Use fact in a sentence
Sentences starting with fact
- Fact is, I was thinkin' so busy about makin' things comfortable for the others, I hadn't thought about being buried myself. [5]
- Fact is, it was one of those deals when you can make a million, in a straight enough game; but it comes out of another man--one, maybe, that you don't know; who is playing just the same as you are. [11]
- Fact was, Milly, through study of the Bible an' attendin' church an' revivals, went a little out of her head. [13]
- Fact is, it's the on'y thing worth strivin' for, John. [5]
- Fact is, they spoke a good deal of truth, first and last, in a fool kind of way. [9]
- Fact is, he might come here. [9]
- Fact is, it makes him worse, becuz it appears to stir up his ambition. [5]
- Fact is," said Fulkerson, blushing a little, "I can't ask to have a day named till I know where I am in connection with the old man. [8]
- Fact and presumption are, for business purposes, all the same to them. [5]
Sentences ending with fact
- It will make your whole night miserable, and to no good; for we will hope--" "But it isn't a presentiment--it is a fact. [5]
- Lord Mallow, you would be doing as great a crime as Mr. Dyck Calhoun ever committed, or could commit, if you put this order into actual fact. [11]
- As the morning wore away she saw that they did not notice the fact. [11]
- Judge Douglas voted with the Republicans upon that matter of fact. [7]
- She went on with her sewing, however, and did not betray the fact. [9]
- I do not wish to disguise that fact. [5]
- One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. [5]
- The moral of which is, that when one loans money to start a bank with, one ought to take the party's written acknowledgment of the fact. [5]
- Of course, I whet up now and then and flirt out a minor prophecy, but not often--hardly ever, in fact. [5]
- Doctor Benjamin's conjectures were not unnatural, but quite remote from the actual fact. [6]
Short sentences using fact
- This fact is worth remembering. [7]
- In fact, things were imminent. [5]
- The first fact was this. [6]
- In fact, she was restless. [4]
- Is not that the fact? [7]
- But such was the fact. [9]
- Yet such was the fact. [5]
- This fact, the Rev. [1]
- In fact, I recommend it. [4]
- Positive fact for Phrenology. [6]
Sentences containing fact two or more times
- The fact that we get no votes in your section is a fact of your making, and not of ours. [7]
- The fact that we get no votes in your section is a fact of your making and not of ours. [7]
- The best way to manage--in fact, the only sensible way--is to disguise repetitiousness of fact under variety of form: skin your fact each time and lay on a new cuticle of words. [5]
- But assuming it to be a fact that diseases are cured by remedies capable of producing symptoms like their own, no manifest relation exists between this fact and the next assertion, namely, the power of the infinitesimal doses. [3]
- He couldn't explain this curious fact to himself, he merely knew it to be a fact. [5]
- I think, then, the fact that Judge Trumbull offered no amendment does not throw much blame upon him; and if it did, it does not reach the question of fact as to what Judge Douglas was doing. [7]
- But, above all, that thought was kept out of their minds by the fact that they saw they were really useful, as in fact they were to the whole Rostov family. [2]
- The explanation is on the surface, and need not be sought in the fact of a difference of social and political level in the two countries at the start, nor even in the further fact that the colonies were already accustomed to self-government. [4]
- The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to _realize_ your fact, it takes on color. [5]
- However, rightly viewed, it was the most important fact, indeed almost the only important fact, of Shakespeare's life in Stratford. [5]
More example sentences with the word fact in them
- This fact of yours, which seems so strange to you, belongs to a great series of similar facts familiarly known now to many persons, and before long to be recognized as generally as those relating to the electric telegraph and the slaving `dynamo. [6]
- The practicability of your plan was not, in fact, brought to a test. [7]
- 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]
- In fact, the young mother had waited from early dawn with increasing anxiety for her husband. [10]
- I knew that you would not refuse me in spite of the fact that the world may misunderstand, may sneer at your taking me. [9]
- Let me remind you of a curious fact with reference to the seat of the musical sense. [6]
- The fact that you could not seem to feel it stimulated me. [9]
- He has not yet been begotten, and in fact he is not begettable. [5]
