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Example sentences for "please"

Lexicographically close words:
pleasantry; pleasaunce; pleasaunt; pleasaunte; pleasd; pleased; pleases; pleasest; pleaseth; pleasing
  1. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey.

  2. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you.

  3. The answer seemed to please him, and he walked thoughtfully toward the door, an object of respectful attention from the slow-moving throng, lingering as if it longed to stay.

  4. Please note this unconscious implication as to grass and race from a philosophic tourist of the olden times.

  5. I suppose that's because our folks whipped his; and please be sure to telegraph the money at once.

  6. Dolly, please see that a basket of sandwiches is put up and carried along.

  7. Please set them right on the bottom, between your knees and Littlejohn's, Mr. Seth!

  8. It's getting real near breakfast time; and dear Aunt Betty, will you please send me another one hundred dollars by the return of the mail?

  9. The rest of us are wholly willing to be 'hauled' to please our southern hostess.

  10. Forth, fair bride, to the people, if So it likes you, a-listening Words that please us.

  11. But you--to please him only, shame to Rome, to me!

  12. Porcius, Socration, the greedy Piso's Tools of thievery, rogues to famish ages, So that filthy Priapus ousts to please you My Veranius even and Fabullus?

  13. Be thy heavenly name whate'er Name shall please thee, in hallowing; Still keep safely the glorious Race of Romulus olden.

  14. Poor Septimius, all to please his Acme, Recks not Syria, recks not any Britain.

  15. Never sure did a lie, never a sin, please the celestials.

  16. It seems to me we haven't any sort of right to set up the things that 'ud please us against the happiness of those who've been good to us.

  17. Not a thing but continue to make life miserable for those poor neches who can't help themselves, and have to spend their play time in swallowing the dope you can't make filthy enough to please your notions of humanity.

  18. No, Nurse, please don't touch me, the bruises seem so real.

  19. Yes, Auntie, and put in, 'Please help Carol'.

  20. And say in the message, 'Please help Carol.

  21. Please tell me, dear Cousin, will it be denying Christ, if I do not tell people what healed me?

  22. Oh, please don't think I am telling you anything of myself.

  23. But I do not know my way to the copse," said Bevis; "please tell me the way.

  24. For the bailiff was very fond of Bevis, and would have done anything to please him.

  25. If it please your majesty," said the humble-bee, presently coming to the front.

  26. Do you please take care, Sir Bevis, or perhaps he may deceive you, as he deceived the fox.

  27. Please do not bother me," she commanded, pushing his hand aside.

  28. He is compromising himself with certain people because he has been fair to me, so please remember what I said.

  29. And then Helen takes such an interest in him, being young and sympathetic and romantic, that I wanted to please her if I could, and I can.

  30. Exciting enough to please the most blasé reader of sensational fiction.

  31. Mr. Shuttleworth," I said at last, "please do not distress yourself on my account.

  32. Therefore," he added, "please do not ask me again to betray my trust.

  33. Please tell me, Monsieur Biddulph; I am greatly interested in this.

  34. Mr. Le Queux will please thousands by this work.

  35. He is your friend, therefore please pardon me if I do not reply to your question," was her vague response.

  36. Please excuse me, but it is a matter I would rather not discuss.

  37. Look here, Miss Chesney, if it will please you, I swear I will never again snare a bird.

  38. Dear Guy has such taste, and he is always so thoughtful, ever thinking how to please some one.

  39. Of course Tom and I go somewhere every year, but it is to please fashion we go, not because we like it.

  40. You should try to please some One higher," says Lilian, with a solemnity that in her is sweeter than it is comical.

  41. I please myself with the thought that the giving of it to--to Cyril--may be some small return to him for all the tenderness he has lavished upon me.

  42. She is not offended," he says, against his conscience, and is glad to see his words please her.

  43. If your own mare does not please you, you can take my mount, or any other in the entire stables.

  44. It did please his cousin; and in her old home she still reigned as queen, until after eight months she received a letter from her father's lawyer warning her of Archibald Chesney's actual arrival in London.

  45. So he has been dismissed, and we shall stay on here until we please ourselves with another.

  46. But I'll do anything to please you, miss, an' I'll come to church next Sunday.

  47. Well, as I said before, I will be honest now to please you, you have been so good to me.

  48. Now here comes a curve," she says, with a return of all her old sauciness: "please do not drop me.

  49. He is reading aloud such passages as please him and serve to illustrate the passion that day by day is growing deeper for his pretty cousin.

  50. Proof of your interview, sir; will you please revise, the messenger says; he wants to take it back at once.

  51. Now, my dear, you're going to be sensible, to please me.

  52. In that case, I should please myself, Miss.

  53. You may say what you please about O'Sullivan, Captain Macdonald.

  54. May it please you, what are the alternatives regarding my humble self?

  55. So, to please the little brother, Antonio drove the oxen directly to the railway station.

  56. On one side of the card he copied in printed letters, Antonio's American address; on the other side he wrote the words: "Please come home.

  57. Turned us over to the colored man in charge of it with the request, "Won't you please take my friends down?

  58. I mean like the one I here copy out: WILL you please find or give office employment to an educated, with physical defect, young man; just a chance to work two weeks without salary desired?

  59. A full-throated feminine voice burst almost in Day's right ear: "Oh, please tell him to get one for us!

  60. Thinking this opinion of him would please his friend this man showed the letter to him.

  61. But to please one's company is a strong motive.

  62. If you please I will send you a copy, or an abridgement of my Chester journal, which is truly a log-book of felicity.

  63. Perhaps it may please GOD to give us some time together before we are parted.

  64. He was an instance of the truth of the observation, that a man will please more upon the whole by negative qualities than by positive; by never offending, than by giving a great deal of delight.

