Use sign in a sentence
Sentences starting with sign
- Sign here, Queen," and he motioned for the obese beauty to hold the pencil. [11]
- Sign them. [11]
- Sign it. [5]
Sentences ending with sign
- I--I was a woman--but sometimes I've thought I'd ought to have given him some sign. [9]
- When she saw what she had done, she knew the reason of it and the meaning of it; and she put her work away from her and said she would accept the sign. [5]
- To her he was the man, not the Emperor, and that he did not express a desire to hear her again seemed like an insult which the man offered to the woman, the artist, who was ready to obey his sign. [10]
- Both parties are very much in earnest, and both speak with a freedom that is, in itself, a very hopeful sign. [4]
- I want you to understand I have asked you for a very different paper, and that paper you've got to sign. [5]
- Afterward he began to sell off his furniture, with the idea of hurrying to Leadville and tackling silver-mining--threw up his law den and took in his sign. [5]
- In all this time why did he make no sign? [4]
- Mr. Stoker received this note, he turned very pale,--which was a bad sign. [6]
- They came nearer; they were about to pass; there was no sign. [11]
- As they passed the carriage of Madame Chalice, Valmond made no sign. [11]
Short sentences using sign
- Sure sign of trouble. [5]
- I sign myself thy blood-ally--there. [10]
- So read the sign. [9]
- The King must sign. [5]
- There was no sign. [11]
- And not a sign! [11]
- Will you sign or not? [5]
- Nor any sign of Flint. [5]
- But she made no sign. [4]
- And Margaret showed no sign. [4]
Sentences containing sign two or more times
- In sign of their poverty they are sent to their grave naked, in sign of their equality the bones of the rich, the poor, the illustrious and the obscure are flung into the common well together. [5]
- He makes 'em sign a paper, when he hires 'em, that they live at home, that they've got some place to eat and sleep, and they sign it all right. [9]
- In Paris we often saw in shop windows the sign "English Spoken Here," just as one sees in the windows at home the sign "Ici on parle francaise. [5]
- As he does not know me, it follows that he would sign anything that I would sign. [5]
- I do not know him, yet I would sign any commercial scheme that he would sign. [5]
More example sentences with the word sign in them
- You see, maybe you's got to be po' a long time fust, en so you might git discourage' en kill yo'sef 'f you didn' know by de sign dat you gwyne to be rich bymeby. [5]
- But take down your sign, or never put it up. [3]
- And now sign your name here. [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]
- That pride, indeed, would be sign of radical weakness. [14]
- This," he added, wondering that a man could listen to such a thing without a sign, "this was before--before she had any idea of coming home. [9]
- He shook hands with, and nodded good-humouredly at, Medallion and the Little Chemist, bowed to the avocat, and touched off his greeting to Monsieur De la Riviere with deliberation, not offering his hand--this very reserve a sign of equality not lost on the young Seigneur. [11]
- He carried himself with true appreciation of the incident, acknowledging more by look than by sign this courtesy. [11]
- If the truth will permit, I propose that you sustain me in the following manner: copy the inclosed scrap in your own handwriting and get everybody (not three or four, but three or four hundred) to sign it, and then send it to me. [7]
- I can see why the ancients demanded a sign of divinity as it were. [9]
- Many of them, who seldom make a sign, come here from habit; they have nowhere else to go. [4]
- David was standing where Kaid must see him, but the Effendina gave no sign of recognition. [11]
- In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse of emerald turf, with not even the faintest sign that human life had ever been present there. [5]
- Herod tells that when a house was on fire the Egyptians never thought of extinguishing the fire until their cats were all saved, and that when a cat died, they shaved their heads in sign of mourning. [10]
- Mr. Dobbins' lashings were very vigorous ones, too; for although he carried, under his wig, a perfectly bald and shiny head, he had only reached middle age, and there was no sign of feebleness in his muscle. [5]
- Before the cards were dealt, he made a sign upon his breast and forehead. [11]
- Before midsummer they were all out excepting two, who refused to sign the petitions for release; 58 had been fined $10,000 each and enlarged, and the four leaders had gotten off with fines of $125,000 each with permanent exile added, in one case. [5]
- Of course," she went on, controlling her rising agitation, and anticipating a sign of protest, "we shouldn't expect to have any people, ---and Gertrude wasn't married in St. John's before; that wedding was at Passumset our seashore place. [9]
- At eleven o'clock we alighted upon a sign which manifestly referred to billiards. [5]
- That is the way with poets and scholars; they always sign without reading. [5]
- From the scuffle-ground was the sign of something about the size of a man having been dragged to the edge of the thicket, where it joined the track of some small-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse, as shown by the road-tracks. [7]
