Use object in a sentence
Sentences starting with object
- Object to kindness? [9]
Sentences ending with object
- Of the other young men of the village Gifted Hopkins was perhaps the most fervent of her admirers, as he had repeatedly shown by effusions in verse, of which, under the thinnest of disguises, she was the object. [6]
- Millions upon millions would not have seemed to him too large a price for this object. [10]
- I think it would not be justifiable nor efficient for the desired object. [7]
- There are those who denounce us openly to their friends, and yet whisper to us softly that Senator Douglas is the aptest instrument there is with which to effect that object. [7]
- He is embarrassed which to choose, and is not unlikely to waste years in dallying with his chances, before giving himself to the serious tug and strain of a single object. [5]
- As always happens when traveling, Princess Mary thought only of the journey itself, forgetting its object. [2]
- He didn't know what he was there for, but he was there for a good object. [5]
- Her defense was weak and inapt but she attained her object. [2]
- They seemed to understand, and didn't object. [11]
- When the time to show you our work arrives, you will be surprised to discover how differently two persons see and copy the same object. [10]
Short sentences using object
- And you don't object? [4]
- I certainly shall not object. [7]
- She had gained her object. [10]
- A white object guided him. [13]
Sentences containing object two or more times
- It was some time before Austen came upon the object of his search--though scarce admitting to himself that it had an object. [9]
- We may say that to learn how to read, and not what to read, is confessedly the object of these books; but even this object is not attained. [4]
- He had been so much with lawless people, that a life between his wish and his object seemed only as an obstacle to be removed, provided the object were worth the risk and trouble. [6]
- If it be said that the only legitimate object of acquiring territory is to furnish homes for white men, this measure effects that object, for emigration of colored men leaves additional room for white men remaining or coming here. [7]
- It would look particularly well, coming from you and your father, but if you object, we can leave that part out; though if you approve of the principle I don't see why you need object. [8]
- The main object of that forgery at that time was to beat Yates and elect Harris to Congress, and that object was known to be exceedingly dear to Judge Douglas at that time. [7]
- My own purpose is the same; so that the meeting and myself have a common object, and can have no difference, except in the choice of means or measures for effecting that object. [7]
- This happened not because they were displeased by the substance of his speech, which had even been forgotten after the many subsequent speeches, but to animate it the crowd needed a tangible object to love and a tangible object to hate. [2]
- If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. [7]
- The fable has a distinct object in view, but this object is not acknowledged in set words. [5]
More example sentences with the word object in them
- It gives a zest to pleasure to have even an indefinite object, and though the prospect of meeting Irene again was not definite, it was nevertheless alluring. [4]
- By the way, you wouldn't object to telling him you were a friend of mine, would you? [9]
- He could not yet understand what had suddenly towered like a mountain between him and the object of his love. [10]
- A great green wreath, which must have cost the parent oak a large fraction of its foliage, was an object of special admiration. [6]
- I thought you wouldn't object to a little advance on your 'Every Other Week' work till you kind of got started. [8]
- If the pilgrims would take deliberate aim and shoot at a man, it would be all right and proper--because that man would not be in any danger; but these random assaults are what I object to. [5]
- That, he knew, would make Edith happy, and to make her happy seemed now very much like a worthy object in life. [4]
- Ledscha cast a wondering glance sometimes at one object, sometimes at another, but without understanding its meaning or its use. [10]
- Indeed, this adaptable woman soon found that she had become an object of more than usual interest, by her latest exploit, in the circles in which she moved, and her softened manner and edifying conversation showed that she appreciated her position. [4]
- The clear-eyed young woman of the future, always dear and often an anxiety, will this year be an object of enthusiasm. [4]
- I will go with you as I am, if you do not object to sharing your meal with such a scarecrow of a man. [10]
- Pulcheria laughed, but with some annoyance, as though she had herself been the object of the remark. [10]
- Blushing, and confused with shyness, she remained standing by Caesar's seat; and though she only ventured to raise her eyes now and then for a stolen look, she felt herself the object of a hundred curious, defiant, bold, or contemptuous glances. [10]
- As often happens with passionate people, he was mastered by anger but was still seeking an object on which to vent it. [2]
- The military officers will not object, they know how big a man he is, and they have had enough. [11]
- The graver reader will not object to seeing the exact statement of a competent witness belonging to a by-gone century, confirmed as it is by all that we see about us. [6]
- But on the whole it would be more decorous to wait, and perhaps he was willing to hear what the object of his favorite antipathy had to say about it. [6]
- The only people who object to it are the summer sportsmen. [4]
- It is himself who is the object of scorn. [6]
