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Example sentences for "record"

Lexicographically close words:
reconvening; reconversion; reconverted; reconvey; recopied; recordation; recorde; recorded; recorder; recorders
  1. I started to keep a record of all my good times when I went to Lloyd's first house-party.

  2. I kept a record of some of their sorriest mishaps.

  3. There's one thing certain, you could never pose as a saintly old grandmother with such a record for mischief as this to bear witness against you.

  4. And I'll try my hardest to make it the best and happiest record of them all," she said to herself.

  5. There was every reason for celebrating at length the pluck and loyalty of Jack Binns, and no reason for curtailing the record of one of the greatest disasters registered in history.

  6. Mrs. George, speaking for the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, has presented to the woman suffrage committee of the Federal Senate the record of seventeen years' voting for school committees by the women of Massachusetts.

  7. He drove through a body of reform legislation such as had never been seen on New Jersey's statute books, eclipsing the record of a generation.

  8. If he could help it, her first visit to the Alps should not have its record darkened by the few miserable pages torn out of Bower's life.

  9. You will remember that when you and I placed on record our mutual opinion of each other, we agreed at any rate that it was a mean thing on her part to give away our poor Helen to the harpies in the hotel.

  10. Spencer purchased the space for a suitable monument, and the inscription does not fail to record the fact that one of the men who first conquered the Matterhorn had paid tribute to the mountains by meeting his death on Corvatsch.

  11. There is quite a long record as to the way I hit on your track in St. Moritz, and heard of you by telephone last night.

  12. Such offenses on the part of the saints, the Scriptures record for the comfort of those who are near despair.

  13. I've got a chance to make a record by going into that race, and I'm going to get into it, if I can.

  14. Well, for one thing, I haven't any racing record behind me.

  15. About the only way he can be sure of that is by looking back over his record and seeing what he has done.

  16. There is, however, sufficient testimony upon record to account for the dislike entertained towards the memory of Sir Ralph Assheton.

  17. The common consent and belief of mankind, the transmission of the record from remote ages, are of themselves no mean evidence of its truth.

  18. A record of the freaks of such airy beings, glancing through the mists of national superstition, would prove little inferior in poetical interest and association to the fanciful creations of the Greek mythology.

  19. History is little beyond the record of migrations, how one race moved on and overcame the race in front of it.

  20. And Holles, then become a peer, having brought the record of the King's Bench by writ of error before them, they solemnly reversed the judgment.

  21. No subsequent instance, I believe, was on record till the year 1624, when the last parliament of James I.

  22. His saga is a saga of peace--a long and honorable record of achievements in the service of civilization.

  23. No record has been preserved of the war which they waged together against Sweyn Estridsson.

  24. Why then did St. Paul judge it necessary to leave on record so startling a denunciation?

  25. Since he had come back from the penitentiary he had been lying pretty low, but he brought down from the old days a record that chilled the blood.

  26. The record on the instrument wheezed to silence, but immediately a rag-time tune followed.

  27. The dust or sand is ordinarily much too dry and shifting to record clear footprints, and there are no opportunities to see footprints of this species recorded in good impressionable soil.

  28. Only one other record of young is at hand, that by Bailey, who secured the young after capture of a suckling female at Santa Rosa, N.

  29. In testimony that the above is a true copy, from the record of the District Court for (Seal.

  30. That this is a faithful record of his confessions, the annexed certificate of the County Court of Southampton, will attest.

  31. We can view with composure the criticism which touches the record on its numerical side, because we know the prophetic work of Moses and the providential education of Israel to be incontrovertible facts.

  32. In vain the most of us seek a niche in the Valhalla of the race, or the record of a single line in the history of our time.

  33. All, amidst the sad vanity of their sighs and groans, labour to put on record and to establish this monotonous complaint, which needs not other record or evidence than those very sighs and groans.

  34. He expired before the record was closed, but not before he had placed my wife's name in the latter list as the one whose injuries in his dying moments most appalled him.

  35. I felt as certain, as irredeemably, as hopelessly certain of the final results as though I had seen the record in the books of heaven.

