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Example sentences for "our business"

  • Dined with my clerks at home, where much good discourse of our business of the Navy, and the trouble now upon us, more than we expected.

  • Not to lose ourselves in the infinite void of the conjectural world, our business is with what is likely to be affected, for the better or the worse, by the wisdom or weakness of our plans.

  • Our business is interrupted; our repose is troubled; our pleasures are saddened; our very studies are poisoned and perverted, and knowledge is rendered worse than ignorance by the enormous evils of this dreadful innovation.

  • It is entirely out of keeping with the principles of our business to disturb the routine of our production unless in an emergency.

  • And because railway financing began in one of the rottenest periods of our business history, a number of practices were established as precedents which have influenced railway work ever since.

  • Most important of all, we found out how to use less money in our business by speeding up the turnover.

  • It is, as is everything else in our business, the inevitable result of the application of a principle which can be applied to any business.

  • If we had diverted all of our business to this road, that would not explain why we manage at so much lower an operating cost than before.

  • University men are not suitable for our business.

  • Our business is hateful to you, yet you make use of the income from it.

  • Our business as Christians is to keep ourselves free from it.

  • But whether it be a temple brave with gold and cedar, or a log, it is our business to put all our strength into the task, and to draw that strength from the assurance that God is with us.

  • But it is our business to meet evil with good; and the more we are depreciated, the more we are harmed, the more we are circled about by malice and by scorn, the more patiently and persistently to love on.

  • When I left Europe, I was very far from hoping such an agreeable turn of our business in the American glorious revolution.

  • A prudent officer would do our business here, and the baron is prudent to the utmost.

  • We will make it our business to reconnoitre the enemy's works and give you on your arrival the best description of it that is in our power.

  • In reality we are not making war on the Russian people; we are expressly ordered not to injure any of their property; our business is only to destroy Government stores.

  • It is our business to do so," answered Jack, "though it is not much to my fancy to fire at men who cannot return the compliment.

  • But to return to our business; the gunner, when he saw the service I had done in the fight, and heard my proposal for keeping a number of prisoners for our march, and for carrying our baggage, turns to me before them all.

  • Ideas are the foundation of our business, and without them we could not make successful films; but when Mr. Goldstein buys an idea he pays as little for it as possible, and the poor author usually accepts the pittance with gratitude.

  • In the second place, you confided to us your disease and your treatment of it--which was really none of our business.

  • It's our business to make them fewer, Jill.

  • To MR MARCH] It's our business to keep an eye on all this sort of thing, sir, with girls who've just come out.

  • Our business languishes as much from environment as from any other cause.

  • We have no definite figures of the exact amount invested in our business ventures.

  • We are apt to forget the terrible handicaps that faced us as a people not so long ago, and the commercial ones that face our business men of to-day.

  • At length he rose, and said in a formal way, "I think now, sir, our business is ended.

  • Maybe we can use her in our business, Scraggsy," and he continued to shower the enemy with high bursting shrapnel.

  • I whispered Wilkinson, who sat next me, "These boatmen know nothing of our business; I shall have to take Mr. Mason apart and arrange with him.

  • Without particular examples, the most obvious truths are not brought home to our business.

  • It is our business to save children all this useless labour, and all this waste of the power of attention.

  • It is prudent to consider, that the actual progress made in our business at one sitting is not of so much consequence, as the desire left in the pupil's mind to sit again.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our business" 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:
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