Use their in a sentence
Sentences starting with their
- Their heads are worth a good deal to the Khedive, he thinks. [11]
- Their cries mingled with the crackling and snapping of the dry wood, and the roar of the flames, with the trumpet calls of the awakening troops, and the beating of drums. [10]
- Their testimony coincides with that of careful students of the economic and social conditions. [4]
- Their owners trooped with muddy boots into the meeting-house, and when the moderator rapped for order the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Jethro Bass, was not in his place; never, indeed, would be there again. [9]
- Their wills were with him they had come to fight, and fight they would, if they could but get the chance. [11]
- Their Reverend Samuel Willard wrote us a not over-wise report of a case of hysteria; and our Jean Astruc gave them (if we may trust Dr. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible) the first discerning criticism on the authorship of the Pentateuch. [3]
- Their wounded pride will bring them over to our side, and if they are too 'noble,' as they call it, to undertake anything themselves against a woman, still they will be more likely to help than to hinder us, if I should need their assistance. [10]
- Their priests too, whom they call Magi, are here with them. [10]
- Their prominence was wholly gone; they were not even worth drowning; so I removed that detail. [5]
- Their older friends, who had turned their backs on the couple and were talking busily by a window, paid no heed to them, and the blissful conviction of being loved as ardently as she loved flooded her whole being. [10]
Sentences ending with their
- We can scan the inmost characters of men and can view them in their. [6]
Short sentences using their
- And their life went on. [11]
- Their appetites were weakening. [5]
- That's their woman's way! [2]
- Luck came their way again. [5]
- Their very imagination was dead. [5]
- Now their happiness was complete. [5]
- Their clothes were very interesting. [5]
- He's not their type. [9]
- On their first travels, manifestly. [5]
- Their hopes commenced to rise. [5]
Sentences containing their two or more times
- I knew two youths who tried to "kill their men" for no other reason--and got killed themselves for their pains. [5]
- And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
- The images of your manifold gods are everywhere to be seen; they crowd on our gaze, and yet who knows not that their real is not their apparent significance? [10]
- The rewards of your long and patient industry are on their way, and their arrival safe in port, presently, seems assured. [5]
- They were virtuous young men, and lost no opportunity that fell in their way to make their livelihood. [5]
- She liked the Young Doctor, as who did not who came in contact with him, except those who had fear of him, and who had an idea that he could read their minds as he read their bodies. [11]
- I 'll tell you what,--the Master said,--I know something about these young fellows that come home with their heads full of "science," as they call it, and stick up their signs to tell people they know how to cure their headaches and stomach-aches. [6]
- I said that you were the chosen Emperor of the Faithful, the coming king of the world, but he replied that the prophets of old taught their disciples with their own tongues. [11]
- I mean that you must be prepared to tell George, if he recovers, that you have abandoned your attitude toward the workmen, that you are willing to recognize their union, settle the strike, and go even further than in their ignorance they ask. [9]
- During the long years of their union Mrs. Ebers was his active helpmate, many of the business details relating to his works and their American and English editions being transacted by her. [10]
More example sentences with the word their in them
- The lepers in Zoan, Pha-kos and Phibeseth followed the others at a certain distance, and their tents are pitched outside the camp. [10]
- Here three naked youths, with trays upon their heads, cried aloud at each doorway what, interpreted, was: "Pies! [11]
- Neither were the youths idle; they busied themselves in making a costly coffin for the vanished corpse of the god, accompanying their work with dances and the sound of castanets. [10]
- But a brave youth who was driving a grocery-wagon threw himself before the plunging animals, and succeeded in arresting their flight at the peril of his own.--[This is probably a misprint.--M. [5]
- You see it yourselves" They gazed at each other awe-struck, and lifted their hands and said in unison: "It's per-fectly wonderful. [5]
- If I had yours to put up alongside of them, I believe the combination would bring more souls to earnest reflection and ultimate conviction of their lost condition, than any other kind of warning would. [5]
- I will carry your young mistresses to their father and home again. [10]
- Go back to your people as their chiefs, and tell them that through you the Big Knives have granted peace to your nation. [9]
- King Euergetes and your friend Eulaeus send you their greetings. [10]
- What romps we youngsters had about the old place whilst our elders talked their politics. [9]
- A Numidian, the youngest of the legion, a beardless youth, had pinned the terrible conqueror of lions and men to the bed with his spear, and then, with the same weapon, had released at least a dozen of his fellow-sufferers from their pain. [10]
- A party of young Puan bucks had decreed it to be their pleasure to encamp in Mr. Brady's yard, to peer through the shutters into Mr. Brady's house, to enjoy themselves by annoying Mr. Brady's family and others as much as possible. [9]
- She begged the young persons who had travelled to tell something of their experiences. [6]
- Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
- Many of these young people will jump up twenty times a day and run to dabble the tips of their fingers in water, after touching the most inoffensive objects. [6]
- Some of these young people were extreme in their views. [6]
- Then the seven young men turned them away from their homes, and the strangers shut the doors upon them. [5]
- 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]
- One of their young men had stayed away, and, in endeavoring to overtake them, came to the place where the head was hung up. [5]
- On Saturdays the young men go out in their boats, and sometimes the water is fairly covered with the little sails. [5]
- At Pocasset the young men explored all the thick woods,--some who ought to have known better taking their guns, which made a talk, as one might well suppose it would. [6]
- He gave the young men a pretty fight indeed, and long before they had him conquered the elder guests had made their escape through door and window. [9]
- On this the young man appeared, and though he and Paula did their utmost to preserve a suitable demeanor, every one could see the violent agitation they felt at meeting each other in such a situation. [10]
