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Sentences ending with sense

Poets are never young, in one sense. [6]
Let me remind you of a curious fact with reference to the seat of the musical sense. [6]
I heard his words distinctly, but at first lacked the faculty of stringing them together, or rather of extracting their collective sense. [9]
I use the word in that sense. [5]
But Judge Douglas will have it that all hands must take this extraordinary decision, made under these extraordinary circumstances, and give their vote in Congress in accordance with it, yield to it, and obey it in every possible sense. [7]
A neighbour he was, but more in a Scriptural than social sense. [11]
On the letter-head was printed "The United Northeastern Railroads," and Mr. Austen Vane was informed that, by direction of the president, the enclosed was sent to him in an entirely complimentary sense. [9]
True, my character was not yet steeled sufficiently to resist every temptation, but I no longer need fear the danger of crossing the barrier which Froebel set for men "worthy" in his sense. [10]
It is the very demon for conveying similarities of sound that are miracles of divergence from similarity of sense. [5]
She has a very ardent nature, but at the same time a great deal of what we call common sense. [4]

Short sentences using sense

Lincoln had common sense. [9]
Only the Moral Sense. [5]
It's got some sense. [4]
You have no sense. [11]
It had no sense. [11]
Have you no sense, man? [11]
She's got too much sense. [9]
He has the Moral Sense. [5]
Burlingame had no moral sense. [11]
This sense, as Mackintosh (2. [1]

Sentences containing sense two or more times

A sense of unreality that was, paradoxically, stronger than reality itself came over her, a sense of fitness, of harmony. [9]
I am opposed to that decision in a certain sense, but not in the sense which he puts it. [7]
In one sense, the real sense to every person, it is no older than the lives lived in it at any given time. [4]
She paused on the landing, her sense of relief overborne by a greater sense of defeat. [9]
History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it. [5]
The racial sense so strong in her was drowned in a sense of fellowship. [9]
The Mudir's sense of humour had been touched, and this sense of humour probably saved the Mudir from trouble, for it played Dicky's game for him. [11]
Unfortunately he possessed neither a sense of humour nor a sense of tragedy sufficient to meet such a situation. [9]
There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. [5]
In the same manner as various animals have some sense of beauty, though they admire widely-different objects, so they might have a sense of right and wrong, though led by it to follow widely different lines of conduct. [1]