- In this speech, which was reported to me--for it did not get into the newspapers--I was the particular object of his attack. [9]
- The object with which the brain-tapper puts his questions may be a purely benevolent and entirely disinterested one. [6]
- The bright moonbeams, which now wove a silvery web over every surrounding object, seemed like a mockery of her darkened soul. [10]
- Every trench dug where the paving was torn up had its object, and each heap of stones its particular design. [10]
- There are dinners where the object seems to be to pocket all the balls as speedily as possible. [4]
- In busy places, where each man has an object of his own, and feels assured that every other man has his, his character and purpose are written broadly in his face. [12]
- The next morning, when I sallied out to hire a conveyance, I was an object of interest to the entire population, who seemed to think it very odd that any one should walk about and explore the quiet streets. [4]
- Then I witnessed what Brehm has described, for monkey after monkey, with head raised high and turned on one side, could not resist taking a momentary peep into the upright bag, at the dreadful object lying quietly at the bottom. [1]
- All the circumstances were perfect--and the anticipations, too, for we should soon be enjoying, for the first time, that wonderful spectacle, an Alpine sunrise--the object of our journey. [5]
- The two commanders were much exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. [2]
- Selamlik Pasha knew well the object of this meeting. [11]
- With all their wealth and opportunities, it seems to him that these select people have no higher object than the pleasures of the senses, and he is taught daily by reiterated example that this is the end and aim of life. [4]
- I agreed that we ought to have a festival; but I did not know what object to devote it to. [4]
- Under that enchantment we had forgotten the object for which we came out.--Tell me, my darling, do you remember exactly what the necklace was like that you and Mary were playing with this afternoon? [10]
- Cavilers object that water boils at a lower and lower temperature the higher and higher you go, and hence the apparent anomaly. [5]
- His intellectual activity was unremitting, he had no lack of friends, there was only now and then a discordant note in the general estimation of his literary work, and he was the object of the most tender care from his nieces. [4]
- His chief object was to inspire the Arab with confidence, since he was probably the only man outside Selamlik's palace who knew the thing as yet. [11]
- His first object was to find some document which might justify his proceedings against Orion and the sequestration of his estates, in the eyes of the authorities at Medina. [10]
- His first object was to do due honor to the corpse of Pertinax. [10]
- If when he was talking and explaining anything to a monkey, its attention was easily distracted, as by a fly on the wall or other trifling object, the case was hopeless. [1]
- Perhaps the historian was right; but where the object in question is the state and its advantage, what we here regard as worthy of a free man appears to be considered of little moment at the court of Octavianus. [10]
- Justice for her was now the supreme and immediate object of his life. [11]
- The Dudley mansion was not a mile from the Doctor's; but it never occurred to him to think of walking to see any of his patients' families, if he had any professional object in his visit. [6]
- He knew he was in these men's power, that only by force had they brought him there, that force alone gave them the right to demand answers to their questions, and that the sole object of that assembly was to inculpate him. [2]
- What his object was in summoning David for an hour when all the court and all the official Europeans should be already present, remained to be seen. [11]
- I, at first, was fearful how Belle Treherne would regard the gaucheries of the bookmaker, but I saw that he was rather an object of interest to her than otherwise; for he was certainly amusing. [11]
- Every surrounding object was buried in silence save that from the neighboring Dens of the royal steeds, came the sound of the rattle of a chain, or of the stamp of a stallion's hoof. [10]
- A crowing hen was always an object of interest and distinction; she was pointed out to visitors; the owner was proud of her accomplishment, he was naturally likely to preserve her life, and especially if she could lay. [4]
- Then, suddenly, there was a loud commotion; some elastic object flew against the wall with a loud flap, and Karnis, starting up, called out: "Get out--monster! [10]
- Serapis himself indeed was a divinity introduced from Asia into the Nile valley by the Ptolemies, in order to supply to their Greek and Egyptian subjects alike an object of adoration, before whose altars they could unite in a common worship. [10]
- The Athenian was warmly welcomed by many of the group, a fact which seems strange when we remember that courtiers are of all men the most prone to envy, and a royal favorite always the most likely object to excite their ill will. [10]
- By a general view of the resolution, it will be seen that a principal object of the committee is to examine into, and ferret out, a mass of corruption supposed to have been committed by the commissioners who apportioned the stock of the Bank. [7]
- It is a very pretty little object as we see it in the distance. [6]
- It strikes me very oddly that good and wise men at Cambridge and Boston should think of raising me into an object of criticism. [6]
- Mr. B. was very complimentary to me when Trollop's break-down in the House showed him the object of my mysterious scheme; I think he will say, still finer things when I tell him the triumph the sequel to it has gained for us. [5]
- Such is beauty!--a vain show, which only glitters to disappear, and is to fools, nevertheless, the supreme object of adoration! [10]
