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Example sentences for "separate"

Lexicographically close words:
sepal; sepals; separability; separable; separat; separated; separately; separateness; separates; separateth
  1. The two separate tables still remain empty, until the Emperor and the Empress have left the room, as they are destined to hold the presents for their Majesties.

  2. Meanwhile, the two separate tables still remain hidden under white draperies.

  3. He encamped separately, kept separate guards, would not agree that Washington should assign any rallying place for his men in case of alarm, and objected to receive from him the parole and countersign, though necessary for their common safety.

  4. The estate was apportioned into separate farms, devoted to different kinds of culture, each having its allotted laborers.

  5. The captain returned twice with separate terms, in which the garrison was required to surrender; both were rejected.

  6. The colors were advanced in different places to separate the men of the two regiments.

  7. The Indians had their separate camp, where they passed half the night singing, dancing, and howling.

  8. British Museum, it appears to the present writer that the specimens from all these localities merge so insensibly into each other that it is impossible to separate them into distinct species.

  9. The first idea which presented itself to her imagination had been to separate absolutely, and at any cost, the Countess from her husband.

  10. Such being the case, we must either separate forever, or unite ourselves by the only tie worthy of us both.

  11. But the rich man begins by procuring for himself clothing which consists entirely of separate pieces, and which is fit only for separate occasions, and which is, therefore, unsuited to the poor man.

  12. The separate parts may die, but the whole lives.

  13. Education consists of those forms and acquirements which are calculated to separate a man from his fellows.

  14. But let us get on, Nichols, for I expect Conway and Mac Dermot to join me at Clive's for a consultation; and we must then separate till to-morrow night.

  15. He therefore only awaited the election of the new chief to bid good-by to the members of the company, and then separate from them.

  16. On seeing their chiefs ready to engage, the two parties rushed forward impetuously, in order to separate them and recommence the combat; bat Don Louis, with a gesture of supreme command, ordered his companions not to interfere.

  17. Separate yourselves boldly from Mexico, form the Sonorian Confederation, and call to your aid the French emigrants in California.

  18. He loved her with the love of a man who has reached the confines which separate youth from age; that is, furiously and frenziedly.

  19. About the year 1645, the Baptists in that country who had previously been scattered and connected with other churches, began to unite in the formation of separate churches, under their own pastors.

  20. The reason given for the journey seemed to him a sufficient one, and he had no suspicion that his father's real motive was to separate him from Bell.

  21. If the state forbids possession, no matter how acquired, then the question of receiving becomes academic, since it would be impossible to separate the two acts.

  22. They seemed to have no separate existence, but to have made up their minds just to winter through life together.

  23. Equally impossible is it to describe, although perhaps it is easier for our lady readers to imagine, what arts the three ladies could have used, so completely to entangle their separate partners.

  24. As Felix and his mother are seldom apart in body, so Felix and his mother are scarcely ever separate in spirit.

  25. The married men have a separate grating, at which to see their wives, but its construction is the same.

  26. In the press-room below, were three men, the nature of whose offence rendered it necessary to separate them, even from their companions in guilt.

  27. Every room has its separate tenant, and every tenant is, by the same mysterious dispensation which causes a country curate to ‘increase and multiply’ most marvellously, generally the head of a numerous family.

  28. I have done wrong--brother Half--to separate myself so much from you.

  29. Don't you think it would be a good plan if we were to separate a little from each other?

  30. Sometimes there is in the vicinity of a railway station, 333 a siding which is too far away to be worked direct from a signal cabin, and not sufficiently used to warrant a separate cabin.

  31. A smaller number of station men are required for the work, as the staff can be more concentrated and better utilized than when there are separate platforms on opposite sides of the line.

  32. A little later the question will force itself more prominently into notice, whether the four-line track or the separate fast through traffic lines, will best answer the purpose.

  33. The arrangement that naturally suggests itself is that of a series of fan-shaped sidings leading out of main shunting lines, separate from the main-traffic lines.

  34. In addition to the Parliamentary plans, and sections, and Book of Reference, an estimate of the cost of each separate line, or branch, must be prepared as near to the following form as circumstances will permit.

