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Example sentences for "ways"

Lexicographically close words:
waylaid; waylay; waylaying; wayle; waymarks; wayside; waysides; wayt; wayte; wayted
  1. For thy good lorde Ihesu / by thy grace make them able / the whiche of synners haste made full often and dayly makest holy sayntes.

  2. The fyrste is to do that is cõmaûded of thy souereyne without grutchynge.

  3. There are two ways of envisaging those aspects of nature which appear to bear the impress of reason or intelligence.

  4. In all ways we are 'to become perfect through suffering.

  5. A common level of interests and social standing fostered unconventional ways of thought and speech, and friendly human sympathies.

  6. His mind is made up; his thoughts have an accustomed current; his ways are steadfast; it is not this or that new sight which will at once unbalance him.

  7. For this sort of coldness and languor in the reader must act upon the author in more ways than one.

  8. If we pity their hard condition, and admire the patience and fortitude with which they endure suffering, then let us show our pity and our admiration in such practical ways as are open to us.

  9. We shall be enforcing the law in two ways if we take possession of them, for they are laden with smuggled goods.

  10. I've learned since then that it's a good deal easier in some ways to deal in thousands than it is in ones.

  11. And all around me my neighbors went their cheerful ways and waited for me to work it out.

  12. And with them you may have salt fish--oh, there are a dozen nice ways of fixing that.

  13. As the winter advanced and the air grew frosty and the snow and ice came, the work in a good many ways was harder.

  14. He gave me many valuable suggestions and later proved of substantial help in more ways than one.

  15. In three or four such ways as these a load of responsibility was removed from us and we were left free to apply all our energy to the task of upbuilding which we had in hand.

  16. And his case was in many ways a better example of the true emigrant spirit than my own.

  17. Her first object was always to awaken the women to the value of cleanliness and after that she tried her best to teach them little ways of preparing their food more economically.

  18. Thus inscrutable be the ways of God, whose will be done!

  19. The curious ways that that Jacob had, surpassed everything.

  20. Not being familiar with the ways of children, it is possible that I have been magnifying into matter of surprise things which may not strike any one who is familiar with infancy as being at all astonishing.

  21. Inside were caverns within caverns; and one might ascend and visit these minor compartments by means of curious winding ways consisting of continuous regular terraces raised one above another.

  22. The safety of the passengers will in all ways be jealously looked to.

  23. It seems curious to me sometimes--almost a man without a country.

  24. I said much nettled, "all this has very little to do with the chemistry we use in our business.

  25. I tried the Beryl story lots of ways on myself, but somehow, every time I fancied myself telling it to Obermuller, it got tangled up and lay dumb and heavy inside of me.

  26. He was without a hat, and his eyes looked fifty ways at once.

  27. You know," I said slowly, "the thing that keeps a woman straight and a man faithful is not a matter of bricks and mortar nor ways of thinking nor habits of living.

  28. And then I waked and tried to fancy new ways of getting rid of it, but my head ached, and my back ached, and my whole body was so strained and cramped that I was on the point of giving it all up when--that blessed old Topham came in.

  29. I could see his face change half a dozen ways in as many seconds.

  30. I couldn't stand his mean ways any longer.

  31. Matters at Washington Hall went on the even tenor of their ways for about two weeks.

  32. Women have this in common with the Deity, that their ways are past finding out.

  33. Steve knows several ways of getting horses,” laughed one of the other young men.

  34. A chief who was so anxious to make his people conform to Norman ways of fighting would hardly lag behind his neighbour at Richard's castle.

  35. The charter to Hastings is in many ways distinct from the others.

  36. Let me here note two other ways in which books wandered from the great abbeys.

  37. But I think I have said enough of the public and private accumulations of this country to give an adequate idea of the kind of results that attend research, and of the ways in which large blocks of MSS.

  38. The loyalty, which had already appeared to them in the cathedral, suggested itself in many ways upon the street, when they went out after dinner to do that little shopping which Isabel had planned to do in Montreal.

  39. The ways of the place suited him; the climate, the soil, the whole conditions of life were exactly what he would have them to be.