  36. And, so it was, this was to be an orgy that would set a record for all time to come.

  37. History will record that it was not a voluntary, but a forced, departure, due to the utter disregard by Germany of our rights on the seas, at home and elsewhere.

  38. The Negroes of the country may well be proud of the organization, for its record was good all the way through and in the heavy fighting was characterized by great gallantry and efficiency.

  39. Eventually as the record of atrocities and crimes against innocents enlarges, we see him pleading with the guilty to return to the instincts of humanity.

  40. As already gleaned from the reports of generals, regimental officers and the testimony of the chaplain of the 351st, the artillery boys created a good impression and left behind them a clean record everywhere.

  41. The record of the Negro troops in the Civil war is one of uniform excellence.

  42. The fine record of the division must forever set at rest any doubts concerning the ability of Negro officers, and any questions about Negro soldiers following and fighting under them.

  43. Many incidents are on record of the gallantry of Negro soldiers and servants also serving as soldiers, in the war with Mexico.

  44. The distance record took someone across the Atlantic in 2009, didn't it?

  45. They had established a new record in every form of aeronautical achievement except endurance!

  46. We'll want a record of what I have to send.

  47. The assistant pilot sprawled on the floor beside the instrument panel--apparently he had been watching the record of the flight.

  48. Any man who knows my record would be a fool to do so.

  49. He could not comprehend how Farrington could show the bad policy to put himself on record with such a remark, be his intentions what they might.

  50. Ralph had little leisure during the twenty miles run that followed--he did not know till afterwards that they covered it in exactly thirty minutes, a remarkable record for old 99.

  51. At least this is the impression of these men which I have received from reading the record and memorials of themselves they have left behind.

  52. Probably no Author will again record the presence of the second "First Church", which has measured its hundred years and more, in its old familiar place upon the Park.

  53. Nine years later as secretary of his college class, he prepared an exhaustive biographical record of every member of the class.

  54. He has left on record the feelings of admiration with which he saw the man who had so long led a great people in a great struggle retire to private life, with no thought other than satisfaction at duty performed.

  55. And we read on page 213 of the "Combined Registers of the First Presbyterian Church," a record as follows: "Dr.

  56. This early church and the Baptist church, which stood on the site occupied by the one quite recently removed, (because of the fine new building in course of erection), have honorable record for unselfish devotion to the cause of the patriots.

  57. But accurate record must begin at a later date, when William Johnes, in the reign of Elizabeth, was Commander on the 'Crane' and killed in a battle against the Spanish Armada.

  58. It is conducted on large and bold lines, especially conspicuous in two journals of the capital[86] which have now a long record of vigour and success behind them.

  59. Nothing less than an earthquake will affect them, and though earthquakes have been destructive in Costa Rica, two hundred miles away, there is no record of any serious one here.

  60. He is called Settaboth in the record of Sir Francis Drake's voyage (The World Encompassed, p.

  61. The South American Supplements issued monthly by the London Times are well edited and constitute a useful current record of what is going forward.

  62. I could find no record of any eruption of lava or ashes since the Spanish Conquest, but the vapours in the new crater, always thick, sometimes increase sufficiently to alarm the Arequipenos.

  63. In January, 1842, Charles Dickens made a flying visit to Lowell, and has left on record in American Notes his impressions of the city.

  64. In order to bridge over the chasm I give a bare record of Steele's transactions in connection with the Patent.

  65. Again, I can find no record of the latter's benefit, but the others had benefits in the best part of the season.

  66. The record of his murder is therefore erroneous, and we may hope to see it amended in every future collection of theatrical lives.

  67. Footnote 92: Genest's record gives Wilks about one hundred and fifty different characters, Dogget only about sixty.

  68. With reference to this it is interesting to note that among the Lord Chamberlain's Papers is the record of a consultation of the Attorney-General whether Steele's Patent made him independent of the Lord Chamberlain's authority.

  69. The part of Young Reveller was then taken by the author, and we have no record of Cibber's playing it before 1708; but from this anecdote he must have done so ten years earlier.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    recorded history; recording secretary