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Example sentences for "under the"

  • To escape punishment was to escape accusation; and few slaves had the fortune to do either, under the overseership of Mr. Gore.

  • In order to do this, I must that afternoon walk seven miles; and this, under the circumstances, was truly a severe undertaking.

  • Meanwhile, I will try to bear up under the yoke.

  • I always liked them, but never perhaps so much as when they were thus grouped together under the light of the bivouac fire.

  • The Holy Sepulchre is not in a field without the walls, but in the midst, and in the best part of the town, under the roof of the great church which I have been talking about.

  • Of the men that bustled around me in the streets of Semlin there was not, perhaps, one who had ever gone down to look upon the stranger race dwelling under the walls of that opposite castle.

  • Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.

  • She drew back with a motion of disgust, but her withdrawal was checked by a sudden discovery: under the glare of Mrs. Peniston's chandelier she had recognized the hand-writing of the letter.

  • It's just the other way with most shows--the audience may be under the illusion, but the actors know that real life is on the other side of the footlights.

  • They may easily get her from Portsmouth to town by the coach, under the care of any creditable person that may chance to be going.

  • Under the disadvantages, indeed, which both have had, is it not wonderful that they should be what they are?

  • I went to the circus and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent.

  • I tucked the money-bag in under the lid, just down beyond where his hands was crossed, which made me creep, they was so cold, and then I run back across the room and in behind the door.

  • Aunt Sally jumped for her, and most hugged the head off of her, and cried over her, and I found a good enough place for me under the bed, for it was getting pretty sultry for us, seemed to me.

  • There was a big steamboat laying at the shore away up under the point, about three mile above the town--been there a couple of hours, taking on freight.

  • Nothing lost, or out of order; not a picket loose in the fence, not a particle of litter in the turfy yard, with its clumps of lilac bushes growing up under the windows.

  • Mas'r George reads in Ravelations,--souls a callin' under the altar!

  • I allow no such practices with gentlemen on my place," said Mr. Shelby, with as much sternness as he could command, under the circumstances.

  • A gloomy man, who had been observing her from under the portico of the old corn-exchange when she passed through the group without, stepped quickly to her side at the moment of her exclamation, and caught her in his arms as she sank down.

  • Under the shadow of this extemporized lightning-conductor he felt himself comparatively safe.

  • The flames immediately ceased to go under the bottom of the corn-stack, and stood up vertical.

  • Here, under the table, and leaning against forms and chairs in every conceivable attitude except the perpendicular,!

  • I would much rather she had answered nothing, under the circumstances," said Mrs. Corey.

  • But I want you should see if you can't do something to cheer him up and keep him from getting so perfectly down-hearted as he seems to get, under the load he's got to carry.

  • And once ashore, my fate will still be under the control of the most High Gods.

  • The sight of the land, and the breath of earth and herbage which came off from it with the breezes, were, I believe, under the Gods, the means of saving the lives of all of us.

  • Thus assured, and cheered on, under the inspiration of hope, I worked and prayed with a light heart, believing that my life was under the guidance of a wisdom higher than my own.

  • Here, under the table, and leaning against forms and chairs in every conceivable attitude except the perpendicular, were the wretched persons of all the work-folk, the hair of their heads at such low levels being suggestive of mops and brooms.

  • Under the staddles," said Moon, mechanically, with the unconscious promptness of a medium.

  • The best thing that could happen under the circumstances," remarked the prince.

  • The water splashing from the well disappeared, almost at once, under the floor on which I was lying, with my head on the knee of the man in the black cloak and the black mask.

  • A curious feeling of peacefulness came over me and I thought that I must be under the influence of some cordial.

  • The two managers gasped and panted under the weight of the catastrophe.

  • Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, worthy of some Goliath of a convict.

  • The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he resisted the galley guards who seized him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "under the" 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:
    good common school education; natural knowledge; possessive case; under any; under conditions; under consideration; under different; under favour; under present; under such; under the present circumstances; under the same circumstances; under the same conditions; under those; under whatever; under whose; under wing; underparts white; understand something; understand that; understand things; understand you; undertake the; white when; will last; wise little