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Example sentences for "race"

Lexicographically close words:
rable; rables; rabo; rabs; raccoons; racecourse; raced; racehorse; racehorses; raceme
  1. Again the Christians conquered, and the royal race of Aben Hud fled from the city.

  2. It appears that in some fashion, known alone to Allah, the fate of the Arab race is bound up with the star.

  3. But all the time, and whilst he studied French and English with a view to self-advancement, the ancient glories of the Arab race were always in his mind.

  4. Reserved for Mohun's race alone, And the old folks can only tell Of the good lords who ruled so well.

  5. Now, mankind has never been improved by scolding, and that is why his writings have passed over the heads of the human race and done no good.

  6. Carlyle treated the human race very much as he treated his wife: he wrote beautiful love-letters to her, but never said a kind or sweet word to her which might have helped to make her happy.

  7. The devotion of which the human heart is capable, man's especially, will save the race from oblivion when it is gone from the earth.

  8. Thomas Carlyle spent his life in scolding the human race for trying to be happy.

  9. Illustration: Introduction] Before the entrance of sin, Adam enjoyed open communion with his Maker; but since man separated himself from God by transgression, the human race has been cut off from this high privilege.

  10. Adam could not transmit to his posterity that which he did not possess; and there could have been no hope for the fallen race had not God, by the sacrifice of His Son, brought immortality within their reach.

  11. Satan’s enmity against the human race is kindled, because, through Christ, they are the objects of God’s love and mercy.

  12. He had claimed that the sinful race were placed beyond redemption, and were therefore his rightful prey.

  13. Jesus died as a sacrifice for man because the fallen race can do nothing to recommend themselves to God.

  14. He might even then have wiped the blood-sweat from His brow, and have left the guilty race to perish in their iniquity.

  15. If permitted, he would sweep the entire race into his net.

  16. They have run the race and reached the prize.

  17. Besides the more serious complaint that the whole race was in danger of extinction, it was urged that "on a domestic message a husband would stop by the way to drink a couple of cups of coffee.

  18. O plant, given to the human race by the gift of the Gods!

  19. Why, there's only one race on earth dirtier than the Germans and that's the Scots.

  20. Small brained, short-visioned, they lose sight of the race and desire the preliminary canter, with its excitements and promises, to continue indefinitely.

  21. And high to Heaven its sacred Boughs extends: Each limb productive of some hero springs, And blooms luxuriant with a race of kings.

  22. In 1865 a memorable race took place between ten celebrated tea clippers, and the evenness of their performances was remarkable.

  23. Mings had left the starting-tape twenty-four minutes ahead of him, and if Matt had come over the last lap a fraction less than that behind Mings, the race would still have gone to the Jarrot people.

  24. This will be the first race the Jarrot people ever won--providing you win it.

  25. You have acted like a gentleman and a true sportsman and you drove a race that will go down into automobile history as one of the pluckiest ever pulled off.

  26. From in front of the grand stand in the park the race was to start, describe a fifty-two mile circuit out across the prairie country and return to the race track.

  27. I mustn't let this race get on my nerves so much," he said to himself.

  28. The possibility of missing the race bothered him more than the cause of his predicament.

  29. Trueman, of the Jarrot Automobile Company, has a car in the race and he's not satisfied with his driver.

  30. Our factory is here in Denver, so whoever wanted to take the cup away from us had to come here and race for it.

  31. That their evil designs did not keep Matt out of the race was because they overreached themselves by hastening the nefarious plot.

  32. For one thing, every driver in the race had his hands full and found no time to give attention to anything else.

  33. I wouldn't get into that car in this race for five thousand dollars.

  34. He say for you to come aroundt in der morning und he vould gif you a ledder py der masder-meganic vere der race iss to run.

  35. If then the present race of mankind err, Seek in yourselves the cause, and find it there.

  36. Descending still Through yet more hollow eddies, next he meets A race of foxes, so replete with craft, They do not fear that skill can master it.

  37. Seek not the wherefore, race of human kind; Could ye have seen the whole, no need had been For Mary to bring forth.

  38. O ye race of men Though born to soar, why suffer ye a wind So slight to baffle ye?

  39. Well doeth he, that bids his lineage cease, Bagnacavallo; Castracaro ill, And Conio worse, who care to propagate A race of Counties from such blood as theirs.

  40. On the fifth circle when I stood at large, A race appear'd before me, on the ground All downward lying prone and weeping sore.

  41. So far has wrong, and injustice, and oppression gone that not only is the Negro outside of the consideration of the law of the land, but practically outside of the humane and kindly regard of a majority of the white race in the United States.

  42. Later, as the fierce December sun rose higher, even the children became listless and disinclined to race about.

  43. But wandering stealthily through the woods, homeless and lawless, is a race that hates the white man--the aborigines of Australia.

  44. Mr. Carlyle comprehends only the individual; the true sense of the unity of the race escapes him.

  45. Permanence and continuance and immortality are in the race alone.

  46. George Eliot's strong accentuation of the race is the Gospel of annihilation to the individual.

  47. I noticed the race prejudice in her tone, but I did not comment on it.

  48. My own Luigi comes of a race of gondoliers dating back two hundred years, and punters must spring from just such ancestors.

  49. He passed over the graves of an ancient race the gleam of whose mighty minds shot, hardly dimmed, through the clouding ages.

  50. No doubt, when we read the Hebrew prophets now, with the larger and more patient temper of a different race and an augmented experience, we often feel the blame and invective to be too absolute.

