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Example sentences for "other persons"

  • The steward of the hospital informs me that during his connection with it, which extends over a period of more than sixty years, he has never known the disease to extend to other persons, except on two occasions.

  • When rooms which have been occupied by relapsing-fever patients are subsequently occupied by other persons, these are very liable to acquire the disease.

  • The same feat, it is well-known, has been repeatedly accomplished by other persons also.

  • Although he had many such visions, and his wife, succumbing to the contagious influence of magic powers, also foresaw more than one important event, he sternly refused to attach any weight to his own forebodings or those of other persons.

  • To these particular traits, from a man of sense and truth, it would be superfluous to add the general terms of praise or blame, in which he is spoken of by other persons, in whose impartiality and penetration, I have less confidence.

  • This is less difficult in his case, than in that of other persons of his rank, because he has taken no pains to hide himself from the world.

  • A number of names of other persons in a position to give additional information were returned with the questionnaires.

  • Other persons participating in the discussion and giving additional information as to the bright prospects for the cooperation of the races in the country were Bishop R.

  • About a dozen of these were free persons, who succeeded in establishing the claim that they never had been slaves; other persons, equally free, were carried off.

  • The fugitives had escaped and could not be recovered, but a number of other persons, most of whom were colored, were arrested, taken to Philadelphia, and indicted for treason.

  • A riot was occasioned at King's Lynn by sailors who, with a number of other persons, forcibly took a portion of the crew from a vessel about to sail, and demanded a general rise of wages.

  • My acknowledgments to other persons I have expressed in several of the Notes.

  • A title of honor given to kings, princes, or other persons of rank; as, His Royal Highness.

  • Defn: A sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.

  • Defn: A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.

  • How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons !

  • Other persons might be seen shifting, slowly and laboriously, their estimates and standards in order to bring them into line with the youthful Tressiter estimates and standards.

  • They are accompanied (where plain necessity seems to call for it) by the written evidence of other persons.

  • Other persons, less easily pleased, were tempted by sandwiches of pate de fois gras and by exquisite combinations of chicken and truffles, reduced to a creamy pulp which clung to the bread like butter.

  • His hands are bound at the wrist with a rope which is held by other persons in the boat.

  • Either then the men called apostles were imposters, or the books ascribed to them have been written by other persons, and fathered upon them, as is the case in the Old Testament.

  • Soldiers are free of all corporations throughout the nation, by the same propriety that every soldier is free of every garrison, and no other persons are.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "other persons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    other areas; other book; other books; other chiefs; other churches; other continents; other fish; other fluid; other goods; other house; other islands; other kings; other ladies; other lines; other maps; other officers; other place; other poets; other prophets; other references; other regions; other ways; other woman; other women; other worlds; others will