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Example sentences for "the house"

  • Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it.

  • Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!

  • As soon as she was small enough to get through the door, she ran out of the house, and found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside.

  • Little Pearl, who was as greatly pleased with the gleaming armour as she had been with the glittering frontispiece of the house, spent some time looking into the polished mirror of the breastplate.

  • We had an alehouse boy who attended always in the house to supply the workmen.

  • He had printed an address of the House to the governor, in a coarse, blundering manner, we reprinted it elegantly and correctly, and sent one to every member.

  • After sending to inquire my character at the house where I last lodg'd she agreed to take me in at the same rate, 3s.

  • She had lived many years in that garret, being permitted to remain there gratis by successive Catholic tenants of the house below, as they deemed it a blessing to have her there.

  • They were sensible of the difference: it strengthened the hands of our friends in the House, and they voted us their printers for the year ensuing.

  • Who were the people moving in the house--moving things from one place to another?

  • He was congratulating himself upon the enterprise which had turned the refectory, a cold stone room with pots on trestles, into the most comfortable room in the house.

  • Moreover, the house began to stir as the hour of dinner approached; she could hear the plates being chinked in the dining-room next door, and Chailey instructing the Spanish girl where to put things down in vigorous English.

  • I brought the little boy with me, and sent the officers and other help to the house.

  • Bring the thread box from the sewing-room, that roll of wide white ribbon on the cutting table, and gather all the white pins from every dresser in the house.

  • In the house," answered Billy, "and you can't wake him.

  • Elvira saw him, too, so she ran out of the house to head him off.

  • He vaulted the fence and burst into the house.

  • He requested permission to show his tricks in the presence of the lady of the house.

  • Going round to the terrace, I found three mahogany-coloured Indians, in white linen frocks and trousers, looking up at the house.

  • Penelope's notion is that I should set down what happened, regularly day by day, beginning with the day when we got the news that Mr. Franklin Blake was expected on a visit to the house.

  • Nobody knows as much as you do, Betteredge, about what went on in the house at that time.

  • One or two evenings in the week the twain spent up in Celia's part of the house, listening with the awe of simple, honest mechanics to the music she played for them.

  • He put on his hat, and strode out of the house as if his errand was of the utmost urgency.

  • She moved over to where the woman of the house stood, glum-faced and tearless, and whispered something to her.

  • The Wares exchanged another glance as he disappeared round the corner of the house, and another mutual laugh seemed imminent.

  • It was an easy matter to reach the rear of the house, by simply climbing a fence, and we did not doubt that seeing the light go out in the front, our unseen watcher would proceed to the back.

  • Save for the muffled throb of the rare all-night cars passing the front of the house, our vigil had been a silent one.

  • Was that lure of men even now in the house, completing her evil work?

  • Take us through to the back of the house.

  • His own quarters were comfortable enough, but when the weather was cold, the family were sure to have his company--nothing could keep him out of the house.

  • We were soon dressed and out of the house, watching the gradual approach of dawn, thoroughly absorbed in the first near view of the Oberland giants, which broke upon us unexpectedly after the intense obscurity of the evening before.

  • Behold they are they who shall judge the twelve tribes of Israel; wherefore, the twelve ministers of thy seed shall be judged of them; for ye are of the house of Israel.

  • For any lover of hers might have come to the house if he had been a respectable lad.

  • Her way back to the house was by a path through a young plantation of tapering firs, which had been planted some years earlier to shelter the premises from the north wind.

  • When he got out of the house, the air was cold and sad, the dull sky overcast, the river dark and dim, the whole scene like a lifeless desert.

  • For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

  • And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.

  • And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

  • And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

  • They wanted me to come to supper in the house," said George; "but I knew what was what too well for that, Aunt Chloe.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the house" 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:
    interview with; lawful marriage; the city; the darkness; the daughter; the expiration; the morrow; the persons; the place; the seas; then asked; then each; then have; then looked; then looking; then more; then pack; then pour off the; then replied; then with; there could; these gentlemen; these great; these mountains; these places; these three