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Example sentences for "show the"

  • Haygarth and some others of respectable standing to institute some experiments which I shall mention in their proper place, the result of which might have seemed sufficient to show the emptiness of the whole contrivance.

  • It began with an attempt to show the insignificance of all existing medical knowledge.

  • But there are cases enough that show the prevalence of the disease among the patients of a single practitioner when it was in no degree epidemic, in the proper sense of the term.

  • I have said, that to show the truth of the Homoeopathic doctrine, as announced by Hahnemann, it would be necessary to show, in the third place, that remedies never cure diseases when they are not capable of producing similar symptoms!

  • Cadet, encouragingly, "come, show the way, and we will get the tools in a trice!

  • No, my Lady; I was afraid to show the letter to any one; you know I ought not to have taken it!

  • They observed that as every precaution was taken no danger could be apprehended, and that it was desirable to show the futility of attempts against the First Consul's life.

  • I recollect a curious circumstance which serves to show the necessity of mistrusting the vague intelligence furnished to persons in authority.

  • At the Cambridge Observatory the two Bonds, father and son, speedily began to show the stuff of which the astronomer is made.

  • The needle may move back and forth in a way so fitful as to show the action of some unusual exciting cause.

  • To show the motion in our space to which this is analogous, let us take a thin, round sheet of india-rubber, and cut out all the central part, leaving only a narrow ring round the border.

  • This is spoken to show the hurtfulness of the tail, as it is also said in another place, Rev.

  • To him that ordereth his conversation aright, will I show the salvation of God.

  • For they are concerned for it, not to hide it, but to make it spangle; not to extinguish it, but to greaten it, and to show the excellency of it in all its features and in all its comely proportion.

  • By 35 he begins to show the marks of age.

  • A surveyor's tape measured the distance between the tripod and the leveling rod, which also had an attached tape to show the distance of the point sighted above the surface of the water.

  • It is also a duty to show the roads to those who do not know them, and not to esteem it a matter for sport, when we hinder others' advantages, by setting them in a wrong way.

  • All my cortege followed us, for I wished by this display to show the King of Spain how highly I appreciated the honours of his Court.

  • This work was to show the King by whom were to be filled up vacant places in the church, among the magistrates and intendants, &c.

  • The Parliament, very ready to show the extent of its authority everywhere, at the least as though in competition with that of the Regent, suffered impatiently what it called the encroachments of the Court.

  • They all went, with a hang-dog look, to show the Dauphin a feigned joy and a forced obedience to the order they had received.

  • The Shepherds answered, This man is named Godly-man, and this garment is to show the innocency of his life.

  • The grace of God is compared to a river, to show the greatness of the family of God.

  • This calling to the dresser of the vineyard to cut it down, is to show the outcries of justice against fruitless professors.

  • His being washed in water was to show the purity of Christ's humanity.

  • This is enough, or more than enough, to show the spirit of these games.

  • Show the sense of the tasks you set your little girls, but keep them busy.

  • To show the means by which he may be kept in the path of nature is to show plainly enough how he might stray from that path.

  • A hand open and extended so as to show the palm.

  • To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.

  • A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.

  • His disgusting praise of Belle Boyd, and complete ignoring of my claims, show the artfulness of some females and puppyism of some men.

  • Miggles felt it; and suddenly declaring that it was time to "turn in," offered to show the ladies to their bed in an adjoining room.

  • A single glance at the chief was sufficient to show the truth of the wild rumors respecting his youth.

  • Those three broader lines in the middle, with rhythmic ripples, show the overtones.

  • Still, it was enough to show the undercurrent of open defiance of the court, of law, of the people.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    earnestly recommend; election last; large calibre; leading lady; life sentence; shall have the honor; she thought; show her; show herself; show him; show his; show itself; show myself; show signs; show their; show what; showing what; shown later; shows himself; shows that; shows the; square kilometers; stand still; though once; une lettre; unknown country