Use place in a sentence
Sentences starting with place
- Place just swarming with Californians--army contracts. [9]
- Place the monument where you choose. [10]
- Place the stacks a thousand miles apart, he would stand stock-still midway between them, and eat them both at once, and the green grass along the line would be apt to suffer some, too, at the same time. [7]
- Place of birth? [5]
Sentences ending with place
- You can settle yourselves in a hundred different ways in New York, that is one merit of the place. [8]
- But only put yourself in my place. [10]
- And how did you happen to light in this place? [5]
- I'm wonderin' how you ever found this place. [13]
- Then I'll find you another place. [2]
- Just a hundred years ago a European rushed in behind the bearers and fed his brutal curiosity with a glimpse of the forbidden mysteries of the place. [5]
- It came this year just at the right moment, for here was a distinguished stranger visiting in the place. [6]
- Dese las' skifts wuz full o' ladies en genlmen a-goin' over for to see de place. [5]
- Every body has written about the Grotto del Cane and its poisonous vapors, from Pliny down to Smith, and every tourist has held a dog over its floor by the legs to test the capabilities of the place. [5]
- Stand where you would, or change your position as often as you pleased, you were always a centre from which radiated a dozen long archways and colonnades that lost themselves in distance and the sombre twilight of the place. [5]
Short sentences using place
- Certainly I place you now. [9]
- My place is with thee. [11]
- It was a wild place. [11]
- It was a well-lighted place. [5]
- Was the place watched? [9]
- The place certainly was thronged. [4]
- No particular place was intended. [6]
- Every place isn't Viking. [11]
- What place is this? [9]
- Your place is there. [11]
Sentences containing place two or more times
- Nobody could tell you how to find any place in the kingdom, for nobody ever went intentionally to any place, but only struck it by accident in his wanderings, and then generally left it without thinking to inquire what its name was. [5]
- Wheresoever you place woman, sir--in whatever position or estate--she is an ornament to the place she occupies, and a treasure to the world. [5]
- He fingered them with incredible rapidity--in fact, he pushed them from place to place as fast as a musical professor's fingers travel over the keys of a piano. [5]
- The Maryland aristocrat with his town place and his country place was indeed a parallel of the patrician at home. [9]
- She had remained with him for hours, leaving her place at his side merely to give him his medicine, or, with her mother's aid, place poultices on his wounds. [10]
- When a Senator, whose place is in Washington moving among the Great and guiding the destinies of the nation, condescends to mingle among the people and accept the hospitalities of such a place as Hawkeye, the honor is not considered a light one. [5]
- The distance at which the action took place [the letter was left on a shelf twenty-four feet from the place where I was sitting] shows this charge to have been of notable intensity. [6]
- Gawdor thought we were going for gold, because I had said I knew a place in the north where there was gold in a river--I know the place, but that is no matter. [11]
- It reads this way: "The place of generation must break to give place to the generated; but the influence spreads out beyond the fragments, and is greater thus than in the mass--neither matter nor mind can be destroyed. [11]
- Emerson's father, however, was very methodical, according to Dr. Lowell, and had "a place for everything, and everything in its place. [6]
More example sentences with the word place in them
- But I believe ze Baron think Morro good place for them jus' the sem. [9]
- Can you put yourself in the man's place and tell me what he felt and what he thought? [5]
- Had you uttered your real opinion in the first place, the wine would have tasted better to us both. [10]
- You'll be in your proper place there! [10]
- To be in your place when you sing to the Emperor Charles again! [10]
- Kandaules may take your place to-morrow, but give hum the strictest orders, and say that the slightest neglect will put his life in danger.--Now depart. [10]
- The one where your place is is the best for you. [6]
- You must take your place in the world where your lot is cast. [4]
- Then you value your place in heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can, with the offer I make, get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' work. [7]
- You were dismissed your place by the mistress of this Manor. [11]
- I have lived your peaceful neighbour under great provocation, for your treatment would have done me harm if my place were less secure. [11]
- If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. [5]
- It seems that your man, Prescott, doesn't come from Brampton, in the first place, and Grant says that while he likes soldiers, he hasn't any use for the kind that want to lie down and make the government support 'em. [9]
- This place is your home, and dearer to you than any other, so build yourself a snug nest here with the person you have in mind. [10]
- You may shake your head, but I would take your place quickly and with joyous courage. [10]
- This place is your daughter's for her to do what she chooses with it, and I think she ought to sell it. [11]
- What romps we youngsters had about the old place whilst our elders talked their politics. [9]
