Use more in a sentence
Sentences starting with more
- More than one young gentleman of family had been known to ride through the Place du Vier Prison, hoping to get sight of her, and to offer the view of a suggestively empty pillion behind him. [11]
- More shame for you, mother, I was going to say. [12]
- More than this you would not ask me to say. [6]
- More than fifty years of his sixty-five were spent at sea. [5]
- More than nine years had passed since the closing of the Hartford house--eventful years that had seen failure, bereavement, battle with debt, and rehabilitated fortunes. [5]
- More than two years ago. [5]
- More times last year than the year before? [5]
- More times this year than last? [5]
- More than a year of trial now shows no loss by it in our foreign relations, none in our home popular sentiment, none in our white military force, no loss by it any how, or anywhere. [7]
- More than a year had passed since she had seen him, but there was no emotion, no ardour in their present greeting. [11]
Sentences ending with more
- For penance, all your life you shall teach a chile no more. [11]
- The Chevalier needs you, and the Duc de Mauban needs you, but Detricand of Vaufontaine needs you a thousand times more. [11]
- You know all, you trust me, and, my dear husband, my own love, we must part once more. [11]
- I return to you the hymn-book, I read one of those you marked, and do not care to read any more. [6]
- I will tell you something more. [11]
- Shall I tell you more? [9]
- And this, if you like, is practical,--so practical that the men like you, who have gained unexampled privilege, fear it more and more. [9]
- Good to have you home once more. [9]
- And now that you have returned to your home in the great city I must write you a few lines of welcome, if nothing more. [6]
- Enough to give you bread from day to day-no more. [11]
Short sentences using more
- Anything more than you've told? [11]
- What more do you want? [11]
- What more do you desire? [10]
- The count sobbed yet more. [2]
- Bellegarde Once More X. [9]
- Yet one more word. [10]
- Fetch some more wood! [2]
- I needn't say what more. [11]
- Three more breast-pins were promised. [5]
- What more do we want? [10]
Sentences containing more two or more times
- I was a young man then, a youth like any other, only more passionate, more restless, and fiery than they. [10]
- I only wonder you don't find me more worn out, for what can be more excruciating for a woman, that to be obliged to enter the lists for manly decisiveness against a man who is defending a perfectly antagonistic view? [10]
- Janet's heart was wrung as she gazed at the gaunt, bewildered faces growing daily more tragic, more bewildered and gaunt; she marvelled at the animal-like patience of these Europeans, at the dumb submission of most of them to privations that struck her as appalling. [9]
- The more Clemens wrote about the river the more he wished to revisit it and take Howells with him. [5]
- Jethro, had Mr. Worthington but known it, was more interested in animate machines: more interested in Mr. Worthington than the falling-mill or, indeed, the tannery business. [9]
- Nothing in the world could have made the impulse which moved me more powerful, more masterful, more thoroughly irresistible. [5]
- The greater the works which the traveller's eyes beheld, the more insignificant he felt, the more pitiful his own powers, his own skill appeared. [10]
- I meant to work this racket more and more, as time wore on, if nothing occurred to frighten me. [5]
- As the evening wore on, he was more and more aware of an uncompromising attitude in his young hostess, whom he had seen whispering to various young ladies from behind her fan as they passed her. [9]
- She tortured herself with questions, and the less peace her aunt gave her, the more unendurable her headache became, the more plainly she felt that the fever, against whose relaxing power she had struggled for days, would conquer her. [10]
More example sentences with the word more in them
- He crawls after Zeno; he submits to authority, and requires more independent spirits to do the same. [10]
- I don't believe you've got any more sense than to do it. [9]
- 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]
- When the fiery youth had performed the task which now claimed all his powers, he hoped to find him more inclined to allow himself to be led farther along the path which he had entered. [10]
- A vivacious, eager youth had duped her and had promised happiness to her sister instead of to her; it had been hard to bear--and yet, the Saviour of whom Hellos had told her, had been far more severely tried. [10]
- The faults of youth are never shed, no, nor the merits, and creeping time convinces ever the more of our impotence, and of the irresistibility of our bias. [6]
- You can see, yourself, that there isn't anything more to be reported--invention is exhausted. [5]
- 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]
- I think what you're doing is splendid, Brooks, only--" here she gave him an appealing, rather commiserating look--"only I do wish you would take more interest in--in underlying principles. [9]
