Use lot in a sentence
Sentences starting with lot
- Lot of vociferous Americans at breakfast this morning. [5]
Sentences ending with lot
- And then there's your big high-sounding millionaire names stuck into your advertisements as stockholders--another card, that--and they are stockholders, too, but you have to give them the stock and non-assessable at that--so they're an expensive lot. [5]
- We think the world owes us such a lot. [11]
- I guess he will be an almighty wise man by the time he wades through that lot. [5]
- Your heart says: 'Why did she break off our betrothal,' and your right feeling tells you that you would have given her a happier lot. [10]
- I asked her which one, but she said, all of them: one felt like breaking the whole lot. [4]
- Said he: "Sometimes we'd have a batch of college students Queer lot. [5]
- Carnac had never visited it, and it was Junia's view that he should ingratiate himself with the workers, a rough- and-ready lot. [11]
- This one has traversed the course required, stage by stage, from the beginning to the end, and now has nothing left to do but wait for the call which shall release him from a world in which he has now no part nor lot. [5]
- There's Lise, married to Andrew--a better husband one would think could hardly be found nowadays--but is she contented with her lot? [2]
- Well, I repeat, those Pilgrims were a hard lot. [5]
Short sentences using lot
- I've a lot to do. [4]
- Chalk all of the lot. [5]
- What a lot of squashes! [4]
- I bought a lot. [8]
- Consequently an expensive lot. [5]
- They're a difficult lot. [11]
- He knows a lot. [11]
- You've changed a lot, Saadat. [11]
- Therefore bear thy lot patiently. [10]
- He was a hard lot. [5]
Sentences containing lot two or more times
- He wants me to club a lot of old sketches together with a lot of his, and publish a book. [5]
- A lot of them had purchased a site for a town on the Lake shore, and they gave me a lot. [5]
- It's proud; and it's strong, too; it's stood a lot in Egypt; it's standing a lot to-day. [11]
- The Shepherdsons and Grangerfords used the same steamboat landing, which was about two mile above our house; so sometimes when I went up there with a lot of our folks I used to see a lot of the Shepherdsons there on their fine horses. [5]
- Friends are ever at hand to comfort every job; but few are they who come to share his heaviness, all the more so because all men take pleasure in comparing their own fair lot with the evil lot of others. [10]
- He never made any bones about his own case; said he'd been a hard lot, was a hard lot yet, and reckoned he'd be a hard lot plumb to the end. [5]
- You can't buy a lot on that street for much less than you can buy a lot in New York--or you couldn't when the boom was on; I saw the place just when the boom was in its prime. [8]
- I know there's a lot in it for them that need it; and there seems to be a lot of folks needing it, if I'm to judge by folks down there at Jansen, specially when there's the laying-on of hands and the Healing Springs. [11]
More example sentences with the word lot in them
- Smedley the artist; Zorn the artist; Zogbaum the artist; Reinhart the artist; Metcalf the artist; Ancona, head tenor at the Opera; Oh, a great lot of others. [5]
- You must take your place in the world where your lot is cast. [4]
- I can assure you, Miss Carvel," added Stephen, speaking with a force which made her start and thrill, "I can assure you from a personal knowledge of the German troops that they are not a riotous lot, and that they are under perfect control. [9]
- I do want you to make money, a lot of it. [4]
- Night caught us yesterday where we had to take quarters in a peasant's house which was occupied by the family and a lot of cows and calves--also several rabbits.--[His word for fleas. [5]
- I was to write an introduction to a nobler book--the English translation of the Official Record (unabridged) of the Trials and Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, and make a lot of footnotes. [5]
- She was here with you, and a lot she cared about anything else. [9]
- They've planned this with skill, and they'll need a lot of handlin'. [11]
- And these creatures will compare these pins together, and if one is a shade finer than the rest, they will all be thrown on my hands, and I will have to order a new lot to keep peace in the family. [5]
- Built on a wide lot, with a garage on one side to the rear, with a cement driveway divided into squares, and a wall of democratic height separating its lawn from the sidewalk, the house may for the present be better imagined than described. [9]
- He has a whole lot of assurance, an air of knowing what he's talking about, and apparently he doesn't give a continental whether he's popular or not. [9]
- It is strange what an uncommonly poor lot of voices there is, even among good people. [4]
- He was as well-formed a lad, or man (for he was both), as it had ever been my lot to see. [9]
- After sojourning a week at Lake Bigler, I went to Steamboat Springs, and, besides the steam-baths, I took a lot of the vilest medicines that were ever concocted. [5]
- Why mourn that we, the favored few Whom grasping Time so long has spared Life's sweet illusions to pursue, The common lot of age have shared? [6]
- They said I was the only man from Lebanon they wouldn't have cut up and boiled, and they was going to have the blood of the Lebanon lot before they'd done. [11]
- But Edith's lot was the most pitiful of all. [4]
