Use places in a sentence
Sentences ending with places
- They always put your other boots into inaccessible places. [5]
- Then I'll take you to far places. [13]
- Every year some would die and others become incapacitated by age and infirmity; there would be no new ones to take their places. [5]
- If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy--if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. [5]
- He signed the will in three places. [5]
- These were days when the soldier of fortune mounted to high places. [11]
- Hell and heaven were definite places. [9]
- And then you want the applause in the right places. [5]
- Quite the best view, she declared, had been obtained from the third tier of places. [10]
- He appears and vanishes at will, is as alert as he is rich, sees and hears everything, and manages to secure the best places. [10]
Short sentences using places
- They took their places. [5]
- Then let them change places. [6]
- We took our appointed places. [5]
- To your places! [5]
- Two places, diligence. [4]
Sentences containing places two or more times
- The river lies to the right of it, in places, and to the left of it in other places. [5]
- There are no such surprises in our oldest places as one finds in Chester, or Tewkesbury, or Stratford, or Salisbury, and I have no doubt in scores or hundreds of similar places which I have never visited. [6]
- They had no sooner taken their places than, from a little side door near the vestry, there entered the Seigneur Duvarney and Alixe, who, coming down slowly, took places very near the chancel steps. [11]
- There was freckled places on the ground where the light sifted down through the leaves, and the freckled places swapped about a little, showing there was a little breeze up there. [5]
- Perpendicular walls from one to three thousand feet high guarded the way, and were sumptuously plumed with varied foliage, in places, and in places swathed in waving ferns. [5]
- At these places long detours were necessary, on steep hillsides and through gullies, over treacherous sink-holes in the rocks, through quaggy places, heaps of brush, and rotten logs. [4]
- If they stay in their old places, they jostle no white laborers; if they leave their old places, they leave them open to white laborers. [7]
- The Neckar is in many places so narrow that a person can throw a dog across it, if he has one; when it is also sharply curved in such places, the raftsman has to do some pretty nice snug piloting to make the turns. [5]
- Not everywhere; but in favorite places, here and there, where the river is wide and shoal-like Plum Point, and Stack Island, and so on-- places they call alligator beds. [5]
- When I had gone half a mile, my opinion of the character of the pools was unchanged: never were there such places for trout; but the trout were out of their places. [4]
More example sentences with the word places in them
- But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
- 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]
- I also authorize you, by an order, or in what form you choose, to suspend all operations on the Treasury trade permits, in all places southeastward of the Alleghenies. [7]
- I will take you to all the queer places I love. [9]
- He places me wrong in spite of all I can tell him, though I repeat it again and again, insisting that I have no difference with him upon this subject. [7]
- The stones are worn and smooth, and pushed apart in places, so that the road has the exact appearance of those ancient paved highways leading out of Rome which one sees in pictures. [5]
- The twenty-four sharpshooters with discharged muskets, standing in the center of the circle, ran back to their places as the companies passed by. [2]
- I do not wish to see any more places like Esdraelon, where the ground is level and people can gallop. [5]
- There was a wild consultation, and afterwards a hurrying to and fro and a feverish gathering up of razors from obscure places and a ransacking for soap. [5]
- One reason, perhaps, why they do not care to go to places of worship is that they are liable to hear the questions they know something about handled in sermons by those who know very much less about them. [6]
- None but those whose lives are lived in lonely places can be so acute, so sensitive to sound. [11]
- An effete celebrity, who would never be heard of again in the great places until the funeral sermon waked up his memory for one parting spasm, finds himself in full flavor of renown a little farther back from the changing winds of the sea-coast. [6]
- There were those who spoke of her wanderings in lonely places as an unsafe exposure. [6]
- In a little while we were speeding through the streets of Paris and delightfully recognizing certain names and places with which books had long ago made us familiar. [5]
- The next things which interest us when we travel are, first, the people; next, the novelties; and finally the history of the places and countries visited. [5]
- Among the places which I saw in my first visit was Longford Castle, the seat of the Earl of Radnor. [6]
- In those animals which have this sense highly developed, such as dogs and horses, the recollection of persons and of places is strongly associated with their odour; and we can thus perhaps understand how it is, as Dr. Maudsley has truly remarked (37. [1]
- In all places where italics occur, they are mine: After the execution of the five men on the 14th of January, the Vigilantes considered that their work was nearly ended. [5]
- 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]
- It was expected when the District was made out of these two that the result would be something quite extraordinary in the places of public entertainment. [4]
- All these places were very far from the villa. [10]
- The mossless spots were places where repairs had been made by the insertion of bright new masses of yellow straw. [5]
- Along the streets were places of torment and torture exceedingly ingenious and disagreeable. [4]
- Though the streets were full, the town did not seem any less deserted; and the early marketers had only come to life for a day, revisiting the places that once they thronged. [4]
