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Example sentences for "send home"

  • I am going to save about a hundred dollars," he said to himself, "and I will have this money to send home to mother.

  • Had it not been for the thought that by doing this he was saving money to send home, he would have been miserable indeed, but this idea kept him hopeful.

  • He had seen nothing like them before, even in California, and he longed to pluck some of them to send home, if they had only been wax instead of nature's blossoms.

  • The price was more reasonable than he had hoped for, even, and this made him happy, for as yet he had no idea how much his earnings would be, and he was anxious to be able to save something to send home, if he possibly could.

  • Have been down town and had my picture taken to send home by Herman and John.

  • Colonel Cowles' body was sent under a guard to the landing, on its way to New Orleans, where it will be made ready to send home.

  • I owe others for borrowed money, and by the time I get round I fear my pile to send home will be small.

  • They're goin' to have a photo taken to send home to her folks in Ontario.

  • Pearl winked hard, wondering if it was an Indian, a buffalo, or a bear she wanted to send home.

  • You know how his lip hangs when' he's drunk--he wouldn't look nice in a photo to send home.

  • The rest of the afternoon was spent seeing people who came in for news of Brussels, and who had messages to send home.

  • I'm going to send home my Report next time.

  • I send home a map to my grandmother, I've just been making, and I tried hard as I could to do it right, and I hope she will excuse mistakes, for I never made one before.

  • But it meant twelve more precious dollars for his fund--or, rather, it meant six dollars for his fund, and six to send home to his mother.

  • Joe and Tom sat up late, getting letters ready to send home, and Joe spent an hour on a letter to Lucy Elkins, telling her about his life in the Park, and promising to send snow pictures as soon as he could get them developed.

  • After supper they walked around to the great hotel, which was not yet lighted up, for though it was now seven o'clock, it was still broad daylight, and bought souvenir postcards to send home to their parents and the other scouts.

  • The Colonel was very much embarrassed but he admitted that it was his, explaining hastily, "Some things I bought to send home.

  • I had spent some time visiting post card vendors in search of appropriate cards to send home.

  • In the daytime the shops were open and doing a lively business, too, with all those Americans there ready and willing to buy this and that to send home to the "little woman.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "send home" 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:
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