Use demand in a sentence
Sentences starting with demand
- Demand it, force it? [11]
- Demand of me anything reasonable, and within my attainment, and I will try to force myself to obedience; but I never can and never will be faithless to her, to prove my faith to you; and as to the Arabs. [10]
Sentences ending with demand
- Many times that winter I was a guest at the yellow-brick house, and I have to confess, as spring came on, that I made several trips to Elkington which business necessity did not absolutely demand. [9]
- With a throb which was an exquisite pain, she understood now the compassion in Austen's eyes, and she saw so simply and so clearly why he had not told her that her face burned with the shame of her demand. [9]
- Would She have waited for such a victory as you demand? [9]
- Very unlike Barine's voice, too, were the deep, earnest tones trembling with emotion, in which she confronted him with the brief question, concealing a faint reproach, "Another demand? [10]
- That is all very well, on the "Grecian Urn" of Keats,--beautiful, but not love such as mortals demand. [6]
- We were besieged to take this and that horse or mule, to buy walking-sticks for the climb, to purchase lava cut into charms, and veritable ancient coins, and dug-up cameos, all manufactured for the demand. [4]
- Maximilian at one time applied to his brother the Emperor for assistance, and he promised to accede to his demand. [6]
- He dismissed the thought, however, for this Cure was simple as man ever was made, straightforward as the most heretical layman might demand. [11]
- He yielded to the demand. [9]
- And I trust that in the future we shall grow into the mutual respect and affection which our nearer relationship will demand. [9]
Short sentences using demand
- I demand the whole truth! [10]
- So the demand was made. [5]
- President, I demand the floor. [5]
- Taxicabs are in great demand. [9]
- Public opinion will demand it. [11]
- I demand that. [11]
Sentences containing demand two or more times
- I have written the publishers of H & H time and again, but they say that the demand for the portrait immediately exhausted the edition and now a copy cannot be had, even for the European demand, which has now begun. [5]
- He referred to the fact that the Emperor Napoleon had resented the demand that he should withdraw his troops from Prussia, especially when that demand became generally known and the dignity of France was thereby offended. [2]
- It is maintained in violence, because the elections since clearly demand its repeal; and the demand is openly disregarded. [7]
- With the date changed, it would always, have its original value, and perfectly satisfy the demand, if a demand exists, for this sort of news. [4]
More example sentences with the word demand in them
- The stockholders of your corporation, perhaps, are bound to suffer some from the fact that you have taken its life-blood to pay dividends, and the public will demand that it be built up into a normal and healthy condition. [9]
- What right have you, monseigneur, to demand an account of my attachments and friendships? [2]
- Let me tell you that unless there's a good round answer to what we demand, the Nore fleet'll have it out with the government. [11]
- I demand that you read it now. [11]
- I know that you do it from thorough conviction, but with other acknowledged great artists and our judges, you, too, demand beauty--always beauty. [10]
- They had not yet decided whether to demand a full pardon or only a mild sentence for the man who had wounded the "King of kings," the son of the sovereign. [10]
- The freed people would surely not do more than their old proportion of it, and very probably for a time would do less, leaving an increased part to white laborers, bringing their labor into greater demand, and consequently enhancing the wages of it. [7]
- 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]
- I will speak with you to-day at any hour you may demand it. [10]
- Smith upbraided him with neglect of his promise to supply them with corn, and told him, in reply to his demand for weapons, that he had no arms to spare. [4]
- With a demand, with a threat. [9]
- There are those who demand the presence of a woman in order to be heroes.... "Give us a chance, can't you? [9]
- But the demand which had followed her answer now recurred to her. [10]
- Art is vitiated when the commercial demand, which may be a needed stimulus, presides at the creation. [4]
- Only two sentinels were pacing watchfully to and fro at the most northern gate of the camp, but they were enough; for, on account of the storm, no one had appeared for a long time to demand entrance or egress. [10]
- Let whoever means well go the town-hall, and demand a surrender before it is too late. [10]
- I wish there was more demand in our city markets for "pusley" as a salad. [4]
- He knew he was in these men's power, that only by force had they brought him there, that force alone gave them the right to demand answers to their questions, and that the sole object of that assembly was to inculpate him. [2]
- She did not wait for Jackson to come out with an umbrella, but rushed through the wet from the carriage to the door in her haste to urge the Colonel to go to the Arsenal and demand Clarence's release. [9]
- I fear this turn of opinion will not improve the demand for the book--but time will show. [14]
- But the only trouble with lying is, that the demand becomes so great you can't keep all the cards in your head, and then the one you forget does you. [11]
- I demand no tokens of a love and humility, which thou hast never felt. [10]