- But Tom McChesney was the best wrestler of the lot, and could make a wider leap than any other man in Harrodstown. [9]
- But his lot was cast, and his youth had all the serious aspect to himself of thoughtful manhood. [6]
- Beside the hall was a corner lot, heaped high with hills of ashes and rubbish like the vomitings of some filthy volcano; the unsightliness of which was half concealed by huge signs announcing the merits of chewing gums, tobaccos, and cereals. [9]
- That would give us the chance to ring in a lot of society correspondents and get the thing written up in first-class shape. [8]
- You'd better come up and take the Spaulding lot, in Waverley, across from us. [9]
- They walked out under the trees to the brook-side and stood listening to the tinkling of the cowbells in the wood lot beyond. [9]
- Why, it warn't two minutes till they begged like dogs-- and how the other lot did yell and laugh and clap their hands all the way through, and shout 'Sail in, Corpse-Maker! [5]
- And then Hilary turned loose on him and said a lot of things he couldn't stand. [9]
- That evening it turned bitter cold, and without the ammunition promised by Phips, with little or no food and useless field-pieces, their lot was hard. [11]
- They was crowded, too, as you know; lot wa'n't big enough in the first place; and last year, when Seth's wife died, we couldn't hardly tuck her in. [5]
- We have heard to-night a lot of talk for something and against something. [11]
- He ain't ever told me you was here; told me to come, and he'd show me a lot of water-moccasins. [5]
- Man is born to trouble, and you've got a lot of courage. [11]
- I want you to see my lot before you do anything serious. [6]
- I was going to rush by and get away, but a lot of dogs jumped out and went to howling and barking at me, and I knowed better than to move another peg. [5]
- It was useless to point out to her that her alfresco life was singularly blessed and free from care, and the happy lot of any one who could loiter all day by this laughing stream, undisturbed by debt or ambition. [4]
- The lot fell to me, and I went down. [5]
- He had learned to love Heinz as the saint had formerly loved him, and he did not grudge him the happiness which, at the knight's age, had fallen to the lot of the man whose years now numbered eighty. [10]
- The compassionate impulse to lighten the lot of a sufferer, which had before drawn her so strongly to Caracalla, had now lost its sense and meaning for this healthy, high-spirited man. [10]
- It always seemed to him the most peaceful religion; he thought it must be much easier to live by an internal light than by a lot of outward rules; he had a dear Quaker aunt in Providence of whom Mrs. Bolton constantly reminded him. [5]
- I don't want to have to read it in French--I should lose the nice shades, and should do a lot of gross misinterpreting, too. [5]
- Why, she'd begin to doubt, right away, and imagine a lot of sicknesses and dangers and objections, and first you know she'd take it all back. [5]
- I do seem to be extraordinarily interested in a whole lot of arts and things that I have got nothing to do with. [5]
- Are we going to be able to stem the tide, or to help stem it with a lot of raw youths. [9]
- There does seem to be a prodigious lot of islands this year; the map of this region is freckled and fly-specked all over with them. [5]
- And I've been to a lot of football matches. [5]
- We'll keep them till they're ransomed to death; and a bothersome lot they'll be, too--eating up everything, and always trying to get loose. [5]
- Even his father--Quaker though he once became--did we not know ere the end that he had no part or lot with us, that he but experimented with his soul, as with all else? [11]
- We've been at this for two months now, and a lot of ground we covered till we got here. [11]
- I used to think, when I came back from Paris, that I was a Socialist, and I went to a lot of their meetings in New York, and to lectures. [9]
- I'm gittin' to think a lot, fer a feller who doesn't know much. [13]
- They're terrors when they get goin', and if your evidence puts one of that lot away, ther'll be trouble for you. [11]
- Well, well, well, they _were_ a superstitious lot. [5]
- A lot of these people are angry because we didn't let them in. [9]
- A lot of these hung along the walls and modified the dark, just toned it down enough to make it dismal. [5]
- They beat me there, but I learned the game, and I've learned a lot from you, too. [11]
- I have tried them all so many times, I know all the polygamous words and all the monogamous ones, and all the unmarrying ones,--the whole lot that have no mates,--as soon as I hear their names called. [6]
- Every jay in the whole lot put his eye to the hole and delivered a more chuckle-headed opinion about the mystery than the jay that went there before him. [5]
- We pleaded for the tired, ill-treated horses, and tried to show that their faithful service deserved kindness in return, and their hard lot compassion. [5]
- For not betraying the subject secretly, for a bribe, into the hands of bands of professional Thugs, to be murdered and robbed in the prince's back lot. [5]
- By Jove, she's the stylishest of the whole lot, to say nothing of being a first-class beauty. [6]
- But nothing of the sort should happen again; and he would make the whole band feel what had fallen to his lot through Ephraim. [10]
- She picks up the queerest lot of people. [4]
- This is Askatoon, the place of peace and happiness, and we're going to be happy, if I have to lock up the hull lot of you. [11]
