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Example sentences for "this generation"

  • Richard, accompanying his last three words with three raps on his rock of trust.

  • Another truth, which seems to have been forgotten, and which needs to be newly revealed to this generation, is, that though manhood and womanhood are two distinct things, the humanity which underlies them is one and indivisible.

  • Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come on this generation.

  • For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninevites, so shall the Son of man also be to this generation.

  • The queen of the South shall rise up in judgment against the men of this generation, and condemn it: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

  • And the Lord said, To what then shall I compare the men of this generation?

  • I tell you, no sign shall be given to this generation.

  • Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

  • Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.

  • Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

  • Fifty years from now the historian of the American stage, if he should be asked to name the actor of this period who was most beloved by the people of this generation, will answer that it was Joseph Jefferson.

  • The triumphs won in it by Edwin Booth are within the remembrance of many playgoers of this generation.

  • Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

  • And the multitudes running together, he began to say: This generation is a wicked generation.

  • Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

  • And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

  • Amen, I say to you, a sign shall not be given to this generation.

  • And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation?

  • But this great appeal ought most strongly to lay hold upon the hearts of the young men and women of this generation.

  • The churches at Ephesus and Sardis and Laodicea had as hard things said about them as have been said in these chapters of the churches of this generation, and probably deserved them no less.

  • That is the meaning of the cry, "Back to Christ," which we are hearing in this generation.

  • It is not possible to stir the average human being of this generation, as the average human being of fifty years ago was stirred, by pictures of the terrors of hell and the felicities of heaven.

  • If you would be free in this generation, here is your only hope.

  • This generation," said he, "shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled.

  • Verily, I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

  • That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, 11:51.

  • For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites; so shall the Son of man also be to this generation.

  • Yea I say to you: It shall be required of this generation.

  • And when the multitudes were gathering together unto him, he began to say, This generation is an evil generation: it seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah.

  • The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

  • For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

  • Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?

  • War is a very old story, but it is a new one to this generation of Americans.

  • He somehow seems to find us human, at least, and so did Clough, whose poetry will one of these days, perhaps, be found to have been the best utterance in verse of this generation.

  • It is not just to say, as someone has said, that our language has not in this generation produced a love-song, for it has produced Browning; but was it in England or in Italy that he learned to sound the depths of all human emotion?

  • And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation?

  • The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

  • For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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