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Example sentences for "refer"

Lexicographically close words:
reezun; refashioned; refection; refectories; refectory; referable; refered; referee; referees; reference
  1. It decided to refer the decision to His Majesty.

  2. And therefore how ridiculous this imagination of the seas frysing is, I refer to the worlds generall opinion.

  3. If you have aught that is weighty to say, it may be that I could but refer you to my grandmother," she suggested demurely.

  4. Some of these Legislatures act upon it at once; some lay it on their tables never to take it up again; others refer it, as they habitually do all questions of an embarrassing description, to their next following session.

  5. I refer to the tone of the sailors, which strikes me as being graver and less irresponsible than the tone of the War Office.

  6. I refer to him at the tail end of the cable.

  7. He would rather I did not even refer to his former views as he sees they are expressly barred by the tenor of my instructions.

  8. This point seems to me to be of very vital importance, and I shall have occasion to refer to it again in the consideration of our clinical material.

  9. We shall have occasion to refer to this again later.

  10. I have not the number of the Literary Gazette in which this statement was given to refer to, but I am sure that I have repeated the substance of it correctly, and remember that it was inserted as being worthy of credit.

  11. Nothing that seemed to refer to the accident.

  12. Above all things, do not refer in any way to the fact that she has been indicted, the shock might be too much for her.

  13. The following was written in the year 1830, and does not refer to Public Fire-Escapes other than those that can be carried with a Fire-Engine.

  14. The preceding lines refer to an unfortunate navigator, who daringly unloosed from its moorings a boat, which he was unable to manage, and thrust it off into the full tide of a navigable river.

  15. We need not refer to the rape of the Sabines, or to a similar instance in the Book of Judges, for evidence that such deeds of violence have been committed upon a large scale.

  16. It is not necessary to relate the details of that awful episode of Indian history, but it will do no harm to recall what we learned in our school days of the principal incidents and refer to the causes which provoked it.

  17. But all of them have been described in great detail and with copious illustrations in books that refer to nothing else.

  18. By that remark he uncovered the great defect of Mohammedan education, which is purely religious, with the exception of a single institution in northern India to which I refer in a previous chapter.

  19. It can refer only to these certificates, I suppose.

  20. Were you about to refer to any fresh experiences?

  21. Yule however believed that this passage did not refer to the Kafirs at all, but to the claims to descent from Alexander of the rulers in Swat before the time of the Yusufzai.

  22. At the very close of the poem a virgin, Mariatta, brings forth a king who drives Wainamoinen out of the country, and this is understood to refer to the ultimate conquest of Paganism by Christianity.

  23. He subsequently explained that by this he did not refer to the Roman question, which was permanently settled, but to the possibility of the pope leaving Rome.

  24. I do not attempt to dwell on the passage; but merely refer to it, in connection with the subject in hand.

  25. It is our happy privilege to be able, in the confidence of faith, to refer every objection and every objector to Christ and his finished atonement.

  26. He was content to have these names attached to the pins holding the specimens in his cabinet, where he could easily refer to them.

  27. Footnote: It may be well here to refer to the Treatise of Advice to Charles II.

  28. Driven from this refuge he had alleged the difficulty of separating mother and daughter, and agreed to refer the decision to his wife in full confidence that she would share his own fears.

  29. I only refer to it as an illustration of the fact that a journalist should always stick to his pen, and leave business to business men.

  30. I refer to that soft impeachment simply as an illustration of the carelessness with which London reviewers often write.

  31. They refer to the lawsuit against Councillor Ruestow of Brunneck.

  32. Did that flattering compliment refer to me?

  33. That is the tune when the Caesar comes this way, to a people who have such an ancestor to refer to; no matter what costume he comes in.

  34. I refer to the extreme regularity with which the volumes of the Transactions are published.

  35. Let us imitate that prudence, and before we float further, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are.

  36. But in his eighth chapter, when speaking of the causes which led to the Licensing Act, he takes occasion to refer to his assailant in terms which Fielding must have found exceedingly galling.

  37. Such, then, was the Treatment I met with: How much of it the Errors of the Play might deserve I refer to the Judgment of those who may have Curiosity and idle time enough to read it.

  38. What more might be said of her as an Actress may be found in the Preface to the Provok'd Husband, to which I refer the Reader.

  39. If she remembered or happened to refer to that description, while she was living in the same house with him, there was a possibility at least of her suspicion being excited.

  40. Does what you have still to tell me refer to any person whom I know?

  41. If you wonder how I discovered the library," she went on, "I must refer you to my aunt's lawyer.

  42. The person to whom you refer has no such claim on me as you suppose.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "refer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accredit; apply; ascribe; assign; attach; attribute; bear; charge; compare; credit; give; hint; impute; lay; mention; notice; place; put; refer; relate; relegate; repair; solicit; submissive; suggest


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    reference books; reference should; reference work; referendum held