in-a-sentence.com, use if in a sentence

Use if in a sentence

Sentences starting with if

If the young Zouave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. [6]
If ever a youth was cordially admired and hated by his comrades, this one was. [5]
If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
If you hate yourself, you'll get a big penance. [11]
If you soak yourself in drink and fail in your blow, and I am not ready with the poisoned stiletto the thing won't come off neatly. [10]
If I had yours to put up alongside of them, I believe the combination would bring more souls to earnest reflection and ultimate conviction of their lost condition, than any other kind of warning would. [5]
If this be your will, and the will of the great Cumner, speak. [11]
If you see your way to meet us in New Orleans, drop me a line, now, and as we approach that city I will telegraph you what day we shall arrive there. [5]
If it is your viscera, you cannot have them taken out and reorganized a moment too soon. [5]
If you pull your trunk out six inches from the wall, so that the lid will stay up when you open it, they always shove that trunk back again. [5]

Short sentences using if

If I had your luck--! [11]
Oh, if only you would! [10]
If you do, you err. [5]
But don't, if you do. [5]
Win it if you can. [11]
Forgive me, if you can. [11]
I mean if you approve. [5]
To-morrow, if you will. [11]
And if any, what? [7]
If so, you were mistaken. [6]

Sentences containing if two or more times

If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. [5]
If you let your hand tremble so, we can never get away from them, but if you're only quiet now, we shall do so, easily. [12]
You can lengthen your days if you do not brood on fatal things --fatal to you; if you do not worry yourself into the grave. [11]
You shall have your Buonespoir, good Rozel; but if he plays pirate any more--tell him this from his Queen--upon an English ship, I will have his head, if I must needs send Drake of Devon to overhaul him. [11]
If you call your bosom friend a fool, and intend it for an insult, it is an insult; but if you do it playfully, and meaning no insult, it is not an insult. [5]
If he hates you, you will die; if he curses you, you will wither. [11]
If you go you will reach the priest, if you stay here where I shall leave you, you will see me taken perhaps, and it may be fightin' or death; but you will be safe with them. [11]
But see, if you will let a poor man speak his mind, if I were you I'd not impose the command on Mr. [11]
And now, if you want to keep her, if you want her to live on with you, I warn you not to tell her you know of the insult this letter contains, nor ever say what would make her think you suspected her. [11]
If you hope, you transform a pleasant garden into the Elysian fields; if you fear anything you behold in a burning roof the conflagration of a world. [10]

