in-a-sentence.com, use better in a sentence

Use better in a sentence

Sentences starting with better

Better stay behind with Gran'pa Ripley till I kin fetch ye both. [9]
Better look out who you're fooling with next time. [5]
Better leave it where the law of the case has placed it. [7]
Better stay where we are and fight it out till help comes. [11]
Better go from Victoria to San Francisco and then overland. [11]
Better give it up. [5]
Better eternal and universal abstinence than the brutalities of those days that made wives and mothers and daughters and sisters blush for those whom they should have honored, as they came reeling home from their debauches! [6]
Better give up trying to get out. [5]
Better get Maxwell to do it. [8]
Better to fall, to be engulfed. [9]

Sentences ending with better

And maybe, when you're a long way off from things you once lived, you can see them and understand them better. [11]
You can take your own time, stop when and where you choose--at the more stations the better. [4]
I hope that your mother is better. [9]
Don't you know your duties better? [11]
You are still young, Katharina; try to grow better. [10]
I shall understand you without words, and the quieter it is here the better. [10]
I never told you why I came to this country--I didn't want to sadden you with my troubles--but now I want you to understand me better. [4]
The madder pranks you play, the better. [10]
Oh, Mr Brass, you know me better. [12]
I am sure you know me better. [12]

Short sentences using better

He's better, thank you. [9]
I tell you you better. [5]
Is it better with Cable? [5]
Stephen understood Judge Whipple better. [9]
They are better understood. [9]
It were better to know. [9]
Better luck next time, eh? [11]
Looked better all the time. [5]
The more stops, the better. [6]
But the more the better! [10]

Sentences containing better two or more times

I do not wish to put him in the ranks, nor yet to give him a commission, to which those who have already served long are better entitled and better qualified to hold. [7]
Then I should want a better pair of eyes and a better pair of ears, and, while I was reorganizing, perhaps a quicker apprehension and a more retentive memory; in short, a new outfit, bodily and mental. [6]
The longer we traveled with them, and the more we got used to their ways, the better and better we liked them, and the gladder and gladder we was that we run across them. [5]
She kept herself tidy, too, and looked better in her poor rags than many who were better off. [10]
I like to think you are wanted and appreciated, and that you can get paid better and better for what you do. [4]
If I understand them, he was a better man, in a better condition of earthly happiness, and with a better chance of heaven, fifty years ago than now, before the "era of progress" found him out. [4]
My father and the servants think me looking better than when I felt home, and I certainly feel better myself for the change. [14]
She looked round the room, almost casually, before she went on "Because what I have to say were better said to you alone--much better. [11]
No, not with the right hand; the left is better luck --the better the hand, the better the deed," he added with a whimsical squint and a low laugh, and he placed the paper in her left hand. [11]
We shall be the better for it; our poor folk here will be the better. [11]

