Use oftener in a sentence
Sentences ending with oftener
- For your own sake, as well as for the sake of others, you ought to go into society oftener. [5]
- Several times she listened at the door, and it seemed to her that his mutterings were louder than usual and that they turned him over oftener. [2]
- A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once--not oftener. [5]
- Why don't you and Mrs. March come round oftener? [8]
- Truly, this was a person to make one look twice, and think oftener. [9]
Short sentences using oftener
- Write oftener, Pamela. [5]
More example sentences with the word oftener in them
- He places at your disposal--this time, at least, he was not economical--a sum which will take you to the healing springs four or five times, nay, oftener still. [10]
- Just come whenever you can, and come as often as you can--the oftener the better. [5]
- His great remedy, which he gave oftener than any other, was nitre; which he ordered in doses of twenty or thirty grains to adults, and of three grains to infants. [3]
- Soon afterwards he was crowned, not duke, but king, and it was remarked that he held his lace handkerchief oftener than ever to his mouth. [10]
- The rider came to Withersteen House oftener than ever. [13]
- Hadrian had gone to visit these, for the remarkable pictures on the walls delighted him, but Antinous remained behind, for he had already looked at similar works oftener than he cared for, in Upper Egypt. [10]
- You are trying to eat oftener than your stomach demands. [5]
- In the mean time, our young Doctor is playing truant oftener than ever. [6]
- Suspended pictures were thrown down, but oftener still, by a curious freak of the earthquake's humor, they were whirled completely around with their faces to the wall! [5]
- When deviations from this rule occur, the transmitted characters much oftener appear before, than after the corresponding age. [1]
- In spite of the fact that every moment of his time during the past fortnight had been absorbed by the cares, responsibilities, and trials thrust upon him, he reproached himself for not having gone oftener to Dalton Street. [9]
- I lived at the best hotel, exhibited my clothes in the most conspicuous places, infested the opera, and learned to seem enraptured with music which oftener afflicted my ignorant ear than enchanted it, if I had had the vulgar honesty to confess it. [5]
- The By-laws say that "if a solo singer shall neglect or refuse to sing alone" one of those three hymns as often as once a month, and oftener if so directed by the Board of Directors--which is Mrs. Eddy--the singer's salary shall be stopped. [5]
- So far from such exchanges between sects being wrong, they ought to happen a great deal oftener than they do. [6]
- But there was still another relation between the mountain and the town at its foot, which strangers were not likely to hear alluded to, and which was oftener thought of than spoken of by its inhabitants. [6]
- Resolved, that nobody should put on a clean collar oftener than his neighbor does. [4]
- It was so pleasant that he wondered he had not gone there oftener, and that so few people frequented it. [4]
- From that moment one could find the youth with the Senator even oftener than with Col. [5]
- Not oftener than once in half a year, at the outside. [5]
- As time went on, the woman turned towards the doorway oftener, and shifted her position so that she faced it, and the sparks, flying up, lighted her face with a wonderful irregular brightness. [11]
- That happens very often, much oftener than all would be willing to confess, in reading novels and plays. [6]
- While Alexander, well nursed by old Argutis and Johanna, lay in high fever, raving in his delirium of Agatha and his brother Philip, and still oftener calling for his sister, Melissa was alone in her hiding-place. [10]
- That there is nothing like experiment to clear the vision is the general idea, but oftener it is experience that perplexes. [4]
- No other man's name was oftener mentioned in the daily journals in connection with some bold and successful operation. [4]
- I have found my eyes dimmed over them oftener than once, more with thinking about her, perhaps, than about her heroes and heroines. [6]
- But oftener they made her the arbiter of their disputes, and asked her advice on certain matters. [9]
- Carterette saw Ranulph little oftener than did Guida, but she knew what he was doing, being anxious to know, and every one's business being every one else's business in Jersey. [11]
- Well, well, dear lad, I don't often go wrong, or anyhow I'm oftener right than wrong, and you might do worse than follow me--but no, I don't want that responsibility. [11]
- I dare say I did this a hundred times, but generally the leaf gave the wished-for sound, and I had much oftener reason to be joyful than sad. [10]
- I confess that I am oftener impressed with the powerlessness of the press than otherwise, its slight influence in bringing about any reform, or in inducing the public to do what is for its own good and what it is disinclined to do. [4]
- When he is hungry--which will also be frequently he must not be humored oftener than every seven or eight hours; then toast part of a cracker until it begins to brown, and give it to his brother. [5]
- Of late Jo had come in and gone out of the shop oftener than in the past, had even brought her bunches of mosses for her flower-pots, the first budding lilacs, and some maple-sugar made from the trees on Vadrome Mountain. [11]
- She was of good stature, ripely made, not beautiful of face, but with a look which would make any man turn twice to see, a very glory of fine hair, and a hand which spoke oftener than the lips. [11]
- Sometimes, in the glens, we came upon luxuriant orchards of figs, apricots, pomegranates, and such things, but oftener the scenery was rugged, mountainous, verdureless and forbidding. [5]
- He, as he freely confessed to himself, was of a coarser and humbler grain than Paula, and he was apt to be satirical oftener than was right. [10]
- The whole region for leagues around was the hereditary property of a prince, whose servants kept the castle always in perfect condition for occupancy, but neither he nor his family came there oftener than once in five years. [5]
- Few men were ever interviewed oftener than Mark Twain, yet he never welcomed interviewers and was seldom satisfied with them. [5]
- The cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the right sounded oftener and nearer. [2]
- Ah, Parpon, why don't you sing for us oftener, and all the world would love you, and--" "I don't love the world," he retorted gruffly; "and I'll sing for the devil" (she crossed herself) "as soon as for silly gossips in Pontiac. [11]
- It is a curious fact that, since he read 'Shirley,' he has come to the house oftener than ever, and been remarkably meek and assiduous to please. [14]
- Is n't her cologne-bottle replenished oftener than its legitimate use would require? [6]
- The rite is celebrated not oftener than once a year by any church. [4]
- The embalmed cat, carefully wrapped in linen bandages, is oftener to be met with than any other of the many animals thus preserved by the Egyptians. [10]
- We run railways by our large cities in America; in Syria they curve the roads so as to make them run by the meagre little puddles they call "fountains," and which are not found oftener on a journey than every four hours. [5]
- He began to blame himself for not having written oftener to his people--and to his wife. [11]
- Books were open before us, but we spoke oftener of love than philosophy, and kisses came more readily from our lips than words. [5]
- If Cooper had been a nice and punctilious observer he would have noticed that the bends were oftener nine hundred feet long than short of it. [5]
- It seems to become more and more interesting the oftener we visit it. [5]
- After that I became the hunter of the family; but oftener than not I returned tired and empty-handed, and ravenously hungry. [9]
- Yes, it must be so; and the oftener he gazed at her the more convinced he felt. [10]
- The annual visits are made and returned with peaceful regularity and bland satisfaction, although it is not necessary that the two ladies shall actually see each other oftener than once every few years. [5]
- Come again to-morrow, and then the oftener the better. [10]
- He smiled craftily, and said that even as a dead man he could scarce have forgotten that, by reason that he had muttered the words to himself on his way oftener than any old monk mumbles his Paternoster. [10]
- She always nodded a greeting when she saw him in the tannery yard or on the road, and sometimes he nodded back, but oftener he had not appeared to see her. [9]
- Sometimes he said "yes" or "no," but oftener he merely nodded his head. [9]
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