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Example sentences for "the men"

  • He asked a good many questions about the horses, the men, and particularly about the spirits of the men.

  • The men at every halt just drop down in the road and sleep until they are kicked up again in ten minutes.

  • The nondescript affair on the low slope is the gun position, behind it the men's shelter pits.

  • But here the song dropped suddenly, and one of the men held up his hand as who would say, Hist!

  • Three or four children were running about among the legs of the men, heeding them mighty little in their bold play, and the men seemed little troubled by it, although they were talking earnestly and seriously too.

  • All races and degrees are united in heartfelt opposition to the Men of Mulinuu.

  • Bride and bridesmaids were all in the old high dress; the ladies were all native; the men, with the exception of Seumanu, all white.

  • I tell you, Colvin, the acquaintance of the men - and boys - makes me feel patriotic.

  • Our audience was gathering and filling the street, and we finally sent a courteous message to the men, assuming that they had forgotten us and reminding them of our position.

  • I used to say that I would give a dollar to any woman in East Dennis who could quote a bit of gossip which did not come from the men at that grocery.

  • When my resignation was finally accepted, and the time of my departure drew near, the men of the community spent much of their leisure in discussing it and me.

  • The men of Peter of Colfax gathered up the lifeless form of Bertrade de Montfort and placed it across the saddle before one of their number.

  • Slowly he worked his way toward the table, the men-at-arms in the meantime keeping up an infernal howling for help.

  • Instantly De Vac's iron band clapped over the tiny mouth, but not before a single faint wail had reached the ears of the men above.

  • The armor of the men was of every style and metal from the ancient banded mail of the Saxon to the richly ornamented plate armor of Milan.

  • The men stood by their horses waiting, ready for orders.

  • York did not say this before the men; he always spoke respectfully when they were by.

  • Most of the men said he was a fool, but two or three took his part.

  • He had been the longest on that stand of any of the men, and he took it upon himself to settle matters and stop disputes.

  • Nothing is more certain than that the ladies always gain of the men by keeping their ground, and letting their pretended lovers see they can resent being slighted, and that they are not afraid of saying No.

  • The men, however, are so absurdly positive upon the subject that it is hopeless to argue with them.

  • When we came to the base of this promontory, the men halted, but I begged them to continue to the extreme end of it, that we might have the satisfaction of knowing that no possible chance had been neglected.

  • I feared that it might excite his sensitive mind, and endeavoured to conceal the absurd story from him, but unfortunately he overheard one of the men making an allusion to it, and insisted upon being informed about it.

  • The men are in a good humour in spite of the short allowance upon which they have been placed.

  • With the words she went into the kitchen.

  • Ah, my children, I have seen great armies come into San Antonio, and always before I have been able to make a little pleasure to myself out of the event.

  • On the third of December Colonel Milam stepped in front of the ranks, and asked if two hundred of the men would go with him and storm the city.

  • The sight was wonderful, and the ladies turned to him with smiles and cries of thankfulness, and the better part of the men bowed to him; for the Mexican gentleman is always just to a great deed.

  • In the midst of the men he stood like a god, with his great stature, and his bright, strong face.

  • What you are not likely to require, is to go to the men in the field.

  • One of the men, in search of the missing mate to the shoe in his hand, came over to her, greeting her carelessly.

  • The men drop in there the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night, to hear the gossip and buy a cigar and jolly the girl at the cigar counter.

  • The men, although not directly avoiding him, seemed somehow to have pressing business whenever they happened in his vicinity.

  • The men in the company are good kids, but I can't go trailing around after them all day.

  • The men who, in the half gloom of the loose-boxes, were busy grooming these animals made a curious whistling noise as they worked.

  • Well, as nearly as I can figure it out, he works for one of the men that's at the head of this rubber company.

  • And it was not an all-imagined morrow that we probed with our sharp guesses, for the lights of those low Philistines, the men of the caves, still hung over our heads, and we knew by their yells that the fire of our bivouac had shown us.

  • The truth is, that most of the men in authority have risen from their humble station by the arts of the courtier, and they preserve in their high estate those gentle powers of fascination to which they owe their success.

  • The men gathered in circle, some kneeling, some sitting, some lying reclined around our common hearth.

  • The men were no less than Kerick Booterin, the chief of the seal-hunters on the island, and Patalamon, his son.

  • Go thou down quickly to the men's huts in the valley, and take some of the Red Flower which they grow there, so that when the time comes thou mayest have even a stronger friend than I or Baloo or those of the Pack that love thee.

  • The men ought to skin two hundred to-day, but it's the beginning of the season and they are new to the work.

  • I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, rob each other of your well-beloved without remorse.

  • One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to stable his horse at Labarre's.

  • The men of yesterday are spectres; those of to-morrow are forms.

  • And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the men" 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 cities; the executive; the government; the legislature; the trees; the way; thee from; then also; then known; then make; then pack; then remember; then remove from the; then said; then should; then sweeten; then take; then take them out; then taken; then will; there came; there she; there should; thermal springs; these islands; this sense