  40. All around the old Houses of Parliament were lanes, squares, streets, and gate-ways covering the wide spaces and broad thoroughfares with which we are familiar.

  41. The change in our constitutional ways which set up that new dynasty was of infinitely greater importance to England than the change which settled the Brunswicks in the place of the Stuarts.

  42. He was fond of business--devoted to the small ways of routine.

  43. But it seems quite unjust to ascribe Addison's divergence into political ways to any sordid interest.

  44. Dubois had a profound knowledge of foreign affairs, and he thoroughly understood the ways of men.

  45. He knew that he was dying; he had prayers read to him; he conveyed in many tender ways his feelings of affection for his wife, and of hope for his own future.

  46. She soon accepted cordially the conditions which opened new ways to her industrial and trading energy, and did not practically interfere with her true national independence.

  47. German legend is found not only in Marlowe's Faustus, but in the by-ways of play and story.

  48. It proved the turning of the ways leading Keble and Pusey to Anglican ritual and Newman to Rome.

  49. In all these ways the Restoration accompanied and quickened a speedier and greater change in letters than any political event in English history since the reign of Alfred, when prose itself was created.

  50. But in deeper ways he is the chief of playwrights.

  51. He was created originally good: freewill was bestowed upon him with instruction in the two ways of light and darkness, and then he was left to mould his own destiny (xxx.

  52. The sordid ways of her old father excited a bitterness which was vented on the daughter.

  53. Much, has been said in condemnation of this love-affair; but in many ways it is less censurable than almost anything in his career.

  54. He had been well educated, and in many ways was a man of pleasing manner.

  55. If the possession of wealth exempts her from labor, there are four ways in which she can appease the ennui of a barren mind and a torpid conscience.

  56. The wild roystering ways of the Cavaliers, their debauchery and license, furnished subjects.

  57. For some years past the pictures of children and their ways by Mr. Du Maurier have been among the most pleasing efforts of comic art in England.

  58. The ready freshness that was known In man's authentic prime, The earliest breath of time, Throughout her household ways is shown; Mild greatness subtly wrought With quaint and childlike thought.

  59. Ah, pause for dread, before you charge in haste The ways of fate; for how can those be traced That in the life Omnipotent lie based?

  60. A Frenchman similarly placed would have brought the affair to a crisis much sooner: he would have found a thousand ways of disclosing his feelings, and at the same time dexterously leaving himself a loop-hole of escape.

  61. All the rooms were furnished with ample fire-places, in accordance with the Flemish wants and ways of the inhabitants.

  62. There are two ways of meeting this destiny of the sex.

  63. And then Ashburner suspected what he afterwards became certain of--that this was only one of the pleasant little ways the woman had of amusing herself.

  64. An Englishman can not be expected to care for American ways and American quickness, and--" "American people?

  65. The very simplicity and humility of their ways and deeds render it impossible to make any adequate illustration--not that incidents are lacking.

  66. Before returning to this country he expressed his love and unfeigned gratitude to the memory of his sainted mother (who early taught him the ways of God) by erecting a substantial monument over her grave to perpetuate her revered name.

  67. But God's ways are not our ways, nor His thoughts as our thoughts.

  68. His conception was to supplant the old ways of thinking and the old objects of intellectual interest by new ones.

  69. We need not here discuss the philosophical truth or adequateness of these ways of considering the origin and nature of knowledge, or the composition of human character.

  70. I look upon it as the embodiment of some benign intention of Providence, who has adapted it in numerous ways to the wants of his creatures.

  71. Nearly every Sunday, strangers not acquainted with his ways were startled out of their propriety by some such unexpected behavior.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ways" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ability; act; action; activity; address; affectation; air; bearing; capacity; capital; carriage; clearance; compass; comportment; conduct; custom; demeanor; deportment; device; distance; divergence; doing; doings; extent; funds; gesture; guise; infinity; leeway; length; manner; manners; margin; mean; method; methodology; mien; mileage; movements; pattern; perspective; piece; poise; port; pose; posture; power; practice; praxis; presence; procedure; proceeding; range; reach; recourse; resort; resources; separation; space; span; stock; stretch; stride; style; supply; tactics; tone; way; wherewithal