More example sentences with the word better in them

But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
You might spare yourself that smile; I know her better than you do. [10]
Instead of burying yourself in a convent, you, whom so many desire, would do better to beckon to one of your admirers and bestow on him the happiness of which the other was not worthy. [10]
There, now, you're yourself again, and look all the better for it. [11]
And your Confederation, your unions are for the skilled workers, whose conditions aren't so bad,--and they're getting better every time you jack up the wages. [9]
Well, that is your training; it is the training of everybody; but as for me, I thank that incident for giving me a better light, and I have never forgotten it. [5]
Had you uttered your real opinion in the first place, the wine would have tasted better to us both. [10]
If he is your husband, wouldn't it be better to have him successful than your defeated victim. [11]
But I vow your hair looks better as it is. [9]
I suppose then, your friend Gyges speaks Greek better than you do? [10]
To gaze in your face at the same time was, perhaps, even better physic. [10]
The work of your association is better and shows more wisdom than the Czar of Russia and all his people. [5]
At Pocasset the young men explored all the thick woods,--some who ought to have known better taking their guns, which made a talk, as one might well suppose it would. [6]
There were literary young ladies, who had read everything of Dickens and Thackeray, and something at least of Sir Walter, and occasionally, perhaps, a French novel, which they had better have let alone. [6]
I believe the young fellow would take it as a personal insult, if the Little Gentleman should show any symptoms of quitting our table for a better world. [6]
I reckon, though, you'd better keep hid here. [13]
He just said, 'You'd better come with me, Miss Hutchins,' and I went with him. [9]
And, I tell you, better times are coming now. [10]
Of course, or you wouldn't be talking the English language--though I've heard they talk it better in Boston than they do in England, and in Chicago they're making new English every day and improving on the patent. [11]
Yes, those among you who have not been in the penitentiary, if such there be, are better than your fathers and grandfathers were; but is that any sufficient reason, for getting up annual dinners and celebrating you? [5]
Alors, some of you was out to hurt our friend M'sieu' Carnac here, and I didn't say no to it; but you'd better keep your weapons for election day and use them agin Barode Barouche. [11]
But I tell you true that though I love you better than anything in the world, if things had gone well with you I'd never have come to you. [11]
Let me tell you there's no better blood in the land than the Austen blood. [9]
The English give you the substantials, and better, I believe, than any other people. [4]
I swear to you that, as a man and an artist, I never felt better, and so I ought properly to be in my usual frame of mind. [10]
Where better can you take your pleasure for the last time? [11]
If you think you must go, you had better take Mrs. Hopkins with you. [6]
It would become you much better to repent of your crimes, and beg your old friend's forgiveness, instead of adding ingratitude to the unheard-of baseness of your other deeds. [10]
The less pretension you make, the better they will like you in the long run. [3]
Well, pray if you like, but you had better think it over. [2]
Well, then, will you let me aid you--say till better times? [13]
I can put you in correspondence with such a person, and you had better trust him than me a great deal. [6]
But better if you had been that woman in the Morgue," he said without pity. [11]
I cannot offer you great wealth, but I say with confidence that I can offer you something better, something surer. [9]
I might let you go and speak; but I think my chances are better than yours, Cluny. [11]
I doubt if you ever did anything better in your life. [9]
Think the thing you do is better than what anybody else does, and you're well started. [11]
And even if you did not succeed--" "You would be all the better pleased," the sculptor put in. [10]
I say that you can't work the sacred rites of hospitality in a better cause, and what I propose is a little dinner for the purpose of recognizing the hit we've made with this thing. [8]
Just come whenever you can, and come as often as you can--the oftener the better. [5]
When you're better you can work for me. [13]
The more requirements you can pile upon him, the better he likes it. [5]
O mealman dear, you can do no better, For I have a chateau at Malmaison. [11]
O mealman dear, you can do no better For I have a chateau at Malmaison. [11]
Do you think you can better yourselves, on that subject, by leaving us here under no obligation whatever to return those specimens of your movable property that come hither? [7]
Do you deny you are no better than a tramp? [11]
Indeed and indeed you are much better than I am. [10]
As a prince you are much better than as a plain man, for princes may do what other men may not. [11]
I've lived with you all this time, and you do not know me any better than you know--the scrub-woman. [9]
Feeble hearts as you all are, respect the experience of the aged, and bless Fate if it should lame the horse of the Kadi's messenger!--However, you will not listen to anything oracular, so it will be better to talk of something else. [10]
I should say, yes, decidedly; but still, to make everything safe, you had better get the judgment of a sculptor. [5]
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. [5]
I know our Xanthe better than you, and she no more cares for her playfellow than the column on the right side of the hearth yearns toward the one on the left, though they have stood together under the same roof so long. [10]
