Use america in a sentence
Sentences starting with america
- America owes its political freedom to religious Protestantism. [6]
- America consists from north to south about five hundred miles. [5]
- America greeted her most famous literary man with a spontaneous outburst of love and admiration. [4]
- America was a long way from England in those days. [9]
- America for Americans is a motto of mine. [9]
- America was in Freeport that day, the rush of her people and the surprise of her climate. [9]
- America says the Father of his Country must have a monument worthy of his exalted place in history. [6]
- America must now contribute what Britain and France, with all their energies and resources and determination, have hitherto been unable to contribute. [9]
- America has a broader hospitality for the exiled and oppressed. [5]
- America should not be all Anglo-Saxon. [9]
Sentences ending with america
- I indorse all your chairman has said to you about the union of England and America. [5]
- Arriving in New York, November 19, 1867, Mark Twain found himself no longer unknown to the metropolis, or to any portion of America. [5]
- Such a place would give distinction to the city, and compel foreigners to recognize the high civilization of America. [4]
- Still it took with the public, and gave me celebrity, as an original work was something remarkable and uncommon in America. [4]
- I leaned forward with a sharp curiosity to see this great friend of America. [9]
- It might be wise policy to advance the miner a monthly sum to encourage him to develop the country's riches; but to tax him monthly in advance instead--why, such a thing was never dreamed of in America. [5]
- A tall fellow, whose gait and clothes proclaim him English, with a hard face and lack-lustre eyes, saunters about; his friends at home suppose he is making his fortune in America. [4]
- His own books were constantly pirated in Canada, and the rights of foreign authors were not respected in America. [5]
- Among his companions was a young French officer and an eccentric, garrulous doctor from America. [4]
- He is the United States of America. [5]
Short sentences using america
- It goes to America, chiefly. [5]
- The spoils of America! [9]
- Reforms, in America, 141-145. [6]
- You here--in America! [9]
- Is it America? [9]
- Particularly for America. [5]
- Not in America. [5]
- America. [1]
Sentences containing america two or more times
- Then he continued to this effect: The essayist contrasted the America of to-day with the America of bygone times, and certainly the result is the exhibition of a mighty progress. [5]
- Last February, when Rudyard Kipling was ill in America, the sympathy which was poured out to him was genuine and sincere, and I believe that which cost Kipling so much will bring England and America closer together. [5]
More example sentences with the word america in them
- P. S.--I beg you to remember that America is a good place for a young man to live in and succeed. [11]
- I thought I would have twelve dollars to, begin life with in America, but the American Consul took two of them for making a certificate that I was shipped on the steamer. [5]
- In America this would have been a heavy leathern strap; but, all over the continent it is nothing but a piece of rope the size of your little finger--clothes-line is what it is. [5]
- In Brazil he would behold an immense mongrel population of Negroes and Portuguese; in Chiloe, and other parts of South America, he would behold the whole population consisting of Indians and Spaniards blended in various degrees. [1]
- He made friends with the correspondents, and got Millet's condition reported to England and all over the continent, and America, and everywhere. [5]
- Latterly his familiarity with it has doubled in bulk; so that when America is mentioned now, two torches flare up in the dark caverns of his mind and he says, "Ah, the country of the great man Washington; and of the Holy City--Chicago. [5]
- I followed it with interest, for I was anxious to learn how easy-divorce eradicated adultery in America, but I was disappointed; I have no idea yet how it did it. [5]
- If the Cosmopolitan wishes to pay $600 for either of them or $1,200 for both, gather in the check, and I will use the money in America instead of breaking into your treasury. [5]
- All the study windows have Venetian blinds; they long ago went out of fashion in America but they have not been replaced with anything half as good yet. [5]
- Even Mr. Jacques, who was sour as last year's cider over the doings of Parliament, lost his heart, and asked why we were not favoured in America with more of his sort. [9]
- Among them many who have tasted the college prison's dreary hospitality was a lively young fellow from one of the Southern states of America, whose first year's experience of German university life was rather peculiar. [5]
- The upper gallery which encircles the inner sweep of the dome is two hundred and forty feet above the floor of the church--very few steeples in America could reach up to it. [5]
- No matter at what hour of day or night a train may arrive or depart at a country station in America, the loafers are so invariably there in waiting that they seem to be a part of our railway system. [4]
- The day they were living in stretched behind them half way round the globe, across the Pacific Ocean and America and Europe; the day I was living in stretched in front of me around the other half to meet it. [5]
- Its branches are well known to Europe and America under the familiar name of maccaroni. [6]
- A fortnight ago we left America in mid-summer, now it is midwinter; about a week hence we shall arrive in Australia in the spring. [5]
- I doubt if we have more practical freedom in America than they have in England,---I said.--An Englishman thinks as he likes in religion and politics. [6]
- In America to-day we are trying--whatever the cost--to regain the true axis established for us by the founders of our Republic. [9]
