Use range in a sentence
Sentences ending with range
- From the hotel we could view the huge glacier at very close range. [5]
- These are the views they entertain in regard to it as I understand them; and all their sentiments, all their arguments and propositions, are brought within this range. [7]
- The riders were to be called in, and Oldring was to drive the herd and keep it till a certain time--I won't know when--then drive it back to the range. [13]
- You don't need to be afraid at a six-thousand-mile range. [11]
- What tremendous forces they are, if two subjects of them come within range! [6]
- Get a good range. [11]
- The highest peaks of the Karakorum range. [5]
- He was out of range. [13]
- When the lion is crippled, the jackals begin to range. [9]
- Bringing her field-glass into use, she moved it slowly from left to right, which action swept the whole herd into range. [13]
Sentences containing range two or more times
- It is, however, within the range of practical convenience to confer with the governments of States, while it is quite beyond that range to have correspondence on the subject with counties and cities. [7]
- These cliffs rose higher and higher, but from time to time, above the lower range, they could see the rugged summit of some giant of the range, though, bowed under their heavy loads, they paid small heed to it. [10]
More example sentences with the word range in them
- He will tell you that many facts are explained by studying them in the wider range of related facts to which they belong. [3]
- The artist throws you off your guard, watches you in movement and in repose, puts your face through its exercises, observes its transitions, and so gets the whole range of its expression. [6]
- If I had you in range of my nose now I would blow your brains out. [5]
- His thoughts, as yet, have no wider range than home. [12]
- I reckon my wife will want to camp in the California range, though, because most all her departed will be there, and she likes to be with folks she knows. [5]
- Among the objects which deserve special mention are the shrieking parrots and other birds and the yelping dogs in the grounds of the Society of Acclimatization,--out of the range of which the visitor will be glad to get as soon as possible. [6]
- It's quite true what foreigners say about our men,--that they live in a groove, that they haven't any range of conversation. [9]
- The upper windows were safe, however: the shots did not range so high. [11]
- The travellers' tents were pitched one sultry evening in November, between the Nile and the limestone range, in which was arrayed a long row of tombs of the period of the Pharaohs. [10]
- The other pirates were looking their last, too; and they all looked so long that they came near letting the current drift them out of the range of the island. [5]
- And in nothing was this more evident than in the range of her literary taste and judgment. [4]
- But Perrot, who was not far from the fallen brothers, suddenly made a dash within easy range of the rifles of the British, and cut Gering and two of his companions off from the main body. [11]
- Cheyne (pronounced "Chainie") Walk is a somewhat extended range of buildings. [6]
- It has shown us how bodies stand affected to each other through an almost boundless range of combinations. [3]
- Within easy range, Trafford swung his gun shoulder-wards to fire, but at that instant a cloud of snow rose up between him and his quarry so that they all were blinded. [11]
- The range was too short; and the bear wouldn't wait for me to examine the thermometer, and note the direction of the wind. [4]
- We shall have to run the chances of rifles along the shore at a range something short, but we have done that before, at the Barricades, eh, Carbourd? [11]
- He is apt to magnify his calling, to make much of any symptom which will bring a patient within range of his battery of remedies. [6]
- Yes, at all times and in all circumstances they could express as by print every shade of the wide range of her moods. [5]
- Out of these three points--drawing within the range of popular sovereignty the question of the Lecompton Constitution--he makes his principal assault. [7]
- But you sell thousands of my moss-backed old books every year--the youngest of them being books that range from fifteen to twenty-seven years old, and the oldest reaching back to thirty-five and forty. [5]
- I did not think Gordineer could make it; I was not sure that I could--the wind was blowing and the range was long. [11]
- I wish the thing done in the most speedy way, so that when done it be within the range of the late proclamation on the subject. [7]
- In this instance they set up the poor criminals at long range, like so many targets, and practiced on them--kept them hopping about and dodging bullets for half an hour before they managed to drive the center. [5]
- And it was there, I think, that the growing day and the early sun exposed the distant range called the Blue Mountains. [5]
- At this juncture there came a giggle from within that made him turn scarlet, and he scarcely heard Miss Lucretia offering to discuss the whole range of letters. [9]
- Will they get there and fire the bridge or will the French get within grapeshot range and wipe them out? [2]
- Was there in the whole range of life one easy topic which they might share in common? [9]
- His selection covered the whole range of legitimate literature. [5]
- When we reached the summit, the mist came boiling up after us, rising like a thick wall to the sky, and hiding all that great mountain range, the Vallais Alps, from which we had come, and which we hoped to see from this point. [4]
