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Example sentences for "place for"

  • Howe being gone) comes Mr. Martin, to trouble me again to get him a Lieutenant's place for which he is as fit as a foole can be.

  • This evening came Mrs. Lane (now Martin) with her husband to desire my helpe about a place for him.

  • Pepys, who talked with me in French about looking out for a place for him.

  • Thence to St. James's Park, and walked there to my place for my flageolet and then played a little, it being a most pleasant morning and sunshine.

  • Nephi 1:8 8 And behold, it is wisdom that this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations; for behold, many nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for an inheritance.

  • I was much disappointed at not seeing your brother John: I kept a place for him to the last minute, but have heard nothing of him.

  • The day after to-morrow I go to Park-place for four or five days, and soon after to Goodwood.

  • If I have any money left when I return, and can find a place for it, I shall be very glad to purchase the ebony cabinet you mention, and will make it a visit with you next summer if you please--but first let us go to Paris.

  • Into the Orders of the Rosicrucians and Egyptian Masons you shall gather all the stray and isolated sheep into a flock, to await with longing the coming of the shepherd, and prepare a place for him.

  • No, that is too important a place for me.

  • When I cannot lean upon your love, then there is no longer any protection or abiding-place for me in the world, and the grave will be my refuge.

  • And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

  • This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in!

  • A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.

  • A place for baggage at either end of an old- fashioned stagecoach.

  • A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.

  • I'll make a place for you, as you say, if you will come for three dollars a week and comply with the rules.

  • At last he said, aloud, "In case I should so far depart from my usual custom and make a place for you, as you suggest, what do you propose to charge for the services you rate so highly?

  • What's more, I'll sell so many goods in dull times and all times that you can well afford to make a place for me if you have none.

  • Papa, you must find a place for us in New York--a place within our means.

  • The battlefield was no place for me, and neither was the camp.

  • We might find some hiding-place for a night; that, I am afraid, would be our only chance.

  • But you talked about a hiding-place for a night?

  • But my curiosity went no further nor did I question her, for in my world was no place for women.

  • Although entirely independent of the Board of Education it is along just such lines that the Children's Museum is able to make a place for itself in supplementing the work of the school.

  • The separate children's room is too apt to become a place for so persistently "tending" the child that he loses the idea of a library atmosphere which is one of the lessons of the place he should NOT miss.

  • The public understand and appreciate the fact that the library is no place for visitation or conversation.

  • There is a place for one; indeed, it was begun, and then the builders seem to have stopped, with the notion that it would grow itself from such a good root.

  • Our economy leaves no place for amusements; we merely add them to the burden of a life already full.

  • But, in fact, the stagebox is no place for thinking.

  • Jacques Collin killed those two unrivaled spies on purpose, as it were, to make a place for himself.

  • And where do you find such beautiful creatures as the woman who took the Jewess' place for Monsieur de Nucingen?

  • She gave herself up to the wildest hopes, dressed her mother to match, and flattered herself she would find a place for her ex-lover in an insurance office.

  • Come, father, this is no longer a place for us.

  • But here was no place for thought, nor room for delay; and I slid down the side of the hollow on the instant, and the moment my feet touched the bottom sprang to the door of the little hut, whence the light issued.

  • As soon as possible she procured a place for Peter, as tender of locks, at a place called Wahkendall, near Greenkills.

  • Her next decision was, that she must leave the city; it was no place for her; yea, she felt called in spirit to leave it, and to travel east and lecture.

  • Well, I'll wake up the steward and find a place for you to go," he said at length.

  • Then you must let me find a place for you.

  • In her great, unclouded eyes he had found no lurking-place for double-dealing.


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