- It is nothing to the contrary, that they do not demand the whole of this just now. [7]
- It is nothing to the contrary that they do not demand the whole of this just now. [7]
- I merely desire to say that my unimportant adventure is not narrated in answer to the popular demand, and I do not wish to be held responsible for its variation from the typical character of such experiences. [4]
- During the voyage to Pelusium he had caught Althea's eye again and again, and rejected as an insult her demand to give her his whole love. [10]
- The humour appears to me such as would answer well on the stage; most of the scenes seem to demand dramatic accessories to give them their full effect. [14]
- We beg you to make some other demand on us, and we will certainly grant it if it lies in our power. [10]
- I had wished to go to 116 Intermediate and let its occupant demand what satisfaction he would. [11]
- It was commissioned to demand from Psamtik the surrender of his own person and of the city at discretion. [10]
- If you refuse to accede to this reasonable demand I will lay the matter before Caesar. [10]
- At the same time that he refused the colonel's demand he made up his mind that he must have recourse to artifice when leaving Orel, to induce the Italian officer to accept some money of which he was evidently in need. [2]
- The General has three boats chartered, with flats in tow, but the demand for these to tow out stock is greater than they can meet with promptness. [5]
- I have always thought it was natural that any celestial message should demand a language of its own, only to be understood by divine illumination. [6]
- Such years were those that followed the double-shotted demand for the surrender of Fort Sumter. [5]
- Let me say this: (he leaned forward a little, across the desk) I demand that you be specific. [9]
- The result of this universal demand for fiction is necessarily an enormous supply, and as everybody writes, without reference to gifts, the product is mainly trash, and trash of a deleterious sort; for bad art in literature is bad morals. [4]
- He, too, resented this senseless demand of civilization as an indignity to their Olympian loves. [9]
- Heinz had regarded this demand as a summons to turn traitor. [10]
- The securing of this circulation by the pledge of United States bonds, as therein suggested, would still further facilitate loans, by increasing the present and causing a future demand for such bonds. [7]
- And how were these, who still believed themselves to be dwelling under the old dispensation, to comprehend that environments change, and changing demand new and terrible Philosophies? [9]
- To give up these "happy hunting-grounds" was a severe demand upon the eager sportsman who occupied the Rudolstadt throne, and the rustic population would gladly have spared him had it been possible. [10]
- Why "Thoughts on the Universe, by Byles Gridley, A. M.," had not met with an eager welcome and a permanent demand from the discriminating public, it would take us too long to inquire in detail. [6]
- But the moment the Spanish minister makes a demand, it is acceded to at once, whether it be just or not. [5]
- I may demand the respect, the adoration of millions and it will be mine. [10]
- I stand in the place of his father, my dead brother, and demand obedience. [10]
- Trust me; before the Nile has risen again, a powerful army will have entered Egypt, to demand satisfaction for this murder. [10]
- The change in the newspaper caused by the telegraph, the cable, and by a public demand for news created by wars, by discoveries, and by a new outburst of the spirit of doubt and inquiry, is enormous. [4]
- As soon as the ladies, who accompanied them, had turned their backs, Bent-Anat grasped her brother's hand with unaccustomed warmth, and said: "Avoid all imprudence; but your demand is just, and I will help you with all my heart. [10]
- Thus he confronted the impossibility of satisfying a demand of honour, and this terrible thought induced him to declare war against everything which honour had hitherto enjoined, and with it upon its guardians. [10]
- Here is where the greatest danger lies that, while we profess to be a government of law and reason, law will give way to violence on demand of this awful and crushing power. [7]
- Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition. [9]
- If not, as the demand was booked against an infantry regiment, there will be a row and the affair may end badly. [2]
- In our day the demand here hinted at has taken more definite form and determinate aim, and goes on, visible to all men, to unsettle society and change social and political relations. [4]
- Now, however, when the demand for the work had assured success to "Jane Eyre," her sisters urged Charlotte to tell their father of its publication. [14]
- We may demand the credentials of every creed and catechise all the catechisms. [6]
- We forget that the creation of the novel should be, to a certain extent, a synthetic process, and impart to human actions that ideal quality which we demand in painting. [4]
- If I see the case rightly, it was Keraunus who refused your demand that he should resign to you the treasure in his charge. [10]
- And I demand the ayes and noes! [5]
- He has heard that you are fair, and he is about to demand of the high-priest that he should surrender you to him. [10]
- Then it is that many young natures, having exhausted the spiritual soil round them of all it contains of the elements they demand, wither away, undeveloped and uncolored, unless they are transplanted. [6]
