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Example sentences for "this effect"

  • This effect is so strong, so clear, so quick in appearance, that even with one poor century or two of economic combination, we ought to find much better results than we do.

  • A decree of the senate having passed to this effect, application was made to the tribunes of the people to arrange among themselves, or determine by lot, which two should go with the praetor and the deputies.

  • And the king consented: and he wrote letters to Jonathan of all these things, to this effect.

  • For there were letters written to the Jews from Lysias, to this effect: Lysias, to the people of the Jews, greeting.

  • And Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemee king of Egypt, with words to this effect, saying: Ptolemee.

  • And the contents of the letters were to this effect, that all provinces might know and be ready against that day.

  • The letter was to this effect: "MY DEAR LIZZY, "I wish you joy.

  • He therefore tipped Clarke the wink with one side of his face, while the other was very gravely turned to the captain, whom he addressed to this effect.

  • The squire was in such agitation, that, with infinite difficulty, and by dint of a thousand different questions, his master learned the adventure to this effect.

  • The parable was to this effect: an old traveller, hungry and weary, applied to the patriarch Abraham for a night's lodging.

  • Her answer was to this effect--It is painful to me to think of him.

  • Let me, on a blessed scrap of paper, but see one sentence to this effect, under your dear hand, that I may hold it to my heart in my most trying struggles, and I shall think it a passport to Heaven.

  • Then when they had resisted this, next they spoke these words or words to this effect: "O king of the Medes, the Lacedemonians sent us in place of the heralds who were slain in Sparta, to pay the penalty for their lives.

  • True, that direct testimony to this effect is scarce, and in the literature of antiquity we only have the passages of Diodorus and Julius Caesar relating to the inhabitants of the Lipari Islands, one of the Celt-Iberian tribes, and the Sueves.

  • Various causes contributed to this effect, some of them having their roots in the remote past, while others originated in the mistakes committed by the cities themselves.

  • They carried into the senate-house forty golden goblets, of great weight, and spoke to this effect.

  • Having spoken to this effect he ordered the censor to be seized, and borne to prison.

  • Proclamation was made to the Campanians to this effect, but it was received with such scorn, that they spontaneously used insulting language and menaces.

  • The letter was to this effect: "Not only was there no evidence of insanity, but the prisoner's counsel based his defence entirely upon the fact that there was no suggestion that the man was or ever had been insane.

  • The whole, therefore, of this effect is made to depend upon the sudden scenical transition from a supposed petty criminal to one of high distinction.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this effect" 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:
    forbid them; mile from; this beautiful; this camp; this chapter; this convention; this difference; this event; this generation; this girl; this good; this manner; this narrative; this one; this particular; this phenomenon; this planet; this province; this school; this speech; this style; this term; this thing; this treaty; this will; this world