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Example sentences for "receipt"

Lexicographically close words:
receaves; recede; receded; recedes; receding; receipted; receipts; receit; receiue; receiued
  1. So I command Belisarius, immediately on the receipt of this letter, to proclaim you at once Catholic Bishop of Carthage.

  2. Come, on the day I marry Maud, I'll give him a clear receipt for it!

  3. This receipt he put into the letter he had ready written for Aldridge and posted it.

  4. If the money had been mine I should before going to bed to-night sign a receipt for the full amount, send the receipt to him, and beg of him never to allude to the matter again.

  5. He opened the envelope Sir William had given him, and found in it what he had been promised: a receipt in full for claims upon him in settlement of Miss Midharst's money.

  6. Having but few moments to reply, I write this more to acknowledge its receipt than to reply to its contents.

  7. Major Anderson on his part dismisses the distasteful mission with a significantly curt report: "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on the 4th of your communication of the 1st instant.

  8. That was before, or certainly not long after, the probable receipt of this letter in Kansas, for the Governor left the Territory (November 16) about one week after the adjournment of the Lecompton Convention.

  9. I knew nothing of them until after the receipt of yours; and upon inquiry I found their publication had been prevented by Mr. Cobb under a firm conviction that they would injure both yourself and the Administration.

  10. DEAR SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor by the hand of General Grist, with whom I have had a free interchange of opinions.

  11. DEAR SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 5th, which reached me on the 12th inst.

  12. Dear Sir--I am in receipt of your letter, complaining of my ward, Bernard Brooks.

  13. He was to draw three thousand scudi on his own account, and two thousand on account of the American, and come back with this sum, on the receipt of which the three would be released.

  14. Yes,' he said, 'if you will give me a receipt in due form.

  15. She guessed he would endeavour to see her, if she staid long enough in London after the receipt of that note.

  16. As this is a Season when we have plenty of Quinces, I shall insert the following Receipt for making Wine of them, which is very pleasant.

  17. The Flowers of the Nasturtium Indicum make an excellent Sallad in this Month, and the Seeds of the Plant, while they are green, may be pickled to our satisfaction: the Receipt for pickling them is as follows.

  18. This is also a time of the Year when potted Meats begin to come in fashion; to do which, the following Receipt may be an Example.

  19. This is the same Receipt King William had when he was in Ireland.

  20. The following Receipt is sent me by a curious Person for pickling of Codlins, in imitation of Mango.

  21. As for the making of Sage-Cheese, the following is the best way that I have met with, and therefore I think the Receipt may be useful to the Publick.

  22. The Receipt for preparing them is the following.

  23. But as for the Receipt to make this Hackin, which is admired so much by us, it is as follows.

  24. These Potted Meats are useful in Housekeeping, being always ready for the Table: So likewise the following Receipt for Collar'd Beef is of the same service.

  25. His Receipt for Sauce for boil'd Fish, is the following.

  26. Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on receipt of the price.

  27. When no time is specified, it will be understood that the subscriber desires to commence with the Number issued after the receipt of order.

  28. It's the first time I've ever had a receipt at a bazaar or sale.

  29. Thirty shillings--the receipt is on the paper.

  30. Time was precious, and a compromise was arrived at by Burrell consenting to sign a receipt for one-third the number of rations claimed to have been issued.

  31. In this search all money was taken away under a promise of return, and a receipt given.

  32. On first receipt of marching orders a general impression prevailed in the ranks that they were en-route for Port Hudson.

  33. When the Forty-Second got orders to leave camp, Colonel Burrell had a wordy fight with the contractor who furnished rations, as he refused to sign a receipt for full rations, telling him the whole scheme was a fraud.

  34. Perhaps his French Majesty, on receipt of this letter, will direct justice to be done.

  35. March 23 onwards) in the Thames with his fleet, in receipt of daily orders from the Council and guarding the sea-passage between them and Flanders.

  36. Young Ranelagh, it appears, not long after the receipt of the foregoing, had run up to London on a brief visit to his mother, and had brought Milton a letter from Oldenburg.

  37. A Captain John Woodcock, who is found giving a receipt for £13 8s.

  38. For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of price by the Publishers A.

  39. I was in receipt in these days of disturbing letters from home, where things were not going well.

  40. I shall gladly pay on receipt of my missing luggage.

  41. Either of the above sent free by mail to any address on receipt of the price.

  42. A specimen copy will be mailed free upon the receipt of ten cents.

  43. Either of the above volumes sent by mail free to any part of the United States on receipt of price.

  44. In small vessels which have no Gunner, he shall receipt for and be accountable for all ordnance stores, making all the returns which the Gunner is herein directed to prepare.

  45. Sent postpaid to any part of the world on receipt of price, $1.

  46. Sent postpaid to any part of the world on receipt of $1.

  47. Sent postpaid to any part of the world on receipt of $2.

  48. There is reason to believe that, even after the receipt of the copy of the Autobiography, Le Veillard still cherished the hope that the work might be brought down to a later date.

  49. He gave the fact, he said, to Small, in exchange for his receipt for tartar emetic, because the commerce of philosophy as well as other commerce was best promoted by taking care to make returns.

  50. The receipt of such a case and box as these was doubtless an event long remembered in the Franklin home at Philadelphia.

  51. Other gifts of hers are alluded to in a letter from Franklin to her, acknowledging the receipt of a pair of scissors.

  52. A few hours after the receipt of this letter, which carried desolation to his heart, Philip, accompanied by Coursegol, left Versailles for Chamondrin.

  53. But when this plebeian duty was accomplished, it left him in receipt of an extremely modest income.

  54. Did you find evidence of processing prior to your receipt apart from the exhibit which is now 649?

  55. He felt sure she would start immediately on receipt of the message.

  56. Barbara has put up a capital venison pasty,--a real English one, out of the Queen's own receipt book.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "receipt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acceptance; acknowledgment; acquisition; admission; aid; antiphon; assistance; assumption; balm; balsam; check; comeback; commission; corrective; credit; cure; derivation; discharge; dividend; earnings; echo; form; formula; formulary; gains; gate; get; gross; help; income; intake; make; net; output; prescription; proceeds; produce; profit; quittance; reaction; receipt; receive; reception; recipe; refuge; rejoinder; release; relief; repartee; replication; reply; rescript; response; restorative; retort; return; returns; revenue; reverberation; riposte; royalty; specific; stub; succor; take; taking; voucher; warrant; welcome; yield