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Example sentences for "perfect right"

  • And then, so curious is the German way of thinking, nine times out of ten the German, intensely surprised and very cross at being caught in the act, would insist that he was doing nothing, and that he had a perfect right to do it!

  • He surely has a perfect right to, for very soon he will need all his coolness and strength.

  • And anyway, it was not unfriendly, and we had a perfect right to do it.

  • I have a perfect right to judge and act for myself," resumed Merwyn, with some emphasis.

  • No older than you have a perfect right to be, Mr. Lanniere," said the girl, laughing.

  • There was his city home, and he had a perfect right to occupy it, and abundant means to maintain it.

  • Those who entertain such sentiments have a perfect right to seek through legal methods for a change.

  • I know that under his administration agreements were made in the form of a treaty and sent to the Senate which other administrations would consider they had a perfect right to make without consulting the Senate.

  • I contended in the Senate, in open as well as executive session, that the new Republic of Panama had a perfect right to make the treaty with the United States because it was a complete, sovereign, and independent State.

  • Panama promptly seceded, which she had a perfect right to do.

  • If you have to go out to dinner, you have of course--a perfect right--of course a perfect right.

  • Only, I believe also that, matters standing as they do, you have a perfect right to wait for a later answer from me if you choose.

  • He's set his worm-eaten heart on something--perfect right to do it.

  • Colonel Mason answered, "Brannan has a perfect right to collect the tax, if you Mormons are fools enough to pay it.

  • There is nothing here but what we have a perfect right to carry, and I know that George will be angry by running away from the officers with his team, which is probably well known.

  • That man has a perfect right to be here, for he represents the court in the matter of holding certain movable property until the suit can be decided.

  • But now that he owns an equal share with you, Mr. Simpson and me, he will have a perfect right to question me.

  • We shan't be doing anything but that which we have a perfect right to do, and if you can remain away from your business so long, I say let's go.

  • I thought it was—I mean, I had believed it might be Grandfather come back for his own money, to which, of course, he had a perfect right.

  • Of course, he had a perfect right to what was in his own desk!

  • Do they claim that they have a perfect right to do anything they please toward destroying the government, but the government does wrong when it lifts a finger for its own protection?

  • The states-rights argument is that the states that were dissatisfied with the election of President Lincoln had a perfect right to secede or step out of the Union, and the Union had no right to force them to stay in or come back.

  • I have a perfect right to be here on my mother's land, and here I am going to stay.

  • We've got a perfect right to build that road, and build it we will--that's all there is to that matter!

  • Suppose you had a perfect right to do the business you had in hand.

  • These rats stood between us and what we had a perfect right to do.

  • He says they were never friends, and that Vancouver has a perfect right to his political opinions.

  • He would forgive an enemy a thousand times a day, and say the man who injured him had a perfect right to his opinions.

  • Vancouver has a right to his political opinions, and a perfect right to express them in any way he sees fit," said John.

  • Mr. Harrington would have said he had a perfect right to do as he pleased.


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