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Example sentences for "thus far"

  • Thank God, we have all escaped-- thus far!

  • Thus far, since the sun rose, I have stayed the pangs of hunger with an apple and a glass of water.

  • I have said nothing about the matter thus far because I didn't want to be convicted of a piece of idle curiosity worthy of a gossip-loving housemaid.

  • While the general attention was occupied in this way, Father Benwell said a word to Penrose--thus far, a silent listener to the discourse on Art.

  • His address there was, thus far, not known to me.

  • Thus far, the conspiracy to marry him promised even more hopefully than the conspiracy to convert him.

  • It was now quite plain to me that the General's peculiar method of card-playing had, thus far, not been discovered and exposed.

  • Indeed with the exception of a few boyish follies, his art had been his mistress thus far, and it was beginning to absorb both heart and brain.

  • Thus far I can believe that your conduct has been inspired by the truest and most manly impulses.

  • Thus far he could understand her; and in the proportion she was depressed and withdrew from social recognition and encouragement, his sympathy and respect were drawn out towards her.

  • Thus far we have referred to two systems, one the neutral or differential duplex, and the other the combination of the neutral and polar relays, making a diplex system.

  • Thus far, the principle has remained inert, powerless, held in suspension in the air, in the great void of speculative declarations and of constitutional promises.

  • Thus far, the longest of these periods has lasted less than twenty years.

  • Thus far, the aim of inciting violence on the part of the strikers had completely failed everywhere.

  • History in the main, thus far, has been an institution for the propagation of lies.

  • Thus far, therefore, we cannot be concerned in the exhortation.

  • Thus far, therefore, the will of God is it that ordereth and disposeth of us and of our sufferings.

  • Thus far I have confined my efforts to thwart this plan, and have reduced baggage so that I can pick up and start in any direction; but I regard the pursuit of Hood as useless.

  • Some few spoke French, and with these we managed to exchange an occasional remark; but as the greater number stood about in silence, the affair, thus far, was undeniably a little stiff.

  • Enemy's dead, thus far reported, buried, and delivered to them.

  • Thus far he had a right to love Mildred, and it was not her fault she could not return it.

  • We have endured it thus far, not with patience and resignation, but in a sort of apathetic despair.

  • Thus far he had been able to maintain considerable self-control, and by daily experience knew just about how much morphia he could take without betraying himself.

  • What the viceroy proposed to effect by this movement is not clear, unless it were to gain time; and yet the more time he had gained, thus far, the worse it had proved for him.

  • His enterprise, thus far, had gone forward so smoothly, that he was no better prepared than his lieutenant to meet with resistance from the natives.

  • Thus far, no woman in the world has ever once spoken out her whole heart and her whole mind.

  • Thus far, Miss Garth had only interrupted his narrative by an occasional word or by a mute token of her attention.

  • It might be that the upper surface of their characters was all that she had, thus far, plainly seen in Norah and Magdalen.

  • The captain, who had carefully dogged his steps thus far, entered the boat also; and employed the short interval of transit to the opposite bank in a perusal of the handbill which he had kept for his own private enlightenment.

  • Thus far he will destroy a wisdom working from afar, but, as regards the immediate present, he will be apt to adopt the ordinary view, namely, that in the Old Testament severity prevails approaching to cruelty.

  • Thus far, I say, there is no call made out for any intervention of the architect.

  • It is, thus far, no better with me than when we left our old home.

  • She had never been able, thus far in life, to appreciate the exclusive principles upon which her mother and sisters acted, and had, in consequence, frequently fallen under their censure.

  • Thus far I had avoided punishment by a strict obedience to duty.

  • Thus far I may tell you--he was born to great wealth, which his parents designed should become greater by his union with a kinswoman, whom for that purpose they bred up in their own house.

  • The troops, thus far, had been mounted, finding sufficient grazing for their horses by the way.

  • Many who have perused this sketch thus far, may inquire, with some surprise, "What is it which has given this man such fame as is even national?

  • The Indians, thus far, had manifestly been the victors They had inflicted serious injury upon the Americans; and there is no evidence that a single one of their warriors had received the slightest harm.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    established fact; its power; lower figure; many pieces; maritime boundary; thence north; thus also; thus began; thus being; thus explained; thus expressed; thus expresses; thus far; thus judge; thus making; thus only; thus prepared; thus producing; thus refers; thus replied; thus seen; thus translated; thus will; thus writes; when considered; you that