Use some in a sentence
Sentences starting with some
- Some of the younger officers who were there, laughed as they followed his retreating figure. [9]
- 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]
- Some of these young people were extreme in their views. [6]
- Some of these young ladies came from other cities,--New York and Philadelphia and elsewhere,--and their fathers and mothers were usually people to be mentioned as a matter of course--were, indeed, frequently so mentioned by Miss Sadler, especially when a visitor called at the school. [9]
- Some of them young folks is very artful,--said her mother,--and there is them that would merry Lazarus, if he'd only picked up crumbs enough. [6]
- Some day when you think you tread on a wisp of straw, it will be a snake with the deadly tooth. [11]
- Some will tell you that the best poets never are. [6]
- Some evening, perchance, you happen to be in the dark street outside of Charing Cross station. [9]
- Some one witnessed yesterday's incident, and it is now the talk of the town. [10]
- Some have gained years, some have lost them. [5]
Sentences ending with some
- I thought mebbe you'd heard that shot, en' I was worried some. [13]
- In Nouvelle Orleans we find some. [9]
- Not in many ways, but in some. [5]
- Not that I'm uneasy about him, but all this talk of his and newspaper advertising had to be counteracted some. [9]
- To paddle up to the swimming deer, and cut his throat, is a sure means of getting venison, and has its charms for some. [4]
- Yes, there are some. [9]
- I have ordered some. [5]
- You can have some. [2]
- But of his own appearance he thought not at all, as he replied to the lady's question, without the least embarrassment: "It's sweet-flag stalk; would you like some? [4]
Short sentences using some
- To some other world? [11]
- Fetch some more wood! [2]
- I brought some with me. [2]
- It is some whimsy. [11]
- Some will get wealthy. [7]
- Send me some water. [11]
- Some think it was me. [5]
- Some think it was Bill. [5]
- Some will say twenty-five nights. [5]
- Some had been torn off. [9]
Sentences containing some two or more times
- I come under your windows, some fine spring morning, and play you one of my adagio movements, and some of you say,--This is good,--play us so always. [6]
- He would make young Schopper pay some penalty yet more than a mere fine, to that he pledged his royal word, and as for young Welemisl, he was minded to devise some punishment that should hinder many an over-bold knight from drawing his sword! [10]
- These were adventurous young gentlemen of family, some of them lawyers and some of them late officers in the Continental army who had been rewarded with grants of land. [9]
- We can get you some garter-snakes, and you can tie some buttons on their tails, and let on they're rattlesnakes, and I reckon that 'll have to do. [5]
- 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 told some yarns and made some speeches. [5]
- The modest fellow would have liked fame thrust upon him for some worthy achievement; it might be for a book, or for the skillful management of some great newspaper, or for some daring expedition like that of Lt. Strain or Dr. Kane. [5]
- But then, perhaps, would come a letter from some quiet body in some out-of-the-way place, which showed me that I had said something which another had often felt but never said, or told the secret of another's heart in unburdening my own. [6]
- In Spain there would always be some woman whom he could cajole; some comrade whom he could betray; some priest whom he could deceive, whose pocket he could empty by the recital of his troubles. [11]
- Some burst out with one thing, some another; the German nurse put up her hands and said, "Oh, Schade! [5]
More example sentences with the word some in them
- The voice was youthful, but full of character.--I suppose some persons have a peculiar susceptibility in the matter of voice.--Hear this. [6]
- There was that youth in Pennsylvania, whose curious confession was published some years ago. [5]
- I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point, but really I had no idea what a gold-mine I had struck. [5]
- I would accept your offer at once, were it not that I fear there might be some impropriety in it, though I do not see that there would. [7]
- Has he asked your master to send him some seeds or slips? [10]
- The receipt of your letter, and the reading of some of the criticisms this morning, have rendered me nervous for the whole day. [4]
- I remember in your letter you mentioned the remark of some friend of yours that the verses, "Take, O take those lips away," were not Shakspeare's; I think they are. [6]
- I proceed, with your leave, to ask a considerable number of questions,--hoping to get answers to some of them, at least. [6]
- I saved up your last story to read when the numbers should be complete, but before that time arrived some other admirer of yours carried off the papers. [5]
- He has taken your illness very much to heart, I know, and he left some fruit and flowers for you. [9]
- The tidings of your death can some day repeat the misery I felt in that moment, but nothing else can ever do it. [5]
- The stockholders of your corporation, perhaps, are bound to suffer some from the fact that you have taken its life-blood to pay dividends, and the public will demand that it be built up into a normal and healthy condition. [9]
