Use entire in a sentence
Sentences ending with entire
- Thither the larger portion of those who could combat the flames and rescue the inhabitants were at once directed; and here, as at the palace, he acted on the principle of sacrificing whatever could not be saved entire. [10]
- It is so good a specimen of Smith's ability with the pen, reveals so well his sagacity and knowledge of what a colony needed, and exposes so clearly the ill-management of the London promoters, and the condition of the colony, that we copy it entire. [4]
Short sentences using entire
- He covers the entire ground. [5]
- He took entire command. [5]
Sentences containing entire two or more times
- We were at sea now, for a very long voyage--we were to pass through the entire length of the Levant; through the entire length of the Mediterranean proper, also, and then cross the full width of the Atlantic--a voyage of several weeks. [5]
- Upon my word I believe you've got what you believe to be a rational reason, for venturing into this house, an entire stranger, on this wild scheme of buying the wool crop of an entire colony on speculation. [5]
More example sentences with the word entire in them
- Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
- For an entire year the suffering Fisher family remained quiet--even satisfied, after a fashion. [5]
- Really, what you would push him to do would take from him his entire power to serve you. [7]
- Presently the King would arrive, solitary and alone, and the players would begin at the beginning and do the entire opera over again with only that one individual in the vast solemn theater for audience. [5]
- Well, it goes without saying that in the course of time all the rooms were taken off, and the entire machine was out of service. [5]
- She was struck with the excited look of Euthymia, being herself quite calm, and contemplating her project with entire complacency. [6]
- They are acquainted with the entire history of the heavens and the earth. [10]
- Now, having established with his entire party this doctrine, having been entirely successful in that branch of his efforts in your behalf, he is ready for another. [7]
- The entire voyage will be completed, and the passengers landed in New York again, on the 14th of December, 1991. [5]
- But after a while the steamboats so increased in number and in speed that they were able to absorb the entire commerce; and then keelboating died a permanent death. [5]
- The enemy's fleet, which subsequently did not let a single boat pass, allows his entire army to elude it. [2]
- The next morning, when I sallied out to hire a conveyance, I was an object of interest to the entire population, who seemed to think it very odd that any one should walk about and explore the quiet streets. [4]
- These facts show what the result must be, once the people again rally in their entire strength. [7]
- The horse was well enough, but the seat was narrow for three people, and the entire establishment had in it not much prophecy of Baddeck for that day. [4]
- You know as well as I do that the whole nation hold as much as three-fifths of the United States Senate in entire contempt.--Three-fifths of you are Dilworthys. [5]
- The last few weeks had claimed his entire time and strength so rigidly and urgently that he would have been compelled to refuse Barbara's demands upon his love or neglect serious duties. [10]
- She was what we called in those days "intellectual," and had gone in for kindergartens, and after her marriage she turned out to be excessively domestic; practising her theories, with entire success, upon a family that showed a tendency to increase at an alarming rate. [9]
- Not the entire way, but far enough to answer the requirements of the case. [5]
- There's only one way to be a pilot, and that is to get this entire river by heart. [5]
- The entire country was under the one scepter, and his was that scepter. [5]
- The entire caste was to suffer for the sins of him who had escaped punishment. [10]
- The entire floor was strewed with rose-leaves, and the room lighted by many lamps which were hung against the smooth, white, stucco walls. [10]
- The mountain side was so steep that the entire town had a slant to it like a roof. [5]
- Their entire being was reduced to a monotonous dead level of patience, resignation, dumb uncomplaining acceptance of whatever might befall them in this life. [5]
- Since entire concealment was now impossible, the question was,--how complete a confession would be necessary? [9]
- The entire household was governed according to Pierre's supposed orders, that is, by his wishes which Natasha tried to guess. [2]
- Upstairs, the drawing-room was flooded with sunlight that poured in through a window with stone mullions and leaded panes extending the entire width of the house. [9]
- I had a very complete set of the "American Journal of the Medical Sciences;" an entire set of the "North American Review," and many volumes of the reprints of the three leading British quarterlies. [3]
- We agreed then upon a platform for the party throughout the entire State of Illinois, and now we are all bound, as a party, to that platform. [7]
- The voyage thence up the Derwent Frith displays a grand succession of fairy visions, in its entire length elsewhere unequaled. [5]
- An entire and unsuspected Russian army in reserve! [5]
- One of the unavoidable consequences of the present insurrection is the entire suppression in many places of all the ordinary means of administering civil justice by the officers and in the forms of existing law. [7]
