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Example sentences for "receive their"

  • Small seagoing vessels can go up as far as Cork, but the larger ones discharge and receive their cargoes at Queenstown.

  • The students at both of these institutions will be excused from residing in the new universities, and may continue their studies exactly as at present, going up to Dublin and to Belfast only to receive their degrees.

  • As they pass the paymaster's window they call out their number, receive their box, take out the change, and throw the empty tin into a bin that is placed near the door for that purpose.

  • And, on the contrary, when the action of these powers has been exerted with violence, or for a considerable time, the excitability becomes exhausted, and less fit to receive their actions.

  • The Christians immediately filled the prison; every one sought to kiss his feet or chains, and kept as relics whatever had been sanctified by their touch: they also overlaid his fetters with wax, in order to receive their impression.

  • The inhabitants flocked about them to receive their blessing, and St. Germanus made them an exhortation, during which he took particular notice of Genevieve, though only seven years of age.

  • The helpless larvae also of the ants are informed, by the same means, when they may open their mouths to receive their food.

  • This novel mode of writing occasioned them to invent other materials proper to receive their writing.

  • The next morning at eleven o'clock I met them and found they had done as I requested, and having been presented to the Chiefs and Councillors I proceeded to explain the terms of the treaty that I desired to receive their adhesion to.

  • You will recollect that the first Elders are to receive their endowment in Kirtland, before the redemption of Zion.

  • John Whitmer and David Whitmer were called and chosen, and appointed to receive their endowment in Kirtland, and continue in their offices.

  • Why should parents labor to amass wealth enough, and much of course it required, to send their daughters to Europe to receive their educations, if they were to return only to become the victims of an all-whelming concubinism!

  • We saw the apprentices assemble after twelve o'clock, to receive their allowances of yams.

  • Both Howells and Clemens were made doctors of letters by Yale that year and went over in October to receive their degrees.

  • Both Howells and Clemens went to New Haven to receive their honors.

  • Colonel Fred and Jesse were absent to receive their sister, Mrs. Sartoris, who would arrive from Europe about 4.

  • Farmers, laborers, and market people, ought to receive their payments in hard money.

  • And on the first and second lots on the north shall my servants Reynolds Cahoon and Jared Carter receive their inheritances.

  • Talukdars who submitted were to receive their possessions as a free gift direct from the Government; while those who had done good service, whether men of Oudh or strangers, might be rewarded by grants of confiscated property.

  • They refused to receive their ammunition, on the ground of its being polluted, even after it was explained to them that they were not being given the new cartridges, but those which had been made up in the regiment a year before.

  • Amid the shouts of their companions, the girls stepped up to receive their badges.

  • Miss Allen's secretary read the list, and the girls came forward to receive their reports, stumbling back to their seats in their haste to examine them.

  • The children hesitated a moment, and then went forward to receive their gifts.

  • He was convinced that they taught the truth, and was constrained to receive their testimony.

  • Pratt, Christian Whitmer, and Solomon Hancock were severally called and chosen to receive their endowments in Kirtland with power from on high.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "receive their" 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:
    another song; considerable trade; each order; excellent fellow; fair lady; fine salt; first love; forty guns; free and; keep clear; light winds; para que; receive baptism; receive from; receive him; receive instruction; receive power; receive the; receive them; received from; received his early education; received orders; received sentence; received the following letter; received them; whole series