- Chief among the waverers were those who had come to America with visions of a fortune, who had practised a repulsive thrift in order to acquire real estate, who carried in their pockets dog-eared bank books recording payments already made. [9]
- This time it was the presence or absence of a single letter which led us to fear that an important package destined to America had miscarried. [6]
- You see, America was occupied a billion years and more, by Injuns and Aztecs, and that sort of folks, before a white man ever set his foot in it. [5]
- But now there was needed an entanglement, intrigue, amour, and then America should shriek at his picture of one of the British aristocracy, and a gentleman of the Commons, "on the loose," as he put it. [11]
- A cable inquiry was immediately sent, but the reply when it came was not satisfactory, and Mrs. Clemens and Clara sailed for America without further delay. [5]
- In America it was equally popular. [6]
- Mr. Robert Livingston was about to depart on his mission from the little Republic of America to the great Republic of France. [9]
- He said it warn't his notion of England; he thought England looked like America, and always had that idea. [5]
- Immediately after the war of 1812, tourists began to come to America, from England; scattering ones at first, then a sort of procession of them--a procession which kept up its plodding, patient march through the land during many, many years. [5]
- Mr. Motley's last visit to America was in the summer and autumn of 1875. [6]
- Howells and Aldrich used it as their half-way station between Boston and New York, and every foreign notable who visited America made a pilgrimage to Hartford to see Mark Twain. [5]
- We are so used in America to these tremendous rises that a paragraph will suffice to place Mr. Flint in his Aladdin's palace. [9]
- He was called upon to legislate for America and direct her policy when all Europe was the battlefield of contending dynasties, and when the struggle for supremacy imperilled the rights of all neutral nations. [7]
- And this brought up the subject of culture in America, especially as to manner. [4]
- I would load up every important jail and saloon in America with de luxe editions of my books. [5]
- We have raised up a class in America, but we have lost sight, a little--considerably, I think--of the distinguishing human characteristics. [9]
- One of Mark Twain's friends was Henniker-Heaton, the so-called "Father of Penny Postage" between England and America. [5]
- Do men ever turn out better than that--in America or elsewhere? [5]
- I could say truly that in the forty-seven years I have been familiarly acquainted with him he has always been the handsomest man America has ever produced. [5]
- After all Mackenzie's travels in Europe, Asia, and America with that beef; after all his trials and tribulations and transportation; after the slaughter of all those innocents that tried to collect that bill! [5]
- Mr. Dolby, who took Dickens to America, is coming to talk business to me tomorrow, though I have sent him word once before, that I can't be hired to talk here, because I have no time to spare. [5]
- The Party--Across America to Vancouver--On Board the Warrimo--Steamer Chairs-The Captain-Going Home under a Cloud--A Gritty Purser--The Brightest Passenger--Remedy for Bad Habits--The Doctor and the Lumbago --A Moral Pauper--Limited Smoking--Remittance-men. [5]
- To go back to the period of his return to America. [4]
- It is pleasant to read this sketch in my note-book, now, and know that I can stand Shepherd's Hotel, sure, because I have been in one just like it in America and survived: I stopped at the Benton House. [5]
- I was tempted to present myself at Sir Edmund's door as one who knew something about the Lechmeres in America, but I did not feel sure how cordially a descendant of the rebels who drove off Richard and Mary Lechmere would be received. [6]
- The father had to meet and endure the heartbreak alone; he could not reach America, in time for the burial. [5]
- Clemens presently decided to make a trip to America to give some personal attention to business matters. [5]
- Clemens, still urged to lecture, finally agreed with George Dolby to a week's engagement, and added a promise that after taking his wife and daughter back to America he would return immediately for a more extended course. [5]
- We shall hope to leave a good impression of America behind us in every nation we visit, from Venus to Uranus. [5]
- How were they to know that the fate of the United States of America was concealed in that Question, --was to be decided on a rough wooden platform that day in the town of Freeport, Illinois? [9]
- The only reference to his being in America in Josselyn's "Chronological Observations of America" is under the wrong year, 1608: "Capt. [4]
- It was good to hear Dan and the doctor laugh--such natural and such enjoyable laughter had not been heard among our excursionists since our ship sailed away from America. [5]
- I am anxious to have a full consultation with you before leaving for America. [6]
- It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. [5]
- If he lives to die again, he will distinctly recollect the discovery of America. [5]
- Virginia had grown to be the "livest" town, for its age and population, that America had ever produced. [5]
- I will go to America, where all men are equal and all have an equal chance; I will live or die, sink or swim, win or lose as just a man--that alone, and not a single helping gaud or fiction back of it. [5]
- Mark Twain's return to America, was in the nature of a national event. [5]
- I would go to America, and see, and learn, and return to the Campagna and stand before my countrymen an illustrious discoverer. [5]
- I was going to America, and I paid an angry and reluctant visit to my London tailor thirty-six hours before I was to start. [11]
- I am grateful to America for what I have received at her hands during my long stay under her flag; and to one of her citizens--a citizen of Hadleyburg--I am especially grateful for a great kindness done me a year or two ago. [5]