- You may range the seas from the Yugon Strait to the Erebus volcano, and you will find no such landing-place for imps or men as that field of rocks on the southeast corner of Jersey called, with a malicious irony, the Bane des Violets. [11]
- They were at the same time obliged to exercise the greatest caution, and collected their forces of young men in the valleys that lay hidden in the long range of coast-hills. [10]
- Near us, in the same range, were Brown's Hotel and Batt's Hotel, both widely known to the temporary residents of London. [6]
- She thought of the robin, of the tree whose secrets he had learned, of a mental range including even that medley of human beings amongst whom she lived. [9]
- The funds of the Public Library of Arrowhead Village allowed the managers to purchase many books out of the common range of reading. [6]
- I asked him the other day what he thought most about in his wide range of studies. [6]
- It lies at the foot of a range of hills, the loftiest of which is over a thousand feet in height. [6]
- The range of the conversation upon which they at length embarked was a tacit acknowledgment of a relationship which now united four persons who, six months before, would have believed themselves to have had nothing in common. [9]
- It had all the characteristics of the range rider's--the leanness, the red burn of the sun, and the set changelessness that came from years of silence and solitude. [13]
- The fault of the bourgeoisie novels, of which Heine complains, is not that they treated of one class only, and excluded a higher social range, but that they treated it without art and without ideality. [4]
- These princes of the blood should range in rank from Lieutenant-General up to Field Marshal, and be gorgeously salaried and equipped and fed by the state. [5]
- The prisoners were taken out of their dungeon and led across a desert under the burning sun, and past rocks of strange forms, until they reached a range of mountains with a colony of huts at its base. [10]
- After the other Swiss lakes, Constance is tame, except at the southern end, beyond which rise the Appenzell range and the wooded peaks of the Bavarian hills. [4]
- These reminiscences from surrounding objects came up unexpectedly, of themselves: and have a right here, as showing how wide is the range of intelligence in the clerical body thus accidentally represented in a single library making no special pretensions. [6]
- His interest had suddenly become concentrated upon the banker's new demeanour, and he would not have thought it within the range of possibility that a man could listen to such a revelation concerning himself without the betrayal of some feeling. [9]
- Meanwhile, the troops stood at a respectful distance, out of the range of Nic's firing, awaiting developments. [11]
- Together they crept stealthily within range of the cattle. [11]
- A company of soldiers had encamped in front of the tavern, and the wine of Kbakem, which was grown close by, on the eastern declivity of the Libyan range, had an excellent savor. [10]
- As they paddled slowly along this lake, keeping time to their songs with the paddles, there suddenly grew out of the distance a great flotilla of canoes with tall prows, and behind them a range of islands which they had not before seen. [11]
- Calhoun saved the situation there; and when his hounds arrive at Salem he will range over the whole country. [11]
- It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects that unfit a man for military service, and all the intellectual ones that limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. [6]
- This expression, as she used it in her thoughts, seems rather foreign to her habits, but there was room in her large brain for a wide range of illustrations and an ample vocabulary. [6]
- From this peep-hole she studied the character and destination of all the passers-by that came within range of her vision, and made her comments and deductions, partly to herself, but for the benefit of those who might be listening. [4]
- His head spun round like a water-fly, and out of the range of Dicky's pistol he shrieked to the crowd on the shore. [11]
- The surface of Roan is uneven, and has no one culminating peak that commands the country, like the peak of Mount Washington, but several eminences within its range of probably a mile and a half, where various views can be had. [4]
- The full-moon had risen; her soft light fell on the Libyan range of mountains vanishing on the western horizon, and in the north the shimmer of the Mediterranean could faintly be discerned. [10]
- Bayonets dripped red, rifles were fired at hand-to-hand range, men clubbed their guns and fought as men fought in the days when the only fighting was man to man, or one man to many men. [11]
- When at close range, he raised his gun to fire again, but the moose rose suddenly, and with a wild bellowing sound rushed at Gregory, who knew full well that a straight stroke from those hoofs would end his moose-hunting days. [11]
- There was a range of sensibilities of which Lurida knew far less than she did of those many and difficult studies which had absorbed her vital forces. [6]
- Incredible is the range of human emotion! [9]
- I should highly prize the advantages to be gained in an extended range of observation; but I tremble at the thought of the price I must necessarily pay in mental distress and physical wear and tear. [14]
- Suddenly, as I pressed him, he shifted ground, and there was Lewis standing within range of my eye. [9]
- It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range, so to speak; and if the ablest of them will only live long enough, and keep on writing, there is no pop-gun that cannot reach him. [6]
