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Example sentences for "strict"

Lexicographically close words:
striations; striatus; strick; stricken; strickt; stricte; stricter; strictest; strictly; strictness
  1. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

  2. And what with the new watch and the councilmen being so strict against disorder--why, I could not let a dog get into trouble if I could help it.

  3. The Colvend men would have turned back to help, but they had received strict orders to put us on shore, whatever might happen, the which they did at Killantringan.

  4. A Hen Coup During the retreat from Mons strict orders were issued against looting.

  5. Strict silence was to be maintained, and the guns had been ordered to hang fire so that we might give the Germans a surprise welcome if they came over.

  6. In London the scrutiny was so strict that at one time there was a general flight and panic; suspected butchers, tailors, and carpenters, hiding themselves in the holds of vessels in the river, and escaping across the Channel.

  7. This offender being thus disposed of, and strict secresy being observed to prevent the spread of alarm, a rapid search was set on foot for books in all suspected quarters.

  8. They were ordered to attend upon the queen, but to observe a strict silence; and to hold no communication with her, except in the presence of Lady Kingston.

  9. There were a good many strict rules regulating the conduct of these balls, among them being one that every meeting should begin promptly at six and close at twelve.

  10. According to Bruce's Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century[35] it would seem that the early Virginians were as strict as the New Englanders about the matter of church attendance and Sabbath observance.

  11. The sight of this strict and immutable justice of God will render him amiable and adorable in their eyes.

  12. They are not strict in keeping the Sabbath, as in Boston and other places where I had been, but seemed to deal with exactness as far as I see or deal with.

  13. Who has not the character of a strict moralist, sober, temperate, just and honest.

  14. The great importance and strict regularity of the time-variations in embryology have been carefully studied recently by Ernest Mehnert, in his Biomechanik (Jena, 1898).

  15. The merchants have to keep a very strict look-out on the divers on their return to the shore, as frequently when the oyster is in the boat, and left alive undisturbed for some time, it opens its shell.

  16. We added fresh fuel to our fire, and loaded and frequently fired our muskets, and kept, as may be supposed, a very strict watch.

  17. We must, however, keep a strict watch over him.

  18. Tobacco is a strict monopoly, and great care is taken, when the harvest is being gathered, to prevent any being carried off by the people.

  19. When, however, the Dutch took possession of the country they determined to confine the production to one or two islands, over which they could keep a strict watch, in order completely to confine the monopoly to themselves.

  20. But Syria was not even in antiquity an exporting land, in a strict sense, for the fruits of the earth, like Egypt and Africa, although the noble wines were sent away, e.

  21. The Roman empire knew as limit, in the strict sense, only the sea or a land-district unarmed.

  22. We cannot therefore speak, in the strict sense, of a Roman subjugation of North Africa.

  23. Hence there is hardly anything to be told from the imperial period of the founding of towns in the strict sense as regards Syria.

  24. In the town of Alexandria there appears to have been no landed property to the strict sense, but only a sort of hereditary lease (Ammianus, xxii.

  25. I always see that my men are well supplied in their mess, and, in return, I expect smart work and strict obedience.

  26. Here to record that I was mounting now 125 To such community with highest truth-- A track pursuing, not untrod before, From strict analogies by thought supplied Or consciousnesses not to be subdued.

  27. After strict question, left within my mind That he and his supporters all were fallen.

  28. And Peter had received strict orders not to depart from his place of observation, if he saw anything suspicious, until he was satisfied that all danger was past.

  29. I brought up Miss Cox and introduced her to the turkey-tail fan, and our chaperone's quiet manner and dignity did much to reassure my strict relative.

  30. I was very uneasy for fear he might think we would have to stay at home because of Cousin Park, as he was very strict with himself and me, too, where hospitality to disagreeable relatives was concerned.

  31. The end of it was that, after a few months' strict seclusion with a coach in the country, I entered the Militia.

  32. Some few of the Ranger captains were not so strict in this regard as their colleagues, allowing the Indian allies to do more or less as they pleased with their slain enemies after a battle in which they had shown unusual bravery.

  33. When Mr. Jackson presents his little bill, you refer him to your trustees, who will repay him his five thousand pounds with strict legal interest.

  34. Save for a few wild freaks now and then, he has done right well, though I sometimes marvelled at his choosing to endure my strict household.

  35. Was it not time to be strict when there was such a nest of treachery within the Castle?

  36. The men-at-arms meditated ducking the witch after their own English fashion, but it was growing late and dark, and the Knight gave strict orders that they should keep together in their progress to their own tents.

