Use people in a sentence
Sentences starting with people
- People asked where you were. [11]
- People would say you were not quite disinterested. [11]
- People who never wrote one. [5]
- People went dizzy with wonder and delight over it. [5]
- People humbugged them with stupid and silly lies, and then laughed at them for believing and printing the same. [5]
- People rose up wild all over the house, straining and staring for a better look at him, and the judge was hammering with his mallet and the sheriff yelling "Order--order in the court--order! [5]
- People must use what they have. [10]
- People don't know what Cirri are, at least not one out of fifty readers. [6]
- People don't know what a gain there is to health by living in cities, the best parts of them of course, for we know too well what the worst parts are. [6]
- People came and went softly, and he gave no heed. [11]
Sentences ending with people
- I know of your people. [11]
- The work of your association is better and shows more wisdom than the Czar of Russia and all his people. [5]
- They were not youngsters, either of them; but they had the spring of youth in them, and a deep basis of strength and force; and they knew the veld and the veld people. [11]
- Oh, these calculating young people! [4]
- Bye and bye you will comprehend why it is that I wish to unbosom myself to a newspaper man when I have so studiously avoided conversation with other people. [5]
- I thought maybe you viewed the matter differently from other people. [5]
- The English give you the substantials, and better, I believe, than any other people. [4]
- Did you think you had educated the superstition out of those people? [5]
- Ball inferred that you had a somewhat singular way of seeing people. [9]
- The army passing yonder would have been enough to destroy down to the last man a force ten times greater than the number of his people. [10]
Short sentences using people
- You'll meet people worth knowing. [11]
- I hate your virtuous people! [12]
- Few people do understand him. [2]
- People often has to. [5]
- I know all those people. [5]
- Do you know these people? [9]
- Did she love these people? [4]
- I've been studying these people. [4]
- Oh, this age, these people! [10]
- The people recognized their master. [5]
Sentences containing people two or more times
- The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. [5]
- Some people, sir, would have--' 'Some people would have spared themselves the jabbering of such a parrot as you,' interposed the dwarf. [12]
- Few people took work into their calculations--or outlay of money either; except the work and expenditures of other people. [5]
- Leadership, and the wisdom it implied, did not reside in the people, but in the leaders who sprang from the people and interpreted their needs and longings.... [9]
- The people, of whom you know as little from the musty volumes of the Museum as of 'Ultima Thule'--the people indeed practice it. [10]
- It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. [11]
- Then of Stratfordians who had seen people who had known or seen people who had seen Shakespeare? [5]
- Do palace revolutions--in which sometimes only two or three people take part--transfer the will of the people to a new ruler? [2]
- It's no matter what you say when you talk to yourself, but when you talk to other people, your business is to use words with reference to the way in which those other people are like to understand them. [6]
- Now you know we're obliged to put people into those houses to take care of 'em--very often undeserving people that we can't depend upon. [12]
More example sentences with the word people in them
- Go back to your people as their chiefs, and tell them that through you the Big Knives have granted peace to your nation. [9]
- Seek elsewhere, among your own people, in your own religion and language and position, the Mistress of Rozel. [11]
- In peril--here with your own people, in Europe with the nations. [11]
- I cannot change your hearts--but the wife of my brother's son, the daughter of Ben Akiba, must be a daughter of our people, morning, noon, and night. [10]
- It was not your going over to the other side that pained me so, for all your people are Tories. [9]
- Free to preach your convictions, unfettered, you will have a power over people that will be tremendous. [9]
- You Democrats, and your candidate, in the main are in favor of laying down in advance a platform--a set of party positions--as a unit, and then of forcing the people, by every sort of appliance, to ratify them, however unpalatable some of them may be. [7]
- Mr. Monroe was young, witty, lively, popular with people he met. [9]
- Would people grow young together even as harmoniously as they grow old together? [4]
- Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
- I say two young people, for the one who counts most years seems to me to be really the younger of the pair. [6]
- 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]
- 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]
- Some of these young people were extreme in their views. [6]
- 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]
- And all the young people I ever saw in my life was when I rode fast through the villages. [13]
- Some of these young ladies came from other cities,--New York and Philadelphia and elsewhere,--and their fathers and mothers were usually people to be mentioned as a matter of course--were, indeed, frequently so mentioned by Miss Sadler, especially when a visitor called at the school. [9]
