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Example sentences for "since the"

  • Since the appearance of money we have lived in a world of darkness, confused desires, and rampant evils.

  • Since the city is therefore nonproductive and non-self sufficient it must either rob all needed supplies from some other place or lose the ability to keep itself alive and functioning.

  • Since the co-op cannot force us to do things as the government can, it is all right to refuse their every request without worrying about being arrested and thrown in jail.

  • The series of disturbances was, says Professor Chamberlin, "greater than any that had occurred since the close of the Palaeozoic.

  • Since the Eocene, however, the species have been almost entirely changed, so that the insect record, from its commencement in the Primary Era, has the stamp of evolution on every page of it.

  • Since the days of Darwin there has been some tendency to resent the term "lower animals," which man applies to his poorer relations.

  • It is questioned if cross-fertilisation has really the importance ascribed to it since the days of Darwin.

  • Since the foundation of the Military Academy there have been eighteen colored boys appointed to West Point, of whom fifteen failed in their preliminary examinations, or were discharged after entering because of deficiency in studies.

  • There had been a vineyard of some extent on the place, but it had not been attended to since the war, and had fallen into utter neglect.

  • But the world has hardly been a fit place to live in since the war, and when I follow her, as I must before long, I shall not be sorry to go.

  • But let that go, I am nothing now, since the day I lost Cousin Ridd.

  • But, since the tale is hearsay rather than certainty, let good judges weigh its credit.

  • Hildigisl slunk off with a spear through both buttocks, which was the occasion for a jeer at the Teutons, since the ugliness of the blow did not fail to brand it with disgrace.

  • Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art.

  • I am going now to take a turn in the shrubbery, since the air is milder.

  • There is no reason why I should not tell you--since the fact is so--that the person to whom I am indebted is Bulstrode.

  • And what need you care," said Craigengelt, "since the change is in your favour?

  • Since the consumption of these more excellent goods is an evidence of wealth, it becomes honorific; and conversely, the failure to consume in due quantity and quality becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit.

  • Since the end of growth is outside of and beyond the process of growing, external agents have to be resorted to to induce movement toward it.

  • Since the situation in which thinking occurs is a doubtful one, thinking is a process of inquiry, of looking into things, of investigating.

  • Since the young at a given time will at some later date compose the society of that period, the latter's nature will largely turn upon the direction children's activities were given at an earlier period.

  • Since the goal of perfection, the standard of development, is very far away, it is so beyond us that, strictly speaking, it is unattainable.

  • Since the accession, her power had greatly increased.

  • In the following year the Prince Imperial, the only son of the Empress Eugenie, to whom Victoria, since the catastrophe of 1870, had become devotedly attached, was killed in the Zulu War.

  • In general, her aesthetic tastes had remained unchanged since the days of Mendelssohn, Landseer, and Lablache.

  • Since the affair of Lady Flora Hastings, a sad fate had overtaken Sir James Clark.

  • I considered the past: I saw in my own behaviour, since the beginning of our acquaintance with him last autumn, nothing but a series of imprudence towards myself, and want of kindness to others.

  • Since the death of her husband, who had traded with success in a less elegant part of the town, she had resided every winter in a house in one of the streets near Portman Square.

  • Since the battle of Lewes, Prince Edward had been kept as a hostage, and, though he was otherwise treated like a Prince, had never been allowed to go out without attendants appointed by the Earl of Leicester, who watched him.

  • Since the establishment of the married couple in London they had frequented their former friends of the house of Raggles, and did not like the latter's account of the Colonel's menage.

  • Since the departure of Becky Sharp, that old wretch had given himself up entirely to his bad courses, to the great scandal of the county and the mute horror of his son.

  • I have scarce had the pleasure of seeing you, Miss Woodhouse," she shortly afterwards began, "since the party to Box Hill.

  • He argued especially that there could be no natural connection between the comet and pestilence, since the burning of an exhalation must tend to purify rather than to infect the air.

  • The study of languages has been, since the Revival of Learning and the Reformation, a favourite study with the whole Western Church, Catholic and Protestant.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bright blue; but later; diuerse places; large vessel; many stamens; over head and ears; railway trains; since dead; since last; since leaving; since otherwise; since she; since that; since their; since there; since thou; since what; sincere desire; sincere friend; sincere repentance; sincerely hope; single atom; special legislation; support herself; thou darest; your mother