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Example sentences for "people are"

  • The office is brightly lighted; people are waiting to secure places; there is the usual crowd of loafers, men and women, and the Frenchman sits at his desk.

  • The Mer de Glace is inferior to many other glaciers, and is not nearly so fine as the Glacier des Bossons: but it has a reputation, and is easy of access; so people are content to walk over the dirty ice.

  • Vinicius did not think now that there was nothing new in the words of the old man, but with amazement he asked himself: "What kind of God is this, what kind of religion is this, and what kind of people are these?

  • Two of my people are watching at each gate.

  • People are perishing in flames or slaying one another in the throng.

  • He tells me people are out of town, when he goes to see in the next street, after leaving my table, and whom I see myself half an hour before he lies to me about their absence.

  • No people are so ready to give a man a bad name as his own kinsfolk; and having made him that present, they are ever most unwilling to take it back again.

  • How many thousands of people are there, women for the most part, who are doomed to endure this long slavery?

  • Milor Duc de Richemont's people are packing up everything.

  • People are not so unhappy unless they have something to repent of," added Tom Eaves with a knowing wag of his head; "and depend on it, that woman would not be so submissive as she is if the Marquis had not some sword to hold over her.

  • People are now so easily alarmed as to monetary matters that the mere filing of a petition in bankruptcy by an unfriendly creditor will necessarily embarrass, and oftentimes accomplish the financial ruin, of a responsible business man.

  • I know, tonight, in some regions of our country, people are in genuine economic distress.

  • There hundreds of millions of people are in ferment, exploding into the twentieth century, thrusting toward equality and independence and improvement in the hard conditions of their lives.

  • In a world in which millions of people are hungry, destruction of food would, of course, be unconscionable.

  • All sorts of people are afraid of him, my mamma says, for he can do as he likes with the paper.

  • To be sure, storks cannot be expected to know how old children and grown-up people are.

  • People are patient or impatient, but not necessarily throughout.

  • People are not as easily classified as automobiles, and the combinations possible exceed computation.

  • People are enraged at being deceived if the deception is the work of an outsider or one not liked; they are shocked if deceived, lied to, by one they love.

  • But they were pleased with the flowers you sent; people are, at such times, and they haven't many friends.

  • March echoed, as people are apt to do with a question that is mandatory and offensive.

  • Like every one else, she was not merely a prevailing mood, as people are apt to be in books, but was an irregularly spheroidal character, with surfaces that caught the different lights of circumstance and reflected them.

  • We shall drive home now, people are leaving," they said.

  • Then the old Rav stood up to his full height and commanded: "People are not to weep!

  • People are not so foolish as all that," he thought, "and they wouldn't treat him in that way!

  • Have you noticed how the Irish people are gulled?

  • My people are up and at work by six o'clock every morning in the week.

  • They are wedded to the customs of their ancestors; and yet, when once they see the advantage to be obtained by any given change, no people are so quick to follow it up.

  • I think everyone (every woman) out here has noticed how indifferent and really "nasty" people are to each other at the front.

  • People are so kind in making it pleasant that they wear one out.

  • People are telling me now that if instead of cars we had given money, we should have been fĂȘted and decorated and extolled to the skies; but then, where would the money have gone?

  • People are being so kind about the work I am doing, and they are all saying what a comfort the soup is to the men.

  • People are not so easily or so visibly led; that is to say, the editorial influence is not so dogmatic and direct.

  • They were all a little afraid of each other, as people are apt to be when they are well dressed and met together for social purposes in the country.

  • People are of opinion that the eye is not a particularly safe indicator of true character, but I beg to differ.

  • And yet, people are slow to believe that the seeing of the occult is as much a faculty as is the scenting of smells or the hearing of noises.

  • Along the narrow lane which passes the hotel a row of lamps has been set, and little knots of people are moving up and down, laughing and jesting, with little outward recognition of the nature of the rite.

  • When he saw the great man coming he ran to meet him and broke out, "Eminence and Lord, I see already that my people are abandoning me and betraying me.

  • Because my people are foolish, they have not known me, they are unwise and mad children.

  • No people are so barbarous as to be totally destitute of the means of internal communication; and in proportion as they become more civilized and have more intercourse with other nations, these means are augmented and facilitated.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "people are" 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:
    boric acid; favorable opportunity; free coinage; human intercourse; literary form; long away; people are; people began; people called; people came; people have; people said; people shall; people should; people think; people who; people whom; people will; people would; public elementary; reigned sixteen; rose again from the; spiritual freedom; thing done; twelve months; what reason