Use cat in a sentence
Sentences starting with cat
- Cat eat a cocoanut--oh, my! [5]
Sentences ending with cat
- Poor cat, suppose you had--" "Now I am not going to suppose anything about the cat. [5]
- The Brahmin blood which came from his grandfather as well as from his mother, a direct descendant of the old Flynt family, well known by the famous tutor, Henry Flynt, (see Cat. [6]
- I do wonder what was the matter with the cat. [5]
- Verily my imagination was not belied, for whereas I passed round the pine-grove I heard my brother cry out: "Ah--wild cat! [10]
- If he looks up at an apple-tree in blossom and a bird is piping in the branches, all he thinks of is how soon the happy creature will be killed by the cat! [10]
- Dear me, I thought you said it was the cat! [5]
- Huckleberry Finn was there, with his dead cat. [5]
- They pranced around the mast and showered me with oaths, for all the world like a lot of howling dogs which had treed a cat. [9]
- Let us respect the cat. [4]
- This is a sure way to undermine the moral fabric of a cat. [5]
Short sentences using cat
- A cat has no imagination. [5]
- A cat bring money? [5]
- Who handled the cat? [5]
- I'll fetch the cat. [5]
- But no cat. [5]
Sentences containing cat two or more times
- When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there--in sunny weather--stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose. [5]
- Well, a cat does--but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. [5]
- This seemed to distress the cat, and so the cat would howl. [5]
- He is a cat of fine disposition, the most irreproachable morals I ever saw thrown away in a cat, and a splendid hunter. [4]
- Well, a cat can; but you give a bluejay a subject that calls for his reserve-powers, and where is your cat? [5]
- The principal difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives. [5]
- If it was a pious cat, a moral cat, all right, never mind about the other capacities, they were of no consequence. [5]
- One might swing a cat in it, perhaps, but not a long cat. [5]
More example sentences with the word cat in them
- And another, a young lawyer, who declared that he would rather face a wild cat than ask Whipple a question on the new code. [9]
- An' may be you won't believe it, but after that you never see a cat so prejudiced agin quartz mining as what he was. [5]
- Everybody will tell you that; and one day when a stranger threw a stone at it, not knowing it was your cat, the village rose against him as one man and hanged him! [5]
- But that cat, you know, was always agin new fangled arrangements--somehow he never could abide'em. [5]
- Yet a cat would have liked that place. [5]
- The cat plays with the captured mouse, and the cormorant with the captured fish. [1]
- And the cat with her kittens yonder. [10]
- And then the wind changed, went back round the circle, reversing everything, like dragging a cat by its tail. [4]
- Our intelligent cat will quit the fire and sit for hours in the low window, watching the falling snow with a serious and contented air. [4]
- So the thousand wild cat shafts burrowed deeper and deeper into the earth day by day, and all men were beside themselves with hope and happiness. [5]
- His loving old wife sat near by, contentedly knitting and thinking, with a cat asleep in her lap. [5]
- He was "soldiering" when we came upon him, but he hopped up and chipped out a couple of steps about big enough for a cat, and charged us a franc or two for it. [5]
- Herod tells that when a house was on fire the Egyptians never thought of extinguishing the fire until their cats were all saved, and that when a cat died, they shaved their heads in sign of mourning. [10]
- One day Tom was in the act of dosing the crack when his aunt's yellow cat came along, purring, eying the teaspoon avariciously, and begging for a taste. [5]
- The household cat was asleep on this work of art. [5]
- Next I entered upon an affluent career in Virginia City, and by a judicious investment of labor and the capital of friends, became the owner of about all the worthless wild cat mines there were in that part of the country. [5]
- Then she grabbed up the basket and slammed it across the house and knocked the cat galley-west; and she said cle'r out and let her have some peace, and if we come bothering around her again betwixt that and dinner she'd skin us. [5]
- His delicate stomach turns, at certain details of the white man's food; but he likes over-ripe fish, and brazed dog, and cat, and rat, and will eat his own uncle with relish. [5]
- But, as Annette turned away again, she glanced at the mill; and there, high up in the dormer window, sat Parpon, his yellow cat on his shoulder, grinning down at her. [11]
- The water was trickling out of a leaky butt, and a most wretched cat was lapping up the drops with the sickly eagerness of starvation. [12]
- The cat began to strain herself. [5]
- It was easy to see that these doubts were having an effect upon the animals, so the cat went off offended. [5]
- Persons who want to pay a hundred dollars for a dead cat are getting rarer and rarer every day. [5]
- It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. [5]
- It was enough to make a cat laugh, or a woman cry with rage. [11]
