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Sentences ending with shape

You must cut your climate to your constitution, as much as your clothing to your shape. [6]
That's the way you manage to keep yourself in such good shape. [9]
A woman whom you can shape. [9]
That, if it were needed, was the concluding evidence of her femininity, for it went fittingly with her sun-tinted hair and darkened, dilated eyes, the sweetness of her mouth, and the striking symmetry of her slender shape. [13]
That would give us the chance to ring in a lot of society correspondents and get the thing written up in first-class shape. [8]
He even gave us a bit of clay to shape. [10]
When they begin to talk it is the same thing over again in another shape. [6]
I must try to reduce my ideas of Palestine to a more reasonable shape. [5]
He must have time to modify his shape. [5]
There they go, thundering on, till it seems to you that some unearthly power is hammering the world into shape. [11]

Short sentences using shape

Road's in bad shape. [9]
Its shape is oval. [5]

Sentences containing shape two or more times

A button is one shape, a peg is another shape, but that ain't any matter? [5]
It was a long square, the shape of a grave; the rain had made it sink down and show the shape. [5]
I judge that a razor fresh from the hone is this shape V--the long point being the continuation of the edge--and that after much use the shape is this V--the attenuated edge all worn off and gone. [5]

More example sentences with the word shape in them

But what would youth be without its extravagances,--its preterpluperfect in the shape of adjectives, its unmeasured and unstinted admiration? [6]
We never even wrote you, because we were always so sure, from day to day, that our affairs would finally so shape themselves as to let us get to Scotland. [5]
No prominent hill would stick to its shape long enough for me to make up my mind what its form really was, but it was as dissolving and changeful as if it had been a mountain of butter in the hottest corner of the tropics. [5]
To him I would push up another pawn, in the shape of a comely and wise young woman, whom he would of course take--to wife. [6]
I believe it would be fatal to do it in any shape but autobiographically--like Gil Blas. [5]
I went to work now to learn the shape of the river; and of all the eluding and ungraspable objects that ever I tried to get mind or hands on, that was the chief. [5]
The forces at work in a human intelligence to bring harmony out of its discordant movements are as mysterious, as miraculous, we might truly say, as those which give shape and order to the confused materials out of which habitable worlds are evolved. [6]
Unless you are without faith that a lie can be successfully contradicted, there is not a word of truth in the charge, and I am just considering a little as to the best shape to put a contradiction in. [7]
He who rejects with scorn the belief that the shape of his own canines, and their occasional great development in other men, are due to our early forefathers having been provided with these formidable weapons, will probably reveal, by sneering, the line of his descent. [1]
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]
The dark shape, whose incessant motion could be clearly perceived whenever the starlight broke through the clouds, appeared first near the city of the dead and the strangers' quarter. [10]
In young persons whose heads have become fixed either sideways or backwards, owing to disease, one of the two eyes has changed its position, and the shape of the skull has been altered apparently by the pressure of the brain in a new direction. [1]
Your self-made man, whittled into shape with his own jack-knife, deserves more credit, if that is all, than the regular engine-turned article, shaped by the most approved pattern, and French-polished by society and travel. [6]
You spoke, a while back, of trying to start it up again as a preparation to disposing of it, but we are not in shape to venture that, I think. [5]
Wherefore, the "deal" which had been for some time working into shape in my mind was of a quite different pattern from the Cade-Tyler sort. [5]
There are times when I think I had a taste of Paradise in Hawaii--but a Paradise not without a Satanic intruder in the shape of that person from Illinois. [11]
The precious metals were weighed out and used as money in the shape of rings, animals, etc. [10]
This is a wedge, going to the centre, of the general shape of a slice of apple-pie in a large and not opulent family. [6]
The nebula which was to form a cluster about the "North American Review" did not take definite shape until 1815. [6]
That is, she was right as to the rest of the world, but she warn't right about the part our village is in; that part is the shape of a plate, and flat, I take my oath! [5]
In his place was his father--Prince Andrew--and his father had neither shape nor form, but he existed, and when little Nicholas perceived him he grew faint with love: he felt himself powerless, limp, and formless. [2]
Here, before her, was a nobler display, and yet her lively imagination which often, sometimes indeed against her will, gave shape to her formless thoughts--called up the image of the beautiful youth surrounded by the glowing glory which still painted the horizon. [10]
Instructions are not wanting as to the shape of the table and the size of the party; it is universally admitted that the number must be small. [4]
