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Example sentences for "these words"

  • The card-sharper, who had risen at these words, rang the bell violently.

  • These words, uttered without design, stimulated the cupidity of those who no longer cared to play with him, and now they were eager for it.

  • At these words, the sharper told his servant to wait behind the door, and to execute his order if he should hear nothing to the contrary in ten minutes.

  • John then opened the billet with apparent agitation, which visibly and greatly increased when he had perused the contents, which were expressed in these words: "Take heed to yourself for the Devil is unchained!

  • These words agree in one general idea, that of completely taking up.

  • These words, as here compared, imply a coming down from some previously raised or exited state.

  • These words have in common the idea of setting aside by some overruling act.

  • These words agree in representing a person as giving up or leaving some object, but differ as to the mode of doing it.

  • These words agree in the idea of bringing down from a higher to a lower state.

  • Till he these words to him deliver might.

  • These words, as here compared, have reference to the exercise of power over the actions of others.

  • There was a propriety, not to say a dignity in these words, that made the hearers yet more quiet and attentive.

  • But, her repetition of these words seemed to strike with some little discord on his ear.

  • Marcus wrote to the senate, who urged the execution of the partisans of Cassius, in these words: "I entreat and beseech you to preserve my reign unstained by senatorial blood.

  • Footnote 30: These words seem to have been the constitutional language.

  • Footnote 127: For the origin of these words, see Mosheim, p.

  • At these words Levin's face suddenly lighted up with a smile, a smile not far from tears of emotion.

  • Levin suddenly lost his temper at these words, because at the bottom of his heart he was afraid that it was true--true that he was trying to hold the balance even between communism and the familiar forms, and that this was hardly possible.

  • In these words of Agafea Mihalovna, Levin read the final act of the drama which had been enacted of late between her and Kitty.

  • The inscription was in these words: "Deposited with Messrs.

  • The Indians looked up the road and down the road once more--and then the chief Indian said these words to the boy; "See the English gentleman from foreign parts.

  • These words, the ordinary form of affirmation used by soldiers to their officers, were pronounced in a loud, metallic, monotonous tone, as if the speaker had been an automaton conversing with a brother automaton at a distance of twenty yards.

  • You made me very uneasy and sorry by writing such things!

  • Her lover was with her again, and it was enough: she made her heart over to him entirely.

  • Elfride was lying full-dressed on the bed, her face hot and red, her arms thrown abroad.

  • Not in these words, you know, but this in short is my meaning; I am a maker of war, and not a maker of phrases.

  • And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.

  • And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

  • And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

  • These words, though uttered in a very loud key, were addressed to nothing but empty air.

  • Hans tried to deny the truth of these words, but he could not do it, and sat silent, hardly listening to what his friend was saying.

  • The young man listened in dismay to these words, but with an effort he thanked the emperor for his kindness and left the palace, wondering how he was to fulfil the task allotted to him.

  • In the profound amazement caused by these words, the roots of which were utterly unknown to him, Daniel allowed his hand to be taken between her beautiful hands, as the princess kissed him sacredly on the forehead.

  • These words, said in a soulful voice, betrayed angelic sensibility.

  • These words, when used figuratively, have correspondent meanings.

  • Ordinarily, however, these words denote a struggle arising from bad passions.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "these words" 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:
    military officer; sign shall; these animals; these are; these countries; these days; these great; these laws; these letters; these matters; these may; these men; these occasions; these parts; these points; these regions; these subjects; these three; these times; these was; these were; these words; these works; train from; unanimous consent; verdict against