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Example sentences for "this business"

  • There's only one other woman filling a really important position in the merchandise end of this business.

  • This business of mine is just beginning to pay.

  • Hath he never before sounded you in this business?

  • Here's this business of letting the cottage as an instance.

  • But mark my words, Mr. Armadale, you are not at the end of this business yet.

  • But there is unfortunately a serious side to this business as well as a ridiculous side; and I must unwillingly come to it before I close my letter.

  • I'm a bad hand at defending myself against a sharp fellow like you; and I'm bound in honor toward other people to keep the particulars of this business to myself.

  • When I say I would give ten thousand pounds to be out of this business, I am blaming nobody but myself.

  • I'll lay you five to one Frank turns up trumps in this business!

  • I have been infamously used in this business,' he said.

  • My course in this business is as plain as two and two make four.

  • When you and I last set eyes on each other, you behaved well to me in this business.

  • Regiment to a certain other, in this business.

  • Some harpooneers will consume almost an entire morning in this business, carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a block towards the tub, so as in the act of coiling to free it from all possible wrinkles and twists.

  • Yes, there is death in this business of whaling--a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.

  • There exists, I fear, somewhere in this business a conspiracy to swindle.

  • I am almost sorry that I was tempted to embark in this business," he at length said to himself, the admission being extorted by the pressure on his feelings.

  • The larger his actual investment in this business, the more easily the matter will be settled.

  • This business of juries is the subject of not fewer than a dozen.

  • Give a pledge of your good faith, before you speak one word farther to me on this business, Mademoiselle des Meloises.

  • I feel that I have a padlock upon every one of my five senses; and I cannot move hand or foot in this business.

  • A man will need as many eyes as Argus to discover our hands in this business.

  • I always said a water-butt was what you wanted for this business.

  • This business strikes me as excessively unsafe; if it goes on much longer, I could provide you with a maiden aunt of mine, or my landlady if you preferred.

  • Let him get wind of this business, and you mark my words, Uncle Masterman will die in two days and be buried in a week.

  • And, see 'ere, Dick, I don't want to be mixed up in this business.

  • Maybe you think I ain't sick of this business?

  • Mr. Coventry knows of this business of the lease, and I believe do think of it as well as I.

  • Home to my office, and then to supper, and then to my office again late, and so home to bed, my wife and I troubled that we do not speed better in this business of her woman.

  • So, mightily pleased at her discreete action in this business, I with peace to sleep again till next morning.

  • He began to see how perilously far he had gone in this business.

  • Could sleep but little last night, for my concernments in this business of the victualling for Sir D.

  • In this business a girl's reputation is all she has.

  • Kurtz and I are partners in one end of this business.

  • It's according to her code and the code of this business.

  • Aubrey was right: a girl must either be mighty good or mighty bad in this business--or make people think she is, which amounts to the same thing.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this business" 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:
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