  51. Then I saw my chance and got up a foot race among the passengers.

  52. When the great steamboat race came off between the Natchez and the Robert E.

  53. I had taken mine off the race track, and I was glad of it, for in that race I came out several lengths ahead.

  54. Then Barlow turned to me and said, "You keep the race track, and you are as big a thief as that other fellow.

  55. The news of the race spread rapidly, and there was a large crowd at the course to see the sport.

  56. In every extra-European region where they have come into conflict with the English race they have been worsted.

  57. Before the Anglo-Saxon invasion the population consisted in all probability of a mixture of the northern fair race with a darker race, probably that of H.

  58. The negro race has a beauty of its own, which is spoilt by blending.

  59. This is the sense in which we must understand the word race, in discussing the influence of race upon national character.

  60. He even assumed the truth of the doctrine that, in the absence of selective processes making for its improvement, every race must inevitably degenerate.

  61. Finding that they have to reckon with five de Havilands, the two Huns turn sharply and race eastward, their superior speed saving them from pursuit.

  62. And all the while a troublesome verse chose very inopportunely to race across the background of my mind, in time with the engine, each cut-out being the end of a line.

  63. A medley of thoughts race across the observer's mind as the pilot S-turns the machine over the field he has chosen.

  64. They are certainly a miserable lot if a female of their race must look to her virtue every waking moment.

  65. One of a race of proud and noble fighting men, Jlomec was an exception to the rule in that he was a dreamer rather than a fighter, a thinker rather than a doer, a poet rather than a military strategist.

  66. Bram Forest speculated upon what manner of people they would be and it came to him that the evolutionary processes on Tarth had not corresponded to those of Earth, where all members of the human race evolved into practically the same form.

  67. These we were to show as a warning to whatever race existed here.

  68. A race of malignant monsters had sprung up in the twenty years that Thid had vanished into the desert.

  69. A revelation which was addressed to the whole human race, and to which the whole human race was able to respond, could scarcely be regarded as of supernatural origin.

  70. His subjects are a race of vile offenders, whose every impulse is bad, and whose nature turns towards evil as inevitably as a plant turns towards the light.

  71. At length St. Remigius baptised the Frankish chief as first-born of the Teuton race in the Catholic faith of the Holy Trinity, and the Pope at Rome gave utterance as a father to his joy.

  72. He is dispossessed from the Teuton race in its Gallic, Spanish, Burgundian, African settlements.

  73. One only royal race ventured on a contest with the Church for supremacy; for one only, the Hohenstaufen, were conscious of a fixed purpose.

  74. The Anglo-Saxon race in particular, for more than a thousand years, has celebrated the Mass of St. Gregory as that of the Apostle of England.

  75. Yet even these poor remnants of the human race are smitten daily and without ceasing.

  76. He was, however, conquered by Zahok and sawn into two pieces, meaning that the empire of Dshemshid had been divided by Zahok, who was a descendant of the cursed race of Aad.

  77. Those who have watched the annual race of the Thames barges in a strong breeze have seen the perfection of motion and colour in the smaller vessels of commerce.

  78. To witness the consummate skill of this feat is to respect the race of bargees for ever.

  79. To see a 'stackie' blindly but accurately turning up a crowded reach of London River makes one respect the race of bargees for ever.

  80. It was a race between our endurance and his greed, and his greed won, for at last he lay down with the sausage between his paws and we fell on him from behind and captured our own.

  81. I learned that the race of bargees had all along known the best use to which a barge could be put, and I myself figured as a tardy practitioner in ideas which had been immemorially in their possession.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "race" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accelerate; affiliation; affluence; afflux; ancestry; aqueduct; beck; bed; birth; blood; boil; bolt; bourn; bout; bracket; branch; brand; breed; brood; brook; bundle; burn; burst; bustle; campaign; canal; canter; career; cast; caste; category; channel; character; charge; chase; clan; class; color; community; concourse; confluence; consanguinity; contest; course; creek; crick; crowd; culture; culvert; current; dart; dash; defluxion; denomination; derivation; descent; description; designation; division; doubles; downpour; drift; drive; estate; event; extraction; family; feather; filiation; flash; fling; flow; fluency; flume; flurry; flutter; flux; folk; form; foursome; fresh; gallop; game; genre; gens; genus; gill; grade; grain; group; grouping; gulch; gully; gush; hasten; head; heading; heat; hie; house; hump; hurry; hurtle; hustle; ilk; inflow; kidney; kill; kin; kind; kindred; label; lap; lash; leap; level; line; lineage; lope; lot; make; manner; mark; match; meet; mold; mould; moulder; mouldy; nation; nationality; nature; number; onrush; order; outflow; people; persuasion; phylum; pigeonhole; play; plunge; position; post; predicament; quicken; race; rank; rating; regatta; relay; river; rivulet; rubric; run; runnel; running; runoff; rush; scamper; scoot; scour; scramble; scud; scurry; scuttle; section; seed; sept; shape; shoot; side; skedaddle; sluice; society; sort; spate; species; speed; spillway; sport; sprint; spurt; stamp; stampede; station; status; stem; stirps; stock; strain; stratum; streak; stream; stripe; style; subdivision; subgroup; suborder; succession; surge; swash; tear; tide; title; totem; trend; tribe; trot; type; undercurrent; undertow; variety; walk; watercourse; waterway; waterworks


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    race prejudice; race suicide