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Example sentences for "stint"

Lexicographically close words:
stingy; stink; stinke; stinking; stinks; stinte; stinted; stinten; stinteth; stinting
  1. They are too ungrateful for the many great benefits which are bountifully supplied them--the brandy, the soup, and fresh meat readily extended without stint from the farmer's home in sickness to the cottage are too quickly forgotten.

  2. He does not stint the beer carried out either then or in the field.

  3. But you cannot at this day give wine and brandy without stint to one or two or three hundred men and women of all ages, habits, temperaments and hereditary moral and physical conditions without the production of many evil consequences.

  4. He had entered the house of that friend with a clear head and steady nerves, and he had gone out at midnight bewildered with the wine that had been poured without stint to her hundred guests, young and old.

  5. Who set you a stint as if you were a child?

  6. Aunt Corey, let me go, too; my stint is done.

  7. Now I must to my wheel again, or I shall not finish my stint by nine o'clock.

  8. Axe him thy-self, if thou nat trowest me, Or elles stint a while, and thou shall see.

  9. The Reve answerde and seyde, 'stint thy clappe, Lat be thy lewed dronken harlotrye.

  10. We stint ourselves in some ways, but we have no desire to stint you.

  11. O do your cruel wrath and spiteful wrong 8 At length allay, and stint your stormy strife, stint > cease 9 Which in these troubled bowels reigns, and rages rife.

  12. O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong 8 At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife, Which in +these+ troubled bowels raignes, and rageth rife.

  13. But since we have come and no one else draws near, come, let us satisfy our souls without stint with soothing song, and when we have plucked the fair flowers amid the tender grass, that very hour will we return.

  14. I had not required to stint my appetite for money wherewith to buy candles, ink, and pens.

  15. Yes," replied the governor sternly, "and you made answer that though it were your own father needing it, you would not stint yourself.

  16. The Misses Leaf never stinted their servant in any thing in which they did not stint themselves.

  17. Anne knits her stint each day, and will soon have hers done, but her second pair I am knitting for the child.

  18. You can sit in the open doorway, child, and when you have knit round eight times we will call thy stint finished for the morning.

  19. Susy could sew quite well for a girl of her age, and had a stint every day.

  20. I'll lift you out when your stint is done.

  21. There was a great pounding of drums, much singing, dancing, and feasting; every one wore wreaths, and Hiku was praised without stint for his love and daring.

  22. If this injured his confidence it did not stint his courage.

  23. Friendship, like love, is but a name, / Unless to one you stint the flame.

  24. He had given himself without stint to almost every musical enterprise of Germany, and his sympathy was ever on tap for every needy and aspiring genius.

  25. Bach made a complete study of the mechanism of the organ, invented various arrangements for the better use of the pedals, and gave his ideas without stint to the makers, who, it seems, were glad to profit by them.

  26. It was one of those languid, luxuriant days on which every lover of Nature longs to be in the woods and fields, breathing without stint air sweetened by the touch of bursting buds and growing leaves and springing grass.

  27. The governor and his wife were both equally severe towards them; would stint them shamefully in clothing and food, though they did not get flogged quite as often as some others on neighboring plantations.

  28. We welcome him then with a cordiality which knows no stint and no limit for him and for his noble associates, both men and women.

  29. Then said I aloud, "Be quick and stint this talk and impertinence, for I have to go to a party at the house of some of my intimates.

  30. Thou lavishedst thy generous gifts ere they were craved by me ✿ Thou lavishedst thy boons unsought sans pretext or delay How shall I stint my praise of thee, how shall I cease to laud ✿ The grace of thee in secresy and patentest display?

  31. I conjure you by all that is dearest to you, why stint ye to tell me your history, and the cause of your losing your eyes and your blackening your faces with ashes and soot?

  32. And he kept moving his hand to and fro as if he ate and saying to my brother, "I wonder to see thee eating thus sparely: do not stint thyself for I am sure thou art famished.

  33. I noticed that my gaoler was very unwilling that I should speak thus before the others, but I did not stint for that.

  34. JOHN GAY The Hare and Many Friends Friendship, like love, is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame; The child whom many fathers share Hath seldom known a father's care.

  35. Stint not to truth the flow of wit; Be prompt to lie whene'er 'tis fit.

  36. The dead man’s object was plain enough; while unable to stint himself, he yet desired to achieve the retention, after his decease, of the status quo.

  37. His predecessor’s years had been years of fatness, agricultural prosperity, but there had been no storing in granaries to stint the full-bellied kine.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amount; assignment; begrudge; bit; bound; bout; box; caliber; charge; chore; circumscribe; circumscription; commission; compass; condition; confine; confinement; contain; copyright; cramp; cut; discipline; duty; errand; exercise; extent; grade; grudge; hedge; height; hem; homework; interval; job; labor; leap; level; limit; limitation; localize; mark; measure; mission; moderate; narrow; notch; nuance; overtime; patent; peg; period; pinch; pitch; plane; plateau; point; project; proportion; qualification; qualify; range; ratio; reach; register; relay; remove; restrain; restrict; restriction; round; rung; scale; scamp; scant; scope; scrape; screw; scrimp; service; shade; shadow; shift; short; skimp; space; spare; specialize; spell; stair; standard; starve; step; stint; straiten; stretch; strict; task; term; tighten; tour; tread; trick; turn; watch; work