the offices of Zenda Films to-morrow morning with Judge Walbrough?

  9. In the lobby was a list of the building's tenants, and it stated that the executive offices of Zenda Films were on the tenth floor.

  10. The army was led and officered by members of the two Houses, and the Self-denying Ordinance, which was introduced by Cromwell and Vane, declared the tenure of military or civil offices incompatible with a seat in either.

  11. At one stage he demanded from Lewis a fresh pension for the next three years as the price of his good offices with the allies.

  12. On the Duke himself and on his wife honours and offices were freely lavished, and the new ministry was drawn almost entirely from the Tory party.

  13. From offices connected with the Church, or participation in Church patronage, he was naturally excluded.

  14. Almost all the other important offices were in Romanist hands.

  15. Business, private work, and professional practice go on sometimes in the house apartments, but often in special offices in the great warren of the business quarter.

  16. I regard the facade of the Utopian public offices of Lucerne--I had meant to call his attention to some of the architectural features of these--with a changed eye, with all the spirit gone out of my vision.

  17. There are, about all these desert regions and along most coasts, little offices at which the samurai says good-bye to the world of men, and at which they arrive after their minimum time of silence is overpast.

  18. All the duties of these various offices he discharged with kindness and ability.

  19. Jennie went, on the evening of her arrival, to the offices of the Sleeping Car Company, to secure a place in one of the carriages that left at six o'clock on the evening of the 21st.

  20. My colleague, Henry Alder, saw Hazel this afternoon at the offices of the Board.

  21. Fortunately for him, the offices of the Board are thronged with journalists who want to get statements from this man or the other regarding the exposure, and so the visit of Alder to Hazel was not likely to be noticed or commented upon.

  22. Next day Jennie Baxter drove to the address the editor had given her, and she found Mr. Cadbury Taylor at home, in somewhat sumptuous offices on the first floor.

  23. The Premier, Sir John Forrest, holds the offices of Colonial Secretary and Colonial Treasurer, and the Minister of Mines, the only Minister in the Upper House, controls the Postal and Telegraphic Departments.

  24. The mine and other surrounding properties have created a thriving settlement; well-built offices have been erected, hundreds of men are employed, and the ear is continually greeted by the din of machinery.

  25. She made me the confidant of her attachment, and besought my good offices with her father, which I so zealously used, that in less than a month, I assisted at the marriage of these lovers.

  26. The Assembly then went through the civil list, affixing to each office a salary, and passing over without any appropriation such offices as were either positive sinecures or little else.

  27. A bill was introduced and carried through the third reading, granting to offices particularly specified, particular salaries.

  28. He regretted that offices for the enregistration of property had not been established.

  29. He was much beloved for his talents by the Dukes of Ferrara, and, in addition to other favours and many gifts, he obtained through their good offices two Canonicates in the Duomo of Udine for two of his relatives.

  30. Though he said this to himself, it was with a vague feeling of uneasiness that Ned boarded a car to go to the offices of Skem & Skim.

  31. The man had his back toward Ned, but when he turned the boy saw it was the postal inspector who had been at the offices of Skem & Skim.

  32. Ned was deposited by the elevator in the corridor opposite the glittering offices of Skem & Skim.

  33. But this one had seemed substantial, and their offices certainly indicated that they did a big business.

  34. He was afraid to go down in the elevator lest the attendant might recognize him as the youth who was at the offices the day before, so he walked down the ten flights of stairs.

  35. The main question that is decided by an election in our country is, which political party shall have the privilege of dispensing the offices of Government?

  36. The true mother gives herself to the offices of love without hope, expectation, or wish of recompense.

  37. Into the outer defences the cattle and stores from the surrounding country would be brought, and the dwellings of the soldiers of the garrison, together with the domestic offices and stables, were erected within these.

  38. The kitchen, buttery, and other offices connected with the cooking and storing of food, were naturally placed near to the refractory.

  39. It would be interesting to identify the two men whom Borrow describes in Lavengro as being at the offices of the Bible Society in Earl Street, when he sought to exchange for a Bible the old Apple-woman's copy of Moll Flanders.

  40. The Courier's previous journey over the same route had ended in the murder of the escort and the burning of the coach, the Courier himself escaping through the good offices of one of the bandits, who had formerly been his postilion.

  41. On reaching London he proceeded direct to the Bible Society's offices in Earl Street, in spite of the early hour, and there awaited the arrival of the Rev.

  42. Siker's had spacious offices and a small staff.

  43. Ostrog," said Asano, "will be in the small offices beyond there.

  44. I will telephone to the aeronautical offices from here and we will return to your apartments in the Wind-Vane Control.

  45. The frontage of the wind-vane offices was illuminated by some moving picture, but what it was he could not see, because in spite of his strenuous attempts the density of the crowd prevented his approaching it.

  46. He was two miles from the wind-vane offices in Westminster, but the way was easy to follow.

  47. He is at the wind-vane offices directing.

  48. He knows little, but he told me that the Black Police would have arrived here before the people knew--had not someone in the Wind-Vane Offices Learnt.

  49. Ostrog is at the wind-vane offices ready--.

  50. Hence the origin of coined money, and of those public offices called mints; institutions exactly of the same nature with those of the aulnagers and stamp-masters of woollen and linen cloth.

  51. Carneades, too, was a Babylonian by birth; and as there never was a people more jealous of admitting foreigners to public offices than the Athenians, their consideration for him must have been very great.

  52. But where the fees of registration have been made a source of revenue to the sovereign, register-offices have commonly been multiplied without end, both for the deeds which ought to be registered, and for those which ought not.

  53. The emoluments of offices are not, like those of trades and professions, regulated by the free competition of the market, and do not, therefore, always bear a just proportion to what the nature of the employment requires.

  54. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of.

  55. You can bet the air was blue in the Transcontinental Chicago offices when the news got there.

  56. Blount dictated curtly: "'Pending another interview with you in person, I shall close my offices in Temple Court and confine myself strictly to the routine legal business of the company.

  57. And with a hard word for the department which had gossiped, Blount went down to the general offices in the station building.

  58. The offices in the up-town sky-scraper were not exclusively a railroad social centre where the disinterested voter could come and have the facts ladled out to him without fear or favor on the part of the ladler.

  59. Later, when he went to his offices in the Temple Court Building, the strenuosities reasserted themselves with emphasis.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "offices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assistance; benefit; comfort; ease; help; ministration; ministry; office; protection; relief; remedy; rescue; service; succor; support; therapy