More example sentences with the word if in them

He had loved Zoe in a way that in a mother would have meant martyrdom, if necessary, and in a father would have meant sacrifice when needed; and indeed he had sacrificed both time and money to find Zoe. [11]
Never had the zealous magistrate appeared so repulsive as to-day, and when he remembered how the crafty man had outwitted poor Father Anselm in his presence, he felt as if he had himself committed an unworthy deed. [10]
And so if you've got 51 cents about you, or can borrow it--" "Tell me: who gets this corruption? [5]
And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
To renew my youth, if I could. [9]
As for that youth, Clement Lindsay, if he had not taken himself off as he did, Murray Bradshaw confessed to himself that he should have felt uneasy. [6]
Try to compose yourself, and believe my assurances that I like you and that you will find in me a zealous protector and a discreet friend if you will but tell me candidly and fully what are the motives of your conduct. [10]
Ask the questions yourself now, if you please. [10]
You wouldn't fuss yourself about things here in Manitou and Lebanon, if there wasn't something you wanted to get. [11]
What will be yours if you defeat--" "Revenge--my rights--the law! [11]
I suppose, if you're determined to continue this life of--(she catches herself) I can't stop you. [9]
Now go to your window, if it is a still day, open it, and let the half-sheet of paper drop on the outside. [6]
The litters and your tottering gait would betray everything if we were to enter the boat anywhere else in the great harbour. [10]
If you know your toad, it is all right. [4]
Well, see: if your sword and stomach prove the stronger, you shall go your ways to where you will. [11]
If you lay your story out there, nobody will suspect anything of the sort. [4]
If you command your staff to have this posted as a proclamation throughout the island, it will do as much good as a thousand soldiers. [11]
And even if your secret should eventually be discovered--which is not probable--you will have earned respect, and society is not as stern as it used to be. [9]
I consent to your saying "blood horse," if you like. [6]
If only for your sake I will avoid doing so, for an honorable soul clings to those whom it sees maligned. [10]
If Zminis searches your premises he will certainly go into the cellar; for what can he not do in Caesar's name? [10]
You shall retain your post in the English navy-officer and patriot you shall be if you choose. [11]
If that is your plan invariably, it looks safe. [5]
I can save your peasants if you will yield now. [11]
I have lived your peaceful neighbour under great provocation, for your treatment would have done me harm if my place were less secure. [11]
Your mouths are your own, and you can blow off to suit your fancy, but if any one thinks I'm a tame coyote to be poked with a stick--! [11]
Still, if in your own clear judgment you can renew the attack successfully, I do not mean to restrain you. [7]
If he--" "Shut your mouth, let Ingolby speak for himself," snarled the big river- driver. [11]
If you keep your mouth shut, and the devil doesn't put his finger into the pie, I think, spite of all the Zorrillos, I shall be Eletto to-morrow. [10]
If you open your mouth against me only once after that time you can't travel so far but I will find you. [5]
Bring this before your mind, and everything else that you must accept with it, if you consent, when the time arrives, to become mine. [10]
You cannot keep your mind from wandering, if it wants to; it is master, not you. [5]
Fresh proof of your maxim, mother: if you want to be well served you must buy rascals! [10]
I bow to your masculine secrecy--but why did my worldly-wise brother mingle a petticoat in this delicate business if he wishes to keep it hidden? [10]
If you, with your magnificent voice, will only--" "Pray, Meister Wilhelm? [10]
I will seek your lover, and if I find him he shall know where you are, but I cannot and will not invite him to an assignation here behind my sister's back. [10]
You will have your lifetime to reckon with it, free from any interference on my part; for, if I can help it, we shall never meet again in this world--never. [11]
Madame, you loved your Jean; if he were living now, what would you do to keep him. [11]
If he is your husband, wouldn't it be better to have him successful than your defeated victim. [11]
If you keep your heart pure, and constantly think of the time which shall be fulfilled for each of us, to our ruin or to our salvation, you will pass unharmed through this great peril. [10]
The safety of your fortune would be less difficult to provide for if, as was formerly the case here, we could entrust it to the merchants of Alexandria. [10]
You can't put your finger on a spot in the map of Missouri that I don't know as if I'd made it. [5]
Nothing has befallen your father's younger son; and if I were a philosopher, like Philip, I should be moved to wonder why a man can only be wet when the rain falls on him, and yet can be so wretched when disaster falls on another. [10]
They won't know your father here--" If Stephen thought the Judge brutal, he did not say so. [9]
Why, Burlingame, as your family physician, I shouldn't hesitate even to present my account against your estate if, in a tussle with the devil, he got you out of my hands. [11]
If I had your face and neck and figure I'd die before I'd live in Rivington. [9]
If you shut your eyes, perhaps you'll go to sleep. [12]
If you keep your eyes open, things'll happen that'll bring what you want. [11]
You must keep your eyes open in a passado with him, but if I can once get to my quarte, tierce, and side-thrust, I have him. [10]
Then this in your eye, that if ye'll bring an army, I'll fight till the skin is in rags on me bones, whin it's only men that's before me; but woman--and that wan! [11]
