Use many in a sentence
Sentences starting with many
- Many thanks to yourself, officers, and men for the gallant battle of last Sunday. [7]
- Many of these young people will jump up twenty times a day and run to dabble the tips of their fingers in water, after touching the most inoffensive objects. [6]
- Many a strong-limbed young man and many a blooming young woman have I seen failing and dropping away in or before middle life, and many a delicate and slightly constituted person outliving the athletes and the beauties of their generation. [6]
- Many of the young ladies and some of the University students were strong in defence of all the "woman's rights" doctrines. [6]
- Many of my young correspondents have told me in so many words, "I want to be famous. [6]
- Many years ago you docked me on an article because the subject was too old; later, you docked me on an article because the subject was too new; later still, you docked me on an article because the subject was betwixt and between. [5]
- Many birds, not yet old enough for a prolonged flight, are likewise deserted and left behind. [1]
- Many joys will yet bloom for you. [10]
- Many of their writings, too, are full of poetical beauties. [10]
- Many of our writers show the same tendency,--my friend, the Professor, especially. [6]
Sentences ending with many
- But this time you've said it jest one time too many. [5]
- The poet who wrote so prettily of him that his little life was rounded with a sleep, understated his felicity; it was rounded with a good many. [4]
- Many a young writer will recall his words of encouragement at some period in his own career when the quiet appreciation of one meant more to him than did later the loud applause of many. [4]
- Well might Mr. Worthington tremble for his other ambitions, and they were many. [9]
- I write 2,000 words a day; I think I can dictate twice as many. [5]
- The last words were, "There mayn't be any help for me and my sweet chicks, but I am still hoping, and you must send a man or many. [11]
- Oldring's more frequent visits had resulted in new saloons, and where there had formerly been one raid or shooting fray in the little hamlets there were now many. [13]
- These are but two instances of the many. [5]
- The sights are too many. [5]
- I have had to bear many. [4]
Short sentences using many
- They looked many years older. [11]
- Not many tickets were sold. [5]
- Many, many times too true. [5]
- Many thought the tomahawk. [9]
- Babette said many things. [11]
- Many shouted: "That's the ticket. [5]
- You're not many, that's sure. [11]
- He did many such things. [5]
- Many days passed quietly. [11]
- He asked many questions. [9]
Sentences containing many two or more times
- After many, many years the man sat by a coffin, in an empty home. [5]
- A great many years have passed since I was a parishioner of St. John's --a great many years. [9]
- She soon found work for us, making us do many a Samaritan-task; and many a time have we marvelled to mark the skill with which she wove her web, and the wisdom coupled with her open-handed bounty. [10]
- And they can't--they won't believe that many changes are coming, that this is but one of many signs. [9]
- Some one conversing with her once objected, in my presence, to that part of "Jane Eyre" in which she hears Rochester's voice crying out to her in a great crisis of her life, he being many, many miles distant at the time. [14]
- The expedition of Winthrop was scattered by a storm, and reached Salem with the loss of threescore dead and many sick, to find as many of the colony dead, and all disconsolate. [4]
- The many characters which they possess in common can hardly have been independently acquired by so many distinct species; so that these characters must have been inherited. [1]
- From the manuscript which lies before me I extract a single passage:-- "In the year 1775 we had many enemies and many friends in England, but our one benefactor was King George the Third. [6]
- How many tears were shed over those coffins which contained the earthly remains of many a young life once rich in hopes and glowing with warm enthusiasm, many a quiet heart which had throbbed joyously for man's noblest possession! [10]
- While these matters were going on the Master and I had many talks on many subjects. [6]
More example sentences with the word many in them
- Go back to y'r condinsation, Coolin, an' take truth to y'r Bowl that there's many ways to die, an' one o' thim's in the commysariat, Coolin--shame for ye! [11]
- 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]
- Instead of burying yourself in a convent, you, whom so many desire, would do better to beckon to one of your admirers and bestow on him the happiness of which the other was not worthy. [10]
- 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]
- Wishing to make your visit here as pleasant as we can, we wish you to notify us as soon as possible whether you come this way, how many, and when you will arrive. [7]
- The influence of your telegram the other day is still upon me, and has impressed me with the idea that there are many parts of the problem which influence you that are not known to me. [7]
- Such was Amasis' young, fading daughter, who was now being carried past them, and many an eye grew dim as the beautiful invalid came in sight. [10]
- It was a young woman, with as many white muslin flounces round her as the planet Saturn has rings, that did it. [6]
- He would make young Schopper pay some penalty yet more than a mere fine, to that he pledged his royal word, and as for young Welemisl, he was minded to devise some punishment that should hinder many an over-bold knight from drawing his sword! [10]
- A good many young people think nothing about life as it presents itself in the far horizon, bounded by the snowy ridges of threescore and the dim peaks beyond that remote barrier. [6]
- Among the many young men who frequented her house every day, Boris Drubetskoy, who had already achieved great success in the service, was the most intimate friend of the Bezukhov household since Helene's return from Erfurt. [2]
