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Example sentences for "the state"

  • However, daily observations revealed a certain change going on in the state of the ground.

  • A revolution not at all consoling," said Michel, "to pass to the state of humble servants to a moon whom we are accustomed to look upon as our own handmaid.

  • The laws and institutions of the state, apparently touch it nowhere.

  • In March, 1855, he delivered an address in the assembly chamber before the members of the legislature of the state of New York.

  • As a result, the original SITE of that settlement is not now in Louisiana at all, but on the other side of the river, in the State of Mississippi.

  • The State of Mississippi claimed 'to the channel'--another shifty and unstable line.

  • Major Thomas O'Connor was President of the Mechanics' National Bank here, and was the wealthiest man in the State.

  • Pauline and Gladys accepted her invitation and shared her box--the convention was held in the Saint X Grand Opera House, the second largest auditorium in the state.

  • The National Woolens Company, the Consolidated Pipe and Wire Company and the Indiana Oil and Gas Corporation--the three principal political corporations in the state--had their main plants there and were in complete political control.

  • They were to be married as soon as he had his degree; and he was immediately to be admitted to partnership in his father's woolen mills--the largest in the state of Indiana.

  • To the chagrin of the faculty and the irritation of the fraternities a jury of alumni selected him to represent Battle Field at the oratorical contest among the colleges of the state.

  • Murder itself was not more sternly and certainly punished in the State of Maryland than that of aiding and abetting the escape of a slave.

  • These instruments they were required to renew very often, and by charging a fee for this writing, considerable sums from time to time were collected by the State.

  • It was the custom in the State of Maryland to require the free colored people to have what were called free papers.

  • I was amazed when Mr. Johnson told me that there was nothing in the laws or constitution of Massachusetts that would prevent a colored man from being governor of the State, if the people should see fit to elect him.

  • In the state I was it took me a long time to compose this much, and I had barely finished it when there was a knock at the outer door.

  • There were certain conservative and unimaginative souls in this mountain principality who for various reasons held their old allegiance to the State of North Carolina.

  • It must not be forgot here to take some notice of the state of trade during the time of this common calamity, and this with respect to foreign trade, as also to our home trade.

  • It remains to give some account of the state of trade at home in England during this dreadful time, and particularly as it relates to the manufactures and the trade in the city.

  • The law of the State of Massachusetts is very definite in regard to religious meetings and religious gatherings.

  • I had also been invited by the Norwegian women to preach in the State Church of Norway, but there we experienced obstacles.

  • The Cabinet held a session, and by a vote of four to three decided NOT to allow a woman to preach in the State Church.

  • We were working for a prohibition amendment in the state of Pennsylvania, and the night before election I reached Coatesville.

  • They were in the state of mind which in their class can only be relieved by talk.

  • Do you know anything of the state of a man who cannot utter the most ordinary words to a woman without being conscious that he is making mad love to her?

  • And, indeed, to behold civilised human beings in the state of uncontrolled violence these three had reached was a sight to shudder at.

  • I am the State;" and that Napoleon deemed it a crime for the State to oppose his will.

  • God, pictured in monstrous forms, became throughout the world the property of man and of the State.

  • The whole strength of the State is at the service of each citizen; the obligation which binds them together is absolute.

  • In the state of my feelings at that moment, I do sincerely believe that she had hit on the only possible way of forcing me to leave the room.

  • Here again, I find it impossible to give anything like a clear account of the state of my mind in the interval after Sergeant Cuff had left us.

  • Her mind was in the state of an intelligent man's in the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth; she would believe practically anything she was told, invent reasons for anything she said.

  • She had returned to the state in which she had been all day.

  • But, after all, it was the most singular part of the affair that so many of the pompous governors of Massachusetts had allowed the obliterated picture to remain in the state chamber of the Province House.

  • The young lady courtesied at the close of her speech, which was so sensible and well worded, and delivered with such grace and propriety, that everybody thought her fit to be preceptress of the best academy in the State.

  • That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly country of Dauphine.

  • Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale.

  • Illusions respecting Primitive Man, the return to the State of Nature, and the Psychology of the People 2.

  • The return to the state of nature was very soon the general cry.

  • The aim of civilisation, contrary to all revolutionary beliefs, has been not to return to the state of nature but to escape from it.

  • It has been proved more than once, not only in autocratic systems, which are always overturned by palace conspiracies, but also in governments perfectly instructed in the state of public opinion by the press and their own agents.

  • After the other, it was the bitterest possible experience that could befall him, nor, in the state of mental desolation into which it plunged him, could he find any comfort from being soon again set free.

  • It is the financial and trade centre for the northern part of the state, a fine agricultural region, and in 1908 had five banks and a number of wholesale houses.

  • His life was so completely identified with the government of the state that he offers less material for biography than his ancestor Abd-ar-rahman I.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the state" 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:
    night and; the gate; the hand; the heat; the old; the plains; the supreme; the vale; the valley; the vice; the world; thee alone; then down; then evaporated; then going; then governor; then laid; then passed; then shall; then would; there would; these may; these men; these people; these places; these was