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Example sentences for "treat"

Lexicographically close words:
treasures; treasuries; treasuring; treasuror; treasury; treate; treated; treateth; treatie; treaties
  1. The delicate question how she was to treat her uncle, he settled generously.

  2. I hope Richard will treat him as he deserves," she said.

  3. And if he abuses me, for my sake and hers you will still treat him with respect.

  4. Mrs. Doria's animosity to Mrs. Grandison made her treat this as a piece of satirical ingenuousness.

  5. He knew that the wise youth would divine how to treat him, and he mentally confessed to just enough weakness to demand a certain kind of management.

  6. You will treat him just as you would treat any other gentleman.

  7. You said, you remember, she would take me as a sister, and treat me--I laughed at it then.

  8. You will treat her as you did my dear girl, for she will require not only shelter but kindness.

  9. After all, the country would be dull if we hadn't a rip here and there to treat us to a little conflagration.

  10. Dowling knows the horse, and would treat him properly.

  11. If you do you are much mistaken--See how the American people treat us--have we souls in our bodies?

  12. But Americans, I declare to you, while you keep us and our children in bondage, and treat us like brutes, to make us support you and your families, we cannot be your friends.

  13. They are afraid to treat us worse, for they know well, the day they do it they are gone.

  14. Treat us then like men, and we will be your friends.

  15. I ask those people who treat us so well, Oh!

  16. Treat us like men, and there is no danger but we will all live in peace and happiness together.

  17. See how they treat us in open violation of the Bible!

  18. We shall meet them on that low platform of the "equality" they seek for, and we shall treat them with the unhesitating and regardless familiarity they so earnestly invite!

  19. They suffered and bled both in fields and on scaffolds for the cause of civil and religious liberty; and shall we reap the fruit of their sufferings, their prayers and their blood, and yet treat their memory either with indifference or scorn?

  20. Discuss the proposal to treat all propositions as affirmative.

  21. To treat an agent or condition remote in time as an unconditional cause: for every moment of time gives an opportunity for new combinations of forces and, therefore, for modifications of the effect.

  22. They say you torment and ill-treat your daughters dreadfully; that the eldest was obliged to practise day and night.

  23. If I should enter into details of the four earlier stages of humanity, and treat in addition of the adult man, I should be obliged to write a philosophical work on the subject, and that might not be entertaining.

  24. Do they not treat Abner Gale with proper respect as a West-country gentleman, a noted sportsman, and a pillar of the Church?

  25. A life-long habit had accustomed Mr. Flint to treat all men as adversaries until they were proved otherwise.

  26. It came, Austen thought, from a rarity of meeting with men on a disinterested footing; and he could not but wonder how Mr. Flint would treat the angels in heaven if he ever got there, where there were no franchises to be had.

  27. It is necessary to treat matrimony from a practical as well as a sentimental point of view.

  28. Mr. Flint ardently desired to treat the matter in the trifling aspect in which he believed he saw it, to carry it off genially.

  29. He continued to treat the ground on which Austen was standing as unoccupied.

  30. We want to treat Mr. Crewe right," Mr. Bascom put in.

  31. One of their most fascinating qualities is the frankness with which they treat people, with which they go on working in the presence of others, and showing their work frankly, calling for sympathy.

  32. My professional experience will come in well here," he said; "I mean to treat him as an unwilling witness; you will see we shall get something out of him in that way.

  33. Why do you, Wilfrid--why treat such matters with levity?

  34. He conceived the idea sharply, and forthwith, without any preparation, he was ready to treat these high-aspiring ladies like schoolgirls.

  35. Chump went and marrud his cook, that ye treat me so?

  36. They will treat her respectfully," said Mr. Powys.

  37. Anyhow, now I can treat somebody," and she threw a wink of promise at Adela.

  38. I can enjoy it, and shall treat it respectfully if you will confide it to me alone; but I and my friends must laugh at it outright.

  39. I treat opera there as Alfieri conceived tragedy.

  40. I am the last to treat ninety thousand pounds with levity.

  41. In such Cases, we were frequently obliged at first to neglect the Ague, and to treat the Disorder entirely as a Flux.

  42. Most Authors, who treat of the Dysentery, mention this Symptom of Worms; and Dr.

  43. We do not treat our native ferns with sufficient respect.

  44. In spite of the fact of their fickleness, I would buy a dozen or two of the auratum lilies, for even if they last but for a single year, they are so splendid that we can almost afford to treat them as a fleeting spectacle.

