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Sentences starting with average

Average everything that Color, Locality, cannot be guessed. [6]
Average cost, five and seven cents for the two sizes. [5]
Average four dollars a copy, say. [5]

Sentences ending with average

He is always sure of his average. [5]
It may be remarked, in passing, that the number of compositions in which the word "beauteous" was over-fondled, and human experience referred to as "life's page," was up to the usual average. [5]
The insurance companies might agree, but no one else would admit that he belongs in the average. [4]
The government's work is quite uniform, too; it about doubles the tiger's average. [5]
Yes, it must have been very much over the average. [5]
I cannot conscientiously encourage him to do anything but potter around his little farm and put in his odd hours contriving new and impossible projects at the rate of 365 a year--which is his customary average. [5]
In those old days, to load a steamboat at St. Louis, take her to New Orleans and back, and discharge cargo, consumed about twenty-five days, on an average. [5]
She will be content with no average. [10]
I have been at sea quite enough to know that that was a very good average. [5]
The judge has a custom of rattling through with as much of this testimony as his patience will stand, and then shutting off the rest and striking an average. [5]

Short sentences using average

What's an average English word? [5]
Take the average Congressman. [4]
The average man's a coward. [5]

Sentences containing average two or more times

To be condemned to live as the average European family lives would make life a pretty heavy burden to the average American family. [5]
It takes much to convince the average man of anything; and perhaps nothing can ever make him realize that he is the average woman's inferior--yet in several important details the evidences seems to show that that is what he is. [5]
His average was one man and nearly all of another man per month for forty years, but Futty Khan's average was two men and a little of another man per month during his twenty years of usefulness. [5]
Imagine an average coroner's jury and the average examination of the village doctor, who would die rather than expose his ignorance, and therefore gives 'heart failure' as the cause of death. [11]
In the 4 battles named above, the Boer loss, so far as known, was an average of 6 men per battle, to the British average loss of 175. [5]
It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth, and the king certainly wasn't anything more than an average man, if he was up that high. [5]
They bought rum at an average of two dollars a gallon and sold it at an average of ten. [5]
An average American and an average Englishman are talking together, and one of them speaks of the beauty of a field of corn. [6]
Yet she scored an average of 90 as against an average of 78 on the part of the other applicants. [5]

