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Example sentences for "word for"

  • I speak truth, and my word for 't, they'd better go in petticoats.

  • I don't go into port pulled by the tail, my word for it, squire; and good day to you, sir.

  • Now take you my word for it, they will again.

  • It will help to raise the cream: and you may take my word for it, young maiden, none can do good in this world, without in turn receiving it.

  • You may take my word for it, Master John, this spring-harvest shall bring you in three times as much as last autumn's did.

  • You may take my word for it, Mistress Lorna, that your pretty bower is six feet deep.

  • John, you may take my word for it, you have not done as you should have done.

  • This remark, when repeated to Napier, he said was ample reward for his toils.

  • Some of the very best workmen have had the most indifferent tools to work with.

  • A well-known brewer of beer attributed his success to the liberality with which he used his malt.

  • I reply] The scripture say not so word for word, but thus: "Because that which might be known of God, was manifested in them.

  • Wherefore I shall not at all stick at the pains, to give the reader in brief some of the heads of the answer I then gave to it word for word, or to the same purpose.

  • My word for it, Mr. Scranton, there's where the trouble lies.

  • It never is too late to do good; my word for it, friend Marston, good is always worth its services.

  • My word for it, they're only a great nuisance at best.

  • Coming sinner, I have now a word for thee; be of good comfort, "He will in no wise cast out.

  • Wanton professors, I have a word for you; I mean you that can tell how to misplead Scripture, to maintain your pride, your banqueting, and abominable idolatry.

  • As who should say, Were there but a word for it in the scripture, I should soon be out of the hands of mine enemies, I should be helped by angels; but the scripture will not warrant this kind of praying, for that saith otherwise.

  • He does so, and told Mord and Asgrim all, word for word, that Thorhall had said.

  • Toby would reply--I have told it you twenty times, word for word as Trim told it me.

  • It was not proper then to tell the reader, that the mule took his master's word for it; and without any more ifs or ands, let the traveller and his horse pass by.

  • I don't want to discourage you, Winters, but take my word for it, Chester has to go the limit if she hopes to snatch that game from us.

  • They would never taunt him, or make fun of his misfortune, sir, I give you my word for that.

  • After this Bob Jeffries will be a reformed boy, I give you my word for that.

  • Keep up the good work, and my word for it, your reward is sure to come, for you'll take Marshall into camp on Saturday, barring accidents.

  • And the first boy who offends that little cripple will have to reckon with me, sir, I give you my word for it!

  • I don't know what other evidence he has, but, take my word for it, the Government does not require much proof these days.

  • Take my word for it, Rosa is alive and we'll find her somewhere, somehow.

  • I'll implore her to put in a word for me.

  • Don't take my word for anything I've told you.

  • Old Graves' word for it, you'll never want anything else to wet your whistle with, as long as you live.

  • Give you that, and, my word for it, you will make your way in the world with the best of them.

  • And what is more, I listened so attentively to such sentiments as these, from a lady with a title, that I can repeat, word for word, what she said next.

  • I repeated what I had written, word for word.

  • Such was the inscription; copied exactly, word for word.

  • Gang yer ways, but gin ye hae message or word for Jock, juist come cannily oot, an' he'll be here till dark the morn.

  • There is only my word for it, after all, and it is the fact that I have not the right to set foot in my own father's house.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "word for" 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:
    always right; better knowledge; hilted sword; horse back; left the; previous letter; standing still; that class; thou shalt not eat; turned upside; word about; word against; word for; word from; word like; word more; word only; word only; word said; word spoken; word used; words came; words ending; words like; words shall not pass; words used