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Example sentences for "our city"

  • So I did; and told them also of what God had shown to me of the destruction of our city; "but I seemed to them as one that mocked", and they believed me not.

  • Till I could stay no longer; for there was great talk presently after you were gone out that our city would, in short time, with fire from heaven, be burned down to the ground.

  • It might have since been answer'd in repaying What we took from them; which, for traffic's sake, Most of our city did.

  • So did we woo Transformed Timon to our city's love By humble message and by promis'd means.

  • The nature of our people, Our city's institutions, and the terms For common justice, y'are as pregnant in As art and practice hath enriched any That we remember.

  • My former comparison of the organization of our city to a picture puzzle wherein the dominating figures become visible only after long study is rather inadequate.

  • And I graduated from Densmore Academy, the best school in our city, in the 80's, without having been taught even the rudiments of citizenship.

  • No better illustration of this tendency could be given than the development which had recently taken place in the field of our city politics, hitherto the battle-ground of Irish politicians who had fought one another for supremacy.

  • And this is just the work that is now being done in our city by a Heaven-inspired institution not a year old, but with accomplished results that are a matter of wonder to all who are familiar with its operations.

  • All the profession award him the highest skill in our city, if not the whole country," said Doctor Hillhouse.

  • I shall not be without my maids-of-honor, you may be sure, and they will come from the best families known in our city.

  • There are few families of any note in our city," she added, after a slight pause, "in which sorrow has not entered through the door of intemperance.

  • Our city councils, our courts of justice, every department of Government are approached by petition, however unanswerable, or absurd, so that its terms are respectful.

  • The advantages of this line to shippers are very considerable, and the arrangement is adding, and will continue to add, materially to the commerce of our city.

  • Our city is largely interested in the shipping business, and its trade gives employment to a larger number of side-wheel steamboat lines than any other three cities on the entire chain of lakes.

  • Have we not already decided that no gold or silver Plutus shall be allowed in our city?

  • Just complaints are made by our city contemporaries of the exorbitant rates of postage upon weekly periodicals.

  • We have formally authenticated this attestation, by affixing to it the seal of our city, and our usual signature.

  • The approach of spring in our city parks is marked by the appearance of the Dandelion gatherers.

  • Magnolia blossoms are sold in our city streets to remind city dwellers of spring.

  • He will still remain a citizen of our city.

  • We prefer to close out that department, and to put in all our energies to the development of our city.

  • You should remember every day the disgrace of our city of Zurich and seek means to recover our lost honor.

  • This is a county-seat, and the inhabitants and the local papers refer to it confidently as "our city.

  • I would give a lifetime for the effect it would have on our city and on civilization.

  • I say it is time we turn around in our city and begin to talk up the things that are in our city, and begin to set them before the world as the people of Chicago, New York, St. Louis, and San Francisco do.

  • There never was a place on earth more adapted than the city of Philadelphia to-day, and never in the history of the world did a poor man without capital have such an opportunity to get rich quickly and honestly as he has now in our city.

  • Few men in Toronto have done more for the beautifying of our city.

  • I feel sure that the benefit to the people of a reference and lending library of carefully selected books, is undisputed by all who are interested in the mental, moral, and social advancement of our city.

  • The most radical changes in the houses of our city are in the chimneys, the roofs, the kitchens, and their adjoining offices.

  • Our city, which may be named Hygeia, has the advantage of being a new foundation, but it is so built that existing cities might be largely modelled upon it.

  • The streets of our city, though sufficiently filled with busy people, are comparatively silent.

  • Thus the cemetery holds its place in our city, but in a form much modified from the ordinary cemetery.


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