- I'd think of you; of our people that have been here for two hundred years; of the rooms in the old house where mother used to be. [11]
- They will tell you, about here, that I have a kind of hobby for keeping people from digging and crawling into their own graves. [11]
- Are any of you younger people old enough to remember that Irishman's house on the marsh at Cambridgeport, which house he built from drain to chimney-top with his own hands? [6]
- I 'll tell you what,--the Master said,--I know something about these young fellows that come home with their heads full of "science," as they call it, and stick up their signs to tell people they know how to cure their headaches and stomach-aches. [6]
- I am sending you this line to welcome you, and to tell you that I have arranged with the furniture people to take any or all things back that you do not like, and exchange them. [9]
- Because I lent you that book, and you come to meeting, people think I'm converting you. [9]
- I mean, if you talk, won't people notice that your voice is just like Jubiter's; and mightn't it make them think of the twin they reckoned was dead, but maybe after all was hid all this time under another name? [5]
- I suggest that you stop those negotiations and put those people off two or three months. [5]
- Didn't I take you out of poverty, and make you head of all this, with people to wait on you and all the rest of it? [11]
- It is neither you nor Ulrich, who drives me hence, but the mysterious ancient curse, that pursues my people when they seek to rest; it is, it is. [10]
- In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest.--The scarcity of such people is astonishing. [5]
- I say, if you like such people, go with them. [6]
- But how little you know what true people think or feel! [11]
- As soon as you get a few thousand people together in a town, there is somebody that every sharp thing you say is sure to hit. [6]
- If nothing'll do you but a disturbance, out with it like a man ('ic)--but don't rake up old bygones and fling'em in the teeth of a passel of people that wants to be peaceable if they could git a chance. [5]
- And I tell you as I hope for happiness here and hereafter, that if Worthington succeeds in what he is trying to do, if the railroads win in this fight, there will be no mercy for the people of that state. [9]
- And even now you are not satisfied when I come back to tell you that I have money enough to snap my fingers at half these people you know. [9]
- Every year gives you a more reasoning and reasonable people to deal with. [3]
- Arrived in New York, Ed found his way to Commodore Vanderbilt's business quarters, and was ushered into a large anteroom, where a score of people were patiently awaiting their turn for a two-minute interview with the millionaire in his private office. [5]
- Caracalla had not yet shown himself to the people. [10]
- A year, two years, passed, which were as ten upon the shoulders of the old people, and then, in the dead of winter, an important thing happened. [11]
- For a hundred years we have reckoned it progress, that the people were taking part in government. [4]
- For thousands of years the story of the Exodus has lived in the minds of numberless people as something actual, and it still retains its vitality. [10]
- Besides, for two years people have believed that we have abandoned these waters, and the guards think that if we should return, the last time to choose would be these bright nights. [10]
- The first fifteen years of the nineteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people. [2]
- During the earliest years of the new century the political atmosphere had changed, the public had shown a tendency to grow restless; and everybody knows how important it is for financial operations, for prosperity, that the people should mind their own business. [9]
- A few score years ago, sick people were made to swallow burnt toads and powdered earthworms and the expressed juice of wood-lice. [6]
- Two or three years ago, in New York, with that Society there which is made up of people from all British Colonies, and from Great Britain generally, who were educated in British colleges and. [5]
- I have watched, year by year, this detestable spirit of greed, this lust for money and power creeping over our country, corrupting our people and institutions, and finally tainting the Church itself. [9]
- To some people Yankee thrift is disagreeable; to others, Southern shiftlessness is intolerable. [4]
- In February he wrote: "Our two months in Florence have been the most ridiculous time that ever even half-witted people passed. [5]
- One of them wrote home to his people, and in his letter he said, "It seemed something divine to see her and hear her. [5]
- Peacock says she wrote good letters, but apparently interested people had sagacity enough to mislay them in time. [5]
- I may be wrong, but I have an idea that when the people of this country learn how their legislatures are conducted they will want to change things. [9]
- But I shall write to him what I have today heard said by different people. [10]
- The swell people wouldn't call anybody but themselves 'clean,' and those others would drop sort of meekly into their way of talking and they wouldn't call themselves clean. [5]
- Possibly the difficulty wouldn't be so great as many people suppose. [6]
- She said she would wait awhile longer, but if at the end of six months I didn't do my duty, she'd see the thing through here among my own people. [11]
