Use does in a sentence
Sentences starting with does
- Does she know your brother? [8]
- Does that shock you? [9]
- Does that distress you? [5]
- Does that discomfort you? [5]
- Does he know you? [5]
- Does that content you, impulsive little soldier? [5]
- Does it make you wink, and choke, and your eyes water, and your breath come short--does it? [12]
- Does that please you too? [10]
- Does she remind you of him? [6]
- Does you think you kin skyer me? [5]
Sentences ending with does
- Is that what your president does? [11]
- But mos'ly I wisht dey'd lemme 'lone, I does. [5]
- He plays to win, and generally does. [4]
- In conclusion I will only say that I have a character to defend as well as Gen. Adams, but I disdain to whine about it as he does. [7]
- Does he know what he does? [5]
- He knows not what he does. [9]
- It did not want to do so; it never does. [11]
- She can teach us all the fine arts--and does. [5]
- I try not to think of what he does. [9]
- He doesn't seem to care what his wife does. [4]
Short sentences using does
- Mamma does not wish it. [2]
- How does the wind go? [11]
- Old Nancy does washing. [9]
- What does she want? [2]
- What does Ecclesiastes vii. [5]
- How does he use it? [2]
- Does he become unconscious, too? [6]
- It does seem too cruel! [8]
- Does one report to you? [5]
- Does thee care to say? [11]
Sentences containing does two or more times
- When a person with his millions gives a hundred thousand dollars it makes a great noise in the world, but he does not miss it; it's the widow's mite that makes no noise but does the best work. [5]
- No earthly man with a hundred-fold strength does so much evil as Mithra with heavenly strength does good. [6]
- He does right who does his best. [14]
- I don't know what the Queen would think of this way of spending Sunday; but if Albert Edward never does anything worse, he does n't need half the praying for that he gets every Sunday in all the English churches and chapels. [4]
- It is the unintelligent Me, stupid as an idiot, that has to try a thing a thousand times before he can do it, and then never knows how he does it, that at last does it well. [3]
- It is patent to the most superficial observation that our present method does not protect society, and does not lessen the number of the criminal class, either by deterrent methods or by reformatory processes, except in a very limited way. [4]
- Do you mean to tell me that a man who is getting fat dividends out of a stock does not regard more leniently the manner in which that stock is manipulated than one who does not own any of it? [4]
- People may try to stop him, and they may tear down what he does, but he does at last what he starts to do, and no one can prevent him--not any one. [11]
- Did you happen to remember that though he does not allow that he is deaf, he will not deny that he does not hear quite so well as he used to? [6]
- I followed the thing right up: "If the king does not arrive, I will have myself ridden on a rail: if he does I will ride you on a rail instead. [5]
More example sentences with the word does in them
- My Irenia is yours--" "But she does love me, and even should she no longer--" "The test is at hand. [10]
- You'll dig up your pot of money and take it away with you.... What does it matter to you whether our homes are ruined or not? [2]
- This is now your case; which, as I have said, pains me not less than it does you. [7]
- She is so young that she does not yet understand what life is. [4]
- He needed encouragement,--what young lawyer does not on his first important case? [9]
- There was another young lady who taught French, of the ahvaung and baundahng style, which does not exactly smack of the asphalt of the Boulevards. [6]
- What does the Young Doctor say? [11]
- He desires that you, who wish the Territories to remain free, should believe that he stands by that position; but he does not say it himself. [7]
- He advises it, you understand-he does not command. [10]
- Separation, of which you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect on you. [2]
- Tell me, are you only a tourist--I was going to say idler, but I know you are not; you have the face of a man who does things--are you tourist or worker here? [11]
- Oh, I know you mean it playfully," she hurriedly added, "but--but it does not sound right to me. [11]
- The feeling does you infinite credit. [9]
- Let me tell you I have an order from the British Government to confine him to his estate; not to permit him to leave it; and, if he does, to arrest him. [11]
- Then defend yourself, you hideous toad, or I will tread you down, if my foot does not fear to be soiled with your poison. [10]
- Don't interrupt, unless you have something to say; though I should like to know how much gossip there is afloat that the minister does not know. [4]
- Think the thing you do is better than what anybody else does, and you're well started. [11]
