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Example sentences for "rid"

Lexicographically close words:
ricochetting; ricollect; ricorde; ricos; rictal; rida; riddance; ridde; ridded; ridden
  1. Men skulde De kunne huske, hvor Papiret blev af, for det kunde saadan more mig at vide?

  2. He could hardly carry it, and tried to set it down, but to his dismay he found that it had grown to his back and he could not get rid of it.

  3. He put it in his pocket and went on down the path, glad to get rid of the old woman, her geese, and goose girl.

  4. What is our Mayor for if he can’t rid us of rats?

  5. You take the pig and I will rid you of the cow.

  6. The Princess took the Prince by the hand and said: “You have rid us of the enchantment of a wicked fairy who turned me into a white cat, and all my friends into cats.

  7. I would give the value of all your cargo to get rid of these rats,” said the king to the captain.

  8. Get rid of your silly fears, and remember--silence!

  9. He wishes to be rid of me--I have seen it in his eyes.

  10. Of course,' he said, bringing out each word distinctly, 'Rallywood must be got rid of.

  11. If both should happen to be killed by an accident we should be well rid of them--and what could the world say?

  12. You will find that in Maäsau we are still able to get rid of those who cater for a cheap notoriety.

  13. The troublesome Siestrzencewicz, Archbishop of Mohilew, not only strongly favored the project but suggested to Galitzin that the attitude of the Jesuits furnished an excellent opportunity to get rid of them.

  14. Le Jeune," he says, "would be unfit because he was a converted Protestant who had never rid himself of the defects of his early education.

  15. De Nobili determined to get rid of these obstacles.

  16. The British troops completely overwhelmed, were fain to surrender and called for mercy.

  17. This is succeeded by Fisher's Reach where, on the east side once dwelt a race of savages called Pachami.

  18. The family room was that in the southeast; the kitchen was the southwest room; the parlor the northwest room.

  19. Perhaps, however, the mountains at one time abounded in these animals, and the name may be only a coincidence.

  20. He used to boast that he came West just to get rid of the Presbyterians and the Allopaths.

  21. She's gone off her head with anger and disgust and she doesn't care where she goes as long as she's rid of him.

  22. Well," said Peter, "looks like our host wants to get rid of us.

  23. Food's the only thing that'll rid me of the dumb horrors.

  24. Why, just that you're glad to get rid of me!

  25. You were lucky to get rid of her as easy as you did.

  26. You are right there, I say so, too; he must be got rid of!

  27. He must be got rid of, he is a regular skinner!

  28. If you don't do it though, and get rid of the fellow and his wife, I will beat my man till he cries for mercy.

  29. It seemed to Habermann that he was really in haste to get rid of them; so he helped him in his design, and the young lady finally started, upon his invitation, though a little out of humor.

  30. It is just as it is with a horse and a garden and a house, one is glad to get them, and glad to get rid of them.

  31. Gottlieb was getting rid of his long-haired, Pietistic ways, and beginning to look at the world with his natural eyes, instead of through the blue spectacles he had acquired at Erlangen, or elsewhere.

  32. If we take him over the boundary then we are rid of him, and there is no need of our doing anything more.

  33. But anyhow I meant to have that rope off my hands, and I was thinking then that if the hook could help me get rid of the rag, it might help me to get rid of the tie round my wrists.

  34. Then there will be some hunting and shooting too?

  35. I should have fought to the end though, all the same, and so would you.

  36. As talking points for plastics in the home furnishings field, consider the following claims: 1.

  37. Under what conditions would you advocate the use of tapestry wall hangings?

  38. The veneer is generally cut rotary, but also sliced on the quarter or across the heart.

  39. There was none of that unselfish intimacy, that ready sympathy and help between the members of the caste into which he had risen on the proud day he first read his name among the Kaiser's appointments in the Armee-Verordnungsblatt.

  40. I wish I could give you an idea of the absurdity that it appears to us in this country to charge Mr. Holyoake with sneaking, with desiring to conceal his opinions, and get rid of the word 'Atheism.

  41. Under such circumstances the British public cannot be otherwise than glad that Her Majesty the Queen is fitly represented at Peking by what is not unfrequently described in the vernacular as "The Great English Legation.

  42. Our driver in Calgary confided to us "that them young men didn't do no good to themselves out here, but they did good to the country, for they freely spent the remittances from home.

  43. The other day there was a touching incident of a brave boy who went out in a storm here and saved the life of a child, perishing in the attempt.

  44. No, beyond the fact that he would naturally like to get rid of this thing hanging over him as soon as he can.

  45. I wanted to get rid of Ronald as much as I did of her, so that the curse might come to an end, and now it was all so easy.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    riddle about; ride away; ride back; ride from; ride herd; ride home; ride over; ride upon