- So Master Dick went off on his travels, which led him into strange places and stranger company. [6]
- I know full well that many readers would be disappointed if I did not mention some of the grand places and bring in some of the great names that lend their lustre to London society. [6]
- The more I weakened, the more stubbornly you fastened on to those particular sins; till at last the places on my person that represent those vices became as callous as shark-skin. [5]
- At each place we stop there are always three, four, or more dug-outs arriving, bringing information of stock in other places in need. [5]
- On the whole, we say that people get shaken into their right places, and the predetermined vocation is often a mistake. [4]
- They made their way without difficulty to the seats reserved for the senators' families, and when they had taken their places, the young man replied but briefly to the sympathetic inquiries as to his health which were addressed to him by his acquaintances. [10]
- I inquired the way to the office of the conductor: it was closed, but would soon be open, and I waited; and at length the official, a stout Frenchman, appeared, and I secured places in the interior, the only ones to be had to Visp. [4]
- Is there any way for us Protestants, when love for the dead longs to find expression in action, except to adorn with flowers the places which contain their earthly remains? [10]
- After the dinner was the ball, and that ended, they took their places at the windows of a roam that looked out upon a square, where a platform was raised and a vast crowd was assembled to see the king's bears fight with greyhounds. [4]
- This large sum was reached by assuming that he was doing service at several different places, and in several different capacities in the same place, all at the same time. [7]
- The Regent Ani was present, and sat on Ameni's right at the top of the centre high-table at which several places were unoccupied; for the prophets and the initiated of the temple of Amon had excused themselves from being present. [10]
- The sick man was given something to drink, there was a stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service continued. [2]
- That west wind was fresh, cool, fragrant, and it carried a sweet, strange burden of far-off things--tidings of life in other climes, of sunshine asleep on other walls--of other places where reigned peace. [13]
- We knew she was being overrun with applications for places in it, and that these applications were backed by great names and weighty influence, whereas we had nothing of the sort to recommend us. [5]
- The Dog Show was another event to which they looked forward, when they migrated to New York and put up at the country places of their friends. [9]
- For days he wandered in lonely places, thinking, thinking, thinking --trying to get his bearings. [5]
- The latter, though victorious over their predecessors, may not have become better adapted for all places in the economy of nature. [1]
- The plan worked very well, the competition for the places was hot. [5]
- If I wrote verses I would try to bring it in, and I suppose people would start up in a dozen places, and say, "Oh, that bee-hive simile is mine,--and besides, did not Mr. Bayard Taylor call the snowflakes 'white bees'? [6]
- Nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, returned home just before dinner. [2]
- A delicacy came upon him, and more and more he withdrew himself to his organ, and to those lofty and lonely places where he could see--and hear--the Golden Pipes boom softly over the valley. [11]
- They all took up their places. [2]
- I could fill up their places easy enough, for ever since that first book was wrote that called people's attention to my boarding-house, I've had more wanting to come than I wanted to keep. [6]
- Jim, drunken and unreliable, with broken will and fighting to find himself--the waste places were for him, until he was the master of his will and emotions. [11]
- Yet it was undeniable that the artist and Marion had a common taste for hunting out picturesque places in the wood-paths, among the rocks, and on the edges of precipices, and they dragged the rest of the party many a mile through wildernesses of beauty. [4]
- One of the unavoidable consequences of the present insurrection is the entire suppression in many places of all the ordinary means of administering civil justice by the officers and in the forms of existing law. [7]
- He was the type of man which is inevitably impelled into places of trust. [9]
- Doctor, there was two places in the old carpet that was all threadbare, where his knees had worn 'em. [6]
- I have to tumble them over and over, and open them in a hundred places, and sometimes cut the leaves here and there, to find what I think about this and that. [6]
- It is a truism to say that the genuine creations in fiction take their places in general apprehension with historical characters, and sometimes they live more vividly on the printed page and on canvas than the others in their pale, contradictory, and incomplete lives. [4]
- Is it the true test of the soundness of a doctrine that in some places people won't let you proclaim it? [7]
- The grotto was tricked out in the usual tasteless style observable in all the holy places of Palestine. [5]
- Good places in trees and seats on rail fences sold for half a dollar apiece; lemonade and gingerbread-stands had great prosperity. [5]
- The writer had travelled much; had resided in Italy, among other places. [6]
- A more authentic tradition, aided by the geography of the country, places the pit in Dothan, some two days' journey from here. [5]
- There is a tradition that Island 37 was one of the principal abiding places of the once celebrated 'Murel's Gang. [5]
- It happens only too often that Epicurus is confounded with Aristippus, who places sensual pleasure above intellectual enjoyment, as he holds that bodily pain is harder to endure than mental anguish. [10]