- You Democrats, and your candidate, in the main are in favor of laying down in advance a platform--a set of party positions--as a unit, and then of forcing the people, by every sort of appliance, to ratify them, however unpalatable some of them may be. [7]
- One civilian, a youngish man a little inclined to stoutness, stopped at the gate, stared, then thrust some papers in his pocket and hurried down the side street. [9]
- She was still young, but her slightly pockmarked countenance showed the wear and tear of sorrow of some kind. [11]
- To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
- I advise aimless young men to choose some profession without needless delay, and so get into a good strong current of human affairs, and find themselves bound up in interests with a compact body of their fellow-men. [6]
- On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped. [2]
- Many of the young ladies and some of the University students were strong in defence of all the "woman's rights" doctrines. [6]
- The' 's a young gen'l'm'n up at that school where she go,--so some of 'em tells me, 'n' she loves t' see him 'n' talk wi' him, 'n' she talks about him when she 's asleep sometimes. [6]
- There's some rocks you'll have to look out for. [4]
- And I tell you,"--his jaw was set,--"I tell you that some day Eliphalet Hopper will be one of the richest men in the West. [9]
- Get out, d-n you, all of you, and don't come back until you've got some notion of what you're a-goin' to do. [9]
- You said that you would tell me some day. [11]
- For some reason you wish to deprive me of our former friendship. [2]
- And some day you will suffer as I do, so terribly that even the brazen serpent could not cure you. [11]
- Perhaps some day you will remember it. [9]
- Like some of you who are here present, I have been on this vestry for many years, and my father was on it before me. [9]
- Why, some of you were surprised when a friend of mine told you there were fifty-eight separate pieces in a fiddle. [6]
- I understood that you were a man of letters, and I hoped I might have the privilege of hearing from your own lips some account of your literary experiences. [6]
- I guess if you was to say that to some of the lady ministers nowadays, you'd git yourself into trouble. [8]
- Alors, some of you was out to hurt our friend M'sieu' Carnac here, and I didn't say no to it; but you'd better keep your weapons for election day and use them agin Barode Barouche. [11]
- Was it something you wanted to forget there, some one you wanted to help here? [11]
- I'm going now,--unless you want to hear some more about the plots I've been getting into. [9]
- Anything that keeps you up till three o'clock in the morning has some penitential quality. [4]
- It would delight you to see some of them playing Indian when surrounded by the wonders and improvements of the Old World. [4]
- Could I engage you to restore some of my paintings that need that attention? [5]
- And I ask you to regard with some leniency customs which must be strange to Americans. [9]
- See, we strain you to our bosoms, And we kiss your lip and brow; Human hearts must have some idols, And we shrine you idols now. [11]
- I would advise you to drop in there some time when you have nothing to do for--five minutes--if you have never been there: It seems to me the noblest monument that this nation has yet erected to her greatness. [5]
- I shall want you to come along with us, Mr Brass, and the--' he looked at Miss Sally as if in some doubt whether she might not be a griffin or other fabulous monster. [12]
- And I ask you to believe it is not done lightly, or without due consideration, but as the result of some years of thought. [9]
- We must send you to a surgeon and have some kind of a Taliacotian operation performed on you. [6]
- I have told you that I have just finished a long memoir, and that it has cost me no little labor to overcome some of its difficulties,--if I have overcome them, which others must decide. [6]
- Now, frankly, are you speaking of Miss Treherne, or of some one of whom she is the outline, as it were? [11]
- Shall I tell you some things the Professor said the other day? [6]
- I have told you some of the drawbacks of age; I would not have you forget its privileges. [6]
- I will tell you some of mine. [6]
- And I'll give you some advice, Sawlsberry; when you come back for the particulars, fetch a basket to carry what is left of yourself home in. [5]
- Judge Tileston died, you remember, within a month after he had his great ball, twelve year ago, and some thought it was in the natur' of a judgment. [6]
- I will await you near the little temple of Isis with our travelling chariot and my own horses, will receive Irene, and conduct her to some new refuge while you drive back Fuergetes' chariot, and restore it to the driver. [10]
- Speed also says you must not fail to send us the New York Journal he wrote for some time since. [7]
- You are lonely, you must be longing for some human fellowship. [6]
- I shall ask you more questions some day. [9]
- I will tell you more about this at some future time; I need not conceal it, for it has been no secret. [10]
- Why of course you may have overheard some such jesting nonsense. [5]
- It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern, or in the farms, with right mother-wit, and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes. [6]
- I have, as you know, some knowledge of machinery and engineering. [11]
- Papa requires nothing, you know, but plain beef and mutton, tea and bread and butter; but a nurse will probably expect to live much better; give me some hints if you can. [14]
