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Example sentences for "you propose"

  • Now if you propose to wreck it completely, we'll go smashing all together in the ruins.

  • If you propose to make a plaything of your own wife from now on--" "I'm telling you the truth.

  • Do you propose to put my name before that caucus?

  • You propose to continue the nullification programme, bar-rooms tolerated on payment of fines, tax reform slicked over, water powers and other State resources peddled out to favorites.

  • If, on the contrary, you propose to support a wife on the property that now belongs to your father and myself, our wishes should have some weight.

  • At last he said, aloud, "In case I should so far depart from my usual custom and make a place for you, as you suggest, what do you propose to charge for the services you rate so highly?

  • But if it is, as it probably is, in Creake's pocket, how do you propose to get it?

  • How do you propose to get that telegram, Max?

  • And having got me here, how do you propose to keep me?

  • But if you propose to marry this young lady, I have no doubt that she deserves all your love; and I will not venture to criticise your choice.

  • Come, Monsieur Luminot, let us go on, I beg; do you propose to remain in admiring contemplation before the skirts of those ladies?

  • Very good; and what weapons do you propose to fight with?

  • And how do you propose to stimulate their sense of awe, and keep them in good behaviour towards you?

  • If we come, well and good, be it as you propose; but if we do not come, do whatsoever you think most conducive to your interests.

  • Good," said Xenophon, "but to what use do you propose to put us, if we become your allies?

  • And what do you propose to do with this horse now?

  • If you join me for the army, what do you propose to do with your horse--sell her?

  • What, then, do you propose to do, wherein I could befriend you?

  • Edith, do you propose to become a pervert to porridge?

  • What do you propose to do with yourself, Wilf?

  • When do you propose to transport it across the river?

  • Where do you propose we should lodge to-night?

  • But if you propose to lead me blindfold to the scaffold, you are greatly mistaken.

  • My dear man, what do you propose to live on?

  • And when, may I ask," Engleton continued, "do you propose to put into operation your amiable plan?

  • Well," he said, "what other alternative do you propose?

  • And how, may I ask, do you propose to live?

  • Of course, I might have known that you would act in everything like a man of honour--and a gentleman; but the question now is, What do you propose to do?

  • What do you propose to do in honour of this international episode?

  • But in the meantime what do you propose to do?

  • You propose to join the fortunes of the Southern Confederacy, in which, there is a contention already.

  • Now, once for all, let me ask those gentlemen who are proposing various methods of settling our differences: Do you propose to make war upon the sentiments, the principles of the North?

  • You propose no change in the form of the Executive or Legislative Departments.

  • You propose to stop the discussion of these questions by the press.

  • Why is it necessary to disturb the Constitution by inserting such a provision as you propose?

  • And pray," said Sir Richard, still frowning at the ceiling, "what do you propose to do with yourself?

  • The question is, how do you propose to maintain yourself in the future?

  • As my object is to retard and baffle his designs, if it can be accomplished by manoeuvring your corps as you propose, it will serve my purpose as well as if effected in any other way.

  • General Lee then said, "General Jackson, what do you propose to do?

  • They ought always to be turned as you propose, and thus force them on to more favourable ground.

  • General Lee said, "What do you propose to make this movement with?

  • So you propose that I shouldn't have any.

  • I tell you fairly that the suit you propose would be ridiculous.

  • What amount of land do you propose to have put into a state of cultivation?

  • He explained further that it had been under Gully's directions that he had accomplished the success he had, and when he had finished, his father asked: "Is it out of gratitude for all this kindness that you propose to marry his daughter?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you propose" 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:
    force their; single thought; you always; you believe; you couldn; you haven; you hear; you imagine; you perceive; you two; you want; you would have thought; young artist; young chap; young chief; young friends; young girl; young lassie; young life; young love; young maiden; young specimens; younger brother; your eyes; your father; your part