More example sentences with the word sense in them

You've got coin, you've got sense, you're a bit distinguished-looking, and I'll back your heart against a thousand bishops. [11]
I don't believe you've got any more sense than to do it. [9]
I am not your wife in any real sense of the word, I cannot hold you, I cannot even interest you. [9]
In this matter your own sense of military propriety must be your guide, and the regulations of the service your rule of conduct. [7]
This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
That will give you a sense of responsibility. [11]
She had not yet learned to use the word patronize in the social sense, and she was at a loss to describe the attitude of Mrs. Duncan and her daughter, though her instinct had registered it. [9]
He did so, yet I thought it hurt his sense of dignity to be shifted to a bedroom. [11]
I was conscious, yet for a time I had no thought: I was like something half animal, half vegetable, which feeds, yet has no mouth, nor sees, nor hears, nor has sense, but only lives. [11]
In all the years he had taken no chance to pay tribute to the woman who, in a real sense, had been his mistress of body and mind for one short term of life, and who once, and once only, had yielded to him. [11]
For thirty long years he had been in one sense homeless, his wife having lost her reason three years after they were married. [11]
Four or five years ago, when I was going to socialist lectures, my sense of all this--inequality, injustice was intellectual. [9]
These describers are writing for the "general," and so, in order to make sure of being understood, they ought to use words in their ordinary sense, or else explain. [5]
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]
A cynical cosmopolitanism would have left her cold, but here, apparently, was a cultivated man burning with a sense of the world's wrongs. [9]
Charley said he would go with me,--Charley, my Captain's beloved friend, gentle, but full of spirit and liveliness, cultivated, social, affectionate, a good talker, a most agreeable letter-writer, observing, with large relish of life, and keen sense of humor. [6]
I know it would be a sacrifice of time, in a sense, and all that, but--" He paused, and looked at Austen. [9]
Such rough treatment would also have blunted the sense of touch, on which their delicate use largely depends. [1]
And it is worthy of passing mention, in regard to his later productions, that his admirable sense of literary proportion, which is wanting in many good writers, characterized his work to the end. [4]
The pressure of work, however, soon silenced the sense of uneasiness. [10]
He liked words--big words, fine words, grand words, rumbling, thundering, reverberating words; with sense attaching if it could be got in without marring the sound, but not otherwise. [5]
But what a wonderful motherliness and impulsive sympathy steadied by common sense did Al'mah the singing-woman show! [11]
The gracious sentiment with which the Queen sought to express her sense of what Holland owed him would have been deeply felt even had her personal friendship been less dear to us all. [6]
He went away with vanity flattered by the sense of having been appealed to concerning Margaret, and then he began to chafe at what she had said of Wetmore's honesty, apropos of her wish that he still had a class himself. [8]
Face to face with the man who had tempted him to crime, Lygon had a new sense of boldness, a sudden feeling of reprisal, a rushing desire to put the screw upon him. [11]
Fortunately some person with sense discovered the fraud before it was too late. [9]
She carefully followed with her fingers the groove in which the stone lay, and having recalled its shape by her sense of touch, she began her search anew. [10]
I might quarrel with Grafton, who had sense enough to feel pain at a well deserved thrust. [9]
Then Washington said, with earnest compassion in his voice-- "And so, after coming here, against your inclination, to satisfy your sense of patriotic duty and appease a selfish public clamor, you get absolutely nothing for it. [5]
He would stop with an exclamation and stand gazing, self-forgetful, for incredible periods, and she would watch him, filled with a curious sense of the limitations of an appreciation she had thought complete. [9]
He's got sense with all his prejudices. [11]
He was watching, with a teasing sense of familiarity, a tall, shabbily dressed, elderly man, who had just come in. [8]
It was therefore with a sense of personal injury that, when he reached Bethlehem junction, he found a railway to the Profile House, and another to Bethlehem. [4]
I still remember, with a sense of indolent luxury, a picnicing excursion up a romantic gorge there, called the Iao Valley. [5]
It left her with a renewed sense of energy and restlessness, brought her nearer to high discoveries of mysterious joys which a voice out of the past called upon her to forego, a voice somehow identified with her father! [9]
It perfectly consisted with a keen sense of whatever was sordid and selfish in a man on whom his career must have had its inevitable effect. [8]
They are born with a fear of not being busy; and if they are intelligent and in circumstances of leisure, they have such a sense of their responsibility that they hasten to allot all their time into portions, and leave no hour unprovided for. [4]
For some days, with a certain sense of isolation and a tinge of envy which she would not acknowledge, she had been watching a group of well-dressed, clean-looking people galloping off on horseback or filling the six-seated buckboards. [9]
If you meddle with "Shimei," he steps out, and next week appears "Rab-shakeh," an unsavory wretch; and now, at any rate, you find out what good sense there was in Hezekiah's "Answer him not. [6]
You see, it will take nearly twice as long to do the first set as it will to do the second, and that will give you a marked sense of the difference in length of the two reigns. [5]
With all the will in the world, their souls lost touch, though the sense in the clergyman of the other's vague yearning for human companionship was never absent. [9]
Very likely they will have the sense to recall him. [10]
I became, as will be seen, anything but a practical man in the true sense, though the world in which I had been brought up and continued to live deemed me such. [9]
Now then, I will ask you where there is any sense in training people to lead virtuous lives. [5]
Now she understood why she had shrunk from Gaston that first night and those first days in Audierne: that strange sixth sense, divination--vague, helpless prescience. [11]
His wife, to whom he had been so faithful in one sense since she had passed into the asylum, had died, and with her going, a new field of life seemed to open up to him. [11]
There are those who prefer a warm bath to a brisk walk in the inspiring air, where ten thousand keen influences minister to the sense of beauty and run along the excited nerves. [4]
Once in a while, indeed, she encountered and then avoided the glance of some man, felt the admiration in it, was thrilled a little, and her sense of exhilaration returned as she regained her poise. [9]
Once in a while you will have a patient of sense, born with the gift of observation, from whom you may learn something. [3]