- Two of the younger men Honora recognized with a start, but for a moment she could not place them--until suddenly she remembered that she had seen them on her wedding trip at Hot Springs. [9]
- One of their young men had stayed away, and, in endeavoring to overtake them, came to the place where the head was hung up. [5]
- Even as a young lad, his father's notable place in the colony, and the freedom and gaiety of life in Quebec and Montreal, had drawn upon him a notice which was as much a promise of the future as an accent of the present. [11]
- 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]
- What straggles of young ambition, finding no place for its energies, or feeling its incapacity to reach the ideal towards which it was striving! [6]
- I'm not blaming you--in your place I'd be the same, I'm sure. [9]
- P. S.--I beg you to remember that America is a good place for a young man to live in and succeed. [11]
- And I command you to assign a place in London whence you may be reached. [9]
- I was watching you this morning, and you were so utterly out of place in those surroundings. [9]
- Let me remind you that your doing so, at our instance, will place you in a safe and comfortable position--your present one is not desirable--and cannot injure your brother; for against him and you we have quite sufficient evidence (as you hear) already. [12]
- Another one tells you that this is an exaggeration; that the two chief villages, Port Louis and Curepipe, fall short of heavenly perfection; that nobody lives in Port Louis except upon compulsion, and that Curepipe is the wettest and rainiest place in the world. [5]
- In any case, you must be in your place before I come. [10]
- But no matter, you know the name of the place now. [5]
- Before you leave you have to arrange some place to go. [9]
- The labour which you have shirked, which is now hidden from you, will be disclosed, you will justify your existence by taking your place as an element of the community. [9]
- I suppose that you have done me this kindness in connection with the action of the Baltimore convention, which has recently taken place, and with which, of course, I am very well satisfied. [7]
- Only I thought you had struck out a new idea, and invented a scheme that was going to revolutionize the timeworn and ineffectual methods of the--" He stopped, and turned to Blake, who was happy now that another had taken his place on the gridiron. [5]
- But first, when you die, we will put you way down in de leetla warm house in de ground, on de side of de hill, in de Parish of Bon'venture, because it is de only place for a gipsy like Vanne Castine. [11]
- There's a place you could hide by the river where no one could ever find you," she said, and left the room. [11]
- May I offer you a place in my boat, or do you propose remaining here to assist at the festival and not starting till to-morrow morning? [10]
- They have not yet succeeded in filling her place, and I think it more than likely that you can get it. [9]
- She is thirteen years younger than Cleopatra, but her mistress holds the first place in her heart also. [10]
- It is two years since I last saw her; at our place we never have time to leave work till it is dark. [10]
- In all the years Krool had been in England he had never been inside a place of worship or given any sign of that fanaticism which, all at once, he made manifest. [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]
- The very next year he stood in the place of his father who fell at Ascalon, deeply lamented. [10]
- But no,--everything went wrong we had only flying trips here and there in place of the leisurely ones which we had planned. [5]
- The cannonshots had wounded him fatally, he had crept to that unfriendly place in the fog, and there, surrounded by his enemies and in constant danger of detection, he had wasted away with hunger and suffering till death gave him peace. [5]
- I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more. [5]
- He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me. [5]
- Very often she would wander off by day, always without a companion, bringing home with her a nest, a flower, or even a more questionable trophy of her ramble, such as showed that there was no place where she was afraid to venture. [6]
- He thought they would then place troops at his disposal, with which he intended to impose upon them by making a few successful sallies at first. [10]
- Later, perhaps, they would relent and see something of their friends, and throw open again the gates of a beautiful place long closed to the world. [9]
- A scholar who would not leave his garret and his books to take a place in a business house at a large salary. [5]
- He said he would lose his place if this deadly telegram was sent, and he might never get another. [5]
- I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell. [5]
- Yet a cat would have liked that place. [5]
- This horrid man would have gone off with you to Asquith or somewhere else, with handcuffs on your wrists; for it isn't a detective's place to take evidence, Mr. Crocker says. [9]
- Such a place would give distinction to the city, and compel foreigners to recognize the high civilization of America. [4]
- Consequently, no boatmen would consent to pass the cave at night; the peasants shunned the place, even in the daytime. [5]
- You say you would come down from your high place, you would give up your worldly honours, for me. [11]