  37. Him whom the Duke of Lancaster is pledging--a proud, strict Englishman--as rigid a service as any in the camp.

  38. I wonder if the master of the Damoiseaux is as strict as that lady said, and I wonder when I shall see Uncle Eustace again.

  39. He knew that, by strict economy, he could live within this amount.

  40. This requires a course of laborious exertion and strict economy, a little foresight, and possibly some privation.

  41. The establishment of Mount Vernon employed a perfect army of domestics; yet to each one were assigned special duties, and from each one strict performance was required.

  42. Then came my command of a regiment, constant care for the improvement of the condition of the soldiers, after my Pultussk experience--strict service demands, but also respect for the human dignity of the soldier.

  43. On parade and on duty the soldiers must comply with strict military discipline; but off parade and off duty, in their political, social and private life, soldiers must suffer no restriction of the rights common to all citizens.

  44. Meanwhile the Ministry of Railways and its subordinate branches will work in strict accordance with the ideas and wishes of the United Railway Workers.

  45. Order of the Day on the "transition to the new forms of life," and appealing to the officers, men, and sailors wholeheartedly to unite in the work of introducing strict order and solid discipline within the units of the Army and Navy.

  46. A new phase of the arbitrariness of ever-changing organisations was introduced into the strict and precise mechanism of the railway services in the centre as well as throughout the country.

  47. Alfonso of Arragon, seeing this, exclaimed, “Have the Genoese wings, that they can come to Bonifacio when we are keeping a strict blockade by land and by sea?

  48. For more than half a century, there can be no question but, under a settled government, strict justice has been done by the ordinary proceedings of the courts of law, in all cases of injury to person or property, submitted to them.

  49. All arguments were vain; the Foreign Office passport could not be recognised; the orders were precise for a strict surveillance of all persons endeavouring to cross the Straits.

  50. During that period they maintained a strict neutrality towards the Corsican Nationals, confining themselves to the limits of their occupation.

  51. Were such deceit felt to be possible, a darkness that might be felt would settle upon our spirits, and the hands would indeed hang down, and the feeble knees be paralyzed, and a strict silence on all moral subjects become us best.

  52. He too, in the strict sense of that term, is unable to create the new.

  53. St. John's Gospel asserts, in as many words, that it was the purpose of its author to write such a memoir, and not a strict history.

  54. In a memoir, the arrangement of events in the strict sequence of time and place is not the predominant idea.

  55. By a strict history I mean a narrative in which the events are connected together in accordance with the sequences of time and place.

  56. But even where the employment was at first uncongenial, a strict sense of duty and a strong determination to master the difficult and to like the disagreeable, conquered in the end.

  57. The best preservers of health are regularity in correct hygienic habits, and strict temperance.

  58. Practice strict temperance; and in all your transactions remember the final account.

  59. The man of business must needs be subject to strict rule and system.

  60. Mrs. Powle's letter was in strict accordance with Julia's description of matters; desperately angry and mortified.

  61. Cairnes, what I have said to you is said in strict confidence.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strict" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; accurate; arbitrary; aristocratic; arrogant; astringent; attentive; austere; authoritarian; authoritative; autocratic; bigoted; bossy; careful; censorious; circumstantial; close; condign; conscientious; constant; correct; critical; decent; delicate; demanding; despotic; detailed; dictatorial; direct; discriminating; dogmatic; domineering; dour; evangelical; even; exact; exacting; exigent; express; exquisite; extreme; faithful; fastidious; feudal; fine; finicky; firm; formal; fundamentalist; fussy; grim; grinding; hard; harsh; hidebound; imperative; imperial; imperious; inerrant; infallible; inflexible; just; legalistic; literal; lordly; magisterial; masterful; mathematical; meticulous; microscopic; minute; narrow; nice; oppressive; overbearing; overruling; particular; peremptory; perfectionist; pinpoint; precise; priggish; prudish; punctilious; punctual; puritanical; refined; relentless; religious; repressive; right; rigid; rigorous; rugged; scientific; scrupulous; selective; sensitive; severe; sharp; square; staunch; stern; strict; stringent; subtle; suppressive; tight; tough; true; tyrannical; undeviating; undistorted; unerring; unsparing; verbatim; veridical


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    strict adherence; strict construction; strict justice; strict neutrality; strict sense; strictly forbidden; strictly limited; strictly observed; strictly speaking