  65. I now imagine that perhaps they may please you.

  66. Write me word to whom I shall send besides[1123]; would it please Lord Auchinleck?

  67. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

  68. Please to consider, that to keep each other's kindness, we should every year have that free and intimate communication of mind which can be had only when we are together.

  69. I allow it is something to please one's company: and people are always pleased with those who partake pleasure with them.

  70. You are, however, in the right not to increase your own perplexity by a journey hither; and I hope that by staying at home you will please your father.

  71. Dodd say:--'Possibly it may please God to afford us some consolation, some secret intimations of acceptance and forgiveness.

  72. I am, 'May it please your Majesty, With the most profound respect, Your Majesty's Most dutiful and devoted Subject and Servant.

  73. Will you please tell me yours, that we may begin properly?

  74. Please come back a moment, and let Sheila apologize," he said, and Margery and Amy dared not refuse.

  75. All in favor of calling it the Happy Thought Club please signify it by saying aye.

  76. Oh, please look and see if there's any of him on me!

  77. All in favor of burning the post-office please signify it by saying aye.

  78. For a reason I have, I want him not to know or suspect how rich we are, so please help on my innocent deception.

  79. I remember she has a troublesome conscience, or streak of stubbornness, whichever you please to call it.

  80. Ah,” she added, tears filling her eyes, “it is hard to be compelled to do what vexes and angers those you love and would fain please rather than yourself!

  81. Miss, Mrs. Lea says you’ll please walk up now to her dressing-room.

  82. Please do not concern yourself about that,” she said; “I should prefer to be kept waiting for hours rather than run the slightest risk of injury to the only relative I am certain of possessing in all the world.

  83. Please do not take me home; it will do me good to watch the other races.

  84. You will find something in there that will please you, I reckon.

  85. Her husband was kind and devoted to her, and she did all in her power to please him.

  86. For further List of Authors please refer to end of book.

  87. Then, on April 24th, Arrese forwards a declaration drawn up by Maestre Muñoz, professor of astrology, for such action as the Suprema may please to take.

  88. The way to the heart is through the senses; please their eyes and their ears and the work is half done.

  89. True wit, or sense, never yet made anybody laugh; they are above it: They please the mind, and give a cheerfulness to the countenance.

  90. Please all who are worth pleasing; offend none.

  91. After that time I allow you to be as idle as ever you please; because I am sure that you will not then please to be so at all.

  92. I have read those very stories myself," said Irma, "so if you wish to astonish me, please think of something new.

  93. Pinturicchio knew how to please Pope Pius III, the nephew of Enio Sylvio, who engaged him to paint these pictures.

  94. I really believe you'd rather please Gertrude than any one else.

  95. Only remember what you see, and please don't get lost.

  96. One other day they made a pilgrimage to the Protestant cemetery, chiefly to please Ellen, who wished to see the grave of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

  97. Oh, please stand still a moment," cried Marion, as they leaned over a particularly beautiful rosebush; then a click came from the camera.

  98. Oh, please go on," begged Irma, and for half an hour her new friend talked delightfully about the Azores and other places.

  99. Here is a dollar; please add it to the fund," said Irma to Marion after dinner.

  100. But please look over the edge of the boat once in a while to see if there are any whales about.

  101. Please come to see me to-morrow," she cried, as she glided away.

  102. This, may it please your lords and worships, may seem a strange way of discoursing in an illiterate shopkeeper.

  103. Neither is this an affair of State, until authority shall think fit to declare it so, or, if you should understand it in that sense, yet you will please to consider, that I am not now preaching.

  104. For it will be impossible to find the author, unless he will please to discover himself; although I wonder he ever concealed his name; but I suppose what he did at first out of modesty, he continues to do out of prudence.

  105. I hope and believe, that nothing could please his Majesty better than to hear that his loyal subjects of both sexes in this kingdom celebrated his birthday (now approaching) universally clad in their own manufacture.

  106. You could never please him, do what you would.

  107. Would you please to come and see Granny Rachel?

  108. Please to consider that that is settled, gentlemen.

  109. An't please your Majesty, 'tis the gage of one that I should fight withal, if he be alive.

  110. I would fain see the man that has but two legs that shall find himself aggrief'd at this glove, that is all; but I would fain see it once, an please God of his grace that I might see.

  111. Nay, it will please him well, Kate- it shall please him, Kate.

  112. An please your Majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law in the world.

  113. May't please your Majesty to give us leave Freely to render what we have in charge; Or shall we sparingly show you far of The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?

  114. Dat is as it shall please de roi mon pere.

  115. He is a craven and a villain else, an't please your Majesty, in my conscience.

  116. Is it not lawful, an please your Majesty, to tell how many is kill'd?

  117. The judge sits down on the ground in the midst of the high road, where all that please may be present: the two persons concerned stand before him, with their friends about them, who serve as their attorneys.

  118. I made his coming a little surprise, in order to please Lucy: you should have witnessed their meeting.

  119. He seems wonderfully fresh: would you please to have me stay here with the carriage, sir, till the groom comes on with the other horse?


  120. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "please" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amuse; appeal; baby; captivate; choose; climax; coddle; content; cosset; delight; divert; elect; enchant; enrapture; entertain; entrance; fascinate; favor; feast; gratify; humor; incline; indulge; kindly; like; mollycoddle; oblige; pamper; please; pray; prefer; rather; regale; satisfy; send; spoil; suit; tickle; will; yield


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    please come; please don; please her; please him; please myself; please take; please tell; please the; please thee; please them; please write; please you; please your; pleased smile; pleased with