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Example sentences for "the word"

  • The word was a chorus of dismay this time.

  • It was as if, by the mere utterance of the word, wife, she had drawn a sacred circle about her and placed herself in sanctuary.

  • I don't want to hear the word 'operetta' again for a year!

  • Oh, Leslie, 'glad' isn't the word for it!

  • But one evening, when late winter was listening for the word of spring, she came over to the little house for a twilight chat; and when she went away she left a small, white box on the table.

  • Archer disliked her use of the word "clever" almost as much as her use of the word "common"; but he was beginning to fear his tendency to dwell on the things he disliked in her.

  • And suddenly the play of the word flashed up a wild suggestion.

  • New York has always been a commercial community, and there are not more than three families in it who can claim an aristocratic origin in the real sense of the word.

  • On the word of an honest woman, three and sixpence, Mr. Cuff!

  • The pony started at the word, as if he had felt a Christian horror of it.

  • I should be ashamed to make use of the word, it sounds so much like a certain other word;' and then I made a face as if I were unwell.

  • Now emotion is what I dislike;" drawling out the last syllable of the word dislike.

  • The indiscriminate use of the word 'parfaitement' I also noticed to be essential when at a loss for either language or ideas, and have made valuable use of it ever since.

  • Despite this homely exterior, she herself was a 'lady' in every sense of the word.

  • He quoted it at every sentence, and was eloquent upon the subject of the meaning and the origin of the word 'Bible.

  • The word "facts" is, in some ways, crucial.

  • And the Admirals are typical in the full force of the word.

  • Thus is ther Hate, as ye mai se, Betwen mi ladi word and me; The word I hate and hire I love, What so me schal betide of love.

  • The word is tokne of that withinne, Ther schal a worthi king beginne To kepe his tunge and to be trewe, So schal his pris ben evere newe.

  • But the word -- the word is mine, when the order moves the line And the lean, locked ranks go roaring down to die.

  • The Milk of Human Kindness, Mother's Milk, and the Milk of the Word II.

  • This, besides overcoming the immediate difficulty and securing for the child a supply of sanctified food, might open the way for the entrance into her own bosom of the milk of the word.

  • The Milk of Human Kindness, Mother's Milk, and the Milk of the Word.

  • She comes of an old family though, my dear Sir; old in every sense of the word.

  • Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.

  • Whatever has been a ruling power in the world, whether it be ideas or men, has in the main enforced its authority by means of that irresistible force expressed by the word "prestige.

  • The word "Five" represented the fifth window from the end of the wall.

  • And yet they may all be said to be original, in the truest, deepest sense of the word.

  • There is no objection to such extension in ordinary speech, no more than there is to that of the signification of the word, "beauty" to what is purely abstract.

  • Browning is, in the widest and deepest sense of the word, the healthiest of all living poets; and in general constitution the most Shakespearian.

  • When, however, we cease to regard this vice from the point of view of morality and religion, and look at it solely as a factor in the social problem, the word prostitution is less objectionable.

  • How can a man who is on his omnibus from fourteen to sixteen hours a day have time to be a father to his children in any sense of the word?

  • He went away on the word, leaving me with a new mystery to think of, a new puzzle to grapple with.

  • I thought to myself, "this is the second time he has suddenly stopped at the word 'drink'.

  • It seems like a profanation of the word to write it in connection with such a monster, so I asked him point-blank, "Why may I not go tonight?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the word" 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:
    country places; the book; the days; the language; the left; the likeness; the several; the thoughts; the tree; the union; their respective; then back; then cover; then desired; then goes; then have; then proceed; then spread; then was; then were; there ain; there may; these birds; these countries; these islands; these last