More example sentences with the word average in them

We shall telegraph Young's Hotel for rooms Saturday night, in order to allow for a low average of pedestrianism. [5]
It is sixty years, then, since that time; and as they were, on an average, about twenty years old, those who survive must have reached fourscore years. [6]
It would be worth while to pass a week or a month among the plain, average people of Stratford. [6]
The two dominant words of our time are law and average, both pointing to the uniformity of the order of being in which we live. [3]
I've added 60,000 words in the month that I've been here; which indicates that I've dictated during 20 days of that time--40 hours, at an average of 1,500 words an hour. [5]
The average American will be inclined to regard the program of the new British Labour Party as the embodiment of what he vaguely calls Socialism, and to him the very word is repugnant. [9]
The bravest men, who were always willing to come to the front in war, and who freely risked their lives for others, would on an average perish in larger numbers than other men. [1]
And Mr. King, who listened attentively, finally joined in with the questioners, and said, "Captain, what is the average price of land down in this part of Florida by the--gallon? [4]
To the average Western mind it is the nearest approach to a Torricellian vacuum of intelligibility that language can pump out of itself. [6]
We estimate that we are within seven hundred miles of the Sandwich Islands, and that our average, daily, is somewhat over a hundred miles, so that our hopes have some foundation in reason. [5]
In Brooklyn, Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago, the play paid me an average of nine hundred dollars a week. [5]
The fourth generation was of fair average endowment. [3]
We know what wages are now, here and there and yonder; we strike an average, and say that's the wages of to-day. [5]
A mechanic's average wage was 3 cents a day, when he paid his own keep. [5]
But people like us--that is, of our means--do give character to the average flat. [8]
I turned and twisted my question around and about, trying to strike that man's average, but failed. [5]
Is it not true that the young man of average ability will find it as much as he can do to fit himself for these simple duties? [3]
When she married Tom Straker, her first husband, he drank on an average twenty whiskies a day. [11]
I am able to view your inspirations dispassionately and judicially, now, and say "This one or that one or the other one is not up to your average flight, or is above it, or below it. [5]
Those sittings added to those that have preceded them since I have been in Europe--if we average at that rate--must have numbered one hundred to two hundred sittings. [5]
All we have to do is to spread the average over a wider territory or a longer period of time. [6]
He wrote fifty three letters to the Alta-California, six to the New York Tribune, and at least two to the New York Herald more than sixty, all told, of an average, length of three to four thousand words each. [5]
But to offset this average deficit the very profitable trade of India, which is mostly in British hands, swells the national wealth; and this trade would not be so largely in British hands if the flag were away. [4]
He believes that there's no subject so fascinating to the general average of people throughout the country as life in New York City; and he liked my notion of doing these things. [8]
Their breeding brings them to the average level, carries them more nearly to the heart, makes them a simpler expression of our common humanity. [6]
They found that the water at the upper end ran slower than five miles; that below it was swifter than five miles, but that the average was five miles. [7]
In four of the six years referred to, the tiger got 800 odd; in one of the remaining two years he got only 700, but in the other remaining year he made his average good by scoring 917. [5]
The pages before the reader will be found to average about three hundred and twenty-five words. [6]
The disparity of the quotas for the draft in these two classes is certainly very striking, being the difference between an average of 2200 in one class and 4864 in the other. [7]
The visitors to the Palace average 6,000 daily--double the population of Hannibal. [5]
The security of the medical profession against this and all similar fancies is in the average constitution of the human mind with regard to the laws of evidence. [3]
On an average, the length of the femur to that of the tibia is as 211 to 252; whilst in two Europeans, measured at the same time, the femora to the tibiae were as 244 to 230; and in three Negroes as 258 to 241. [1]
Our eminent classmate, the late Professor Benjamin Peirce, showed by numerical comparison that the men of superior ability outlasted the average of their fellow-graduates. [6]
They all examined the hole, they all made the sufferer tell it over again, then they all discussed it, and got off as many leather-headed opinions about it as an average crowd of humans could have done. [5]
I shall direct the draft to proceed in all the districts, drawing, however, at first from each of the four districts--to wit, the Second, Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth--only, 2200 being the average quota of the other class. [7]
E. Lee's' time the distance had diminished to about one thousand and thirty miles; consequently her average was about fourteen and one-eighth miles per hour. [5]
Let us call the average wage 1500 florins ($600). [5]
In smaller towns the average is $400 to $500. [5]
He said that the average German cow yielded from one to two and half teaspoons of milk, when she was not worked in the plow or the hay-wagon more than eighteen or nineteen hours a day. [5]
Let us average the ages of the Quaker City's pilgrims and set the figure down as fifty years. [5]
We have noticed that when the average man mentions the name of a multi-millionaire he does it with that mixture in his voice of awe and reverence and lust which burns in a Frenchman's eye when it falls on another man's centime. [5]
Was it possible that she was really interested in him, perhaps because he was different from the average Englishman and not of a general pattern? [11]
I cannot deny that I had seen something of the world, and had contracted about the average bad habits of young men who have the sole care of themselves, and rather bungle the matter. [4]
It is insisted that eight duels a week--four for each of the two days--is too low an average to draw a calculation from, but I will reckon from that basis, preferring an understatement to an overstatement of the case. [5]
Whether the average talent be high or low, the Colleges of the land must make the best commodity they can out of such material as the country and the cities furnish them. [3]
I feel quite sure that the average profit to her on these books, above cost of manufacture, is all of seven hundred per cent. [5]
The example of such devotion to civic duties in one whose days have already been extended an average lifetime beyond the Psalmist's limit, cannot but be valuable and fruitful. [7]
They are good stuff, too; they are above the agricultural average of intelligence, and they come without any inherited prejudices in favor of hoary ignorances made sacred by long descent. [5]
This average gives six fights a year to each of the eighty. [5]
It is not simply beets and potatoes and corn and string-beans that one raises in his well-hoed garden: it is the average of human life. [4]
