Use list in a sentence
Sentences starting with list
- List to what I say--follow every word--I am going to bring that morning back again, every hap just as it happened. [5]
Sentences ending with list
- Therefore go on with the other details, and drop this one from your list. [5]
- Austen sat down, with the corner of the desk between them, while Mr. Flint opened the boxes and began checking off the papers on the list. [9]
- At Colombo, also, we had a misfortune, but it was of a peculiar kind, and did not obtrude itself at once; it was found in an addition to our passenger list. [11]
- The Erie road was set down as the most murderous in the list. [5]
- Temperance is first upon the list. [3]
- However, I'll look up our list. [2]
- Had he not told her, yes, told her to make a list, and not to admit anyone who was not on that list? [2]
- The "Seven Churches"--thus they abbreviate it--came next on the list. [5]
- This isn't half the list. [5]
- What the Barberighi, the Foscari, the Grimaldi, the Giustiniani and the like, are there, the families of Stromer, Behaim, Im Hoff, Tucher, Kresz, Baumgartner, Pfinzing, Pukheimer, Holzschuher, and so forth, are with us; and the Schoppers certainly do not rank lowest on the list. [10]
Short sentences using list
- I like your list. [5]
- Endor heads the list. [5]
- We had a list. [2]
- I have the list somewhere. [5]
- Mr. Carroll's list. [5]
Sentences containing list two or more times
- The next day the list appears in the papers--a column and a quarter of names, in fine print, and every man in the list a billionaire and member of a couple of churches. [5]
- I have by me a list of 52 human ailments--common ones--and in this list I count 19 which the physician's art cannot cure. [5]
- I see that it is going to add itself to my list of permanencies--a list of humiliations that extends back to when I was seven years old, and which keep on persecuting me regardless of my repentancies. [5]
- Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? [6]
More example sentences with the word list in them
- Here is a young man writing to me from a Western college, and wants me to send him a list of the books which I think would be most useful to him. [6]
- He said he would follow it up with a list of the previous plays of the kind, and in his innocence would have carried them back to the Flood. [5]
- Why," he continued, with his whimsical look, "just before I left Washington, in comes one of your Missouri senators with a list of Rebels who are shut up in McDowell's and Alton. [9]
- Mr. Silas Tredway, whose list of directorships is too long to print, also undertook to remonstrate with the son of his old friend, Hilary Vane. [9]
- We had the whole passenger list for company, but their room would have been preferable, for there was no light, there were no windows, no ventilation. [5]
- In reviewing the whole course of its history we read a long list of honored names, and a precious record written in private memories, in public charities, in permanent contributions to medical science, in generous sacrifices for the country. [3]
- An infamous Persian, who had lived many years in Egypt, and travelled here with us, had given them a list of all the things and actions, which we consider unclean. [10]
- Five of them were of old dates, the others of various later crops; the list closed with a picture taken by Falk in Sydney a month before. [5]
- Before September forty-one were buried, says Wingfield; fifty, says Smith in one statement, and forty-six in another; Percy gives a list of twenty-four who died in August and September. [4]
- To speak plainly, we despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. [5]
- The following list was taken literally from the Materia Medica of Hahnemann, by my friend M. Vernois, for whose accuracy I am willing to be responsible. [3]
- The new convert was made one of the secretaries of the democratic meeting, and placed in the list of speakers. [5]
- In the record-book was a list of all the fatal accidents which happened on the mountain. [5]
- Your diploma seems very broad to-day with your list of accomplishments, but it begins to shrink from this hour like the Peau de Chagrin of Balzac's story. [3]
- When I entered upon my last term, my Leporello list was long enough, and contained pictures from many different classes. [10]
- Mr. Brad was undoubtedly clever, and was down as a bright young man in the list of those who employed talent which was not dulled by conscientious scruples. [4]
- We left the train and mounted the donkeys, along with our invited guests--pleasant young gentlemen from the officers' list of an American man-of-war. [5]
- I put them together on the long list yonder, and the Spaniards at the court add new ones every hour. [10]
- If he elects to work, he finds a large list of lectures to choose from. [5]
- White, G.C.M., G.C.B., to whose long list of appended initials it seemed like throwing a perfume on the violet to add three more letters. [6]
- Let none list to this false and foolish matter, upon pain of death, nor discuss the same, nor carry it abroad. [5]
- For his omission to perform his whole duty on that occasion, and the injury thereby inflicted on the service and the country, his name was stricken from the list of naval officers and he was dismissed [from] the service. [7]
- Sometimes they expect to pay for the information furnished them; at other times, the honor of being included in a list of noted personages who have received similar requests is thought sufficient compensation. [6]