I thought they wanted to breathe the air of this world again in my shape, which I seemed to see as it were empty of myself and of these other selves, like a sponge that has water pressed out of it. [6]
One who should visit the Harz Mountains would see--might see, rather his own colossal image shape itself on the morning mist. [6]
There was a veiled moonlight, which was only just strong enough to enable us to mark the general shape of objects. [5]
The evidence reaching us from the country leaves no doubt that the material for the work is abundant, and that it needs only the hand of legislation to give it legal sanction, and the hand of the executive to give it practical shape and efficiency. [7]
Sick of my unwalled, solitary realm, I ask to change the myriad lifeless worlds I visit as mine own for one poor patch Of this dull spheroid and a little breath To shape in word or deed to serve my kind. [6]
One day he turned on me suddenly with this settler-- 'What is the shape of Walnut Bend? [5]
My hatter's measurement told me the same thing; but in looking over more than a bushel of the small cardboard hat-patterns which give the exact shape of the head, I have found this is not uncommon. [6]
He was ready to yield to temptation if it came in his way; he would even court it, but he did not shape out any plan very definitely in his mind, as a more desperate sinner would have done. [6]
It 'gravels' me, to this day, to put my will in the weak shape of a request, instead of launching it in the crisp language of an order. [5]
It is important to the enemy that such a force shall not take shape and grow and thrive in the South, and in precisely the same proportion it is important to us that it shall. [7]
Every age has to shape the Divine image it worships over again,--the present age and our own country are busily engaged in the task at this time. [6]
I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a Gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of. [6]
Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all these five hundred thousand different ways? [5]
It was beautiful to hear that clock tick; and sometimes when one of these peddlers had been along and scoured her up and got her in good shape, she would start in and strike a hundred and fifty before she got tuckered out. [5]
Her eyes began to glitter more brilliantly, and her shape to undulate in freer curves. [6]
He was prepared to find it larger than his unstudied glances had made it appear; for more than a casual idea of dimensions and a hasty conception of oval shape and singular beauty he had not had time. [13]
They were allowed to come in in that shape, because in another way it was paid for, considering that as a part of that system of measures called the Compromise of 1850, which finally included half-a-dozen acts. [7]
Then he wrote to Chicago and St. Louis newspapers asking for a situation as "paragrapher"--enclosing a taste of his quality in the shape of two stanzas of "humorous rhymes. [5]
You will live to a great age, and your life will be more or less happy as you shape it. [10]
It frightens people, though, to hear the suggestion that worlds shape themselves from star-mist. [6]
How to shape this worthily, if the victor left her no other choice, had just been pointed out by the son of whom she was ashamed. [10]
The last came this very morning, in the shape of a neat and brief poem, from New Orleans. [6]
The forbearance of this government had been so extraordinary and so long continued as to lead some foreign nations to shape their action as if they supposed the early destruction of our national Union was probable. [7]
I'll put the thing in another shape (and then pointing to the paper); don't you know those charges to be false? [5]
The termination, toward the town, observed in profile, is the perfection of shape. [5]
All the time the story was being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. [2]
I felt that the story of his life must be a sad one--a story of suffering, disappointment, and exile--a story of man's inhumanity to man in some shape or other--and I longed to persuade the secret from him. [5]
It was in the solid rock, some ten feet high and irregular in shape, and perfectly dry. [9]
You can't tell the shape of the river, and you can't see no distance. [5]
Examine the face, the shape of the head, the expression. [5]
Because you know the shape of it. [5]
The auditorium has the shape of a keystone, with the stage at the narrow end. [5]
The connections of the several sections of the raft are slack and pliant, so that the raft may be readily bent into any sort of curve required by the shape of the river. [5]
The substitute was the same size and shape, and I was not suspicious. [11]
Nothing ever had the same shape when I was coming downstream that it had borne when I went up. [5]
Honora looked at the plush rocking-chair, the yellow-and-red carpet, the inevitable ice-water on the marble-topped table, and the picture of a lady the shape of a liqueur bottle playing tennis in the late eighties, and sighed. [9]
I can see the pale shadow glancing through the pages and hear the comments that shape themselves in the bodiless intelligence as if they were made vocal by living lips. [6]
I will, and the muscles of my vocal organs shape my speech. [3]
Heidelberg lies at the mouth of a narrow gorge--a gorge the shape of a shepherd's crook; if one looks up it he perceives that it is about straight, for a mile and a half, then makes a sharp curve to the right and disappears. [5]
