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Example sentences for "show that"

  • He did not stop to show that I have said any such thing, or that it legitimately follows from anything I have said, but he rushes on with his assertions.

  • I wish to show that I am sustained by authority, in addition to that heretofore presented.

  • I am trying to show that you, Judge Douglas, are a witness on my side.

  • Yes, sir;" and Jack looked up as if proud to show that he was not afraid to tell the truth as far as he could.

  • Frank made his mother a little bow, gave his brother a shake of the hand, and nodded to Jill, as if anxious to show that he was not too proud to own up when he made a mistake.

  • As soon as I show that I have some good qualities, do some act of kindness in spite of insult, my color is forgotten and I am well treated.

  • After a very hasty breakfast, and the prosecution of some inquiries in the village, the result of which seemed to show that he was on the right track, Squeers started forth in the pony-chaise, intent upon discovery and vengeance.

  • Moreover there was nothing to show that he was guilty; his whole manner seemed to point another way, though of course he might be acting.

  • He clapped his hands, whereon Nombe and some servants appeared with pots of beer, of which, after Zikali had tasted it to show that it was not poisoned, the king and his people drank thirstily.

  • These are incidents; the full list has not been, and can never be recorded, but it goes to show that in the pilot of the War period there came to being a new type of humanity, a product of evolution which fitted a certain need.

  • It serves to show that, although higher performances were put up by individual machines on occasion, the general development had not yet reached the stage when such performances could be obtained in machines suitable for military purposes.

  • You were very good-natured to me once, when I am afraid I didn't show that I thought so.

  • I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.

  • I wish only to show that this is not incredible, and that the immense plates of baleen in the Greenland whale might have been developed from such lamellae by finely graduated steps, each of service to its possessor.

  • The intendant was about to speak, but the marechal stopped him with such an imperative gesture that he stepped back as if to show that he washed his hands of the whole matter.

  • Old Jolyon had little Holly on his knee; she had taken possession of his watch; Jolly, very red in the face, was trying to show that he could stand on his head.

  • Then he went down, purposely shutting the door loudly to show that he was coming.

  • It has been sought, on behalf of the defendant, to show that no limit of expenditure was fixed or intended to be fixed by this correspondence.

  • This passage serves to show that he had at this time no intention of making an exhaustive study of the Cirripedes.

  • But the advocates of his claims have failed to show that he, in any respect, anticipated the central idea of the 'Origin of Species.

  • The Chians, on the other hand, bring forward evidence to show that he was their countryman, saying that there actually remain some of his descendants among them who are called Homeridae.

  • Sections of the skulls, however, show that some of the apparent defects of the Gorilla's cranium arise, in fact, not so much from deficiency of brain case as from excessive development of the parts of the face.

  • He says the movement of the blood is entirely due to the contractions of the walls of the heart--that it is the propelling apparatus--and all recent investigation tends to show that he was perfectly right.


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