Use since in a sentence
Sentences starting with since
- Since last March, you know, I am carrying a mighty load, solitary and alone--General Grant's book--and must carry it till the first volume is 30 days old (Jan. 1st) before the relief money will begin to flow in. [5]
- Since when have you know it? [5]
- Since I saw you I have suffered the torments of the lost. [5]
- Since you say you could recognise the originals of all except the heroines, pray whom did you suppose the two Moores to represent? [14]
- Since I saw you at Jacksonville, I have had no more suspicion of the Whigs of Morgan than of those of any other part of the district. [7]
- Since two thousand years all these coasts have changed more or less, risen and sunk, and the temples and palaces of two civilizations have tumbled into the sea. [4]
- Since I stopped work I have had a two months' holiday. [5]
- Since those harsh words with which Cambyses had sent her from the hall, not the smallest fragment of news had reached her concerning either her angry lover, or his mother and sister. [10]
- Since his conversation with Nemu, and the dwarf's interpretation of his dream, the path which he must tread to reach his aim had been plain before him. [10]
- Since Fabian's marriage with Junia Shale's sister, Sybil, he had become discontented with his position in his father's firm. [11]
Sentences ending with since
- Pardon the wild youth who plagues his old friend and teacher, as he did long ago--so much has happened since. [11]
- I have shown you why I was not long since. [4]
- Speed also says you must not fail to send us the New York Journal he wrote for some time since. [7]
- That was forty-two years ago, and I have been a member ever since. [5]
- It is one year since. [11]
- In the previous year he had made a journey to Arizona with Jowett, to see some railway construction there, and at a ranch he had visited he came upon some verses which had haunted his mind ever since. [11]
- I cannot stay with you--truly I cannot, I have been expected long since. [10]
- I became acquainted with Monsieur Bihin, le plus bel homme du monde, and one of the biggest, a great many years ago, and have kept up my agreeable relations with him ever since. [6]
- I was received with a deference which was entirely foreign to my experience by everybody whom I met, so that before I got home I had a much higher opinion of myself than I have ever had before or since. [5]
- Then those people who burglarized our house in September--we got back the plated ware they took off, we jailed them, and I have been sorry ever since. [5]
Short sentences using since
- I have "read up" since. [5]
- Since he went to France? [9]
- He's been hung since. [9]
- I have prospered since. [5]
- Has been ever since. [5]
- Nothing has changed since then. [11]
- Two hours since I heard. [11]
- I've never forgot him since. [9]
- He hasn't been here since. [5]
- They had practised greatly since. [11]
Sentences containing since two or more times
- Livy darling, six years have gone by since I made my first great success in life and won you, and thirty years have passed since Providence made preparation for that happy success by sending you into the world. [5]
- Since he came West, since he came to the Sagalac, he's brought work to Lebanon and to Manitou. [11]
- But since there was no fixed law on the subject, and since the whole probable result of their action would be an assistance in electing Gen. Cass, he must say that they were behind the Whigs in their advocacy of the freedom of the soil. [7]
- But since she walks where I am fain to sing, Since she has said, "I listen, O my friend! [11]
- He could not urge his presence on the Saadat, since he had not been honoured with any communication since yesterday. [11]
- She felt as though she bore a charm against his power since she had parted from her lover, and since the murder of the governor had opened her eyes to the true character of him on whom she had all too willingly expended her pity. [10]
- I haven't been there since 1868, and that great city of San Francisco has grown up since my day. [5]
- He longed for the arms of a woman round his neck--it was five years since any woman's arms had been there, since he had kissed any woman's lips. [11]
- It is more than a year since I have looked on those blue mountains, and they "are to me as a feeling" now, and have been ever since. [6]
- It is more than a year since Clark wrote Genet, since the Ambassador bestowed on him a general's commission in the army of the French Republic. [9]
More example sentences with the word since in them
- It's the best you've done since you've come. [11]
- In pious Trust yourself forget For others only toil and fret, Since all we do for fellow Men With right good Will, shall be our Gain. [10]
- I can read your soul through your eyes, and it seems to me that things have gone wrong with you since the keeper of your stud arrived here. [10]
- True, it was your duty; for ever since Isabella became my wife you have taken advantage of my poverty and impaired my right to command her. [10]
- Some one person--some young woman, it must be--had produced a singular impression upon him since those earlier perilous experiences through which he had passed. [6]
- Among the many young men who frequented her house every day, Boris Drubetskoy, who had already achieved great success in the service, was the most intimate friend of the Bezukhov household since Helene's return from Erfurt. [2]
- But no doubt you, who are old, have long since grown accustomed and reconciled to what seems to me such a disagreeable novelty. [5]