Serious questions to which she had never given a thought had been brought before her; and yet, in this brief period of anxiety she had gained the precious sense of youthfulness and of capacity for action when she had to depend on herself. [10]
With an instinct, which proved correct, he opened the door leading into the old kitchen, and there, tied, and with pale faces, but in no other sense disordered, were Sheila and her mother. [11]
The terror with which it had once inspired him was gone, or lingered only in the form of a delicious sense of uncertainty and anticipation. [9]
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 this silence, which emphasized the quaking of the earth and air, there was a sense of unknown, impending disaster. [4]
The artistic sense, which betrayed itself in the dramatic proprieties of its ritual, harmonized with her taste. [6]
She knew that where he had been she could in one sense never go, and yet she wanted to be near him just the same. [11]
I managed, somehow, when the commotion had subsided, to regain my poise, and ended by uttering the conviction that the common sense of the community would repudiate the Citizens Union and all it stood for.... [9]
And again, as when swept along East Street with the mob, that sense of identity with these people and their wrongs, of submergence with them in their cause possessed her. [9]
She did know when it had begun, but again it filled her with a bitter-sweet sense of pity. [10]
In man, however, when cultivated, the sense of beauty is manifestly a far more complex feeling, and is associated with various intellectual ideas. [1]
The Prophet, or whatever he was called, was a burly, bull-necked man of hard sense, really leading a great industrial army. [6]
All these effects were produced by impressions on the organs of sense, seemingly by direct agency on certain nerve centres. [6]
The eyes, however, were of an inquiring, debating kind, that moved from one thing to another as if to get a sense of balance before opinion or judgment was expressed. [11]
How puny we were in that awful presence--and how painless it was to be so; how fitting and right it seemed, and how stingless was the sense of our unspeakable insignificance. [5]
The two knights were filled with wonder at her good sense and sagacity. [5]
This conclusion agrees well with the belief that the so-called moral sense is aboriginally derived from the social instincts, for both relate at first exclusively to the community. [1]
I can't very well spare steady young men like you, who have too much sense and too much patriotism to mix yourselves up with trouble makers. [9]
It may be well first to premise that I do not wish to maintain that any strictly social animal, if its intellectual faculties were to become as active and as highly developed as in man, would acquire exactly the same moral sense as ours. [1]
I fancy the wedding, which robbed us all, was hardest for her, for it was in one sense a finality of her life. [4]
Even in bright weather Janet felt a sense of oppression here; on dark, misty mornings the stern, huge battlements of the mills lining the farther bank were menacing indeed, bristling with projections, towers, and chimneys, flanked by heavy walls. [9]
Sellers grew very weary of it all, and said: "What is the sense in cooking a rabbit before it's caught? [5]
All sense of weariness had been swept away by the invigorating refreshment of the great and hopeful discovery which he had made. [5]
If at home we wince before any official with a sense of blighted inferiority, it is by general confession the clerk at the hotel office. [6]
From the city we were in every sense transferred to the woods. [10]
The sense of watching his every motion, himself meanwhile utterly unseen, was delicious. [6]
Whatever your scheme was, it had sense in it, Blake's opinion to the contrary notwithstanding. [5]
A new sense was working in her. [11]
He thought vice was ugly; he had imagination and a sense of form. [11]
Her moral sense was tolerant and elastic, and feminine sympathy of this sort is a grateful cushion. [4]
All they knew was that a sense of uneasiness, restlessness, oppression, came over them in the presence of one of these animals. [6]
But while I was speaking about the sense of smell he nestled about in his seat, and presently succeeded in getting out a large red bandanna handkerchief. [6]
But, as I was saying, phosphorus fires this train of associations in an instant; its luminous vapors with their penetrating odor throw me into a trance; it comes to me in a double sense "trailing clouds of glory. [6]
For Mr. Varney was right,--one could feel enthusiasm for Theodore Watling; and my growing intimacy with him, the sense that I was having a part in his career, a share in his success, became for the moment the passion of my life. [9]
Then the shade was pulled down, abruptly; and Janet, overcome by a sense of horror at her position, took to flight.... [9]
A new sense was opened up in her, and she felt somehow that the ultra-marine blue was not right, that the over-mantel had been spoiled, that the new walnut table was too noticeable, and that the American rocking-chair looked very common. [11]
Alas, she certainly was not happy here in Karnis' sense of the word; but in the other world there were joys eternal, and she had only to deny herself the petty enjoyments of this life to secure unfailing and everlasting happiness in the next. [10]
And yet there was no sense in sighing, for she wasn't born yet. [5]
In fact, he was in a sense too lavish, for he used at one time to bring her home presents of silks and clothes and toilet things and stockings and hats, which were not in accord with her taste, and only vexed her. [11]
Already the air was dissipated of its choking weight, and the vast solitude was filling with that sense of freedom which night seems to shut in as with four walls, and day to widen gloriously. [11]
Now Mrs. Northcutt was Chester's sister, a woman who in addition to other qualities possessed the only sense of humor in the family. [9]
A cheery fire was burning in the grate, and I sat down before it with a comforting sense of relief. [5]
Not until he was alone in the quiet cabin did the sense of joy in his first great success overpower him afresh. [10]
Mark Twain's mother was a woman of sturdy character and with a keen sense of humor and tender sympathies. [5]
The chief reason was a sudden, vivid sense of the terrible contrast between something infinitely great and illimitable within him and that limited and material something that he, and even she, was. [2]
And through all was a sense of power, dark and almost mediaeval. [11]
But now there was a sense of conflict, of evil, of the indefinable things in which so many believed. [11]
Of course there was a great variety of comment, its character depending very much on the sense, knowledge, and disposition of the citizens, gossips, and young people who talked over the painful and mysterious occurrence. [6]
The other quarter wants science and common sense too. [6]
They were still wandering up and down, with fewer people about them, but with the same sense of solitude in their own breasts, and the same indifference from all around. [12]
Sometimes on these walks--especially if the day were grey and sombre--Janet's sense of romance and adventure deepened, became more poignant, charged with presage. [9]

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