- She, whose nature was so hopeful that, when the glow of the sunset faded, she already anticipated with delight the rosy dawn of the next day, now beheld in Cleopatra's hand the reed which was to sign the death-sentence of Dion and herself. [10]
- How long it was since the last time his imperial aster had gladdened him by so friendly a sign of satisfaction! [10]
- When the work was over, and every stain or sign of surgery removed, sleep came down on the bed--a deep and saturating sleep, which seemed to fill the room with peace. [11]
- And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew's lack of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a sign of strength. [2]
- A sign it was of wisdom. [4]
- And still there was no sign of the treacherous enemy that lurked about us. [9]
- To him life was less a problem than an experiment, and this last act, this nameless repudiation of the laws of family life, was like the sign of a chemist's activity. [11]
- How wise it was in Charles Warren Stoddard to take in his sign and go for some other calling while still young. [5]
- However, the association was content; or at least it gave no sign to the contrary. [5]
- He said it was a sign when young chickens flew that way, and so he reckoned it was the same way when young birds done it. [5]
- A feather bed was a sign of social position; it was as much the dais to his honour as is the woolsack to the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords. [11]
- They said that was a sign of evil. [11]
- Jim said it was a sign it was going to rain. [5]
- I suppose I wanted a sign from Heaven--wanted too much, no doubt. [11]
- Hence, as Mr. Wallace remarks, "distastefulness alone would be insufficient to protect a caterpillar unless some outward sign indicated to its would-be destroyer that its prey was a disgusting morsel. [1]
- And so we walked through and on to the little street beyond, and never a word from the captain until we came opposite the sign of the Hurcheon. [9]
- Curiosity--and they were waiting for me; and some great sign might be shown! [10]
- The exultation of victory, the joy of success, had taken full possession of Ephraim and his youthful band; but when the sun set and there was still no sign of Hur and his band, Nun and his followers were seized with anxiety. [10]
- This was the usual sign of approbation, instead of the clapping of hands. [6]
- If I am using both my hands and want some coffee, I make the sign and Angelo furnishes it to me; and you saw that when he needed a potato I delivered it. [5]
- Natasha was so used to this kind of talk with her husband that for her it was the surest sign of something being wrong between them if Pierre followed a line of logical reasoning. [2]
- Well, dey's some use in a sign like dat, 'kase it's so fur ahead. [5]
- They looked at us askance, and with no sign of hospitality. [4]
- Old Louis got up from his bench, and, putting on a coat over his wool jacket, hastened to the doorway, knelt down, made the sign of the cross, and said a prayer. [11]
- She then walked up deliberately and steadily to the brink, stepped into the centre of the flame, sat down, and leaning back in the midst as if reposing upon a couch, was consumed without uttering a shriek or betraying one sign of agony. [5]
- But, don't be uneasy," he added, noticing that the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always a sign of approaching anger. [2]
- If we can't understand them, because we have n't taken a medical degree, what the Father of Lies do they ask us to sign them for? [6]
- The slim gentleman under the sign laughed until he held his sides, with a heartiness that jarred upon me. [9]
- The law requires two witnesses; the testator and the witnesses must declare that they sign in the presence of each other. [4]
- He does not try to avoid me any more, which is a good sign, and shows that he likes to have me with him. [5]
- There was no trouble in her manner; I could detect no sign of excitement. [11]
- The eyes of Trafford and McGann swam; Pierre's face was troubled, and strangely enough he made the sign of the cross. [11]
- Some morning this town will flock aghast to view a gory corpse; on its brow will be seen the awful sign, and men will tremble and whisper, "He has been here--it is the Mysterious Avenger's mark! [5]
- Then the duke took and wrote out a sign on a shingle so: Sick Arab--but harmless when not out of his head. [5]
- I had seen too many of the type not to know the sign of it. [9]
- The Duke was too blind with anger to see the start of recognition his visitors gave at sight of each other, and by a concurrence of feeling neither Detricand nor Philip gave sign of acquaintance. [11]
- Ida was seen to turn her face toward us across the fence and intervening lawn--Theodore waved good-bye to her, for he did not know that her sign was a speechless appeal for help. [5]
- Then he hurried to the steps, and by a significant sign informed the sculptor that something important required his attention. [10]
- He instantly expressed to the Ratisbon gentlemen his desire to try the gagliarde himself to such excellent music, and at a sign from the master of ceremonies the dance stopped. [10]
- And you've got to swear on a coffin, and sign it with blood. [5]
- Another thing seemed to suggest that we were not only lost, but very badly lost; for there must surely be searching-parties on the road before this time, yet we had seen no sign of them. [5]