- And now list to me; aw'm not goin' to eat dirt, and aw'm goin' to give you the lie, and aw'm goin' to break your neck, if I swing for it to-morrow, Jim Faddo. [11]
- Only a determination to make out a case could, as it seems to me, have framed such an indictment as that which the secretary constructed by stringing together a slender list of pretended peccadillos. [6]
- And there came to him, ironically out of the past, the very words of Mr. Parr's speech to the vestry after Dr. Gilman's death, that succinct list of qualifications for a new rector which he himself, Nelson Langmaid, had humorously and even more succinctly epitomized. [9]
- The list proved to be a long and varied one. [6]
- I ask attention to all the papers, but particularly to the letters of Mr. David Mack, and the paper with the long list of names. [7]
- Wordsworth appears forty-three times, and stands next to Shakespeare; while Burns, Byron, Scott, Tennyson, and Chaucer make up the list of favorites. [6]
- Thus pleasantly conversing, they arrived at the first house on the list, and afterwards went through a succession of them. [9]
- Old volumes are then ransacked promiscuously, and every morbid sensation or change that anybody ever said was produced by the drug in question is added to the list of symptoms. [3]
- Here is the theatre list for Saturday, May 7, 1898, cut from the advertising columns of a New York paper: [graphic here] Now I arrive at my project, and make my suggestion. [5]
- His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. [5]
- Every man on the town list helped edit the thing--that is, he gave orders as to how it was to be edited; dictated its opinions, marked out its course for it, and every time the boss failed to connect he stopped his paper. [5]
- I am on the sick list again--and was, day before yesterday--but on the whole I am getting along. [5]
- There only remained the parting from our kind entertainer, the Vice-Chancellor, who added another to the list of places which in England and Scotland were made dear to us by hospitality, and are remembered as true homes to us while we were under their roofs. [6]
- They went through the meetings, of course, and thrashed over the list of horses entered at Ipswich, and York, and Newmarket, and how many were thought to be pulled. [9]
- The list of the material benefits, for which there was a crying need, bore a strong resemblance to a summary of the worthy measures upon which Mr. Crewe had spent so much time and labour in the last Legislature. [9]
- Anne ran over the long list of their acquaintance, but there was one name she omitted. [9]
- It belonged in the list of softening, sensuous influences peculiar to this home of Eastern luxury. [5]
- One name in the list of signers naturally fixed our eyes upon it. [6]
- Charles instantly scanned the list of dishes, and his face clouded still more as he missed the highly seasoned game pasty which the culinary artist had proposed and he had approved. [10]
- The list of the kings which I compiled at that time, from the most remote sources to the Sassanida, won the commendation of A. von Gutschmid, the most able investigator in this department. [10]
- Mr. Flint took the Honourable Hilary's list, ran his eye over it, and whistled. [9]
- This gentleman was the Honourable Edward Doby of Hale, who, with the kind assistance of the other gentlemen above-named, was in this secluded spot making up a list of his committees, undisturbed by eager country members. [9]
- In looking over the fuller list of twenty-eight districts, I find that the quotas for sixteen of them are above 2000 and below 2700, while, of the rest, six are above 2700 and six are below 2000. [7]
- They also desired the dearest food, and would have no meat from the butcher's but the most delicate, while their list of fruits, cakes, Gates, and outlandish confections is as long as that at any modern banquet. [4]
- Don't you think that's a strong list of grievances and wrongs? [11]
- The dead of that war make a mournful long list--an interminable list. [5]
- There were rumours that the banker had left the church until the recalcitrant rector should be driven out of it; the usual long list of Mr. Parr's benefactions was included, and certain veiled paragraphs concerning his financial operations. [9]
- More than once that summer Mr. Farwell had taken sketches down Honora's lane, for she was on what was known as his list of advisers: a sheepfold of ewes, some one had called it, and he was always piqued when one of them went astray. [9]
- It could require that several of its members be entered upon the list of permitted speakers previously to the opening of a sitting; and as there is no time-limit, further delays could thus be accomplished. [5]
- Then list with tearful eye, Whilst I his fate do tell. [5]
- My reading had taught me that many serious accidents had happened in the Alps simply from not having the people tied up soon enough; I was not going to add one to the list. [5]
- Philip paid them, swollen as they were with a monstrous list of extras; but he seriously counted the diminishing bulk of his own hoard, which was all the money he had in the world. [5]
- Our villages are superior to German villages in more merits, excellences, conveniences, and privileges than I can enumerate, but the hotels do not belong in the list. [5]
- Captain Silas H. Stringharn, now on the retired list, for distinguished services in the capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark. [7]
- Injun Joe's cup stands first in the list of the cavern's marvels; even "Aladdin's Palace" cannot rival it. [5]
- He accepted the standard of the street as a final fact for to-day, like the broker's list of prices. [6]
