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Sentences ending with dictate

He asked me to write a letter to his wife, which he'd dictate. [11]
I came, and she began to dictate. [5]
They seem to me to be not unfair; and I forbear to join in proposing them only because I choose to leave the decision in each county to the Whigs of the county, to be made as their own judgment and convenience may dictate. [7]
You then return home, either taking the bag with you or leaving it behind, according as circumstances shall dictate. [5]
It can't be done through a short hand amanuensis--I've tried that--it wouldn't work --I couldn't learn to dictate. [5]
He began to dictate. [9]
I'll dictate. [11]

Short sentences using dictate

I'll dictate it to you. [11]

More example sentences with the word dictate in them

I may need you in Vaucouleurs; for if the governor will not receive me I will dictate a letter to him, and so must have some one by me who knows the art of how to write and spell the words. [5]
I glanced through yonder letter while talking with the Exegetus; now I will dictate the answer. [10]
I write 2,000 words a day; I think I can dictate twice as many. [5]
To-morrow I mean to dictate a chapter which will get my heirs and assigns burnt alive if they venture to print it this side of 2006 A.D.--which I judge they won't. [5]
The fantasy of the wood-nymph underwent translation in Ingolby's mind; she was now like a mortal, who, having been transformed, at immortal dictate was returning to mortal state again. [11]
I told myself that if I were not in a state bordering on a nervous breakdown, I should laugh at such morbid fears, I steadied myself sufficiently to dictate the extract from my speech that was to be published. [9]
These have little sympathy with democracy; they have even been heard to declare that we have no right to dictate to another nation, even an enemy nation, what form of government it shall assume. [9]
On Friday afternoon, shortly after Ditmar had begun to dictate his correspondence, Mr. Holster, the agent of the Clarendon Mill, arrived and interrupted him. [9]
Who has the right to dictate to my conscience, and where did he get that right? [5]
How could he resist the dictate of humanity which called him to make his visits more frequent, that her intervals of rest might be more numerous? [6]
I choose to remain an exile till my country is free, till her nobles and people govern themselves, and dictate their own laws. [10]
You see, some of those fellows got a notion that there ought to be a union among the working-men to keep up wages, and dictate to the employers, and Mr. Dryfoos's foreman was the ringleader in the business. [8]
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. [7]
Among other things it says, "Whatever course your judgment may dictate as proper to be pursued, shall never be excepted to by me. [7]
My only wish is, sir, that you may calmly and dispassionately look at the situation of the case, and if your better judgment should dictate otherwise, my obligations may induce me to pluck the flower that you so diametrically opposed. [5]
My right arm is nearly disabled by rheumatism, but I am bound to write this book (and sell 100,000 copies of it--no, I mean a million--next fall) I feel sure I can dictate the book into a phonograph if I don't have to yell. [5]
I think that if you have the cheek to dictate the story into the fonograf, all the rest is perfectly easy. [5]
I am very glad indeed, M. Bourget; for it was just that little wee thing that caused the whole difficulty and made you dictate the Reply, and your amanuensis call me all those hard names which the magazines dislike so. [5]
And society, always forming and reforming, as the voters of the republic dictate, is almost independent of the Government, and has nothing of the social caste of Berlin or London. [4]
And you can't dictate its procedure after it has originated a dream-thought for itself? [5]
I believe it could teach one to dictate literature to a phonographer--and some time I will experiment in that line. [5]
I guess he'll be in here in a minute to dictate the draft. [9]
Mr. Swain read all the prints, and in his easier days would dictate to me his views for the committee, or a letter signed Brutes for Mr. Green to put in the Gazette. [9]
While the subscribes acquires no right to dictate to the newspaper, we can imagine an extreme case when he should have his money back which had been paid in advance, if the newspaper totally changed its character. [4]
Merryman replied in a note that he denied Whitesides's right to dictate time and place, but that he (Merryman) would waive the question of time, and meet him at Louisiana, Missouri. [7]

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