- The connection between thought and electricity has not been exactly determined, but the cat is mentally very alert in certain conditions of the atmosphere. [4]
- Animals clearly manifest this power, as when a cat watches by a hole and prepares to spring on its prey. [1]
- A kitten of this cat soon learned the same trick, and practised it ever afterwards, whenever there was an opportunity. [1]
- But in some things she had a quick wit, and she hurried to say: "It was that yellow cat of Parpon's. [11]
- I dont beleave they ever kiled a cat or anything. [5]
- Every one of these wild cat mines--not mines, but holes in the ground over imaginary mines--was incorporated and had handsomely engraved "stock" and the stock was salable, too. [5]
- I said to them, 'This is Buhram,' and he was seized just as a cat seizes a mouse. [5]
- I supposed that the President would be in the midst of a crowd, and that I could look at him in peace and security from a distance, as another stray cat might look at another king. [5]
- By one of the parrots was a cat made of crockery, and a crockery dog by the other; and when you pressed down on them they squeaked, but didn't open their mouths nor look different nor interested. [5]
- He didn't create the idea, he merely discovered the fact; the cat had noticed it a hundred times. [5]
- The next moment the heavy implement was raised aloft; the next, there was a crash and a squall, and the cat was off on three legs to meet an engagement; Roxy would arrive just as the lamp or a window went to irremediable smash. [5]
- At this moment the gladiator Tarautas, as nimble as a cat and as bloodthirsty as a hungry wolf, sprang on to one of the enemy's piled-up wagons, and a tall swordsman, with a bear-skin over his shoulder, and long, reddish-gold hair, flew to meet him. [10]
- The clown of the first edition of "Monadnoc" "with heart of cat and eyes of bug," disappears in the after-thought of the later version of the poem, but the eye that recognized him and the nature that recoiled from him were there still. [6]
- And just as the dawn come in through the tall windows, a cat crawl out from somewhere, all ver' thin and shy, and walk across the floor; it make the room look so much alone. [11]
- The combination of the cat and the canary did not seem incongruous where she was concerned; it was as though something in her passionless self neutralized even the antagonisms of natural history. [11]
- She looked under the bed; it was not there: under the washstand, under the chest of drawers, under the improvised dressing-table; and no cat was to be found. [11]
- It's Miss Badlam that's ahlwiz after her, an' a-watchin' her,--she thinks she's cunnin'er than a cat, but there 's other folks that's got eyes an' ears as good as hers. [6]
- No longer ago than yesterday noon, my Tom took and filled the cat full of Pain-killer, and I did think the cretur would tear the house down. [5]
- And often a story of pure love, but more frequently of ghosts or other eerie phenomena taken from a magazine, or an anecdote of a cat or a chicken. [9]
- It was good sport, but one day she took away its food, gave it to the cat, and pointed her finger at monsieur the panther. [11]
- And he always spoke of the strange sagacity of that cat with the air of a man who believed in his secret heart that there was something human about it--may be even supernatural. [5]
- Like a cat, she had attached herself not to the people but to the home. [2]
- That arch-rascal Siebenburg robbed the people of the little sense they possessed, and that cat of a candle-dealer, with her mate, the tailor, or rather his followers, poisoned the minds of the rest. [10]
- Oh, no, a proper enough envelope--with a most ostentatiously broad mourning border--for his cat, perhaps, since he was a bachelor--and fastened with red wax--a batch of it as big as a half-crown--and--and--our crest for a seal!--motto and all. [5]
- It guyed its poor victim, baited him, worried him, as dogs do with a cornered cat. [5]
- In England the poacher is watched, tracked, hunted--he dare not show his face; in Bluff the cat, the weasel, the stoat, and the mongoose go up and down, whither they will, unmolested. [5]
- The old woman's pet sprang out of her lap, but neither his mistress nor the cat let themselves be disturbed by the noise, and slept on. [10]
- I had to pay for that cat. [5]
- Divine honors are paid to these fortunate quadrupeds as well as to many other animals, and he who kills a cat is punished with the same severity as the murderer of a human being. [10]
- Then she sprang out of bed, and, feeling for the matches, lit a candle on the small table beside her bed, and moved it round searching for what she thought to be a cat. [11]
- Jason stood directly opposite, and, while thus measuring each other with their eyes, Semestre looked like a cautious cat awaiting the attack of the less nimble but stronger shepherd's dog. [10]
- His mother died,--the only friend he had,-- Some tears escaped, but his philosophy Couched like a cat, sat watching close behind And throttled all his passion. [6]
- He is fond of Nature, this cat, as we all are: he wants to possess it. [4]
- Then the visits of condolence began, and I had to accept the loan of Miss Augusta-Templeton-Ashmore Hamilton's quarters because the press was so great and there isn't room for three and a cat in mine. [5]