- Ferens, the former solicitor, first came to him with a list of proposals, which only repeated the demands made by the agitators at Spithead. [11]
- Four of our six were clergymen; the engineer and the present writer completed the list. [6]
- There isn't a single vital and essential Church-function of any kind, that is not named in the list. [5]
- If they are sincere, and are moved by any real danger of the loss of Southern trade, they will simply get their names on the white list, and then, instead of persuading Republicans to do likewise, they will be glad to keep you away! [7]
- And with these she delivered a list of 96 missing persons that had drowned or otherwise perished at the scene of the disaster. [5]
- Mrs. March got several flats on her list which promised neither steam heat nor elevators; she forgot herself so far as to include two or three as remote from the down-town region of her choice as Harlem. [8]
- That afternoon he sent her the list of books. [9]
- I want to see the whole list of flats that Mr. Fulkerson thought would be the very thing for us. [8]
- Come in and see him, while I get a list and some keys. [9]
- Unmindful of the rumble on the wooden stairs below, Mr. Sutton took the list with an admirable deliberation. [9]
- He has more private charities on his list than any man in the city except Mr. Brinsmade. [9]
- The eight American poets on the list averaged seventy-three and a half, nearly, and they are not all dead yet. [6]
- I laid a plan, and gathered a list of names. [5]
- The prisoners were placed in a certain order, according to the list (Pierre was sixth), and were led to the post. [2]
- In every town people sought out the list of their friends and acquaintances, and turned away in disappointment. [14]
- I have a passion for those resplendent titles which are not conferred by a sovereign and would not be the open sesame to the courts of royalty, yet which are as opulent in impressive adjectives as any Knight of the Garter's list of dignities. [6]
- That list would oversize nearly anybody's geographical knowledge. [5]
- Sometimes I run over a string of rhymes, but generally speaking it is strange what a short list it is of those that are good for anything. [6]
- The widow and orphan list grew, but so did the association's financial resources. [5]
- Half the men on that list were affected by Tarboe's turning over. [11]
- I must not omit from the list above the name of my good friend, Captain Clapsaddle. [9]
- In the beliefs of these men several sins not mentioned in the decalogue took really, if unconsciously, precedence of those which chanced to be found in that list. [4]
- At the head of the list is the cobra, the deadliest known to the world, a snake whose bite kills where the rattlesnake's bite merely entertains. [5]
- The additions consist of the editor's name on the title-page and back, with a complete and authentic list of said editor's honorary titles in the first of these localities. [6]
- The nice shades of nationality comprised in the above list, and the languages spoken by them, are altogether too numerous to mention. [5]
- But the list of Mr. Crewe's acquaintances is too long and too broad to dwell upon further in these pages. [9]
- Here's a list of doubtful ones, and you'll see they're of consequence. [11]
- Were I to number the persons whom I met here and whose acquaintanceship I consider a benefit, the list would be a long one. [10]
- It will be noticed that in skeletonizing a list of the qualities which have carried her to the dizzy summit which she occupies, I have not mentioned the power which was the commanding force employed in achieving that lofty flight. [5]
- However, I do not count the Oracle in that list. [5]
- On December 6--St. Nicholas' Day and the prince's name day--all Moscow came to the prince's front door but he gave orders to admit no one and to invite to dinner only a small number, a list of whom he gave to Princess Mary. [2]
- Is it not necessary to have an authentic list of pasteboard acquaintances to invite to the receptions? [4]
- Time and a narrowing subscription list proved too hard a trial, and its four volumes remain stranded, like some rare and curiously patterned shell which a storm of yesterday has left beyond the reach of the receding waves. [6]
- But take the names of its contributors during its first fifty years from the literary record of that period, and we should have but a meagre list of mediocrities, saved from absolute poverty by the genius of two or three writers like Irving and Cooper. [6]
- And, besides, Philip's name must be known to all the readers of magazines in the town as a writer, a name in more than one list of "contributors. [4]
- Immediately I proposed Mr. Wainfleet, the chaplain, in exchange for a prisoner, though his name was not on the list, but Doltaire shook his head in a blank sort of way. [11]
- I spent the morning and afternoon on the gloomy third floor of Breck and Company, making a list of the stock. [9]
- I showed up money enough, in a careless way, to corral the shopkeeper's respect, and then I wrote down a list of the things I wanted, and handed it to him to see if he could read it. [5]
- This was a memorable session, but it was the shortest one of all the list. [5]
- And in the meantime I'll have my secretary send you the complete list of my speeches up to date, and I know you will read them carefully. [9]
- When, therefore, Mrs. Mavick came to consult her husband about the list for the coming-out reception of Evelyn, Philip found a friend at court. [4]
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