For short distances the lowest poverty, the hardest pressed labor, must walk; but March never entered a car without encountering some interesting shape of shabby adversity, which was almost always adversity of foreign birth. [8]
The priest took the handsome lad by the chin, bent his head back, looked Adam also in the face, and exclaimed: "His mouth, nose and eyes he has inherited from your wife, but the shape of the brow and head is exactly like yours. [10]
The shape of the foot shows it--and other marks. [10]
He turned to the crucifix, and, prostrating himself before the spare, agonizing shape of the Holy Sufferer, fell into a long passion of tears and broken prayers. [6]
Let him shape the conversation to suit himself--let him drop it or change it whenever he wants to. [5]
Then she grasped the circle of emeralds, about which the enchanter had wound her golden hair, and waving it high in the air, cried: "Falcon, return to the shape you were before. [10]
It lies in the center of this platter, in a bordering bed of grease-soaked potatoes; it is the size, shape, and thickness of a man's hand with the thumb and fingers cut off. [5]
By and by the bundle of life stirred, took shape, raised itself, and was changed into a man again, a thinking, conscious being, who now understood the meaning of this sound coming up from the earth below--or was it the sea? [11]
In this shape the bill passed both branches of Congress and became a law. [7]
I further say that, as the war progresses, it appears to me, opinion and action, which were in great confusion at first, take shape and fall into more regular channels, so that the necessity for strong dealing with them gradually decreases. [7]
I don't know that you must break any bones in a poet's mechanism before his thought can dance in rhythm, but read your Milton and see what training, what patient labor, it took before he could shape our common speech into his majestic harmonies. [6]
Nay, what was that which obscured its outline, in shape like a human figure? [6]
Affliction came in that shape which to anticipate is dread; to look back on grief. [14]
The undefinable shape that now entered the pilot-house had Mr. [5]
What is it that makes common salt crystallize in the form of cubes, and saltpetre in the shape of six-sided prisms? [3]
Which reminds me that last week I sent down and got Susie a vast pair of shoes of a most villainous pattern, for I discovered that her feet were being twisted and cramped out of shape by a smaller and prettier article. [5]
It is true that I have some very good green timber, which will answer the purpose as soon as I can get it into shape and season it a little. [7]
Though she inherited that conscience, I have often thought she might have succeeded in casting it off--or at least some of it--had it not been for the fact that in spite of herself she worshipped its incarnation in the shape of my father. [9]
Tangariwa, the mountain that "has the same shape from every point of view. [5]
The extremity is tendinous and contains no vertebrae; this is succeeded by five rudimentary ones, so minute that together they are only one line and a half in length, and these are permanently bent to one side in the shape of a hook. [1]
Sometimes this latter takes the shape of a practical joke. [5]
Care has been taken to so shape the document as to avoid embarrassments from this source. [7]
Tom found a subterranean lake, shortly, which stretched its dim length away until its shape was lost in the shadows. [5]
Everywhere his steamer stopped people came with backsheesh in the shape of butter, cream, flour, eggs, fowls, cloths, and a myriad things. [11]
By the time Still began to experiment, Kellgren had completed his development of the principles of his system and established himself in a good practice in London--1874 --and was in good shape to convey his discovery to Kansas, Mental Telegraphically. [5]
The magistrate's entrance startled them, and the butler vainly strove to hide a large jar whose shape betrayed that it came from Sicily and contained the noble vintage of Syracuse. [10]
Suddenly a shape sprang out of the grey mist, and the Maid of Provence struck. [11]
Ithuriel did not spit the toad on his spear, you remember, but touched him with it, and the blasted angel took the sad glories of his true shape. [6]
It takes a sort of almond shape, and is small and bitter. [5]
I may put some more passages into shape by and by. [6]
They could in some form or other have put that bill in the exact shape they wanted. [7]
It had a slender stem several feet high, and from its top stood up a single tongue of flame, an intensely red flower of the size and shape of a small corn-cob. [5]
Curiosity centred on Silas Wheelock's barn, where Mr. Worthington had fitted up a shop, and, presently various strange models of contrivances began to take shape there. [9]
By the time she had put the bed into shape, got a bowl of water ready, lighted a lamp, and drawn the bed out from the wall, there was a knocking at the door. [11]
The same slender shape, the same cunning, fierce look, smoothed over with a plausible air. [6]
This took dim shape, presently--it was budding homesickness. [5]
But our houses shape themselves palpably on our inner and outer natures. [6]
I wondered what shape it was going to take. [5]

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