- It was fifty years old, and was growing slowly--very slowly, in fact, but still it was growing. [5]
- My house my yard, everything around me, in fact, shows' that I am becoming one of these cattle--and I used to be thrifty in other times. [5]
- The iron-souled truth-monger would plainly manifest, or even utter the fact, that he didn't want to see those people--and he would be an ass, and inflict a totally unnecessary pain. [5]
- I believe they would not, in fact, generally know it but for your misrepresentations of us in their hearing. [7]
- In fact, he would not know by the thermometer that he was not in the blistering Plains of India. [5]
- The Honourable Adam would not come; and the fact leaked out--through the Honourable Adam. [9]
- Perhaps his diary would have something of interest with reference to the "Saturday Club," of which he was a member, which, in fact, formed itself around him as a nucleus, and which he attended very regularly. [6]
- I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible. [7]
- In fact, it would ere long force reunion, however much of blood and treasure the separation might have cost. [7]
- I supposed that would convey the fact that he was not living, but I see you do not quickly grasp a point. [11]
- The casual reader would certainly conclude that the Somers Isles were somehow due to the providence of John Smith, when in fact he never even heard that Gates and Smith were shipwrecked there till he had returned to England, sent home from Virginia. [4]
- If possible, I would be very glad of another movement early enough to give us some benefit from the fact of the enemy's communication being broken; but neither for this reason nor any other do I wish anything done in desperation or rashness. [7]
- He said it would be happiness enough to look upon her face once more--it would be almost too much happiness when to it was added the fact that she would bring messages with her that were fresh from Louise's lips. [5]
- It is well worth while to set down this noble fact, and well worth while to put it in italics, too. [5]
- In fact, the world is old in spots--in Memphis and Boston and Damascus and Salem and Ephesus. [4]
- It isn't the 'work exactly, but the oversight, the details; and the fact is that I want somebody near me whom I can trust, whether I'm here or whether I'm away. [4]
- We were among woods and rocks, hills and gorges--so shut in, in fact, that when we peeped through a chink in a curtain, we could discern nothing. [5]
- We have been wont to think of all the British as aristocrats, while they have returned the compliment by visualizing all Americans as plutocrats--despite the fact that one-tenth of our population is said to own nine-tenths of all our wealth! [9]
- It was no wonder that the Hollisters were Democrats, for they had a queer streak in them; owing, no doubt, to the fact that old Mr. Jules Hollister's mother had been a Frenchwoman. [9]
- Poor Washington gradually woke up to the fact that he too was an intellectual marvel as well as his gifted sister. [5]
- In fact, the witty brokers who were admitted to its mysteries called it the bucket-shop. [4]
- I could not without exposing the fact that I hadn't any influence with you and that was a thing I had no mind to do. [5]
- Only the conviction with which men like Clemens and Origen, who were friends of his wife, declared that the doctrine to which they adhered was the only right one--was, in fact, the truth itself--seemed to the skeptic "foolishness. [10]
- Publius was delighted with the work, and it is in fact beautiful beyond description. [10]
- She was examined with the stethoscope, and the dreadful fact was announced that her lungs were affected, and that tubercular consumption had already made considerable progress. [14]
- This fact, together with the opportunity for reflection afforded by solitary confinement, had its effect--its natural effect. [5]
- I will begin with the largest fact and with the most absolute and universally encountered limitation. [3]
- He was still with the Governor in all fact, though soldiering for Bigot--a sort of watch upon the Intendant. [11]
- One is struck with the fact that a great number of fragments lie about his poetical workshop: poems begun and never finished; scraps of poems, chips of poems, paving the floor with intentions never carried out. [6]
- And he reflected with satisfaction upon the fact that his wife, who was his prime minister, would be home from the East that day. [9]
- He fingered them with incredible rapidity--in fact, he pushed them from place to place as fast as a musical professor's fingers travel over the keys of a piano. [5]