- The real world, your world, England, Europe, would have no more use for all your skill and knowledge and power, because there would be a woman in the way. [11]
- You have raised your voice against it, and I respect and honour and thank you for it, the more because you have done it without resorting to sensation, and apparently with no thought of yourself. [9]
- My brush and your stylus will earn us more in no time. [10]
- You long for your sister; go to her, I have nothing more to say against it. [10]
- That dimun in your shirt-front hain't got no life to it, says I. I don't believe it's nothiri' more 'n a bit o' winderglass. [6]
- I doubt whether your present position is more painful to you than to myself. [7]
- Now I suppose your present idea is, to leave us a little more in the dark. [5]
- You can take your own time, stop when and where you choose--at the more stations the better. [4]
- The gems in your hanging stand for something more than that shining show. [10]
- And, spite of your flashing eyes, I will tell you you are more than a woman, you are a prophetess. [10]
- I could wish your experience of your friends were more animating than mine, and that there were any horoscope you could not cast from the first day. [6]
- I will give your Excellency one more surprise. [9]
- I wish that your countrymen, who are coming down the river like driftwood, more resembled you. [9]
- Do you think your charitable act is more acceptable than the Good Samaritan's, because you do it in the name of Him who made the memory of that kind man immortal? [6]
- The work of your association is better and shows more wisdom than the Czar of Russia and all his people. [5]
- 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]
- We were again young, once more united. [10]
- When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's. [5]
- 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 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]
- 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]
- He was a young man and a distinguished warrior under that terrific fighter, Kamehameha I., more than half a century ago. [5]
- But for the young ladies we must have more young men. [4]
- Most of the young demoiselles are robed in a cloud of white from head to foot, though many trick themselves out more elaborately. [5]
- That's more than you'd have got in any other village of the Utah border. [13]
- I quite understand you; and until I feel that you have good reason once more to respect the maniac who lost you by his own fault, I, who fought you like your most deadly foe, will not even speak the final word. [10]
- But I like you, Richard, as I have said more than once. [9]
- But by 'happiness' you, mean something more than the complacency and contentment which clothing and food might bring, and the removal of the economic fear,--and even the restoration of self-respect. [9]
- I am sure you would wish them to take more responsibility than you will now assume in Canada. [11]
- I will repay you with my warmest gratitude, for, though the Romans said that Cupid conquered through the eyes, yet Barbara's singing exerted a far more powerful influence over my heart than even her wonderful golden hair. [10]
- I tell you, you will recover sight, and once more thank the gods for a good old age. [10]
- And I tell you what, Sir, if I hadn't more of these qualities that commonly endear man to man, than our articled clerk has, I'd steal a Cheshire cheese, tie it round my neck, and drown myself. [12]
- He perceived that you were a man of ability, sir--" "And that was just the reason," said the Honourable Brush, "that he couldn't make you more useful just now. [9]
- I'm going now,--unless you want to hear some more about the plots I've been getting into. [9]
- Once more, if you touch the Urania again I warn you, you shall learn--" "Well, what? [10]
- I'll talk with you tomorrow, and am I not right, Jungfrau Elsyou won't make him suffer for losing the wager, but exercise your domestic authority after a more gentle fashion? [10]
- We cannot allow you to resign until things shall be a little more settled in East Tennessee. [7]
- I don't want you to hide anything, because, if you do, I'll have Jim in, and Jim, under proper control, will tell me the whole truth, and perhaps more than the truth. [11]
- I appear before you to do little more than acknowledge the courtesy you pay me, and to thank you for it. [7]
- But, Ruth, do you think you would be happier or do more good in following your profession than in having a home of your own? [5]
- That don't give you the right idea of it at all--it is much more shining and beautiful. [5]
- No more for you the cold earth for a bed--relieved though it be by a sleeping- mat. [11]
- Once more among you the antique spirit lives. [11]
- When I tell you that a bit of ribbon in my button-hole sets my vanity prancing, I think you cannot be grievously offended that I smile at the resonant titles which make you something more than human in your own eyes. [6]
- I will tell you something more about Isis. [10]
- Justice, strict justice, you shall certainly have,--neither more nor less. [6]