- Can you not trust that it will be a prevailing force, if your sympathies are with it, without demanding a revelation of the entire scheme of the universe? [9]
- A Mormon Emigrant Train--The Heart of the Rocky Mountains--Pure Saleratus--A Natural Ice-House--An Entire Inhabitant--In Sight of "Eternal Snow"--The South Pass--The Parting Streams--An Unreliable Letter Carrier--Meeting of Old Friends--A Spoiled Watermelon--Down the Mountain--A Scene of Desolation--Lost in the Dark--Unnecessary Advice --U.S. [5]
- We quitted the train at Oos, and walked the entire remaining distance to Baden-Baden, with the exception of a lift of less than an hour which we got on a passing wagon, the weather being exhaustingly warm. [5]
- I cannot express to you what entire enjoyment I find in this first visit to this prodigious metropolis of yours. [5]
- He was appointed to the head-directorship in the entire department of music in Lacedaemon and succeeded in naturalizing the soft Lydian music. [10]
- Deceased was followed to the grave by the entire population of Macon. [5]
- Bob Worthington came to the edge of the porch and stood there, frankly scanning the crowd, with an entire lack of self-consciousness. [9]
- One who means to talk with entire sincerity,--I said,--always feels himself in danger of two things, namely,--an affectation of bluntness, like that of which Cornwall accuses Kent in "Lear," and actual rudeness. [6]
- It is idle to say that the thing which can transform a man's entire nature and life is not a reality. [9]
- Her mind, sensitive to new ideas, had been keenly stimulated as she listened to Siddons, who began patiently to dwell once more on the ill effect of the conditions he had discovered on the welfare of the entire community. [9]
- These arrangements perfected to his entire satisfaction, he thrust his hands into his pockets, and walked up and down the office with measured steps. [12]
- These words, whispered to her with entire conviction, had not been without their effect. [10]
- We are going to have that entire trade. [5]
- He is like to burst with animal spirits; he runs like a deer; he can nearly fly; and he throws himself into play with entire self-forgetfulness, and an energy that would overturn the world if his strength were proportioned to it. [4]
- For the first time, in many weeks, the ship's entire family met and shook hands on the quarter-deck. [5]
- For the first time he saw in her the suffering which often causes a metamorphosis in certain traits in a sick person's character extend their transforming power to the entire nature. [10]
- When she saw thus for the first time an entire people given up to the wildest and most unfettered mirth and enjoyment, she woke up from her silent brooding thoughts and began to weep again, as in the first days after you went away. [10]
- What an exquisite thrill ran through my frame when the timid nose appeared, was withdrawn, poked out again, and finally followed by the entire animal, who looked cautiously about, and then hopped away to feed on the clover. [4]
- I have lost three entire months now. [5]
- I can see those figures with entire distinctness across this abyss of time. [5]
- She had done this with entire devotion, and endeavoured to reflect upon what had happened and what obligations she must meet. [10]
- The vitality of this club has depended in a great measure on its utter poverty in statutes and by-laws, its entire absence of formality, and its blessed freedom from speech-making. [6]
- Now you would think that the first thing the king would do after listening to such a novelette from an entire stranger, would be to ask for credentials--yes, and a pointer or two as to locality of castle, best route to it, and so on. [5]
- The other day they gobbled up an entire edition of 'The Life in New York. [5]
- The evening before their separation, he described with sparkling vivacity, the charms of the Ligurian coast, and spoke of the future as if he were sure of entire recovery and a long life. [10]
- On the contrary, the whole force of this instinct throws itself on the centre of inhibition, instead of quickening the heart-beats, and sending the rush of youthful blood with fresh life through the entire system to the throbbing finger-tips. [6]
- In addition to the use now made of the newspaper by the classes called "advertisers," I expect it to become the handy medium of the entire public, the means of ready communication in regard to all wants and exchanges. [4]
- It was exactly the sort of letter an author likes to receive, critical, perfectly impartial, and with entire understanding of his purpose. [4]
- Whereas Stavely was the only individual in the entire nation who was not his cousin. [5]
- The latter is the hope and pride of the entire Persian nation, high and low; the darling of the people; generous, and noble, handsome, virtuous, and worthy of their love. [10]
- It requires, in the first place, an entire new terminology to get rid of that enormous load of prejudices with which every term applied to the malformations, the functional disturbances, and the organic diseases of the moral nature is at present burdened. [6]
- The bondholders had the first claim on the entire property. [4]
- Perhaps that is the entire thing. [5]
- He must have the entire responsibility of the expedition which he commanded; for nothing except an important duty that no one would help him bear, gave promise of making him forget everything that usually engrossed his attention, and thus his new object of longing. [10]
- They can elevate the entire present generation of young men, if they give their minds to it, to care for the intellectual pursuits they care for. [4]