- However, I had to smile at my own forgetfulness when I got nearer and read this sign on his tabard: "Persimmon's Soap -- All the Prime-Donna Use It. [5]
- Mr. King looked to see if this invitation was seconded in Irene's eyes; but they made no sign, although she gave him her hand frankly, and wished him a good journey. [4]
- So I went to Quidlibet's,--you know Quidlibet and that hieroglyphic sign of his with the omniscient-looking eye as its most prominent feature,--and laid my case before him. [6]
- The water welled to his eyes, yet at the same time the grisly humour of the situation and circumstances so undermined his gravity that it was all he could do to keep some sign of his inward mirth from showing outside. [5]
- Cynthia must come to her at the first sign of doubt or trouble: this, Miss Lucretia's house, was to be a refuge in any storm that life might send--and Miss Lucretia's heart. [9]
- It is said to be the sign and symbol of blighted love. [5]
- Well, I seemed to be in the open river again by and by, but I couldn't hear no sign of a whoop nowheres. [5]
- However, at any time that he says sign, we're going to do it. [5]
- For the first time in months you get up for breakfast--a pretty sure sign you hadn't changed your mind. [9]
- As Venters went thundering by he peered keenly into the sage, but caught no sign of the man. [13]
- His riding alone through the night, released from the bonds that united him to Pharaoh and his comrades in arms, was a sign of his obedience! [10]
- It was as though at a sign from the Omnipotent Ruler the storm-lashed ocean had turned to the calm of a land-locked lake. [10]
- Whenever I perceive this sign on this man's dial, I comprehend it, and lapse into silence, and give him opportunity to unload his heart. [5]
- And when you think it is the right moment, give a sign to my steward, who is sitting there in the corner. [10]
- Thus many pleasant things came to him simultaneously with his recovery, and his mind, inclined to mysticism, received them as a sign that Heaven was favourable to his late happiness in love. [10]
- But pretty soon they see that long-legged undertaker make a sign to the preacher as much as to say, "Don't you worry--just depend on me. [5]
- In the woods there was not much sign of animal life, scarcely the note of a bird, but we noticed as we rode along in the otherwise primeval silence a loud and continuous humming overhead, almost like the sound of the wind in pine tops. [4]
- If he was there he had taken in his sign, he was in disguise. [5]
- And we felt them, too, but there was no sign that they were anything to him beyond mere entertainments. [5]
- Then one of them protruded a wasted hand from his blankets and made a feeble beckoning sign with the fingers, to signify, "Be a good fellow; put it under my bed, please. [5]
- Mrs. Glow saw them at the same moment, but gave no other sign of her knowledge than by striking into the banter with more animation. [4]
- Commonly, in romances, the woman gives no sign of it, does not admit it to herself, denies it in her words and in her conduct, and never owns it until the final surrender. [4]
- She went to the window; saw her husband swing himself from the saddle and look joyously up to the window of her room and, though she made no sign of greeting, her heart drew her towards him. [10]
- It is like the uniform to the soldier or the veil to the nun--a sign of separation and devotion. [4]
- They said that the tree-shaped cloud was the sign of an eruption; but the hotel-keepers here are always predicting that. [4]
- Stepping silently between the tree trunks, his eyes bent on the leafy loam, he found a footprint here and another there, and suddenly he went into the cane with a sign to us to remain. [9]
- Moreover, apart from the tools there was no sign of a man's presence in the hut. [11]
- Seating myself at the tiller, I declared solemnly that I would shoot the first man who dared to stop the shallop's way, to make sign, or speak a word. [11]
- Some time before the tavern took down its sign the landlord had built a hall, where many a ball had been held, to which the young folks of all the country round had resorted. [6]
- He went into the tannery again, and though she saw him twice later in the week, he gave no sign of seeing her. [9]
- Some, however, made the sweeping Oriental gesture of the right hand, palm upward, and almost touching the ground--a sign of obedience and infinite respect. [11]
- The sight of the sufferer touched him deeply, and the less Narses would take or give, the more thankful was Justinus when he gave the faintest sign of reviving interest. [10]
- They trusted to the sign to inveigle foreigners into their lairs, and trusted to their own blandishments to keep them there till they bought something. [5]
- The hat is the sign of liberty, and the free man keeps his hat on. [10]
- Suppose that during the reading her courage should return?--she would refuse to sign then. [5]
- A sign from the Queen had commanded them to fire it. [10]
- If that was the programme in John B. Winters' mind nothing saved my life but my persistent refusal to sign, when that refusal seemed clearly to me to be the choice of death. [5]
- He had scanned the prairie till night came, without seeing a sign of her. [11]
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