  45. Three or four of sich bosses as Donovan may be in the drift when with one stroke of a pick I let the water into the lower level, and that'll show the others we're men, even if they do treat us like brutes.

  46. This is a nice way to treat honest men," Billings was saying as the two approached.

  47. Yank him out so's the bosses can see how we treat spies!

  48. Treat me decent an' I'll travel as fast as you can.

  49. I don't know any greatest treat As sit him in a gay parterre, With Madame who is too more sweet Than every roses buttoning there.

  50. He had in her court castillians ambassadors coming for treat of the pease.

  51. I don't know any greatest treat As sit him in a gay parterre, And sniff one up the perfume sweet Of every roses buttoning there.

  52. George Sand advised Poncy to treat the things connected with his trade, in his poetry.

  53. This will be a treat for us, and it will no doubt prove that there was a depth of immense candour in the celebrated authoress.

  54. This was all of no use, though, for Poncy was most anxious to treat other subjects rather more lively and--slightly libertine.

  55. His idea was to treat men according to their merits, and to pay them back for the blows he had received as a child.

  56. I made a demand just now," he said, "which I see that those behind you consider just, and you treat me and this assembly with insult.

  57. Fortune, to whom I had paid no court, had not opened to me her golden doors; but I now felt that I must treat her more reverently, and attach myself to the throng of her favoured sons whom she loads with her gifts.

  58. Your love may, perhaps, give you the right to complain, but not to ill-treat a woman who certainly has not given you any mark of contempt.

  59. Nevertheless, you will allow me to advise you not to treat any other man in the same way, for you might meet with one endowed with less delicacy.

  60. Far from its stirring up in my breast a holy and simple zeal of religion, it inclined me to treat all the mystical dogmas of the Faith as fabulous.

  61. To reassure you entirely on my account, I will treat you as if you were my sister, for I am too young to play the part of your father, and I would not tell you all this if I did not think you a very charming person.

  62. All these accusations, none of which had any foundation in fact, served the Tribunal as a pretext to treat me as an enemy of the commonwealth and as a prime conspirator.

  63. Recollect that you must treat him as my lover, but you must not appear to know that he is aware of our intimacy.

  64. Like other matters, an execution depends upon how you treat it.

  65. I protest in all candour, I treat love as love; not as a weight in the scale; it is the heavenly power which dispenses with weighing!

  66. I shall treat you as a man I have to guard, and I shall not let you loose before I am quite sure of you.

  67. He is an emissary, we treat him with courtesy, and if he comes to diplomatize we, of course, give a patient hearing.

  68. Although we may take the open book with the double-columns as the page proper, in treating a book for illustration, we shall be called upon sometimes to treat them as single pages.

  69. My subject is a large one, and touches more intimately, perhaps, than other forms of art, both human thought and history, so that it would be extremely difficult to treat it exhaustively upon all its sides.

  70. For myself, I wish to treat you with all possible respect; but forbearance itself must have its limits.

  71. Is it right to encourage drunkards; right to treat with contempt a great national reform?

  72. The majority of the novels treat of Florentine life, while some of them bring illustrious Florentines--Dante and Giotto and Guido Cavalcanti--on the scene.

  73. This is not the place to treat of Boccaccio's scholarship.

  74. When their poets came to treat Arthurian or Carolingian fables in the epics of Orlando, they apprehended them in the same positive spirit, adding elements of irony and satire.

  75. It remained for Boccaccio, the third in the triumvirate, to treat of common life with art no less developed.

  76. Boccaccio, in his desire to fuse the classic and the medieval modes of thought and style, not merely adapted the periods of Latin to Italian prose, but also sought to treat an antique subject in the popular measure of the octave stanza.

  77. Finally we have to mention Guittone of Arezzo's epistles as the first serious attempt to treat the vulgar tongue rhetorically, for a distinct literary purpose.

  78. McClellan presently began to treat Lincoln's questions as intrusions, and one day sent down word that he was too tired to see the President.

  79. Next morning Grant wrote again to propose a meeting, and Lee answered to say he was willing to treat for peace.

  80. But we are under bonds to treat that Something Else as the Pope sometimes treats Princes of the Church.

  81. We're most of us in such a funk, you see, lest, if we treat a stranger with civility, he should turn out not to be a duke.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "treat" 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:
    treat them; treated like; treating disease; treating them; treatment consists; treatment should; treaty concluded; treaty made; treaty stipulations; treaty with