- Try as she would to keep it trim after the manner of her people, it still waved loosely on her forehead and over her ears. [11]
- I wish you would take that office, and fit it up handsomely, so that I can omit telling people that by this time you are handsomely located, when I know it is no such thing. [5]
- The freed people would surely not do more than their old proportion of it, and very probably for a time would do less, leaving an increased part to white laborers, bringing their labor into greater demand, and consequently enhancing the wages of it. [7]
- 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]
- And then what would people say? [10]
- The loyal people would not sustain or allow it. [7]
- This increase, however, would not have been possible had not these rude people spread into the adjoining districts, and worked for hire. [1]
- He wished people would mind their own business. [4]
- No; for that would imply sanity, and these were all Cooper people. [5]
- A second's thought would have convinced every one that getting out was impossible, and that the only effect of a rush would be to crash people to death. [5]
- Some people, Sir, would have been all flintiness and granite. [12]
- Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a rudimentary cleanliness among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, if the priests could be kept quiet. [5]
- It can't; it would go to pieces, if people acted from unselfish motives. [8]
- How his name would fill the world, and make people shudder! [5]
- Then Miles Hendon would cripple some of those people, and carry off his little ward, and comfort and cheer him with loving words, and the two would never be separated any more. [5]
- I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in. [5]
- I wish you would be more interested in people. [9]
- It would be worth while to pass a week or a month among the plain, average people of Stratford. [6]
- There's plenty of worse people than the nobilities. [5]
- But our great world--the rich people, were stupid, with no wish to be otherwise; they were not even curious about authors and artists. [8]
- Here was a world, here were people of whom Mona Crozier had never dreamed. [11]
- Whatever may be worked out by a criticism of the language of those resolutions, the people have never understood them as being any more than an indorsement of the compromises of 1850, and a release of our senators from voting for the Wilmot Proviso. [7]
- It was well worked in London; and bishops, statesmen, and all ports of people made a rush for the land company's shares. [5]
- He does not work, except when people are looking, and only then when the observer has a green, naturalistic look, and seems to be taking notes. [5]
- You go and work in on the good side of those revenue people and get them to take the profits and give me the tax. [5]
- It is his work if she cleaves to the religious belief of her people, if she who is a Hellene to the last drop of blood loves Egypt, and is ready to make any sacrifice for her independence and grandeur. [10]
- I think devil's work has been done last night upon those innocent poor people. [5]
- Kitty ceased her work for an instant and, looking away from him into the distance, said: "Three people said those same words to me all in one day a thousand years ago. [11]
- C. E. S. Wood at West Point --an edition of 50 copies--and distributed among popes and kings and such people. [5]
- It was a wonderful show, but the moving masses of people of all nations we saw there were a still more wonderful show. [5]
- I have often wondered that people didn't see the stuff that was in me, and give me a chance. [11]
- I do not wonder that the tropical people, where Nature never goes to sleep, give it up, and sit in lazy acquiescence. [4]
- It is no wonder that people constantly go into their neighbors' houses by mistake, just as, in spite of the Maine law, they wear away each other's hats from an evening party. [4]
- Say, do you wonder I ain't got much use for your church people? [9]
- When the old woman uses the litter the cover will be removed and people will see her; when it is closed, the most sharp-sighted can not discover who is within. [10]
- I told the woman there were some people she could be rude to with impunity. [9]
- She was a woman of the people, to adopt a popular phrase. [4]
- I grant you, without the slightest unwillingness, that they were a deal more gentle and merciful and just than were the people of Europe of that day; I grant you that they are better than their predecessors. [5]
- Bent-Anat went forward without speaking, for she did not wish to make herself known again for the sake of the people, and for Nefert's; but Paaker put himself in her way. [10]
- And so, people without a hall-mark of their own are always trying to get the loan of somebody else's. [5]
- It is quite within the possibilities that, a century hence, people would wonder and say, "How did your predecessors come to bury their great dead in this deserted place? [5]
- Never worry people with; your contritions, nor with dismal views of politics or society. [6]
- When people plead with you at this late day to quit that vice, that old callous place seems to enlarge and cover me all over like a shirt of mail. [5]
- They were people with whom good food wouldn't agree. [4]
- The dead silence with which the people in the court below had listened to him, was now broken by shrieks of rage and cries for vengeance. [10]
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