- Yet we do vaguely and hazily wonder why she takes the trouble to say it; why she wastes the words; what her object can be--seeing that that emergency has been in so many, many ways, and so effectively and drastically barred off and made impossible. [5]
- He seemed, as usual, distrait, betraying no curiosity as to the object of my call, his lean, brown fingers playing with the newspapers on his lap. [9]
- To a man, used to straightforward cuts in love as in any other object of his desire, this feminine exaggeration of conscientiousness is wholly incomprehensible. [4]
- On this point use your discretion, remembering that our object is to give such protection as you can to western Virginia. [7]
- When you see us offering sacrifice at the foot of a marble image you must not suppose that the lifeless, perishable stone is the object of our adoration. [10]
- Presently they came up with them, and found them seated on a bench, looking off upon Brigantine Island, a low sand dune with some houses and a few trees against the sky, the most pleasing object in view. [4]
- The moon was under a cloud at the moment, and he could only observe that the horse and his rider looked like a single dark object, and that they were moving along at an easy pace. [6]
- The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. [4]
- Before the bacchanalian train which accompanied him, and behind the musicians who followed, moved two elephants bearing between them, as a light burden, some unrecognizable object covered with a purple cloth. [10]
- The conspicuous object toward which we traveled all the morning was a shapely conical hill at the beginning of the Gap. [4]
- When it is too dark to see any other object, one can still see the white turnpikes of France and Italy; and they are clean enough to eat from, without a table-cloth. [5]
- That night, as Tom and Cowan and McCann and James Ray lay around their fire, taking a well-earned rest, a man broke excitedly into the light with a kettle-shaped object balanced on his head, which he set down in front of us. [9]
- Mr. Frohman has told you something of the object and something of the character of the work. [5]
- I came here to-day to maintain it, and I'll come here again fifty times with the same object and always with the same success. [12]
- If I choose to write for them, I do no injury to those for whom my personality is an object of indifference. [6]
- The first object to which my eyes were drawn was an old-fashioned well-sweep. [6]
- Would you object to waiting a little while, Miss Flint? [9]
- I don't object to wading through a swarm of bees to get a little honey for a friend, but I think I'm entitled to know why he wants it. [9]
- But you object to the plan. [7]
- Having practically come to the mere defensive, it seems to be no economy at all to employ twice as many men for that object as are needed. [7]
- She had gone to the Hendersons' to please Jack, in her policy of yielding in order to influence him; but having accepted the hospitality, she could not object to returning it. [4]
- I don't object to the conveniences, but none of these flats has a living-room. [8]
- Do you object to such innocent amusement? [4]
- Our object was to strike a trail that led from the Au Sable Pond, the other side of the mountain-range, to an inlet on Mud Pond. [4]
- I don't object to Short," she says, "but I cotton to Codlin. [12]
- It was curious to see a good strong shadow of an earthly object cast upon so intangible a field as the atmosphere. [5]
- Your first step to secure this object was the attack on Didymus. [10]
- My object was to save the men who, having mutinied and fled from Admiralty control, are subject to capital punishment. [11]
- Suddenly he seemed to remember; a scarcely perceptible smile flashed across his puffy face, and bowing low and respectfully he took the object that lay on the salver. [2]
- Sherry and I, to reassure him, put a few reals into his hand-- not without an object, for I asked Sherry to make him talk on. [11]
- Its object is to put the world back under the thrall of self-constituted authority. [9]
- We will try to put it where Judge Douglas would not object, for he says he will obey it until it is reversed. [7]
- He had withdrawn to one of the back seats to see the performance; for as soon as the theatre was suddenly lighted up, he had become the object of dark looks and threatening gestures. [10]
- Do you object to my age? [10]
- Still, it seems to me that a knight who wishes to keep iron hot might attain his object better in another way. [10]
- Its object is to make money for its owner. [4]
- We are able to keep one object vividly in view, so vividly as to be able to work for it day and night. [9]
- Murray Bradshaw returned to his hotel, and, going to his chamber, summoned all his faculties in state council to determine what course he should follow, now that he had the object of his search certainly within reaching distance. [6]
- I don't object to his doin' all the charity he wants to, and the Lord knows I've never been stingy with him about it. [8]
- It may come to him in the form of self-reproach that he falls so far short of the superior being who has been so long the object of his contemplation. [6]
- They are supposed to have no sympathy of feeling or interest with those very persons whom it is their object to convince and persuade. [7]
- But she seemed to have been born to misery, and wandered mournfully about, weeping and lamenting because she lacked an object for which to labour. [10]
- The object is to get up an efficient force of Missourians in the southwestern part of the State. [7]
- But she failed to find the object of her pilgrimage. [10]
- Her object was to discover truths by these methods alone. [9]
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