- He could see the place now: the lonely, wooden houses, the ramshackle saloon, the ugly, yellow gleam from the street lamps in a line along the glistening pavement; beside him, a towering hill of granite with a real estate sign, "This lot for sale. [9]
- A pool served the office of refrigerator, and Mr. Cooke had devised an ingenious but complicated arrangement of strings and labels which enabled him to extract any bottle or set of bottles without having to bare his arm and pull out the lot. [9]
- The artist said, the next morning at the station, that he understood the feelings of Lot. [4]
- They pranced around the mast and showered me with oaths, for all the world like a lot of howling dogs which had treed a cat. [9]
- Every pilot in the lot was watching now, with fixed eyes, and talking under his breath. [5]
- When I see the Lord Mayor's footman I am dissatisfied with my lot. [5]
- I didn't mind the lickings, because they didn't amount to nothing; but I minded the trouble we had to lay in another lot. [5]
- We stood over the lake just a convenient distance above the water, and catched a lot of the nicest fish you ever see. [5]
- After Farrar and the Four got aboard it fell to my lot to row the rest of the party to the yacht. [9]
- But I'll close the door against them all--which will "fix" all of the lot except Twichell, who will no more hesitate to climb in at the back window than nothing. [5]
- The governor declined the cigars graciously, ignored the hoped-for pleasure of another meeting, and trusted that it might fall to his lot to visit Australia some day. [11]
- Hymnal; History of the building of the Mother-Church; lot of Sermons; Communion Hymn, 'Saw Ye My Saviour,' by Mrs. Eddy, half a dollar a copy, 'words used by special permission of Mrs. [5]
- If they warn't the beatenest lot, them two frauds, that ever I struck. [5]
- The agitation on the Ariadne in support of the grievances of the sailors was so moderate that, from the first, Dyck threw in his lot with it. [11]
- If one of the ablest lawyers in the city hadn't been hired by the respectable crowd and a lot of other queer work done, the treasurer and purchasing agent would be doing time. [9]
- I only paid that"--and he held up his fingers again as though it was a sacred rite--"for the lot. [11]
- It really seemed that Sonya did not feel her position trying, and had grown quite reconciled to her lot as a sterile flower. [2]
- Somehow, I must tell you, I've got a lot of power that way. [11]
- An' here I'm talkie' a lot, wastin' time. [13]
- Boats were charged such heavy wharfage that they could not afford to land for one or two passengers or a light lot of freight. [5]
- Then we are such a homeless lot when we are over there! [5]
- Apart from his strength and health, his well-formed body, his noble birth, his faith in the love of his betrothed bride--at this hour he forgot how much these things were--he found nothing in his lot which seemed worth desiring. [10]
- There was nothing strange in that, because, as the Inspector of the Riders said "That lot is too fly to do the job themselves; you bet they paid others to do it. [11]
- And such a state of obligatory and irreproachable idleness is the lot of a whole class--the military. [2]
- There were three stages a day, each way, and I have seen the out-going stages carry away a third of a ton of bullion each, and more than once I saw them divide a two-ton lot and take it off. [5]
- The troublesomest old sow of the lot had to be called my Lady, and your Highness, like the rest. [5]
- How many a song their discord trills Of "truck" consumed, enjoyed, forgot, Since I was skinned by last year's lot! [5]
- I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them. [5]
- He has supplied so many texts that I will have to drop out a lot of them, and that is about as difficult as when you do not have any text at all. [5]
- They are essentially slavish, and accept the common determination, seeking no better lot than to be led by any one ox who has enough self-reliance to accept the position. [1]
- My volume of sketches is doing very well, considering the times; received my quarterly statement today from Bliss, by which I perceive that 20,000 copies have been sold--or rather, 20,000 had been sold 3 weeks ago; a lot more, by this time, no doubt. [5]
- You look like,"--innocence showed in his eye; there was no ulterior purpose in his face, "you look like one of the bad McMahon lot of claim-jumpers over there in the foothills. [11]
- And if this should indeed be their lot after death, where was the revenge of their bloodthirsty murderer? [10]
- How often had she shaken her head in perplexed unbelief when she heard life spoken of as a vale of sorrows, and the lot of man bewailed as lamentable. [10]
- Everybody was sorry she died, because she had laid out a lot more of these pictures to do, and a body could see by what she had done what they had lost. [5]
- I think I shall take to that old prayer: 'May my lot be with the rich in this world, and with the South in the next! [4]
- There are also seventy churches existing, and a lot more projected. [5]
- Richard H. Dana served two years before the mast, and had every experience that falls to the lot of the sailor before the mast of our day. [5]
- Anything in the semblance of a town lot, no matter how situated, was salable, and at a figure which would still have been high if the ground had been sodded with greenbacks. [5]
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