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Example sentences for "teach them"

  • It is time, my dear, for you to begin to teach them French.

  • Teach them to scorn injustice, ingratitude, cowardice, and falsehood.

  • We wanted to teach them to study actual things instead of mere books alone.

  • We wanted to teach them what to eat, and how to eat it properly, and how to care for their rooms.

  • Haven't they been learning something all their lives--at least since Miss Bird began to teach them?

  • Now I've got to settle down to take two girls instead of two hundred, and I suppose if I try to teach them anything I shall be thwarted at every turn.

  • Hit them over the head as the curates and the officers of the Civil Guard do--teach them politeness!

  • The alcalde and the Captain-General, my superior officers, have been talking with him all the afternoon and it's not for me to teach them a lesson.

  • And thou gavest thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for their thirst!

  • Under present conditions it would perhaps be a good thing not to allow the Filipinos to leave the country, and even not to teach them to read.

  • Dei Gratia, they must be taught, as, Dei Gratia, you are set to teach them.

  • There were at this time forty-six boys and four girls staying at the mission, and it was necessary, not only to teach them in school, but to keep them profitably employed during work hours and out on the farm.

  • Sister Taylor, in addition to her many other duties, had formed all these girls into a sewing-class and was endeavoring to teach them to make garments for themselves.

  • At this time he pitched his tent a short distance from the village and informed the people that he had come to teach them, and that those desiring to hear should come to the tent at such a time as best suited them.

  • We were in doubt as to whom we should send to teach them; and after praying over the matter we concluded to consult the Christians in Members' Meeting, and inquire if anyone felt led of the Lord to take up the work there.

  • He maintained that unless masters could lawfully degrade their slaves to the condition of beasts, they were just as much bound to teach them to read the Bible as to teach any other class of their population.

  • Later in life he failed to urge his followers to emancipate their slaves, and did not entreat his congregation to teach them to read.

  • He had but small faith in schools for the youth, save as far as to teach them to read and write.

  • The true means to do them good, he thought, was to teach them to till the ground and raise crops in the same way as the white folks, and he said if the tribes were pleased to learn such arts, he would find a way to have them taught.

  • Our troops had had no chance to drill, there was no one to teach them, and they had fought with a rush and a dash, and in a pell-mell sort of way.

  • For this purpose I have drawn all the shapes I can find named in botanies, into a book, from which I teach them.

  • The explanations they are always eager to give, teach them to express themselves in words.

  • That is what we are trying to teach them.

  • We try to teach them that it is wrong to be idle.

  • Teach them to understand and know that it is better to tell the truth than to lie.

  • Without having any one to direct or teach them, they will come together and dance in couples, often with abundant grace and charm.

  • But when separate grants ceased to be paid for class subjects, were not the teachers free to teach them by rational methods?

  • In fact, seeing that I had already taught the children to touch the contours of the plane geometric insets, I had now only to teach them to touch with their fingers the forms of the letters of the alphabet.

  • Good will," a willingness to meet the demands of the Association is enough, for the directress is ready and willing to teach them how.

  • Indeed, sometimes we teach them how to take a foot-bath.

  • Teach them to embrace good and shun evil.

  • Teach them to shun all children who indulge in this loathsome habit, or all children who talk about these things.

  • Teach them that sin means disobedience of God's laws of every kind.

  • But Prometheus, taking pity on them, determined in his mind to free them from that slavery and to teach them to rise above the beasts, by seeing things as they are.

  • Teach them to be sure that man can find out truth, because God his Father and Archetype will show it to those who hunger after it.


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


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