- I have told you, Richard, there has been no sensation in town equal to that of your Maryland beauty, since Lady Sarah Lennox. [9]
- And now, since you will not put me quite at my ease by assuming, in words, that I have been properly 'chaperoned' here, I must inform you that my father waits hard by--is, as my riotous young brother says, 'without on the mat. [11]
- Ursel will tell you what sinful prices we have paid since for butter and meat. [10]
- Yes, ever since you were a little shaver. [9]
- I must tell you that life--has all changed since I met you--Irene, I--" "There! [4]
- But I've known you since you were so high, and I knew your father; he used to stay weeks on my plantation when we were both younger. [4]
- I ain't seen you since that highfalutin party up to Crewe's. [9]
- Now what would you say, Cleopatra, if I myself took a part in my procession--I say mine, since it is to be in my honor; that really would be for once something new and amusing. [10]
- All day long you hear things 'placed' as having happened since the waw; or du'in' the waw; or befo' the waw; or right aftah the waw; or 'bout two yeahs or five yeahs or ten yeahs befo' the waw or aftah the waw. [5]
- But since, as you have heard, I act before I think, I went myself--I no longer know how--into the burning stable. [10]
- But you--where are you going, where are you coming from, what have you been doing since you left me, what had you been doing before? [12]
- I have wanted you ever since that night long ago when I slipped out of your bed and ran away. [9]
- If he refuses, you can go in in spite of him, since you and Mr. Farrar are the only ones who can sail. [9]
- But you have you been back to Silliston since I saw you? [9]
- A moment since you asked me who was right and what was wrong. [11]
- It was only yesterday, surely but yesterday, since I rocked her to sleep. [11]
- It seemed but yesterday since she had watched with amused eyes the sherbet-sellers clanking their brass saucers, the carriers streaming the water from the bulging goatskins into the earthen bottles, crying, "Allah be praised, here is coolness for thy throat for ever! [11]
- It is sixty years, then, since that time; and as they were, on an average, about twenty years old, those who survive must have reached fourscore years. [6]
- We'll say fifteen years, since I was riding to Haarlem with the innkeeper Aquarius, who as you know, is a learned man and has all sorts of old stuff and Latin manuscripts. [10]
- All these many years, since 1820, the northern part had remained a wilderness. [7]
- After all the years that had passed since his wife had left him, Jean Jacques did explode. [11]
- The king, four years since, had ordered a sculptor to execute a sacred image with the lovely features of the newly-married bride of his charioteer, and Paaker had succeeded in having a duplicate made. [10]
- It was twelve years since, during the plague. [10]
- Philippus had, some years since, been called to the old man's bedside in sickness, and being then a beginner and in no great request, he had given the best of his time and powers to the case. [10]
- In the eleven years since they had been together at the Battle of Jersey, events, travel, and responsibility had altered him vastly. [11]
- It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our national Constitution. [7]
- It is four years since Susy died; it is five years and a month that I saw her alive for the last time-throwing kisses at us from the railway platform when we started West around the world. [5]
- It was fifteen years since Soolsby had been in this room; and then he had faced this man's father with a challenge on his tongue such as he meant to speak now. [11]
- It was eight years since she had seen him. [11]
- It is twenty years since 'Pierre and His People' was produced--and it still endures. [11]
- And it's seven-and-twenty years since Maister Robert went. [11]
- It is sixty years since I was here before. [5]
- It's ten years--ten years since I saw you, and you were only fifteen, but a fifteen that was as good as twenty. [11]
- It is two years since I last saw her; at our place we never have time to leave work till it is dark. [10]
- Well, it's twenty years since I gambled--twenty years. [11]
- In the thirteen years since he married he had been able to keep a good many irons in the fire, and also keep them more or less hot. [11]
- It was two years since Burlingame had been in this room, and then he had entered it without invitation. [11]
- Sheila was two years old when her father disappeared, and fifteen years had gone since then. [11]
- Forty and seven years it is since William Wordsworth first appeared as an author. [6]
- A great many years have passed since I was a parishioner of St. John's --a great many years. [9]
- More than nine years had passed since the closing of the Hartford house--eventful years that had seen failure, bereavement, battle with debt, and rehabilitated fortunes. [5]
- Five and sixty years are gone since Mr. Calvin Brinsmade took his bride there. [9]
- It's been seven years and more since I heard any. [5]
- It's many a year since this house was neighbourly to that. [11]
- It's nearly a year now since you took me in. [9]
- More than a year had passed since she had seen him, but there was no emotion, no ardour in their present greeting. [11]
- More than a year had elapsed since the interview with Lord Clarendon, which had been the subject of criticism. [6]
- Aye, I've watched ye, since the day ye first set foot in this church. [9]
- As I have written you, I have been under fire very little since coming to the staff. [9]
