Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "please them"

  • They are unanimous in putting aside Homer's story, which does not contain enough miracles to please them, and, being in consequence little disposed to leniency, they reject the whole of it as apocryphal.

  • We say that none run women down, but such as are too old or too ill-favoured, or too witless, to please them.

  • It is clear that I must take to the pinks and blues to please them," she said to herself with a sigh.

  • They went themselves, and looked over half the things in the shop before they could get one to please them.

  • We say that none run women down, but such as are too old, or too ill-favoured, or too witless to please them.

  • This seemed to please them well, and they said they would have a plenty of robes to trade for knives and rings and beads.

  • No matter how hard you may try to please them, there will still be some growlers and, pardon me for saying, there are cranks among the women as well as among men.

  • This seemed to please them; and they drove the horses up at once.

  • Neither did he make choice of rulers by birth or by wealth, but bestowed the offices on his own friends and partisans, doing everything to please them, and putting absolute power of reward and punishment into their hands.

  • For my part, I mean to see the world a little better agreed among themselves, before I will make it my ambition to please them.

  • Godliness, virtue, and honesty itself will not please the world, and therefore you cannot hope to please them by that which is not pleasing to them.

  • If you can reconcile all their opinions, and interests, and complexions, and dispositions, and make them all of one mind and will, then hope to please them.

  • And Christian ministers are commanded to 'exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things, not answering them again, or gain-saying.

  • Please them well in all things, not answering again.

  • He who loves desires to be loved, Emile loves his fellows and desires to please them.

  • Servants are not only taught to obey their masters, but to account them worthy of all honor, and to endeavor to please them in all things.

  • Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters and to please them well in all things; not answering again; Not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

  • Lord and Lady Francis were there, and we acted the whole play, of course, to please them, so that I was half dead at the end of the rehearsal.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "please them" 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:
    accounted worthy; being gone; black pigment; capital invested; charming smile; finite number; good portrait; haired woman; kept secret; please come; please don; please her; please myself; please tell; please the; please thee; please them; please you; please your; pleased smile; soft brush; special jury; tablespoonfuls sugar; unless when; white muslin; would bring