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Example sentences for "our nature"

  • Deplorable is the degradation of our nature.

  • We acknowledge that in the matter of our birth, as in our nature generally, there are previous circumstances which affect us.

  • Thus, by submitting his abstractions to the genius of the people, and the imperfections of our nature, perhaps the best apology was offered for the errors of that worship which had been proscribed, persecuted, and ridiculed.

  • There must needs be retribution, from-- (a) The very constitution of our nature.

  • It is not merely the physical facts of death and change that make us strangers here, but the direction of our desires, and the true affinities of our nature.

  • He deals with men as knowing our frame, the corruption of our nature, and the need that the tree should be made good before it can bring forth good fruit.

  • Shelley's conception of love was exalted, absorbing, allied to all that is purest and noblest in our nature, and warmed by earnest passion; such it appears when he gave it a voice in verse.

  • By reverting in his mind to this first principle, he discovered the source of many emotions, and could disclose the secrets of all hearts, and his delineations of passion and emotion touch the finest chords of our nature.

  • He looked on all human beings as inheriting an equal right to possess the dearest privileges of our nature; the necessaries of life when fairly earned by labour, and intellectual instruction.

  • And also this: "Why are we brought into the world less perfect in respect to our nature?

  • But to give way to childish sensations, was unbecoming to our nature.

  • These principles, as well as every just rule of criticism, are founded upon the sensitive part of our nature.

  • A thing cannot be bad for us through the quality which it has in common with our nature, but it is bad for us in so far as it is contrary to our nature.

  • And while this spectacle presents but the vanity of our nature, grand but not lasting, the sweet breath of summer is wafting its balmy odours to refresh and give life to its lifeless luxury.

  • Her system is practicable, enlightening first, and then enforcing that which gives encouragement to the inert faculties of our nature.

  • The deep purple of her cheek is softened by it, while it adds to her face that calm beauty which moves the gentle of our nature.

  • Without protecting them with that medium of education which assimilates courage with gentlemanly conduct, carrying out the nobler impulses of our nature, they allowed him to roam in that sphere which produces its ruffians.

  • And, you see, it's our nature to be restless and searching out the best avenues for developing trade.

  • And the Lord taught him that every one to whom he could be or for whom he could do anything was his neighbour, therefore, that each of the race, as he comes within the touch of one tentacle of our nature, is our neighbour.

  • Of course, no prayer for any revenge that would gratify the selfishness of our nature, a thing to be burned out of us by the fire of God, needs think to be heard.

  • The tyranny grew into a custom; and, as the manner of our nature is, it was considered as the most sacred of all duties to keep these poor fellows without their annual dinner.

  • He who feels only his great powers, is--with the weaknesses and passions of our nature--preparing for great failures.

  • One of the infirmities of our nature is always to mistake feeling for evidence, and to judge of the season by a cloud or a ray of sunshine.

  • What, in fact, is social organization but a series of habits, settled in accordance with the dispositions of our nature?

  • If anything good is then gained, it is not a sheepish tendency, but an independent resolve growing out of our nature.

  • It is our nature to do so, if we are worth anything.

  • This will be better done by enlarging our sympathy, so that more things and people are pleasant to us, than by increasing the civil and conventional part of our nature, so that we are able to do more seeming with greater skill and endurance.

  • The most refined part of us lies in this region of taste, which is perhaps a result of our whole being rather than a part of our nature, and, at any rate, is the region of our most subtle sympathies and antipathies.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our nature" 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:
    double crochet; free agency; great central; our author; our country; our era; our eyes; our family; our forefathers; our friend; our government; our guide; our land; our lives; our master; our mind; our nature; our old; our right; our said lord the; our ships; our soldiers; our time; our view; our voyage; our young