- Here she is with her little blemishes 'restored' (that is, patched) by the most noted Roman artists--and the mere fact that they did the humble patching of so noble a creation will make their names illustrious while the world stands. [5]
- She always spoke with enthusiasm to her visitors of her daughter-in-law Cecilia, of her beauty, her piety and her gentleness; in fact, she did all she could to make it appear that she herself had chosen her son's wife. [10]
- I thanked him, with emotion, for each new fact, and wrote it down in my note-book. [5]
- The fact is, with a woman's quick intuition, she had read in my tone something suggestive of my recent experience with Mrs. Falchion. [11]
- You no doubt wished to see the progress of the fire from a spot near it, and in fact the colors down there are magnificent. [10]
- He was perfectly willing that churches (being himself a member), and Sunday-schools, and missionary enterprises should go on; in fact, I do not believe he ever opposed anything in his life. [4]
- A single fact will illustrate the resemblance. [6]
- Its hidden motive will illustrate a but-little considered fact in human nature; that the religious folly you are born in you will die in, no matter what apparently reasonabler religious folly may seem to have taken its place meanwhile, and abolished and obliterated it. [5]
- In fact it will be found that a large proportion of the proverbial sayings which we glibly use are fallacies based on a very limited experience of the world, and probably were set afloat by the idiocy or prejudice of one person. [4]
- The old magnates, whom Pierre knew, sat and turned to look first at one and then at another, and their faces for the most part only expressed the fact that they found it very hot. [2]
- I find myself wholly unable to form any conjecture of what fact or facts, real or supposed, you spoke; but my opinion of your veracity will not permit me for a moment to doubt that you at least believed what you said. [7]
- Therefore, on the whole, if he were a superior fellow, incapable of mistaking it for personal conceit, I think I would let out the fact of the real American feeling about Old-World folks. [6]
- Poor William Wetherell, who was quite overwhelmed by the fact that the great Mr. Duncan had actually read his letters and liked them, could scarcely utter a sensible word. [9]
- Is it those who resist the measure, or those who causelessly brought it forward, and pressed it through, having reason to know, and in fact knowing, it must and would be so resisted? [7]
- It, was he who had held back, a fact that in the retrospect caused him some amazement. [9]
- The only man who ever signed my petition with alacrity, and said that the fact that a thing was right was all-sufficient, was Rev. [5]
- The famous Ruysch, who died a hundred and thirty years ago, showed that each of the viscera has its terminal vessels arranged in its own peculiar way; the same fact which you may see illustrated in Gerber's figures after the minute injections of Berres. [3]
- But few people who are not on the inside, so to speak, grasp the fact that big corporations, like the Railroad, are looked upon as fair game for every kind of parasite. [9]
- Sparkling on their white-robed breasts or shoulders were the colors of their favorite knights, and were it not for the fact that the doughty heroes appeared on unromantic mules, it would have been easy to imagine one of King Arthur's gala-days. [5]
- He felt intoxicated, while he was alive to the fact that during the descent of the few steps she was suffering great pain. [10]
- In Philip's story, which was very slowly maturing, the heroine fell in love with a young man simply for himself, and regardless of the fact that he was poor and had his career to make. [4]
- His hidden gold, which was safe with him, would have allowed of his building a far finer one in its stead, but the fact that it should be his fellow-citizens who had destroyed it was worst of all. [10]
- The dread in which their sort was held was apparent in the fact that everybody gave them the road, and took their ribald insolences meekly, without venturing to talk back. [5]
- They overdid flattery, which she was used to and tolerated, but which cheapened the admirer in her estimation, and now and then betrayed her into an expression which made him aware of the fact, and was a discouragement to aggressive amiability. [6]
- The fact is, where you strike one man in the English settlements that you can understand, you wade through awful swarms that talk something you can't make head nor tail of. [5]
- In fact, except when he had revealed his passion in the matter of the seizing of Venters, she had never dreamed he could be other than the grave, reproving preacher. [13]
- 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]