- They had come to-day from many mysterious (and therefore delightful) places which Honora knew only by name, and some had driven the twenty-five odd miles from the bunting community of Banbury in coaches and even those new and marvellous importations--French automobiles. [9]
- It hurt her to think that while she lived only in the thought of him, he was living a real life, seeing new places and new people that interested him. [2]
- And temptations come to them in places where they don't look for them, and from persons they never thought of as tempters. [6]
- I went around to the saloons an' the stores an' the loafin' places yesterday. [13]
- We just want to study the people and the government, and see the principal places. [4]
- We all desired to secure places in the diligence, which was likely to be full, as is usually the case when a railway discharges itself into a postroad. [4]
- It is difficult to say exactly how culture can extend its influence into places uncongenial and to people indifferent to it, but I will try and illustrate what I mean by an example or two. [4]
- He had come to represent to her the great thing she had missed in life, missed by feverish searching in the wrong places, digging for gold where the ground had glittered. [9]
- He was longing to relate at full length, to his friends and companions, the wonderful and important thing that had happened; but he would not approach the subject while they took their places in his presence. [10]
- We were anxious to reach it, we were glad to leave it; we note as to all these places that our joy at departing always exceeds that on arriving, which is a merciful provision of nature for people who must keep moving. [4]
- He asked us to put our hands on the dishes and hold them in their places a moment--one of them was a large oval dish with a portly roast on it. [5]
- I was attending to my business, and couldn't have my eyes in twenty places at once, like a peacock, no more than you could. [12]
- It is cheerful to meet a shipmate in these out-of-the-way places and compare notes with him. [5]
- From October, 1821, to May, 1822, he eat ten rations a day in Michigan, ten rations a day here in Washington, and near five dollars' worth a day on the road between the two places! [7]
- She was permitted to listen only, and she was most strongly attracted to the very places where she might expect to hear rebellious words and proposals. [10]
- If one wishes to know the magic of names, let him visit the places made memorable by the lives of the illustrious men of the past in the Old World. [6]
- It sought only to hold the public places and property not already wrested from the government, and to collect the revenue, relying for the rest on time, discussion, and the ballot-box. [7]
- Two places next to him remained vacant, while on the side by the Roman reclined the brave and prudent Hierax, the friend of Ptolemy Euergetes and his most faithful follower. [10]
- He was trying to give his impressions of Silverdale, in comparison to country places abroad, while Mrs. Robert regarded him enigmatically, and Susan sympathetically. [9]
- Do not try to find those places, else you will mar them further by trying to better them. [5]
- I was obliged to exert the utmost care and caution, for in many places the road was not two yards wide, and often the lower side of it sloped away in slanting precipices eight and even nine feet deep. [5]
- The men began to choose partners and take their places for the polonaise. [2]
- And we ought to be more thankful than we are that there are so many desolate and wearisome and fantastic places, and so many tiresome and unattractive people in this lovely world. [4]
- If you want to be facetious, young man, there are times and places more fitting. [5]
- As they drove through the roads and in and out of the well-kept places, everybody they met had a bow and a smile for her friend--a greeting such as people give to those for whom they have only good-will. [9]
- It is about three-quarters of a mile long, and in places is as much as half a mile wide. [5]
- The water was three or four foot deep on the island in the low places and on the Illinois bottom. [5]
- And by the thousands and tens of thousands they had passed from here to the places of blood beyond. [9]
- They saw the thousand places where cities could be made, and built their fires on the sites of them, and camped a day, and were gone, leaving them waiting and barren as before. [11]
- Sometimes Augusta Maturin thought of Janet as a wildflower--one of the rare, shy ones, hiding under its leaves; sprung up in Hampton, of all places, crushed by a heedless foot, yet miraculously not destroyed, and already pushing forth new and eager tendrils. [9]
- In England, in those places we saw, it seemed natural enough, but in America--! [9]
- I always get those places mixed up. [8]
- He's one of those foreigners that come here from places where they've never had a decent meal's victuals in their lives, and as soon as they get their stomachs full, they begin to make trouble between our people and their hands. [8]
- The witch observed this; she took breath and went on: "You lords, who walk in high places, do not know how things go on in the depths beneath you; you do not choose to know. [10]
- Women have made this world one of the most beautiful places of residence to be conceived. [4]
- We have so thinned our line to get troops for other places that it was broken yesterday at Front Royal, with a probable loss to us of one regiment infantry, two Companies cavalry, putting General Banks in some peril. [7]
- I cannot but think that the White Mountains are cheapened a little by the facilities of travel and the multiplication of excellent places of entertainment. [4]
- You can see things there that you want to see at other places to which you can't go. [4]
- With one accord they rose in their places and swore over bread and a drop of blood of their chief that they would not sheathe their swords again till a thousand of Boonda Broke's and the Dakoon's men lay where their own kinsmen had fallen. [11]
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