- But then, perhaps, would come a letter from some quiet body in some out-of-the-way place, which showed me that I had said something which another had often felt but never said, or told the secret of another's heart in unburdening my own. [6]
- Which of you would be willing to take his place, if you reject his guidance. [10]
- Janet and Lise would be growing up, there would be young men, and no place to see them save the sidewalks. [9]
- She thought it would be delightful, and promised to wait for me at a certain place outside of the city. [10]
- But no, that would be common sense--and out of place in a government. [5]
- I said it would be a good idea to get some more garrisons to help him; but they said no, he had nothing to do but hold the place, and he was competent to do that, had done it two years already. [5]
- You say you would almost give your place in heaven for seventy or eighty dollars. [7]
- Two other episodes worthy of a place in this act of the drama occurred that morning, and one had to do with Ephraim. [9]
- The furniture is worth $10,000 or $12,000 and must not be jammed into any kind of a place and left unattended to for a year. [5]
- It was another world, where sin and sorrow never came; a tranquil place of rest, where nothing evil entered. [12]
- He began his work, but the attractions of the place were too strong for him, and he got up and went drifting about, fascinated; also amazed. [5]
- They did the work better; a warrior has a soft place in his heart for a beautiful woman. [11]
- As the days wore into months, Monsieur Vigo's place very naturally became the headquarters for our army, if army it might be called. [9]
- I have no words to describe what I went through in that vile, foul-smelling place. [9]
- Hodder recalled the words Mr. Bentley had spoken, "It is her place. [9]
- Grafton had a word and a smile for every one about the old place, but little else, being, as he said, but a younger son and a poor man. [9]
- It was a wonderfully still place to sleep in. [5]
- He must have witnessed something very terrible, for his face was as pale as death, and his usually confident and swaggering manner had given place to a stricken and care-worn air. [10]
- He is now without money or place, but as usual appears to worry least of all of us, and still reads his damned Tasso for amusement. [9]
- She will die without knowing he can't leave that place. [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]
- You are satisfied with your place, Lugley? [11]
- 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]
- Cups filled high with wine now circulated among the mad-cap mystics; even Melissa refreshed herself, handing the beaker to her lover, and Diodoros raised to his mouth that place on the rim which her lips had touched. [10]
- Barbara was familiar with this flourishing place, above which proudly towered the Trausnitzburg, for here lived her uncle Wolfgang Lorberer, who had married her mother's sister, and was a member of the city Council. [10]
- History is strewn with the wreck of popular delusions, but always in place of them have come realizations more astonishing than the wildest fancies of the dreamers. [4]
- Rostov, in common with the whole army from which he came, was far from having experienced the change of feeling toward Napoleon and the French--who from being foes had suddenly become friends--that had taken place at headquarters and in Boris. [2]
- Side by side with the marble sarcophagus, or those of coarser stone, were wooden coffins and mummy-cases, with a place at the head for the portrait of the deceased. [10]
- The place reeks with smugness, vanity, and drudgery. [11]
- He had quarrelled with North, lost his place on the Admiralty, and presently the King had made him a Lord of the Treasury, tho' more out of fear than love. [9]
- Some summer insect, with no escape into the air, flew blindly to and fro, beating its body against the walls and ceiling, and filling the silent place with murmurs. [12]
- He was haunted with many anxieties; in the first place, Ruth was overtaxing her strength in her hospital labors, and Philip felt as if he must move heaven and earth to save her from such toil and suffering. [5]
- Will you dine with Lady Carlisle in St. James's Place next Friday? [9]
- Only Count Orlov-Denisov with his Cossacks (the least important detachment of all) got to his appointed place at the right time. [2]
- The unschooled gentlemen with him roared with laughter at his sallies, and they came to the place of meeting as though to a summer feast. [11]
- He mopped it with a dark-red handkerchief, stared at everything in the place save the gentleman in front of him, and wondered whether he had ever in his life been so uncomfortable. [9]
- I came home with a broken hip-bone, tolerably patched up, and again, a few years later, I could not keep still in one place. [10]
- She had submitted with a bleeding heart and, to place him in the path of fortune, had inflicted the deepest wounds upon her own soul. [10]
- So it is with "science" out of place. [6]
- Then she asked, wistfully, "Was you out at the old place, Jacob? [8]
- The Emperor Charles wished to place her in safe quarters up here, while he himself had taken lodgings in the modest house of a Schwaiger--a small farmer who tilled his own garden and land in the valley below. [10]
- He had no wish to hear the interview which must take place between the two. [11]
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