- Travelers who come to America always freight up with the same old nursery tales that their predecessors selected, and they carry them back and always work them off without any trouble in the home market. [5]
- Since my return to America a serious reverse has occurred. [9]
- Nor is it to admit that such a literature is characteristic of the spirit of America, and can be applied without change to our life and atmosphere. [9]
- Sometimes a greenish tint was seen upon its surface, which might have been taken for vegetation, but it was thought not improbably to be a reflection from the vast forests of South America. [6]
- I have lived through many strata of feeling in America towards England. [6]
- We had the thrills, even in America, three years ago, when Britain and France and Canada went in. [9]
- When South America threw off the thraldom of Spain, his speeches were read at the head of her armies by Bolivar. [7]
- We were within three miles of the most poetic place in North America. [4]
- In less than three days everybody has seen a bluebird; and favored people have heard a robin or rather the yellow-breasted thrush, misnamed a robin in America. [4]
- Duluth is several thousand miles from the sea, and yet she is entitled to the proud name of Mistress of the Commercial Marine of the United States of America. [5]
- At times he thought his father imagined he could get work to do in America without any trouble, and was minded to let him try it and cure himself of his radicalism by hard, cold, disenchanting experience. [5]
- To thy fellow-countrymen thou shalt preach the gospel of the New World, that here, here in our America, is the home of man; that here is the promise of a new and more excellent social state than history has recorded. [6]
- But tell me this,--where'll labour be if America wins and our Junkers (he pronounces the J) come out on top?--as they callate to. [9]
- Here in America this is, in great part, a movement for merely physical or material equalization. [4]
- I was just thinking what a different creature a Massachusetts man is from a Virginian, And yet I suppose they're both as pure English stock as you'll get anywhere in America. [8]
- There are some things which, for the credit of America, should be left unsaid, perhaps; but these very things happen sometimes to be the very things which, for the real benefit of Americans, ought to have prominent notice. [5]
- In forty-seven years they have swept an imposingly large number of unfair laws from the statute books of America. [5]
- I was not, therefore, wholly taken by surprise when he said to me one night: "I am resolved to try my fortune in America, lad. [9]
- By the statistics there was a hundred and eighty-two of them drawing sneak pay in America last year. [5]
- Outside of America there are no cars that are so rationally devised. [5]
- We have got the very best gang of servants in America, now. [5]
- And in America, the unskilled workers are largely outside of the unions. [9]
- A million is the unit of wealth, now and here in America. [6]
- In Great Britain, the Tractors were not less honored than in America, by the learned and the illustrious. [6]
- The indifference of the town pained him, and he was naturally not a little grieved at the lack of proper feeling of the country people of America towards those who would better their conditions. [9]
- Looking back to the time when I left America, I can recall the expectation of finding a Britain beginning to show signs of distress. [9]
- The publication of the stories was continuous, and at the time that Pierre and His People appeared several of those which came between the covers of A Romany of the Snows were passing through the pages of magazines in England and America. [11]
- The colour of the skin and hair are plainly correlated, as is the texture of the hair with its colour in the Mandans of North America. [1]
- Now in Europe, the same as in America, when a man has kept a hotel so thoroughly well during a number of years as to give it a great reputation, he has his reward. [5]
- The palaces of the rich, in Melbourne, are much like the palaces of the rich in America, and the life in them is the same; but there the resemblance ends. [5]
- Why what is the republic of America for an eye-water country? [5]
- If to be the pioneer in the introduction of Old World titles into republican America can confer a claim to be remembered by posterity, Lord Timothy Dexter has a right to historic immortality. [6]
- I was in the Pinta's shrouds with Columbus when America burst upon his vision. [5]
- Now Osgood is the only man in America, who can lay out your course for you and tell you exactly what to do. [5]
- They travelled through the new lands in America from the fringe of the Arctic to Patagonia, but they raised no roof-tree; they tilled no acre, opened no market, set up no tabernacle: they had neither home nor country. [11]
- Of this, perhaps, the most remarkable example I can give is the effect produced on nearly every class of readers by the appearance of Captain Basil Hall's 'Travels in North America. [5]
- They thought Newport the most beautiful and finished watering-place in America. [4]
- In our day the mines are worked upon scientific principles, under the guidance of the ablest mining-engineering talent procurable in America. [5]
- I had set the law after living lecture doubles of mine a couple of times in America, and the law had not been able to catch them; others in my trade had tried to catch their impostor-doubles and had failed. [5]
- And that was the last I saw of this noble man, the true friend of America, who devoted his glorious talents and his life to fighting the corruption that was rotting the greatness of England. [9]
- At that time, the ignorance of Englishmen, friendly or otherwise, about America, was infinite: they knew very little of us, and that little wrong. [6]
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