- But this is what we'll do: I have a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince Dolgorukov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now Kutuzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. [2]
- It was not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out there in which he had now no part could perturb him. [2]
- We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. [2]
- In fact, those were very trying days for him-days when he needed all the private sympathy he could get, and to be shielded, in his great fight with the conspiracy, from petty private annoyances. [4]
- Apparently, Rhodes's agents were seconding their efforts--in fact wearing out the telegraph wires trying to hold him back. [5]
- I don't say we're right; I only tell what you must often find to be the fact, right or wrong, in talking with doctors. [6]
- Its ample nurseries were producing oranges, apricots, lemons, almonds, peaches, cherries, 48 varieties of apples--in fact, all manner of fruits, and in abundance. [5]
- In fact, we were of one mind not to go when the subject was first broached. [9]
- The Imperial troops were in fact masters of the secret passage; and they had begun the attack on the Serapeum in earnest. [10]
- In fact, things were going very well with Mrs. Mavick, except in her own household. [4]
- Their wildest curses were for Alexander, the painter, who in fact had played the spy for you. [10]
- Dignity and pride were both sustained by silence and a wave of the hand, which in fact said to the world, "Look you, my masters, they belong to Jean Jacques. [11]
- In fact, he went up early, and locked his door after him, with as much noise as he could make. [6]
- In fact, Joan went but little into detail herself, usually merely saying, "That is not true--passez outre"; or, "I have answered that before--let the clerk read it in his record," or saying some other brief thing. [5]
- It is a well-known fact that Mr. Bijah Bixby came over from Clovelly, to request the place of superintendent of the funeral, a position which had already been filled. [9]
- There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise. [2]
- The patient gets well by the use of arnica in a little more than a month longer, and this extraordinary fact is published in the French "Archives of Homoeopathic Medicine. [3]
- Beyond these matters we were not required to know much; and, in fact, not allowed to. [5]
- The fact that we still met no tourists was a circumstance that was but too significant. [5]
- To the Admiralty we owed the fact, the journal urged, that the Araminta was now at the bottom of the sea, and its young commander confined in a French fortress, his brave and distinguished services lost to the country. [11]
- The fact that we got along as well as we did was probably due to the orthodox teaching with which we had been inoculated,--to the effect that matrimony was a moral trial, a shaking-down process. [9]
- The fact is, we go on increasing our expenses for police, for criminal procedure, for jails and prisons, and we go on increasing the criminal class and those affiliated with it. [4]
- Which is their way, when they want a historical fact. [5]
- There is no way of getting around that deadly fact. [5]
- In fact, the water was already pouring over the land, and the messengers had seen the vessels appointed to bring relief. [10]
- This fact it was, which more than anything else, convinced me that by plan and plot I was purposely made powerless in Mr. Winters' hands, and that he did not mean to allow me that advantage of being afoot, which he possessed. [5]
- Dazed as I was, I did not at first grasp the significance of that fact. [11]
- Princess Mary's self-esteem was wounded by the fact that the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both her companions' not having the least conception that it could be otherwise. [2]
- The house itself was well-fitted by its unusually palatial size and antique splendor to be the residence of the emperor's viceroy, and the Mukaukas, to whom it all belonged, had in fact held the office for a long time. [10]
- The United States was too much accustomed to employing dollar-and-a-half thieves in all manner of official capacities to regard his explanation of the voucher as having any foundation in fact. [5]
- In fact, I was too late, but I begged so hard that the governor was touched by my brave devotion to my country's cause--those are the words he used--and so he yielded, and allowed me to come. [5]
- This fact he was to learn by personal experience. [4]
- What was interesting was the open-mindedness with which, on both sides, the argument was conducted, and the fact that it could seriously take place then and there. [9]
- The second fact was the following. [6]
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