That Mrs. Eddy wrote that amazing By-law with her own hand we have much better evidence than her word. [5]
Your interpretation is wrong; Caesar gave me a far better one. [10]
If it's all wrong as it is, it's all wrong for both, and, maybe, the worst of what comes after is better than the worst of what is here. [11]
Whether they were written with smiles or not, you can guess better after you have read them. [6]
If I could write, I dare say I should be better, but I cannot write a line. [14]
They could neither wrestle, shoot, nor climb, so we gave them little thought, and anything like actual flirtation was unknown--we had so many better things in our heads. [10]
The old man would scarcely have understood his motives, and it was better for both to part without seeing each other rather than in open strife. [10]
At first he would not; but when Caroche said that it was only his fun, that he meant nothing against Francois, the young man recited the words slowly--an epitaph on one who was little better than a prize-fighter, a splendid bully. [11]
Handcuffs and chains would look still better on Jim, but it wouldn't go well with the story of us being so poor. [5]
Aye, husband, it would have become us better to guess something of this than to doubt Sirona. [10]
I think this would develop Lee's real condition and purposes better than the cavalry alone can do. [7]
A better analogy would be the human anatomy: we lawyers, of course, were the brains; the financial and industrial interests the body, helpless without us; the City Hall politicians, the stomach that must continually be fed. [9]
Two months ahead would be still better I suppose, but I don't know. [5]
I fear it would be only self-delusion to fancy her better. [14]
And yet it would be better to be a soldier, a man who could use the sword as well as the pen, a poet in uniform. [4]
I thought it would be better that I should come than somebody quite strange. [12]
And a leg would be better still. [5]
I believe it would be better if it were a mere case of physical passion. [9]
It will be worth your while to speak out, I assure you; much better worth your while than you believe. [12]
If I'd been worth the standing by, I'd have been the better stood by. [11]
But it is worth mentioning that in the historical evolution we have always got better things than we sought or imagined, developments on a much grander scale. [4]
She will be worse before she is better. [5]
I'd give the world to go, but you had better not take me, Sir. [12]
The exhibition of works of genius will slowly instruct and elevate the popular taste, and in time the cultivated popular taste will reject mediocrity and demand better things. [4]
Not that my work was poor, but I knew that it might have been better. [9]
He began to work the oars again, reflecting as he did so, that he had something better to do than to think of a woman. [10]
I think the work of the reformer as innocent as other work that is done around him; but when I have seen it near!--I do not like it better. [6]
Without saying a word Rostopchin rose and walked hastily to his light, luxurious drawing room, went to the balcony door, took hold of the handle, let it go again, and went to the window from which he had a better view of the whole crowd. [2]
Of course there won't be much to do, except to stand by, but you will get a better idea of what goes on down there. [9]
Even a prairie-born woman, however, understands the art and use of grooming better than a man. [11]
Barbazon's--the horseshoe--among the wolves, just to show I could do things better than any one else--as if I had the patent for setting the world right. [11]
I grant you, without the slightest unwillingness, that they were a deal more gentle and merciful and just than were the people of Europe of that day; I grant you that they are better than their predecessors. [5]
I cannot interpose without a better showing than you make. [7]
I will go with thee," he added hastily; "but it is better thou shouldst not go. [11]
He was shining with perspiration; and he looked the better of it. [11]
They were troubled with no visions of better things. [9]
The minister spoke with more ease, and we could hear him better. [4]
And when Jason, with Mopsus's assistance, put the same ribbons on his own lank pig, it looked neither better nor prouder than before, for it was no lucky animal and did not appreciate beautiful gifts. [10]
She was content with her lot; and if any change for the worse were in prospect she would rather not be tormented beforehand by a wise prophet; nor was it better to be deluded by a foolish one. [10]
Then he said, with a wisdom that surprised him, for he would have liked to yield to the impulse of his curiosity: "Perhaps we'd better wait till Mrs. March comes down, and let things take the usual course. [8]
He went out with a company from Hawkeye to the war, and was not wanting in courage, but he would have been a better soldier if he had been less engaged in contrivances for circumventing the enemy by strategy unknown to the books. [5]
A Brush Bascom, with a better education and more brains, but a Brush Bascom--with the brains prostituted. [9]
I do not wish you to believe that I assume to be any better than others who have gone before me. [7]
I shall certainly wish well to this thing; and hail it as the sure forerunner of things better. [6]
But what I wish to say is, that notwithstanding certain unfavorable things in the condition of the English laborer and mechanic, his chance is better in the main than it was fifty years ago. [4]
And even my wise grandmother can give me no better counsel than to 'wait patiently' and yet again 'Wait' . [10]
The stronger the wine, the better it was liked. [4]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word better in a sentence? How do you use better in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word better? It contains example sentences with the word better, a sentence example for better, and better in sample sentence.