- I may need you in Vaucouleurs; for if the governor will not receive me I will dictate a letter to him, and so must have some one by me who knows the art of how to write and spell the words. [5]
- I know that you hold some power over my friend. [11]
- Of course, if you heard it, you know my belief is that the total climatic influences here are getting up a number of new patterns of humanity, some of which are not an improvement on the old model. [6]
- For some reason, you haven't been down at Leith much this summer. [9]
- How often when you have tried to get a "rise" out of somebody opposite have you not had your neighbor cut in across you with some private depressing observation to your next neighbor! [4]
- Before you leave you have to arrange some place to go. [9]
- For the mass, you have some right to speak; it is your duty perhaps; but the confession, that is another thing; that is the will of every soul to do or not to do. [11]
- Again and again you have recurred to my thoughts lately, and I was beginning to have some sad presages as to the cause of your silence. [14]
- I am glad you have laid down some rules by which a man may reasonably expect to leap the eight barred gate. [6]
- He believes that you have got, in some way, a wrong idea of what he is trying to do. [9]
- Bless me, if you had gone along there some such nights after twelve you might have seen as many as fifteen of us roosting on one limb, with our joints rattling drearily and the wind wheezing through our ribs! [5]
- If any but you had dictated the Reply, M. Bourget, I would know that that anecdote was twisted around and its intention magnified some hundreds of times, in order that it might be used as a pretext to creep in the back way. [5]
- I have known you for some time, though I think you did not know me. [6]
- But I suppose you couldn't help lookin' at my gal--she does seem to draw men's eyes as if she was magnetized some way. [9]
- And yet when you come to look at it you cannot deny that we would have to go without the services of some of our ablest men, sir, if the country were opposed to --to--bribery. [5]
- When you're eighteen you can read Ivanhoe, and you want to wait until you are ninety to read some of the rest. [5]
- It was told you by some old beau who lives upon the memory of the past. [9]
- That's the way you begun here, I guess; and I don't want to see your horse tumble because some one throws a fence-rail at its legs. [11]
- I see you--feel you as some other Lassiter! [13]
- Mr. Dana understands you as believing that the Emancipation Proclamation has helped some in your military operations. [7]
- Your eyes and you are out of commission for some time, anyhow. [11]
- I really believe you are in love with some one woman by whose side all the others have lost their charms. [10]
- But I guess you and I will have some more talk after a while,--after Theodore Watling gets to be United States Senator. [9]
- I shall make you all some of the Naples biscuit Mrs. Brice told me of. [9]
- I must tell you about some of my tree-wives. [6]
- I have read you a few extracts, most of them of rather slight texture, and some of them, you perhaps thought, whimsical. [6]
- John imagines that yonder big thistle is some whiskered villain, of whom he has read in a fairy book, and he advances on him with "Die, ruffian! [4]
- But when he yielded to the impulse to read Wolff's letter again he felt like a dethroned prince whom some stranger, ignorant of his misfortune, praises for his mighty power. [10]
- But I was yet to see some estates of the gentry. [9]
- For some years yet he must continue to earn his daily bread by the sweat of his brow, having absolutely no means, no home, no friend to consult. [7]
- It was sensitive, yet firm, as with some purpose deep as her nature was by creation and experience, and always deepening that nature. [11]
- Now and then, yes, very often, out of some paradise, no doubt, strays into New England conditions of reticence and self-denial such a sweet spirit, to diffuse a breath of heaven in its atmosphere, and to wither like a rose ungathered. [4]
- But after many years, as I looked on the little front-yard again, it occurred to me that there used to be some Star-of-Bethlehems in the southwest corner. [6]
- Now for some years the divergence of society and politics has been increasing at the capital. [4]
- 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]
- During the latter years of his life he became increasingly interested in social questions, some of which partook of a semi-political character. [4]
- Now, for some years it has been inadequate, frequently unintelligible, often grossly misleading, failing wholly to give the real spirit and meaning of the most important discussions; and it is as dry as chips besides. [4]
- For some thirty years Bogucharovo had been managed by the village Elder, Dron, whom the old prince called by the diminutive "Dronushka. [2]
- Four or five years ago, some workmen who were digging foundations for a house came upon this interesting relic of a long-departed age. [5]
- He published, some years ago, a little volume giving an account of a trip through the Great West, and a very entertaining book it was. [4]
- It had a yard, and an orchard which Emerson said was as large as Dr. Ripley's, which might have been some two or three acres. [6]
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