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Example sentences for "the man"

  • They done it, and soon as they was aboard I lit out for our towhead, and in about five or ten minutes we heard the dogs and the men away off, shouting.

  • He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me.

  • Well, last I pulled out some of my hair, and blooded the axe good, and stuck it on the back side, and slung the axe in the corner.

  • He leaned his back up against a tree, and stretched his legs out till one of them most touched one of mine.

  • I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on him; but when he says this, it seemed to kind of take the tuck all out of me.

  • I heard that just as plain as if the man was by my side.

  • This one kept pointing the pistol at the man's head on the floor, and saying: "I'd LIKE to!

  • The man was of fine figure, swarthy, and stern in aspect; and he showed in profile a facial angle so slightly inclined as to be almost perpendicular.

  • The man replied in the negative; that Miss Templeman only had come.

  • The man as slily sent back money in payment.

  • The man continued-- "I haven't more than fifteen shillings in the world, and yet I am a good experienced hand in my line.

  • The man answered, I am what I was not once.

  • Then said Christian to the man, What art thou?

  • So when he was got in, the man of the gate asked him who directed him thither?

  • The man answered, Because I fear that this burden is upon my back will sink me lower than the grave, and I shall fall into Tophet.

  • Lay your hands upon the shoulder of John Carter," she said to them, turning toward me, "the man to whom Helium owes her princess as well as her victory today.

  • The man himself, for such I may call him, was fully fifteen feet in height and, on Earth, would have weighed some four hundred pounds.

  • The bravery and daring of the man won my greatest respect and admiration.

  • I knew the magic beanstalk before I had tasted beans; I was sure of the Man in the Moon before I was certain of the moon.

  • Its approximate statement is that if the man in Hanwell is the real God, he is not much of a god.

  • But if the man began to burn down London and say that his housekeeper would soon call him to breakfast, we should take him and put him with other logicians in a place which has often been alluded to in the course of this chapter.

  • The man's eyes glistened wildly in the binnacle light as he jumped round to the other side and spun round the wheel.

  • The man of whiskers gave a blast on the whistle which he used to wear hanging round his neck, and yelled, "Sephora's away!

  • The man in the water began suddenly to climb up the ladder, and I hastened away from the rail to fetch some clothes.

  • Cause it begins at half-past one, the man says so.

  • The man, a common fellow, made jokes with them, tried to swindle them, and bullied them.

  • And the two last words, shouted in a bullying fashion, usually at Annie, made the family writhe with hate of the man.

  • The man laughed, and said: "That were a long tale to tell; and it is little like that thou shalt live to hear the ending thereof.

  • So Ralph thought and called to mind that strong little steel axe of the man whom he had slain yesterday, and asked for the sight of such a weapon, if he might perchance cheapen it.

  • Then Ralph bethought him of the man of the leafless tree, and he looked to see what armoury the man bore on his coat; but he had nothing save a loose frock of white linen over his hauberk.

  • I plucked up courage at once, crossed the threshold, and walked right up to the man where he stood, propped on his crutch, talking to a customer.

  • The man's a perfect trump," declared the squire.

  • But one look at the man before me was enough.

  • The man isn't made who wouldn't lay down the life of him for her.

  • Would she throw herself at the man's feet before them all?

  • The Man of Affairs answered her with a look of infinite tenderness.

  • Depinds entirely on the man," said Freckles.

  • Good fortune was with them, however, and although they sighted two detachments of the savage green men, they were not themselves seen.

  • And then she conquered whatever had moved her.

  • Beneath the glorious effulgence of the two moons the scene was one of indescribable loveliness, tinged with the weirdness of strange enchantment.

  • He saw about him the giant figures of other green men, and so he jumped to the only conclusion that was open to him.

  • Death seemed to follow instantly the slightest pinprick of a bowman's arrow, nor apparently did one ever miss its goal.

  • Carthoris of Helium wishes you every happiness with the man of your choice," he said.

  • Look at this," he said, handing it to the man.

  • Her dark eyes looked angrily into those of the man.

  • At touch of the man's hand upon her flesh the girl went pallid beneath her coppery skin, for the persons of the royal women of the courts of Mars are held but little less than sacred.

  • The Man recruited in the Rue des Billettes VIII.

  • The man was on the point of dying in despair.

  • The woman had been arrested in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man.

  • It was said of him in the town, "That is the cousin of the man of Grenoble.

  • It would not interest you, Mr. Hubbard," he said, keeping his eye on the man.

  • The man had to touch him twice on the shoulder before he woke, and as he opened his eyes a faint smile passed across his lips, as though he had been lost in some delightful dream.

  • The man seemed to take an interminable time over everything.

  • What is the name of the man at Richmond who supplies Selby with orchids?

  • He thrust up the trap and called to the man to drive faster.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the man" 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:
    the government; the next; the serpent; the seventh; the state; the union; the wilderness; their father; then certainly; then down; then dried; then drop; then fell; then given; then inquired; then perhaps; then says; then the priest shall pronounce him; then turned; then wash; thence west; there ain; these birds; these cases; these questions; they shall