- I have not written you since your trial, but I have never forgotten and never shall. [11]
- I have not written less than 30 pages any day since I began. [5]
- She had never written but one letter to Jean Jacques since her flight. [11]
- I have had wretched health ever since I made my appearance. [5]
- Many of the wounds had not been tended since they were dressed on the field weeks before. [9]
- And as luck would have it, six of Mr. Cooke's ten guests had left but a day or so since, and among them had been the only yacht-owner. [9]
- And this course would be his own course largely, since he had been appointed to be a force and strength in the Foreign Office which his chief did not supply. [11]
- It is hardly worth while to consider the projects for relieving the Mississippi River floods by creating new outlets, since these sensational propositions have commended themselves only to unthinking minds, and have no support among engineers. [5]
- Yes, it was worship; it had been worship since the day she and her father had gone to the little whitewashed hospital. [9]
- Every idea the world then held has been since dissolved and recrystallized. [3]
- It is a world calamity, indeed, but a calamity, since it has come, to be spiritualized and utilized for the benefit of the future society of mankind. [9]
- Then he had worked a little, afterwards more, and now, lastly, since he had seen what they had done to Pierre, with the hot but firm eagerness of an avenging giant. [11]
- He repeated the words that he had written to this effect on a tile, and which requested Publius to come quite alone to the spot indicated, since she dare not speak with him in the temple. [10]
- In so few words have I disposed of the twenty-one slow-drifting years that have come and gone since I last looked from the windows of a pilot- house. [5]
- I have often wondered, since, how they regarded me; how, in their little minds, they defined the relationship. [9]
- And I have wondered since at his consideration. [9]
- The old physician wondered at her sound constitution, for since her plunge into the water the fever had left her and even the injured foot was not much the worse. [10]
- I did not wonder then, but I have since thought it remarkable that the words spoken low by both of them should have been caught up on the banquette and passed into the street. [9]
- Oh, see what woman's woes and human wants require, Since that great day hath spread the seed of sinful fire. [5]
- The weal and woe of many persons were at stake, her own above all, since, as Wolff's betrothed bride, she belonged to him inseparably. [10]
- It is quite within the probabilities that a century hence she will be the most imposing figure that has cast its shadow across the globe since the inauguration of our era. [5]
- While the minister withdrew to the writing table, the Emperor asked whether a trustworthy horseman could be had, since the Spaniard was disabled; and Reitzenstein, Beust, and Van der Kapellen, in whom implicit confidence could be placed, had been sent off that morning. [10]
- Barode Barouche fought with vigour, but from the going of Luzanne Larue, there passed from him the confidence he had felt since the first day of Carnac's candidature. [11]
- Nicholas was somewhere with the army and had not sent a word since his last letter, in which he had given a detailed account of his meeting with Princess Mary. [2]
- It was tinged with that dialect he had heard, since leaving Cincinnati. [9]
- Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. [6]
- And Katterle agreed with him; she never contradicted his opinions, and surely Biberli must know what treatment befitted a knight, since he was the foster-brother of one. [10]
- I have shared with her anything I have had since times went wrong with us and our family. [11]
- Aunt Caroline said with feeling that Dr. Hilliard's death was a blessing, after all, since it brought a long-separated father and son together once more. [9]
- Or one, perchance, with clouded brain From some unholy banquet reeled, --And since, our devious steps maintain His track across the trodden field. [6]
- Then, approaching him with both arms extended joyfully, she exclaimed: "Thus you ought to speak and feel, and therein is the answer to the question which has agitated my soul since yesterday. [10]
- I recalled now, with a shudder, that never since the spring of my grandfather's illness had my uncle questioned me upon my politics. [9]
- Good-luck to the winner, and the other one--well, since it must be so, farewell till to-morrow. [10]
- The sea, the winds of heaven, had aided others since the dawn of history. [9]
- And now I will tell you all about it, since you have treated me so well. [5]
- And since she will not have me, I would rather it were you than any man alive. [9]
- The world had widened since then. [11]
- Shorter," said Honora, whose surprise had given place to a very natural resentment, since she had not the honour of knowing Mrs. Grainger. [9]
- For the sleeper whose dream here on earth he, Charles, had beautified in so many ways, a happy waking had long since followed in the land for which she had never ceased to yearn. [10]
- The rabble of whom he had thought so scornfully, what a transformation seemed to have been wrought in them by the power of the Most High, since he had listened to old Eliab's tale! [10]
- 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]
- I reckon the whole herd has moved a few miles this way since I was here. [13]
- It seems a whole century since I saw him. [5]
- Since I heard who you was, I haven't had a happy hour. [9]
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