- If the presence of a cat can produce its effects under these circumstances, why should not that of a human being under similar conditions, acting on certain constitutions, exercise its specific influence? [6]
- Thirty years from now there will not be a moral cat in New Zealand. [5]
- The cat made no murmur, but went on composedly improving in style and prodigality by experience. [5]
- A cat has nine lives, and most men have two. [11]
- I lay awake, 'n' got sharp ears,--I hear the cats walkin' over the roofs,--'n' I hear Dick Veneer, when he comes up in his stockin'-feet as still as a cat. [6]
- When he met Mrs. Wilcox and noticed the placid ecstasy in her face, he said to himself, "Her cat has had kittens"--and went and asked the cook; it was not so, the cook had detected the happiness, but did not know the cause. [5]
- That was the most satisfactory all-round cat I have seen yet. [5]
- A correspondent assures me that a cat in his house used to put her paws into jugs of milk having too narrow a mouth for her head. [1]
- And so poor Marget began to have company again, and was as pleased as a cat. [5]
- Then he's slowly marched down the double line of men, who flog him as he passes, and at the end of the line he receives another dose of the cat from the boatswain's mate. [11]
- How often has many a tired old man envied the superannuated family cat, stretched upon the rug before the fire, letting the genial warmth tranquilly diffuse itself through all her internal arrangements! [6]
- The domineering old man, overflowing with bigoted zeal, had played with him as a cat with a mouse. [10]
- But he merely looked around at me, at distant intervals, something as I have seen a benignant old cat look around to see which kitten was meddling with her tail. [5]
- Clanking and purring like an enormous cat, he turned his head away to the window when De la Foret dropped on his knees and kissed the hand of the Comtesse, whose eyes were full of tears. [11]
- He watched me like a cat. [5]
- She narrowed her lids slightly, as one often sees a sleepy cat narrow hers,--somewhat as you may remember our famous Margaret used to, if you remember her at all,--so that her eyes looked very small, but bright as the diamonds on her breast. [6]
- Both shoulder and knee bore the marks of teeth--where a huge wild cat had made havoc--and the body had long red scratches. [11]
- As soon as Klea was alone she seized the trencher with a vehement gesture, gave the roast bird to the gray cat, who had stolen back into the room, turning away her head, for the mere smell of the pheasant was like an insult. [10]
- Last time, you kep' me a-meowing around till old Hays went to throwing rocks at me and says 'Dern that cat! [5]
- It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad. [5]
- I've been reading it all over, nearly, since I found how the cat was jumping; I was anxious about it, and I tell you, old man, it's good. [8]
- The east wind is peevishness; it is mental rheumatism and grumbling, and curls one up in the chimney-corner like a cat. [4]
- What we lack is a cat. [5]
- They can tell, in some mysterious way, that there is a cat in the room when they can neither see nor hear the creature. [6]
- The cat brings in one in his mouth. [4]
- Last night, when I went to bed, Mrs. Clemens said, "George didn't take the cat down to the cellar--Rosa says he has left it shut up in the conservatory. [5]
- He said: "Gentlemen, I used to have a cat here, by the name of Tom Quartz, which you'd a took an interest in I reckon--most any body would. [5]
- But tell me, how did you come to know enough about her to call her a cat? [11]
- He tried closing his own eyes, but that did not answer, for a natural instinct kept making him open them again to see if the cat was still getting ready to launch at him--which she always was. [5]
- I never saw him exactly angry, though I have seen his tail grow to an enormous size when a strange cat appeared upon his lawn. [4]
- You will have him about the place like a tame cat. [11]
- I had him here eight year--and he was the remarkablest cat I ever see. [5]
- When he think he sing, now, he not sing at all, no, he only make like a cat which is unwell. [5]
- So at last he had to get up, after an hour or two of worry and experiment, and set the cat out in the hall. [5]
- When he returned, he abused his whole subjectry for liars, and was in an unappeasable fury with the moral and mental blindness of the cat. [5]
- But other folks have money; and they step about Bonaventure no more louder than a cat. [11]
- As the new guests approached the hearth, an old woman, who had been turning the spit, pushed a white cat from her lap and rose. [10]
- What are we going to do?--lay around there till he lets the cat out of the bag? [5]
- He stepped as gently and as daintily as a cat crossing a muddy street; and oh, he was urbanity; he was quiet, unobtrusive self-possession; he was deference itself! [5]
- It has the fullest right to be termed a cat classic. [4]
- He had seen from the first that she was a cat, and so far as youth forecasts such things, he felt that she would be a shrew. [8]
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