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Example sentences for "other than"

  • What, even, if he got away from the camp in safety before any returned with the true story of his guilt--of what value would this advantage be other than to protract for a few days his mental torture and his life?

  • They were too well occupied in self-defense to attempt to halt him, nor could they have done so other than by the wasting of a precious bullet which might be needed the next instant to turn the charge of a savage foe.

  • He had never understood the transformation that had been wrought in Tarzan by the blow upon his head, other than to attribute it to a form of amnesia.

  • Pierce me with thine eyes; it is no other than that.

  • I have a business with the captain of the vessel that brought us hither, and I must see him ere he setteth sail; no other than that, thou jealous, watchful star!

  • She levelled her lids at him till her lustrous black eyelashes were as arrows, and mimicked him softly, 'No other than that?

  • When he had eaten and drunk with her, the Queen said, 'O youth, no other than my guest!

  • Verily, this is no other than a warning to all creatures; To him among you who willeth to walk in a straight path: But will it ye shall not, unless as God willeth it,10 the Lord of the worlds.

  • Of a truth the Koran is no other than a warning to all creatures.

  • Truly ye are in no other than a plain error.

  • Thus God misleadeth whom He will, and whom He will doth He guide aright: and none knoweth the armies of thy Lord but Himself: and this is no other than a warning to mankind.

  • The Koran is no other than a revelation revealed to him: One terrible in power2 taught it him, Endued with wisdom.

  • It is simply this,--that he would have me to be other than I am.

  • The note was very simple, and could not be taken as other than friendly.

  • This was his half-brother, considerably older than himself, and was no other than that Mr. Roby who was now Secretary to the Admiralty, and who in the last Conservative Government had been one of the Secretaries to the Treasury.

  • He knew himself to be a man of the world, and he did not wish to be other than he was.

  • But it is thine to command in this and in other than this.

  • Wherefore, O my son, turn from her to other than her.

  • By Allah, hadst thou bidden me to other than this, I had not hesitated; but the Caliph's migraine constraineth me and thou knowest my rank with him.

  • After waiting half an hour, I did indeed see an acquaintance--no other than M, whom I had left in the vineyard.

  • Although Monsieur de Lamotte did not yet understand what motive, other than gratitude, had induced his wife to bring this stranger home with her, he again rose from his seat, and going to Derues, held out his hand.

  • He was no other than the so-called Count Celi.

  • The lady who was with him could be no other than Madame C----.

  • But that which pleases me most is that, if your second is really a dancer, he can be no other than M.

  • Can one in earnest be other than careless?

  • He laughed at the little sisterly revelations the ladies confided concerning her too heartily for them to have any fear that she was other than a toy to him.

  • It was a principle of hers, pampering our poor sex with swinish solids or the lightest ambrosia, never to let the accompanying cordial be other than of the finest quality.

  • Alas, he could not be other than Christian, so glorious was he in build!

  • Yet feigning to believe her and them, he had first neutralized her only weapons--other than offensive--then used them for her own defeat.

  • But certainly, mademoiselle, assure yourself that this gentleman is no other than I have told you.

  • Garnache, and then, realizing that the assassins had followed so close upon his heels, he put all thoughts from his mind other than that of the immediate business.

  • Young health on the flow of her leaping blood cried out that it could not be other than Alvan's wish; she believed in his wishing it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "other than" 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:
    himself the; making known; other agencies; other allied; other alternative; other authorities; other breeds; other composers; other crops; other fluid; other fruit; other hand; other hands; other kings; other liquid; other matters; other officers; other organisms; other painters; other systems; other universities; other world; otherwise than; scraped horseradish; soft and; three drachms