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. [5]
We all feel your deep trouble with you; and we would hope, if we might, but your words deny us that privilege. [5]
If I comprehend your art aright, its essence is opposed to the addition of superhuman dignity and beauty, with which you, or the model you used, strove to ennoble and deify your Demeter. [10]
Make the Mohar your ally, and it may easily happen that your rat-bites may be paid for with mortal wounds, and Rameses who, if you marched against him openly, might blow you to the ground, may be hit by a lance thrown from an ambush. [10]
If I were your age and able to drag myself to the street, I should be at the Arsenal now. [9]
Men would call your acts treacherous if they knew what you had done; and so indeed they were; but yet I have seen you do things to others--not to me--which could rise only from the fountain of pure waters. [11]
If I were younger and very strong I would dearly love to spend a season in London--provided I had no work on hand, or no work more exacting than lecturing. [5]
If I died young, she would follow me. [10]
This is a young tree, with a future before it, if barbarians do not meddle with it, more conspicuous for its spread than its circumference, stretching not very far from a hundred feet from bough-end to bough-end. [6]
He is a young Titan, and no one would be astonished if he one day succeeded in piling Pelion upon Ossa. [10]
Of course the young schoolmaster will come, and that poor tired-out looking Helen, if only to get out of sight of those horrid Peckham wretches. [6]
The other day young Princess Irina Vasilevna came to see me; she was an awful sight--looked as if she had put two barrels on her arms. [2]
Gifted Hopkins, a young poet of distinction, whose fame will reach you by and by, if it has not come to your ears already. [6]
Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
If you are young Matanesse Van Wibisma, you have nothing to fear from me. [10]
If it fails, young master, you will not live a whole minute after, I promise you that. [5]
If you yourself, young man, do not suffer for Alexandrian wit, it will certainly not hurt Caesar! [10]
I asked the young man in the ticket-office if I could have a sleeping-section, and he answered "No," with a snarl that shrivelled me up like burned leather. [5]
Thus the ingenuous young man argued with himself, until it seemed plain to him that if Evelyn loved him, and the conviction grew that she did, all obstacles must give way to this overmastering passion of his life. [4]
If the American young man and young woman get it into their heads that repose, especially of manner, is the correct thing, they will go in for it in a way to astonish the world. [4]
Some of them young folks is very artful,--said her mother,--and there is them that would merry Lazarus, if he'd only picked up crumbs enough. [6]
This alarmed the young fellow, and he was going to make a noise; but I said: "Save your wind; if you open your mouth you are dead, sure. [5]
I believe the young fellow would take it as a personal insult, if the Little Gentleman should show any symptoms of quitting our table for a better world. [6]
If there are young birds, they feed them together in perfect harmony. [10]
That's the sound you'll hear every day of your life, if you break the promise you've got to make to me now. [11]
But I believe you'll find he left for the capital on the eleven o'clock, and if you take the trouble to inquire from Bedding you will probably learn that the Throne Room is bespoken for the session. [9]
And now, if you'll excuse me, Mr. Paret, I'll lay a few mines. [9]
Well, sah, if you'll b'lieve me, he jes' shuck his head, dat painter did, en went on a-dobbin'. [5]
Your father needs you--I--I should never forgive myself if you left. [9]
If we had, you'd have waited till the Gulf of Mexico freezes over before you got any coupons paid. [4]
I reckon if you'd ever be'n a mother yo'self, Valet de Chambers, you wouldn't talk sich foolishness as dat. [5]
I should think you'd be scandalized, mamma, if you were a really feminine person. [8]
If he loves you,--and I have long suspected that he does--" "Oh, no," she cried, hiding her face "No. [9]
If it were you, you'd be in hysterics. [11]
If I recommend you, why not, sir? [9]
And I wrote you, too, that I would not be true to myself if I told you that what you have done was right in my eyes. [9]
It wouldn't be you, Tom Sawyer, if you was to let such a chance go by. [5]
I will thank you, therefore, to inform me, if you can, by what day, at the earliest, you can promise to have ready to be mustered into the United States service the eight thousand men. [7]
If he liked you, there could be no mistake about it. [9]
If it interests you, speak out. [5]
If she needs you, she'll be sure to let you know. [11]
I'll lay for you, my smarty; and if I catch you about that school I'll tan you good. [5]
I'm sorry for you, M'sieu' Jean Jacques, and I've come to say that I'm ready to lend you two thousand dollars, if that's any help. [11]
Didn't I tell you, Michael Mitrich, that if it was said 'on the march' it meant in greatcoats? [2]
Now I want you, if you'll be so good, to go around with me to the Pacific delegation, for I want to rush this thing through and get along home. [5]
I will ask you, if the policy you are now advocating had prevailed when this country was in a Territorial condition, where would you have gone to get rid of it? [7]
If I'd been you, I'd rather have hung --ah, sure! [11]
If I were you, I'd let the matter stand. [11]
If I was you, I wouldn't either. [12]
If I were you, I would begin with Demeter, whom you honoured by so marvellous a work. [10]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word if in a sentence? How do you use if in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word if? It contains example sentences with the word if, a sentence example for if, and if in sample sentence.