- There are twelve peaks in this range higher than Mount Washington, and if we add those in the Great Smoky Mountains which overtop it, there are some twenty in this State higher than the granite giant of New Hampshire. [4]
- In the pleasurable pain of such a mood he drew his bow across the strings with a sweeping stroke, and then, for an instant, he ran hither and thither on the strings testing the quality and finding the range and capacity of the instrument. [11]
- It crossed the outlying spurs of the Tmolus range of mountains. [10]
- It was an open door into a world where emotion is expressed, where imagination can range, where love and longing find a language, where imagery is given to every noble and suppressed passion of the soul, where every aspiration finds wings. [4]
- From this lake one sees the whole upper range of Lafayette, gray and purple against the sky. [4]
- Yet she talked on gaily to her guests until the men returned from their cigars; as though Penalty and Nemesis were outside even the range of her imagination; as though she could not hear the snap of the handcuffs on Rudyard's--or Ian's--wrists. [11]
- The hairless patches on a scalded dog are preferred by the fleas of Constantinople to a wider range on a healthier dog; and the exposed places suit the fleas exactly. [5]
- The most conspicuous of these is Mount Pisgah, eighteen miles distant to the southwest, a pyramid of the Balsam range, 5757 feet high. [4]
- The most conspicuous of the three parts of this short range is over four thousand seven hundred feet above the Bay of Naples, and the highest land on it. [4]
- The free range of the forests suggests endless possibilities of exploration and possession. [4]
- What a range of subjects from "The Problem" and "Uriel" and "Forerunners" to "The Humble-Bee" and "The Titmouse! [6]
- The larger aim of scientific training is to furnish you with principles to which you will be able to refer isolated facts, and so bring these within the range of recorded experience. [3]
- I moved out of range --I began to feel in the way. [5]
- From the balcony of our rooms at the Bellevue, the long range of the Bernese Oberland shows its white summits for a moment in the slant sunshine, and then the clouds shut down, not to lift again for two days. [4]
- In the course of a single day she had lived a lifetime, exhausted the range of human experience, until now she was powerless to feel any more. [9]
- I was aware of a man standing, tall and straight, just out of range of the candles' rays. [9]
- In a kind of a dream she raised the pistol up--up--up, till I could see it was just out of range of his head, and she fired. [11]
- But at eleven o'clock the conflagration had traveled beyond our range of vision, and then darkness stole down upon the landscape again. [5]
- One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his bookshelves. [6]
- This scrip is not going to circulate over an extensive range of country, but will be confined chiefly to the vicinity of the canal. [7]
- They will pursue no orderly system of agriculture or horticulture, but range from topic to topic, according to the weather and the progress of the weeds, which may drive me from one corner of the garden to the other. [4]
- Below Castellamare, the mountain range of the Great St. Angelo (an offshoot of the Apennines) runs across the peninsula, and cuts off that portion of it which we have to consider. [4]
- It has still more serious significance to-day, when in every profession, in every branch of human knowledge, special acquirements, special skill have greatly tended to limit the range of men's thoughts and working faculties. [6]
- Emerson had read more or less thoroughly through a very wide range of authors. [6]
- The range is more limited in London. [4]
- Cannon and musketry, mingling together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes of Lannes' sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. [2]
- By this latter means the Trigla produces pure and long-drawn sounds which range over nearly an octave. [1]
- I do not mean to say that every man who stands within that range positively asserts that it is right. [7]
- That night he made two more trips to Oldring's range, and again on the following night, and yet another on the next. [13]
- There was the lurid sky line of the wooded range along the base of which they were crawling. [5]
- It is the level surface of a hill, sheltered on the east by higher peaks, and on the north by the more distant range of Great St. Angelo, across the valley, and is one of the most extraordinarily fertile plots of ground I ever saw. [4]
- Cooke, who had less range than Kemble, completely satisfied Irving as Iago. [4]
- Over this rich landscape hung a deep blue, perfectly cloudless sky, bounded on its southern horizon by the snowy peaks of the Tmolus mountains, and on the west by the Sipylus range of hills, which gave a bluish shimmer in the distance. [10]
- But you don't know that feller Crewe--he's a full-size cyclone when he gets started, and nothin' but a range of mountains could stop him. [9]
- You can easily kill him at any range with your profanity. [5]
- During the march Joshua kept the warriors together as closely as though an attack might be expected; profiting meanwhile by every moment to give the men and their captains instructions for the coming battle, to inspect them, and range their ranks in closer order. [10]
- He began to joke with Mrs. Dryfoos, and to match rheumatisms with her, and he included all the ladies in the range of appropriate pleasantries. [8]
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