- But I suppose you couldn't help lookin' at my gal--she does seem to draw men's eyes as if she was magnetized some way. [9]
- And besides, while you are waiting, Nature does not wait. [4]
- Does she tell you all her plans and projects? [6]
- Graciously look over yonder, Your Highness; does it not seem as if the wood fairy herself had laid by the roadside for your illustrious Majesty the fairest flowers that bloom in field and forest, mere and moss? [10]
- It does not yield to time nor to decay, to the long wash of experience that wears away the stone, nor to disintegration. [11]
- He does not yet know of my purpose, but I am sure that he would help us if a thousand deaths threatened him. [10]
- Iris does not write verse often, nowadays, but she sometimes draws. [6]
- Does he still write on his back? [10]
- Probably, therefore, it would not suit the American, whose imagination does not work so easily backward as forward, and who prefers to build his own nest rather than settle in anybody else's rookery. [4]
- Then the presumption would naturally be that it does harm. [3]
- But if you would like to defeat Buchanan and his gang, allow me a word with you: Does any one pretend that Fillmore can carry the vote of this State? [7]
- No; but I would have criminals believe, and society believe, that in going to prison a man or woman does not pass an absolute line and go into a fixed state. [4]
- But happily the world does not believe this, and indeed would be very unhappy if it could not try and prove all the possibilities of human nature, to suffer as well as to enjoy. [4]
- How in the world does it happen that you, who so often have helped us with your father's coin, have come down to be the chief of a band of travelling musicians? [10]
- He does not work, except when people are looking, and only then when the observer has a green, naturalistic look, and seems to be taking notes. [5]
- The law of work does seem utterly unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also. [5]
- One does the work and another gets paid--that's the way here. [11]
- Whoever upholds the word-monger who spouts forth books as the dolphin at my side does water, may do so. [10]
- And yet the word "disillusion" does not apply. [9]
- It is a wonderful thing to be so celebrated; yet look at him; it makes no change in him; he does not even seem to know it. [5]
- Does not a woman when she truly loves always believe? [11]
- What does any woman know what she will do until the situation is before her! [11]
- What does a woman care for the world when she loves a man? [11]
- But a true woman can always show kindness to everyone whom she does not scorn, so though she blushed deeply at the sight of the man whose kiss she had returned, she received him cordially, and with sympathetic questions. [10]
- Does it come within the act? [11]
- Does it tally with the other two? [5]
- It does away with the necessity of the hinge in the back. [4]
- Does He behold with smile serene The shows of that unending scene, Where sleepless, hopeless anguish lies, And, ever dying, never dies? [6]
- That Napoleon agreed with Mouton, and that the army retreated, does not prove that Napoleon caused it to retreat, but that the forces which influenced the whole army and directed it along the Mozhaysk (that is, the Smolensk) road acted simultaneously on him also. [2]
- If he agrees with most of them, let him be patient with an opinion he does not accept, or an expression or illustration a little too vivacious. [6]
- Does it tally with B's other two? [5]
- In twenty-one years, with all my time at my free disposal I have written and completed only eleven books, whereas with half the labor that a journalist does I could have written sixty in that time. [5]
- Who does not wish to stand on the step next above his own? [10]
- He does not wish to command in the field, though he has more military knowledge than some who do. [7]
- Wisdom does not wish for flight. [9]
- But, hereafter, I will turn me sadly away and say; "This does not answer--this isn't the style of king that I am acquainted with. [5]
- Your own son will one day know you well enough, if he does not now. [9]
- Why, against the will of France, her ally, does she refuse to send him forth? [11]
- Many a gardener will cut you a bouquet of his choicest blossoms for small fee, but he does not love to let the seeds of his rarest varieties go out of his own hands. [6]
- Marcus, no doubt, will be happy to have won you; but if he does not succeed in gaining his mother's consent he will not continue happy you may rely upon it. [10]
- Why does the wild ass forage with a strange herd, or the pig put his feet in the trough? [11]
- And my dead wife owes me a grudge, and is as thankless as she was is her lifetime; for when she appears to me in a dream she does not give me a good word, and often torments me. [10]