- Nicholas brought many young men to his parents' house. [2]
- How many other young men from the East have travelled across the mountains and floated down the rivers to enter those strange cities of the West, the growth of which was like Jonah's gourd. [9]
- A self-sufficient, doughty young man, with the round head that withstands many blows, taking by nature to competition and buccaneering in general. [9]
- He was a young man with a praiseworthy ambition to get on in the world, and during his apprenticeship in the office of the Honourable Hilary Vane many letters and documents had passed through his hands. [9]
- No doubt the Young Girl was capricious in setting the little engine at work, but she cut short a good many disquisitions that threatened to be tedious. [6]
- Most of the young demoiselles are robed in a cloud of white from head to foot, though many trick themselves out more elaborately. [5]
- Nay, many a young Alexandrian, passing the group on foot or in a carriage, looked at her a second time, for that smile lent a mysterious charm to her pale, calm face. [10]
- I'll speak for you, and with me many a good man in the magistracy. [10]
- In the cities you will see a dozen civilians for every soldier, and as many for every priest or preacher. [5]
- What may delight you will cost bitter tears to many others, and so let us both hope that this splendid spectacle may now have reached its climax, and soon may come to an end. [10]
- Like some of you who are here present, I have been on this vestry for many years, and my father was on it before me. [9]
- How many of you who are before me are familiarly acquainted with the name of Broussais, or even with that of Andral? [6]
- Therefore I entreat you to forget the armlet and its many painful associations, and pass to the consideration of other matters. [10]
- He will tell you that many facts are explained by studying them in the wider range of related facts to which they belong. [3]
- How many do you suppose there were? [7]
- I have heard you say so many times that nobody could be a great artist without passing years and years at work, and growing pale and lean with thinking so hard. [6]
- But I know you must have had many letters. [9]
- The papers say you have spent many hours at the Colonial Office. [11]
- But, by Besa, you have as many coats as an onion. [10]
- Bless me, if you had gone along there some such nights after twelve you might have seen as many as fifteen of us roosting on one limb, with our joints rattling drearily and the wind wheezing through our ribs! [5]
- Your anger makes you forget many things. [9]
- Hain't I carried you faithful, summer and winter, for a good many years? [9]
- How many do you believe I climbed, Pierre? [5]
- I only know you are charged with killing a bad man, notorious in Dublin life, and that many think he got his just deserts in being killed. [11]
- I have asked you a great many questions and you have not hesitated to answer, and you may know how I got into this miserable cage and why I stay in it. [10]
- You are not yet out of college, and many such fancies happen there. [9]
- Spring had as yet lured no leaves from the boughs, but there were many objects to be seen in the bare top of the tree. [10]
- How many amusing, yet edifying and touching anecdotes, the Abbess Kunigunde had narrated of him and the most beloved of his followers! [10]
- I am jealous, yes, I own I am jealous of any word, spoken or written, that would tend to impair that birthright of reverence which becomes for so many in after years the basis of a deeper religious sentiment. [6]
- A gentleman says yes to a great many things without stopping to think: a shabby fellow is known by his caution in answering questions, for fear of, compromising his pocket or himself. [6]
- Dead, these many years, they said. [5]
- All these many years, since 1820, the northern part had remained a wilderness. [7]
- Indeed, for many years, if there was any exception to the general toleration it was in the social ostracism of those who held and expressed extreme opinions in regard to immediate emancipation, and were stigmatized as abolitionists. [4]
- But after many years, as I looked on the little front-yard again, it occurred to me that there used to be some Star-of-Bethlehems in the southwest corner. [6]
- It took many years to train the as yet undisciplined powers into orderly obedience, and to bring the unarranged materials into the organic connection which was needed in the construction of a work that should endure. [6]
- In the thirteen years since he married he had been able to keep a good many irons in the fire, and also keep them more or less hot. [11]
- Now, for many years our international relations have been uncommonly smooth, oiled every few days by complimentary banquet speeches, and sweetened by abundance of magazine and newspaper "taffy. [4]
- He looked many years older than he really was, but much study and meditation and fasting and prayer, with the arid life he had led as hermit and beggar, could account for that. [5]
- After so many years of waiting and longing, he was mine at last. [5]
- During the long years of their union Mrs. Ebers was his active helpmate, many of the business details relating to his works and their American and English editions being transacted by her. [10]
- Besides, during the years of her intercourse with Massi she had heard many things about his residence--nay, every member of his household--and therefore she could now form a picture of his future life. [10]
- There were many years in which my father believed the practices which he followed in behalf of your railroad to be necessary--and hence justified. [9]
- He is many years her junior, as we know. [6]
- Yet how many years had they leaned there without falling! [13]
- For her the years had given many compensations, and so she told the Cure, one midsummer day, when she brought to visit him the orphaned son of Paulette Dubois, graduated from his college in France and making ready to go to the far East. [11]
- You have many years before you. [5]
- A hundred more years and many of the barbarisms still lingering among us will, of course, have disappeared like witch-hanging. [6]