- To be sure, you Romans trouble yourselves more about matters of law and administration than the culture of the arts or the subtleties of thought. [10]
- I'm always making you out more than human...only, let me say--I meant that--about riding away. [13]
- Yet--I would give you one more word of advice. [10]
- He'll never forgive you no more than she. [9]
- I will tell you no more lies, Uarda. [10]
- I can show you much more amusing things. [11]
- I might tell you more, my lad, were it not a breach of confidence. [9]
- I can tell you more when I have had a chance to talk with Dr. Pindar. [9]
- I shall ask you more questions some day. [9]
- I will tell you more about this at some future time; I need not conceal it, for it has been no secret. [10]
- Pardon me, for you know that nobody cares more for you than I do,--I hope that you are happy in all your relations with this young friend of yours. [6]
- On that subject you know all I have said to you is "justice to all," and I have said nothing more particular to any one. [7]
- I proved to you just now that I know more about the origin of Scarabei than you do. [10]
- By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work. [7]
- What more have you heard concerning the first books of the Annales of Tacitus, said to have been discovered in the Corvey monastery? [10]
- For every master you have yet sent can find the way as well as he, so that an hundred pounds might be spared, which is more than we have all, that helps to pay him wages. [4]
- As now, sir, you desire it, I will be a little more particular. [7]
- I do wish you could come down once more before your holiday. [5]
- For a time you can see he's hurt, his pride's wounded, because he shrinks away from that thing and don't want to talk about it--and so I used to think now he's learned something and he'll be more careful hereafter--but laws! [5]
- The more requirements you can pile upon him, the better he likes it. [5]
- I have troubled you at this length because my mind is much occupied with the pathology of these cases, and because no case can, on personal grounds, more strongly challenge our attention. [6]
- Since I saw you at Jacksonville, I have had no more suspicion of the Whigs of Morgan than of those of any other part of the district. [7]
- I do believe you are more than half gone. [4]
- He'll not give you any more fur- robes, that's sure. [11]
- But I guess you and I will have some more talk after a while,--after Theodore Watling gets to be United States Senator. [9]
- Let me see you all, once more. [5]
- But I lay you ain't a-goin' to threaten nobody any more, Jim Turner. [5]
- I may teach you a very little directly, but I hope much more from the trains of thought I shall suggest. [3]
- Every year gives you a more reasoning and reasonable people to deal with. [3]
- I will make you a fortune undreamed of, and you shall be my fianancier once more. [9]
- We been expecting you a couple of days and more. [5]
- The sight of yonder shining steeples and roofs seems to make your heart laugh, Sir Wolf, and, by Our Lady, you have good reason to bestow one or more candles upon her, for, besides other delightful things, a goodly heritage is awaiting you in Ratisbon. [10]
- Stephen must needs yield to his mother's persuasions and try them on--they were more than a passable fit. [9]
- And yet, and yet!--Where shall I find resolution enough to ask of her who excites me to the height of passion no more than a kind glance, a clasp of the hand, an intelligent interest in what I say? [10]
- They have not yet succeeded in filling her place, and I think it more than likely that you can get it. [9]
- All was not yet lost; and he breathed more freely as he went back to the house where duty, and his anxiety for his father, required his presence. [10]
- Science has not yet decided which is the more fatal, decayed vegetables or unventilated rooms. [4]
- I have not yet been released from the duties I undertook there, and it will be more worthy of us both that Asclepiodorus should give you the daughter of Philotas as your wife than that you should be married to a runaway serving-maid of Serapis. [10]
- If it might yet be something more than a mere post of honor to be the wife of Verus, I would not ask for the new dignity of becoming wife to Caesar. [10]
- But it is yet a thousand-fold more painful to feel that the love which every woman has a right to possess for herself alone, must be shared with a hundred others! [10]
- You told me yesterday that you were glad to sleep, and so am I; still, to see you once more, I have been only to glad to shorten my night's rest considerably. [10]
- Shame seized her; yes, and anger; and shame again at the remembrance of her talk with Euphrasia--and anger once more. [9]
- And now that ye're getting him back, ma'am, ye might think with a little more charity of her that belongs to me--the only one I'd have left. [9]
- The face, so yellow and peaked, was of the type that grows even more handsome in sickness, and in the great fever-stricken eyes a high spirit burned. [9]
- A few more years--all too few, I fear--mark my words, we shall have cider! [5]
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