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Example sentences for "pride and"

  • I watched with beating heart the tall Sierra, where our path lay for the future, and then turned my thoughts to him whose name was so soon to be received in England with a nation's pride and gratitude, and panted for a soldier's glory.

  • He spoke like this in a furious revolt against all his past life of pride and happiness.

  • What he saw was an attractive young girl of thirteen, short of stature, with bright hazel eyes, a vivacious face, now almost stern in its expression of pride and haughtiness.

  • Son beloved, praise thy Maker, For the winning of this virgin, Pride and joy of distant Sahri Kind indeed is thy Creator, Wise the ever-knowing Ukko!

  • But in Derek it roused a peculiar feeling, such as a man might have gazing at the shores of a native country, out of which he had been thrown for no fault of his own--a yearning deeply muffled up in pride and resentment.

  • Winton, whom at least she never failed, watched that glorious fluttering with quiet pride and satisfaction.

  • That evening after dinner she did not go to sleep in the chair, but sat under the open window, clenching her hands, and reading "Pride and Prejudice" without understanding a word.

  • She was the strangest compound of pride and sell-disparagement; the qualities seemed mixed in her so deeply that neither she nor any one knew of which her cloudy fits were the result.

  • Jesus, which has been perverted by being left in the hands of the rich and the powerful who have ended by transforming the work of the Gospel into the most hateful of all monuments of pride and tyranny!

  • It was a pride and a happiness to have such classmates as he was to remember.

  • Stay one moment, and you shall know what your pride and self-will have cost you!

  • By six in the evening, when Somerset went forth to dine, he was able to look back upon the mansion with a sense of pride and property.

  • Pride and adhesiveness of character, under such conditions of mind, were dangerous foes to peace; and both were proud and tenacious.

  • She was formed for endurance, pride and self-reliance giving her strength above common natures.

  • Irene's jealous guardianship of her freedom, her quick temper, pride and self-will made the position of her husband so difficult that it was almost impossible for him to avoid giving offence.

  • Thou shouldst bear Sons to my pride and daughters to my heart, And men should hold thee happy, wise, and good.

  • Pride and Prejudice,' which some consider the most brilliant of her novels, was the first finished, if not the first begun.

  • Then he whispered some words to her, which brought a flush of pride and joy to his own face, but no such answering response to Madame's.

  • That a message to set him on the mast-head of pride and pleasure.

  • To think of but one book, "Pride and Prejudice," what an inimitable study of a foolish woman is Mrs. Bennett!


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