- And not many years after the time of which I now write Lord Carlisle was paying fifteen hundred a year on the sum he had loaned him, cheerfully denying himself the pleasures of London as a consequence. [9]
- For many a year, you know as well as I do, ships have been coming from France to Ireland with the very best wines and liquors, and taking back the very best wool- -smuggled, of course. [11]
- There, once a year, one caravan comes, and, at the outskirts of the place unclean, leaves food and needful things for another year, and returns again to Egypt after many days. [11]
- November 30th that year was Mark Twain's fiftieth birthday, an event noticed by the newspapers generally, and especially observed by many of his friends. [5]
- In the same year these last poems with many others were collected in a small volume, entitled "May-Day, and Other Pieces. [6]
- It's many a year since this house was neighbourly to that. [11]
- It's many a year I've been a-dreamin', but now they're comin' over 'n' over the same thing. [6]
- During the first year after the catastrophe at Kaid's Palace Hylda could scarcely endure the advances made by her many admirers, the greatly eligible and the eager ineligible, all with as real an appreciation of her wealth as of her personal attributes. [11]
- Through all the wrongs which she may suffer by him, there runs this cable of unhappy attraction, testified to by how many sorrowful lives! [11]
- Also Herdegen had written out many verses of Homer's great song from a precious written book, and had learned to master them well from the teaching of the doctor of Feltre. [10]
- An author whose writings are like mosaics must have borrowed from many quarries. [6]
- Mr Brass, after writhing about, in a great many strange attitudes, and often twisting his face and eyes into an expression like that which is usually produced by eating gooseberries very early in the season, was by this time awake also. [12]
- Many a poor wretch of yesterday will go to bed a wealthy man to-day. [10]
- They could neither wrestle, shoot, nor climb, so we gave them little thought, and anything like actual flirtation was unknown--we had so many better things in our heads. [10]
- One of his wounds was considered quite dangerous, and it was thought by many that it would prove fatal. [5]
- Many of the wounds had not been tended since they were dressed on the field weeks before. [9]
- If he had wounded her deeply, he had a right to expect her to excuse many things in him. [10]
- Many of the wounded asked them not to unload the carts but only to let them sit on the top of the things. [2]
- Possibly the difficulty wouldn't be so great as many people suppose. [6]
- Uniformity of character would, however, naturally follow from the assumed uniformity of the exciting causes, and likewise from the free intercrossing of many individuals. [1]
- But a naturalist would undoubtedly have ranked as an ape or a monkey, an ancient form which possessed many characters common to the Catarrhine and Platyrrhine monkeys, other characters in an intermediate condition, and some few, perhaps, distinct from those now found in either group. [1]
- In the meantime would the Scientist kill off a good many patients? [5]
- And these people would shortly understand, if they did not now understand, that Hugh had come back voluntarily and from a sense of duty to assume the burdens and responsibilities that so many of his generation and class had shirked. [9]
- How willingly, then, would she have given up that credit to the many who coveted it--if it were a credit. [9]
- But then I would not exchange the remembrance of it for a good many odors and perfumes that I do like. [4]
- Many men who would make very respectable Presidents of the United States could not successfully run a retail grocery store. [4]
- How many another would long before have become sceptical of my promises! [9]
- How many Bibles would he eat at a meal? [5]
- Jabez Grubb, he would have learned, that, like the celebrated Little Pedlington, it was distinguished by many very remarkable advantages. [6]
- Many a person would have given up and descended, but I stuck to my task, and would not yield until I had accomplished it. [5]
- And few buildings would have borne the wear and tear of many house-cleanings of the kind Miss Crane indulged in throughout the morning and afternoon. [9]
- Many a father would have been rich enough with forty. [5]
- A nicer analysis would detect many alien elements mixed with his individuality, but the family traits predominated over all the external influences, and the personality stood out distinct from the common family qualities. [6]
- Ah, if necessity would but make me happy too, by giving you your liberty, that on these many miseries endured we might set up a sure home. [11]
- How our cheeks would burn when many a time we spoke of the love which was the bond between Gotz and his fair Gertrude. [10]
- I suppose you would bring some things out into daylight questioning that I had rather leave in that twilight of half-belief peopled with shadows--if they are only shadows--more sacred to me than many realities. [6]
- In most, rashness would be the outcome of such a marriage of characteristics; but clear-sightedness, decision, and a little unscrupulousness had carried into success many daring actions of his life. [11]
- The next Sunday would be Easter, and she thought of a hundred ways in which she could make it brighter for so many of the unfortunates. [4]
- Many a person would be afraid to stay there, even half an hour, when the mountain quakes, the ashes fall in showers, and the glowing lava pours out in a stream. [10]
- And it is worthy of passing mention, in regard to his later productions, that his admirable sense of literary proportion, which is wanting in many good writers, characterized his work to the end. [4]
- It is not worth while to try to get any grip upon the cloud of minor gods, there are too many of them. [5]
- But many thoughts worth gathering are dropped along these pages. [6]
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