- The third exhibits the entire insufficiency of exalted wisdom, immaculate honesty, and vast general acquirements to make a good physician of a great bishop. [6]
- When she found the entire fence whitewashed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable. [5]
- Her husband won the entire confidence of every one who met the gaze of his honest blue eyes. [10]
- I will have the entire Arctic Circle in the market as a summer resort next year, and will use the surplusage of the old climate, over and above what can be utilized on the equator, to reduce the temperature of opposition resorts. [5]
- A body from the contemplation of which an archangel could infer the entire inorganic universe as the simplest of corollaries! [6]
- On arriving in the city of the Pyramids he was brought before the king, and promised impunity on condition of revealing the entire truth. [10]
- In this prayer the blessing of the gods was called down on everything pure and good, but principally on the king and his entire realm. [10]
- It is possible that Tom's mental stomach had never really hungered for one of those prizes, but unquestionably his entire being had for many a day longed for the glory and the eclat that came with it. [5]
- So it happened that throughout the whole battle the Russians opposed the entire French army launched against our left flank with but half as many men. [2]
- The chances were that there was not another boat on the entire lake. [5]
- The commission conclude that the quotas for the draft should be based upon entire population, and they proceed upon this basis to give a table for the State of New York, in which some districts are reduced and some increased. [7]
- I never suspected that the point was going to stick into the entire nation; but of course you know your nation better than I do, and if you think it punctures them all, I have to yield to your judgment. [5]
- It was plain that the entire road must transport at least eleven or twelve thousand people every day. [5]
- And I marked that she never allowed her talk with him to drift into deep water; when there was danger of this she would draw the entire table into their conversation by some adroit remark, or create a laugh at his expense. [9]
- You must know that I cannot see you, or think of you, with entire indifference; and yet it may be that you are mistaken in regard to what my real feelings toward you are. [7]
- And a society that has attained its end in all possible culture, entire refinement in manners, in tastes, in the art of elegant intellectual and luxurious living--is there nothing pathetic in that? [4]
- That's the one that eat up an entire box of Seidlitz powders, and then hadn't any more judgment than to go and take a drink. [5]
- I wish to thank you, first of all, for the consideration you have shown me, and to tell you how deeply I appreciate your taking the entire burden of the work of the parish. [9]
- If he were talking about a trifling letter he had received seven years before, he was pretty sure to deliver you the entire screed from memory. [5]
- Does anything really take the place of that entire ease and confidence that one has in kin, or the inborn longing for their sympathy and society? [4]
- He halted abruptly, struck by the challenge, and he saw that this woman had spoken not for herself, but for an entire outlawed and desperate class. [9]
- When all had spun themselves to their places, they were about five or six feet apart--and so situated, the entire circle of spinning pagans spun itself three separate times around the room. [5]
- Silken coverlets were spread over their weary, beautiful limbs, and a troop of eunuchs took good care that the dreamy repose of the entire body should not be disturbed by quarrelsome or petulant individuals. [10]
- One Pope afterward spent his entire pontificate in the catacombs--eight years. [5]
- This imitation of speech, taken together with general absence of fur and entire absence of tail, sufficiently indicates that this is a new kind of bear. [5]
- I see in some of the modern novels we have been talking of the same unscrupulous daring, a blindness to moral distinctions, a constant exaltation of a passion into a virtue, an entire disregard of the immutable laws on which the family and society rest. [4]
- The progress of society now begins to produce cases of the transfer for debts of the entire property of railroad corporations; and to enable transferees to use and enjoy the transferred property, legislation and adjudication begin to be necessary. [7]
- Nothing else could so effectually impress them with the entire propriety of her appearance in the Circus. [10]
- He wore a short sack,--in fact, an entire suit of light gray flannel, which closely fitted his lithe form. [4]
- It did not seem wise, to her, to put one's entire earthly trust in the Tennessee Land and never think of doing any work. [5]
- Mr. Braham having seated himself, deliberately surveyed the entire house, made a remark to one of his assistants, and then taking an ivory-handled knife from his pocket began to pare his finger nails, rocking his chair backwards and forwards slowly. [5]
- It goes without saying that it is opposed by the entire criminal class, and by that very considerable portion of the population which is dependent on or affiliated with the criminal class, which seeks to evade the law and escape its penalties. [4]
- The day I saw it, the horse-chestnuts were in bloom; and there was, on the edges, a cloud of pink and white blossoms, that gave a soft and charming appearance to the entire landscape. [4]
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