- There is just that lazy activity about a volcano, ordinarily, that satisfies your demand for something that is not exactly dead, and yet does not disturb you. [4]
- My conclusion is, that I can have nothing to do with the matter, either to sustain the plan as the convention and Governor Johnson have initiated it, or to revoke or modify it as you demand. [7]
- They have been tampered with by politicians, and made to believe that if they get up a mutiny and demand Fremont's return the government will be forced to restore him to duty here. [7]
- The faces that surrounded Jim were thin with hunger, and the murder that had been committed by the chief had, as its origin, the foolish replies of the Hudson's Bay Company's man to their demand for supplies. [11]
- There was no supply where there was no demand. [9]
- All of a sudden pilots were in great demand, and were correspondingly scarce. [5]
- These measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon, under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public necessity; trusting then, as now, that Congress would readily ratify them. [7]
- He did not stop--strangely enough--to reflect how far they had gone, to demand by what right she brought him to the bar, challenged the consistency of his life. [9]
- My strength and spirits too often proved quite insufficient to the demand on their exertions. [14]
- If the utilitarian spirit is abroad, it accounts for the devotion to the production of wealth, and to the consequent separation of classes and the discontent, and it accounts also for the demand that all education shall be immediately useful. [4]
- They demand some sort of infallibility. [9]
- You're proceeding on something like the old exploded idea that the demand creates the supply, when everybody knows, if he's watched the course of modern events, that it's just as apt to be the other way. [8]
- There have been some changes of late years in the care of criminals, but does public opinion yet everywhere demand that jailers and prison-keepers and executioners of the penal law should be men of refinement, of high character, of any degree of culture? [4]
- If the consul sneezes, France will demand compensation! [11]
- Still Zminis was silent, and Caesar furiously shrieked his demand as to whether by his blundering Heron's daughter had escaped; whether he could not produce the gem-cutter and his son. [10]
- Upon demand, he signed his deposition himself. [5]
- At length I select two oranges, and again demand the price. [4]
- The demand and sale are widely taken as the criterion of excellence, or they are at least sufficient encouragement of further work on the line of the success. [4]
- Yet, as he said to himself, the woman was keeping his secret--his and Rosalie's--and she had some right to make demand. [11]
- Watling and Tooting rush to the bridal suite, and rush back again to demand justice. [9]
- Pharaoh signed to Rui a second time and, as the monarch sank back upon his throne, the old man, fixing his keen eyes on Hosea, replied: "The demand which the lord of both worlds makes upon you by my lips is easy to fulfil. [10]
- He had even resisted accepting Siebenburg's reckless stake, but his obstinate persistence and demand could not be opposed. [10]
- The demand and require that the President shall suppress the four noisiest members of the Opposition. [5]
- They could not refuse to promise; they felt she had the right to demand much more than that. [11]
- He saw no reason for refusing to answer Dryfoos's demand, and he decided to ignore its terms. [8]
- In all other pursuits we carefully study the relation of supply to demand. [4]
- And; if the public has a right to demand anything of a newspaper, it is that its reports of what occurs shall be faithfully accurate, unprejudiced, and colorless. [4]
- Doubtless there may prove to be wrongs which demand righting, but the pretence of any plan for changing the essential principle of our self-governing system is a figment which its contrivers laugh over among themselves. [6]
- Must he recognise praying to them and thanking them as the demand of justice, of duty, and wisdom? [10]
- In turn, each person present was required to say what reward he would demand of the King if he could change places with the Paladin and do the wonders the Paladin was going to do. [5]
- None among the people or the Knights Tilters knew who the invader was, and Leicester called upon the Masters of the Ceremonies to demand his name and quality. [11]
- In default of payment within a reasonable time such personal articles will be seized and sold at public auction as will satisfy the demand against you. [9]
- Go to Selamlik Pasha the malignant, and demand the young officer? [11]
- From that time out, I prophesied myself bald-headed trying to supply the demand. [5]
- But, on the other hand, works of art worthy the name are sometimes produced to suit a demand and to please a taste already created. [4]
- Write a story, or a dozen stories, and your book will be in demand like an oyster while it is freshly opened, and after tha--. [6]
- Mrs. Leighton could only demand, in an awful tone, "May I ask why--if you cared for him; and I know you care for him still you will refuse him? [8]
- If the government offices were removed, this was only done on the demand of officials to whom the count yielded reluctantly. [2]
- I therefore demand of you--" and she again turned to the assembly--"that you will fulfil your functions worthily and promote justice in my behalf by calling in both these witnesses and hearing their evidence. [10]
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