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Example sentences for "support the"

  • But his generosity rested not here; for before he left the ship he made me a present of a chest and some clothes that enabled me to support the rank to which he had raised me.

  • It was sufficient to support the indictment, that it could not be found.

  • All the members of all the State legislatures are as religiously bound to support the Constitution of the United States as they are to support their own State constitution.

  • It incapacitates any man to sit in the legislature of a State who shall not first have taken his solemn oath to support the Constitution of the United States.

  • The members of Congress are chosen by the people, and they are answerable to the people; like other public agents, they are bound by oath to support the Constitution.

  • General Jackson was inaugurated in March, 1829, and pronounced an address upon that occasion, which I heard, as I did the oath which he took to support the Constitution.

  • Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material.

  • An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition.

  • The first edict of Justinian, which was often repeated, and sometimes executed, announced his firm resolution to support the innocent, and to chastise the guilty, of every denomination and color.

  • The duty of citizens to support the laws of the land is coequal with the duty of their Government to enforce the laws which exist.

  • A Member of Congress swears to support the Constitution * * * and if he sees a right established by that Constitution which needs specific legislative protection, can he clear his oath without giving that protection.

  • The first thing a Senator does is swear to support the Constitution of the United States.

  • There can be nothing in the words, 'support the Constitution,' if you may run counter to it by refusing to support it.

  • Can you, if you swear to support the Constitution, and believe that the Constitution establishes a right, clear your oath without giving it support?

  • In New Hampshire universal suffrage does prevail, which means that any man may vote who lives in the State, supports himself, and assists to support the poor by means of poor rates.

  • That they were prepared to support the government is certain.

  • Newspapers were as rabid against each other as ever, but no newspaper could live which did not support the war.

  • Support the Center of the roof about their dotes and beads.

  • The othe Cheif Said but little one of the warreirs Spoke after all was don & promissed to Support the Chiefs, the promisd to go and See their Great father in the Spring with Mr. Dorion, and to do all things we had advised them to do.

  • A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast.

  • One of the chief pieces of framing of a building; a timber laid horizontally on or near the ground to support the uprights; a ground sill or groundsel.

  • A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.

  • A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.

  • Various considerations induced some New England friends of Adams to support the measure.

  • On the other side, the manufacturing areas joined with the grain and wool raising regions of the middle and western states to support the measure.

  • Local histories, travels, newspapers, and the census of 1850 support the text.

  • All except the extreme radicals were willing to support the President or to come to some fairly reasonable compromise.

  • Not a doubt of it; and I'll know how to support the tittle," said Sancho.

  • Ormonde declared plainly that if the colonising policy were carried on it would be impossible for him to support the government.

  • The interval was spent in making preparations to support the coup d'état in arms.

  • The other class of substances, in the normal state of health, serve to support the process of respiration.

  • Rooseboom and his men, however, naturally thought that they came to support the French; and, when La Durantaye bore down upon them with threats of instant death if they made the least resistance, they surrendered at once.

  • Far from being able to support the war, they looked to the war to support them.

  • I find nothing in contemporary documents to support the accusation.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "support the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but thou; divisions were; drove them; feet above the river; few feet from the; forest reserves; furnished with; general laws; happened that; little pleasure; nearly uniform; open circuit; proper manner; stop them; support himself; support life; support myself; support the; support their; support them; supporting surface; the hand; this respect; trade unionists; turned from; upon occasion