- The gate was wide open, and there sat-I knew him at once; who does not?--the Arch Enemy of mankind. [4]
- Perhaps that is why my drink does not fatten me greatly. [11]
- There are reasons why he does not come, as your honour kens, knowing the history of Erris Boyne. [11]
- The man to whom Hebe proffers nectar does not ask for even the best wine of Byblus. [10]
- That other one whom he thinks he loves better than he does me is tall and beautiful and majestic--like you; and I have always told myself that his future wife ought to look like you. [10]
- Does a body's whole soul good to look at you! [5]
- Even a man who knows nothing but science will be provided for, if he does not think it necessary to hang about his birthplace all his days,--which is a most unAmerican weakness. [6]
- There are others who exhibit those great qualities as greatly as he does, but only by intervaled distributions of rich moonlight, with stretches of veiled and dimmer landscape between; whereas Howells's moon sails cloudless skies all night and all the nights. [5]
- No man can, who does not give the Abolitionists an argument to deny the obligation enjoined by the Constitution to enact a Fugitive State law. [7]
- It began to whiten up here, under the widow's cap, if you care to know it, and, if the Emperor's health does not improve, the locks there will soon look like my white Diana's. [10]
- Does not the whisper pass as the lightning flashes? [11]
- The cold air which you dread does me good. [10]
- The length to which this paper has extended does not allow me to enter into the consideration of this most important subject. [3]
- Very well, then; which of these elements does the possessor of it manufacture for himself? [5]
- The little sketch which I have made of this gem cannot and does not do it justice, since I have been obliged to leave out the color. [5]
- The Church to which I belong, and whose teachings I respect, does not recognize such a marriage. [9]
- Yes, the desire which goes forth hungering after righteousness is blessed of our Father, and it does not return unto us void. [5]
- The sad news which fills all Naukratis does not seem to disturb you much. [10]
- For a crime which does not taint her purity our judges have to-day condemned to death a beautiful and spotless maiden--a stranger, and at the same time a Greek and a heretic Melchite. [10]
- I don't know whether he does or not. [7]
- I don't know where I got these impressions, but I came home feeling as one does who realizes that he has done a neat thing for once and left no flaws or loop-holes. [5]
- Hang it, Dick, where does your fun come in? [11]
- Does that mean, when you've made all you want, you'll give up to Carnac what isn't yours but his? [11]
- He reflected that when ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers. [5]
- But really, madam, when I come to examine the matter in all its bearings, I find that the correctness of your assertion does not assert itself in all cases. [5]
- There are times when Ethiopian minstrelsy can amuse, if it does not charm, a weary soul, and such a vacant hour there was on this same Friday evening. [6]
- I don't know when and how he does it. [11]
- And we know when a man has his power from a god by the fact that he does things which he could not do, as a man, with the mere powers of a man. [5]
- You see, Ulrich, when a man becomes famous like you, he is known for a long distance, everything he does makes a great hue and cry, and echo repeats it in every alley. [10]
- This is just what regional, or, as it is sometimes called, surgical anatomy, does for the surgeon with reference to the part on which his skill is to be exercised. [3]
- Does he do what others make him do? [5]
- I then read what I had written and handed it to Mr. Lynch, whereupon Mr. Winters said: "That's not satisfactory, and it won't do;" and then addressing himself to Mr. Lynch, he further said: "How does it strike you? [5]
- Does he know what he's about? [9]
- I don't know what he fears, but he does fear you. [11]
- Burlingame don't care what he does to get his way in court. [11]
- One cannot abolish what does not exist. [5]
- Having accomplished this, what does Mr. Floyd do next? [5]
- And when they were through they said that portrait, fine as it is, that work, beautiful as it is, that piece of humanity on that canvas, gracious and fine as it is, does not rise to those perfections that exist in the man himself. [5]
- Why, when we were in New York here on our wedding journey the place didn't seem half so dirty as it does now, and none of these dismal things happened. [8]
- Does he think we're all born idiots? [11]
- If the evidence went as far to establish a guilty profit of one or two hundred thousand dollars, as it does of one or two hundred dollars, the case would, on the question of guilt, bear a far different aspect. [7]
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