Something better," I answered; "we'll put a dam there and a mill and a hominy pounder.
I hope I shall be something better," said I, "before I die, or I shall have lived to little purpose.
It was for want of something better to do that, shortly after my return home, I applied myself to the study of languages.
For want of something better I resolved to await the return of the section crew from their day's work, and walked back to the front of the house and took a seat upon the steps.
Therefore if it is liked it is because it is an appearance, and not because it is held to be something better than it is: the first principle alone is a play, whilst the second is a deception.
I have just got a note informing me that he is something better; but, of course, he will vary.
She was meant to be something better than a thing; and she must be something better than a thing, or she is nothing.
Morality, even in its lowest form, implies knowledge, and knowledge of something better than "those apparent other mortals.
For the very condemnation implies the actual presence of something better.
But I've something better in view for you, if I thought I could depend upon you.
Well, not in the common sense of the word; that is, it will not put money in my pocket; but it will do something better perhaps.
What was to become of me by and by, I thought, unless I learnt to depend upon myself; and when Mrs. Dimmock the next day said that I ought to go into service, I determined to try and be something better than a servant.
Further, when one man reproves another he moves him by his rebuke to something better.
Was it Love standing between Birth and Death, or was it something better?
And then he fell to thinking of how once or twice in his life before he had caught a glimpse, as he had just now caught one, of that "something better," beyond the Dream of Life.
There must be something better," said the girl at last.
The 'breath of something better' which Hegius and Zinthius brought was seen in the substitution of the Doctrinale of Alexander of Ville-Dieu, near Avranches (fl.
So, for want of something better to do, they set about debauching them, and succeeded so well that the warriors finally took their women away from the camp in disgust, and never again came near it.
He remained at Williamsburg, and managed to pick up a scanty practice as an attorney, for he had read a little law in want of something better to do, and to fit himself for his coming honors as a member of the House of Burgesses.
Certainly I made more progress than I should have done under different circumstances, for finding myself without companions or other occupation, I applied myself to my books for want of something better.
I have but an imperfect remembrance of all concerning it, and the system is likely superseded long ago by something better.
It was such a complete change from Shipley, and youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "something better" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