  35. The swinging portion of the wicket gates is closed, and held by a separate lever.

  36. The marquise owned to him that happiness in this world was impossible for her so long as her husband led this separate and hostile life.

  37. Now they separate before us, throwing long pyramidal shadows across the steamer's path.

  38. Yet some scientific facts, as related to man, make the idea of his extinction improbable, and separate him from the "beast which perisheth.

  39. Let us take the separate articles of the Apostles' Creed and see how they stand affected: [Sidenote: The Fatherhood of God.

  40. In order to escape, the Israelites must separate from the Egyptians, and come into their own houses.

  41. But the Lord must separate Abraham from his own kindred and friends, and teach him, and fit him to be the father of a nation that should serve Him.

  42. The quick advance of the train unfolds the separate mountain peaks, and the whole range is well displayed, there being apparently eight eminences, but upon coming nearer, others seem to detach themselves.

  43. The river falls forty-one feet here in three separate cataracts, giving an enormous water-power.

  44. Between this period and the middle of Sixth month he made a visit to Dutchess County, where the experience with Ann Jones and her husband took place, which will be dealt with in a separate chapter.

  45. It is impossible to say here[114] more than a few words about the phenomena and the theory of immunity proper, which have attained the dimensions of a separate science.

  46. These highest questions themselves are the outcome of the combination of the highest results of all branches of philosophy, just as our philosophy of nature originated in the discussion of the results of all the separate natural sciences.

  47. This fundamental question has assumed three separate forms or aspects in the history of philosophy.

  48. Now these elements, so diverse, so opposite, can not have been obtained from the same source; they must be supplied by separate powers.

  49. Separate tribes were united under a common government.

  50. Then plastic art, to aid and impress the imagination, created its symbols of these separate powers and principles, chiefly in human form, and gods were multiplied.

  51. To these separate manifestations of the Deity they gave personal names, as Jupiter to the heavens, Juno to the air, Neptune to the sea, Ceres to the corn, and Bacchus to the vine.

  52. But the unity of God was feebly grasped, the rays of the Divinity seemed divided and scattered amidst the separate manifestations of power, and wisdom, and goodness, and retribution, which nature presented.

  53. Now, if any one will separate from all this the first point alone, namely, that they thought the first and deepest grounds of existence to be Divine, he may consider it a divine utterance.

  54. First there was the great school lottery, where the first prize was six or seven pounds; then each house had one or more separate lotteries.

  55. Yet of these our old comrades, from whom more than time and space separate us, there are some by whose sides we can feel sure that we shall stand again when time shall be no more.

  56. He hadn't been prepared for separate studies, and was not a little astonished and delighted with the palace in question.

  57. At a point when they appeared to be in a rage against each other, old Farmer Tourier happened to come into the hall, and being struck with what he thought the disgraceful conduct of the boys, jumped on the stage to separate them.

  58. Mamma and the cook tried to separate the dogs.

  59. The south doorway of the church is richly ornamented, but the peculiar feature of the church is that the tower, a very high and massive structure, is separate from it.

  60. A separate excursion has to be made to them, as they do not come within the round of a yachting trip, unless you drag your jolly over the sluices, and row the four-miles-long Muck Fleet.

  61. Among laboring men, the most available medium of courtesy is the little paper cigar; it contains about four whiffs, and is smoked by about that number of separate persons.

  62. In Hood we have all varieties of wit and humor, both separate and intermingled.

  63. To know a thing is but to separate and distinguish it from something else; and classifying and systematizing are carrying the same law from the particular to the general.

  64. It seizes upon a fact as upon a lever, to separate and lift up some fraction of its meaning.

  65. We don't separate God and Nature, perhaps, as you do," the Doctor answered.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "separate" 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:
    separate article; separate caste; separate chapter; separate colony; separate command; separate dish; separate entity; separate existence; separate from; separate genus; separate government; separate peace; separate piece; separate room; separate school; separate schools; separate species; separate state; separate them; separate trees; separated from; separated from each other