If you would see a fair average style of assorted cripples, go to Naples, or travel through the Roman States. [5]
I did not say there was not one rogue on the average among a dozen men. [6]
As I have said, the average German daily is made up solely of correspondences--a trifle of it by telegraph, the rest of it by mail. [5]
The philosopher Harris said that the average man would not yell in either case if he had an audience. [5]
Allowing them to run three hundred days in the year (which none of them more than do), this makes their work average $1,000 a day. [5]
That is, the Rome which the average tourist feels an interest in; but there are other things here which stir me enough to make life worth living. [5]
The fresh-water fisherman represented pretty well the average estimate of the class to which he belonged. [6]
At the same ratio of increase which we have maintained, on an average, from our first national census, in 1790, until that of 1860, we should in 1900 have a population of 103,208,415. [7]
The above average proportion of 110.1 to 100 is probably nearly correct in the case of the greyhound, but whether it would hold with other domesticated breeds is in some degree doubtful. [1]
The Atlantic page probably contained about a thousand words, which would make his price average, say, two cents per word. [5]
It is the pride of our average hotel clerk to know nothing whatever; it is the pride of the portier to know everything. [5]
Very often, that piece, the size of a filbert, was the only fragment in a ton that had a particle of metal in it--and yet the assay made it pretend to represent the average value of the ton of rubbish it came from! [5]
And they'll raise our tax rate to the average, which means thousands more. [9]
Whether or not our national existence was or is actually threatened, the average American does not believe that it is. [9]
Why may not our country at some time average as many? [7]
I defy any one of the average amount of imagination and sentiment to stand long before the Descent from the Cross without being moved more nearly to tears than he would care to acknowledge. [6]
I'm an average old sinner, and I'm not old enough yet to like a milksop. [4]
From one end of the street to the other, I suppose they will average about eight or ten to a block. [5]
The main part of the steering is done at the bow, with a pole; the three-log breadth there furnishes room for only the steersman, for these little logs are not larger around than an average young lady's waist. [5]
The average price of our book is 16 shillings a copy--Uncle Tom was 2 shillings a copy. [5]
As a matter of fact, men have been rulers who had neither the average intelligence nor virtue of the people they governed. [4]
An oyster is of a retiring disposition, and not lively--not even cheerful above the average, and never enterprising. [5]
In the course of a generation, more or less, physicians themselves are liable to get tired of a practice which has so little effect upon the average movement of vital decomposition. [3]
Such cases do not disturb the average arrangement; we have Changs and Engs at one pole, and Cains and Abels at the other. [6]
I think that no foreigner can report its interior;"--[And you say: "A man of average intelligence, who has passed six months among a people, cannot express opinions that are worth jotting down, but he can form impressions that are worth repeating. [5]
During that one night the nineteen wives spent an average of seven thousand dollars each out of the forty thousand in the sack--a hundred and thirty-three thousand altogether. [5]
When in any nation the standard of intellect and the number of intellectual men have increased, we may expect from the law of the deviation from an average, that prodigies of genius will, as shewn by Mr. Galton, appear somewhat more frequently than before. [1]
Very likely the musty saying was the product of the average ignorance of an unenlightened time, and ought not to have the respect of a scientific and traveled people. [4]
Voters knew as much of technical law-making as the average voter everywhere, but no more, and sometimes less. [11]
They often hear much better preaching than the average minister, for he hears himself chiefly, and they hear abler men and a variety of them. [6]
I doubt whether more than nine out of ten, in the average, have that combination of gifts required for the writing of readable verse. [6]
In point of morals, any of the Lavilettes presented a finer average than their new guest, who had come to give their feasting distinction, and what more time was to show. [11]
It is not merely unnecessary, it is generally painful; for the average clergyman could not fire into his congregation with a shotgun and hit a worse reader than himself, unless the weapon scattered shamefully. [5]
Those particular ants may be all that the naturalist paints them, but I am persuaded that the average ant is a sham. [5]
A "tournament" in Lynchburg is a thing easily within the comprehension of the average mind; but no commonly gifted person can conceive of such a spectacle in Brooklyn without straining his powers. [5]
Edith made a little calculation that on a flush average of ninety cents a week earned, and allowing so many cents for coal and so many cents for oil, the margin for bread and tea must be small for the month. [4]
How I should like to describe her--just to see what a holy indignation I could stir up in the world--just to hear the unreflecting average man deliver himself about my grossness and coarseness, and all that. [5]
By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three letters and a half. [5]
I do not know how much land it takes to raise an average citizen, but I should say a quarter section. [4]
The Erie railroad kills 23 to 46; the other 845 railroads kill an average of one-third of a man each; and the rest of that million, amounting in the aggregate to that appalling figure of 987,631 corpses, die naturally in their beds! [5]
It would be just about up to the average comic artist's intellectual level to make a funny picture of the horse kicking the lungs out of a trader. [5]
M. White' ran it, was about eleven hundred and six miles; consequently her average speed was a trifle over fourteen miles per hour. [5]
The audience stood it with pretty fair grit for a while, but when the cannonade waxed hotter and fiercer, and the discord average rose to four in five, the procession began to move. [5]
By further figuring, it appeared that between New York and Rochester the Erie ran eight passenger-trains each way every day--16 altogether; and carried a daily average of 6,000 persons. [5]
Futty Khan's number is smaller than Ramzam's, but he is placed at the head because his average is the best in Oude-Thug history per year of service. [5]
The average man is profoundly ignorant of countries that lie remote from his own. [5]
The average size is from seven to seven and an eighth, so that his head was quite small in that dimension. [6]
His name appeared in the personal column of one of the local papers on the average of twice a week, or in lieu thereof one of his choicest stories in the "Notes about Town" column. [9]
V. The disease in question is not a common one; producing, on the average, about three deaths in a thousand births, according to the English Registration returns which I have examined. [3]
The average reader, in his triumph at discovering some slight error of detail, would consign a masterpiece of imagination, knowledge of life and character to the rubbish-heap. [11]

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