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Example sentences for "tow"

Lexicographically close words:
touts; touttes; toutz; touz; toves; towage; towans; toward; towarde; towardes
  1. Of course they could tow the launch over to some place on Long Island just as easily as they could take her to New Haven, and we can't very well telephone there, I suppose.

  2. Why, say, young man, I'd tow you around the world for that!

  3. But won't she go under completely and sink if we try to tow her?

  4. I hope not, anyhow, for we're not likely to find a tow while it keeps up.

  5. The Selig Company, with studios in Chicago and Los Angeles, and big stock companies of actors in both places also take some wonderful outdoor films.

  6. In another are log cabins for frontier scenes, and in yet another a barren stretch for other kinds of scenes.

  7. This was taken in an arm of Pelham Bay, near New York, and the "scene shifters" had to work for hours in the bitter cold breaking up the ice and shifting around the great cakes in order to get the desired effect.

  8. She thereafter walked slowly onwards in the neighbourhood of the bridge at its eastern side, and thus unconsciously came again near to, and following behind, her lover, on the Eastern Tow Path beyond the bridge, as above mentioned.

  9. The best plan will be for you to tow your boat and I'll ride in it and steer.

  10. Just fasten your boat to the other rowboat and I'll tow you.

  11. I think I'd better tow you to my dock," the young inventor said to Andy.

  12. I'll be giving you a tow in a few minutes, as soon as my engine gets warmed up!

  13. It has no power, but perhaps you could tow it behind your launch.

  14. Now I was thinkin', that if you youngsters don't let me tow you up as far as Poughkeepsie next week, I'll just have to write and notify the authorities about Uncle Jimmy and make a complaint.

  15. He said that at high tide we could float the houseboat right down into Bridgeboro River and then wait for the up tide or else tow it up to Bridgeboro.

  16. That one crab should tow her away from possible aid until another should bring a torpedo to fasten to her stern-post seemed a reasonable explanation of the action of the Syndicate's vessels.

  17. Consequently, before the arrival of the tugs which had been sent for to tow her into harbour, the Llangaron was well on her way across the channel.

  18. The enormous chains they held could not be severed by the greatest pressure, and if both crabs backed at once they would probably do no more than tow the Llangaron stern foremost.

  19. A vessel was sent down the coast by the Syndicate to notify Crab C of what had occurred, and to order it to tow the Adamant to the Bermudas, and there deliver her to the British authorities.

  20. The lives of the inhabitants of the desert would glide peacefully away, were it not for the tendency to indulge in feuds and forays--a leading feature in their character.

  21. Scarcely does the afternoon begin to grow cooler, than the migrating house is in a trice broken up, everything replaced on the backs of the camels, and the whole party in full march.

  22. Particoloured felt is an article of luxury, and snowy white is only used on the most solemn occasions.

  23. I caused store of boates to goe out to tow in our shipp, and wrote a letter to the capt.

  24. Syam with the rendadors chape upon it, containing in each chist one thousand tais--is tow thousand in all.

  25. Sugen Donos father sent a present of peares, and envited hym selfe to our fro a day or tow hence.

  26. I got barks to goe out to tow our shipp into harbor, yf it were possible, much fearing a tuffon; and Capt.

  27. Fuller his servant dyed at sea; and after his wife came over, he had tow children by her, which are living and growne up to years; but he dyed some 15.

  28. Methinks on or tow principals should have been full enough, according to that approved rule, The punishmente to a few, and y^e fear to many.

  29. Wheras, by a wise providence of God, tow of y^e jurisdictions in y^e westerne parts, viz.

  30. England; for besids these tow formerly mentioned sent from Leyden for this end, viz.

  31. I could have wished to have known y^e contents of your tow inclosed, at w^ch he stuck so much, espetially y^e larger.

  32. Blessed be our God, both he and it came safly to us, and we have sould it in tow parcells; y^e skin at 14^s.

  33. In y^e mean time, of those that were ther ready, tow muskets were discharged at them, & 2.

  34. A tug will bring down a new schooner from Shipton to-morrow, and I will signal to the cap'n, and you can get him to tow you back.

  35. Say, boys, we might tow her into shallow water!

  36. We will tow you to the hotel, my dear sir.

  37. Probably couldn't arrange for a tow for Charlie's car and see where we sit up with it all night and hold its head.

  38. Her man, she explained, was out in the fields with the horses, but when he returned, she would send him around and he would tow the car in for them.

  39. I was coming through the woods to the hotel to get a tow up, for I was out of gasolene, when I saw the lake.

  40. Their clothing consisted of two coarse tow linen shirts per year, and when these failed, they went literally naked till next allowance day.

  41. It was said by a naval man that he should have added the McLane's tow to his own and gone ahead; but it seems extremely doubtful whether he could have advanced against the current.

  42. A bareheaded young man in tow shirt and trousers was driving, and three laughing girls were seated on the stools in the cart behind him.

  43. It was near lunch-time, and charity prompted me to head for the boat and give it a tow homeward.

  44. To tow you back for lunch, of course," I answered, used to his ways.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    toward evening; toward midnight; toward the; towards heaven; towards morning; towards the; towards them; tower hatch; town and; town called; town clerk; town government; town house; town last; town life; town like; town meetin; town meeting; town meetings; town yesterday; towne called