- If the American young man and young woman get it into their heads that repose, especially of manner, is the correct thing, they will go in for it in a way to astonish the world. [4]
- Many a strong-limbed young man and many a blooming young woman have I seen failing and dropping away in or before middle life, and many a delicate and slightly constituted person outliving the athletes and the beauties of their generation. [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]
- And for the young bloods, whose greatest regret was that they could not send forth a daughter of joy into the Champs Elysee in her carriage, she had ever sent them about their business. [11]
- They took the young and the aged, the decrepit and the sick upon their backs and left for tide-water in disorderly procession, the tadpoles following and the bull-frogs bringing up the rear. [5]
- If they rise, you, here, would be in their way, and I could not guarantee your safety. [11]
- He looked like you, he spoke like you, he called the men as you do, nay he sat as you do when the road was too bad for his chariot, [The Mohars used chariots in their journeys. [10]
- They will tell you, about here, that I have a kind of hobby for keeping people from digging and crawling into their own graves. [11]
- I am sure you will join me in the hope for their further success; while yourself, and other good mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters, do all you and they can, to relieve and comfort the gallant soldiers who compose them. [7]
- In the museums you will find acres of the most strange and fascinating things; but all museums are fascinating, and they do so tire your eyes, and break your back, and burn out your vitalities with their consuming interest. [5]
- If I ask you what b-o-w spells you can't tell me unless you know which b-o-w I mean, and it is the same with r-o-w, b-o-r-e, and the whole family of words which were born out of lawful wedlock and don't know their own origin. [5]
- So you knew you were guilty of sin in going without their leave! [5]
- At any rate, you think you move them backward and forward at such a rate as your will determines, don't you?--On the contrary, they swing just as any other pendulums swing, at a fixed rate, determined by their length. [6]
- Did Mongrel tell you their plans? [5]
- In marrying us you style us, 'the mistress of the house,' and if the elders of the citizens grow infirm, in this country it is not the sons but the daughters that must be their mainstay. [10]
- 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]
- Do all whom you send from Hartford serve their Master as well? [5]
- Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or John Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? [5]
- Manners will tell you of their kindness to us, but I vow I have not been able to see it. [9]
- Need I remind you of the importance of punctuality in your engagements, and of the worry and distress to patients and their friends which the want of it occasions? [3]
- They know how you love animals, and so they try to do you honor and show their love for you by naming all those creatures after you; insomuch that if a body should step out and call "Joan of Arc--come! [5]
- Did I tell you I had an offer from Bobbett and Fanshaw to go into their office as confidential clerk on a salary of ten thousand? [5]
- I cannot tell you how we have followed you, with what interest and delight through your travels, as you have told their story in your letters to your mother. [6]
- And I'll warrant you cannot conceive the havoc and consternation their fulfilment would spread in England. [9]
- I really believe you are in love with some one woman by whose side all the others have lost their charms. [10]
- You look around you and you see a nation of sixty millions-- apparently; but secreted in their hands and brains, and invisible to your eyes, is the true population of this Republic, and it numbers forty billions! [5]
- She'd probably give you all she's saved to go to Europe with and study, saved from her pictures sold at twenty per cent of their value; and she'd mortgage the little income she's got to keep her brother out of jail. [11]
- I could tell you a tale of their folly! [10]
- Arrived in New York, Ed found his way to Commodore Vanderbilt's business quarters, and was ushered into a large anteroom, where a score of people were patiently awaiting their turn for a two-minute interview with the millionaire in his private office. [5]
- To show New York millionaires how to adorn their city. [4]
- Time had not yet robbed the former of a single charm, while from the Queen he had wrested many; their number was known only to herself and her confidantes, but at this hour she did not miss them. [10]
- None has ever yet returned to tell the sad tale of their fate. [5]
- Her fervour, repressed yet palpable, was like a flame burning before their altars--a flattery to which the learned, being human, are quick to respond. [9]
- She had not yet gone to bed when the Rostovs arrived and the pulley of the hall door squeaked from the cold as it let in the Rostovs and their servants. [2]
- There is enough yet before us requiring all loyal men and patriots to perform their share of the labor and follow the example of the modest General at the head of our armies, and sink all personal consideration for the sake of the country. [7]
- He was not yet aware of her arrival for, completely absorbed in the subject of their conversation, he was talking with his private secretary Escovedo. [10]
- 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]
- Priests in their yellow robes and with bare shoulders went by, oblivious of all things. [11]
- Through it the yellow afternoon light was flooding now, even as then, checkered by the branches in their first fringe of green. [9]
- All the first years, their only question had been--asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stones, in time, perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive? [5]
- For thousands of years this clan have dwelt in Shechem under strict tabu, and having little commerce or fellowship with their fellow men of any religion or nationality. [5]
- But the best years of your life are going, and your education and your nature have not their chance. [11]
- Through the long years of their lives together, he would never know. [9]
- During the earliest years of the new century the political atmosphere had changed, the public had shown a tendency to grow restless; and everybody knows how important it is for financial operations, for prosperity, that the people should mind their own business. [9]
- Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from San Francisco to try their fortunes in the new city of Virginia. [5]
- We expend more yearly for apprehending and trying those caught, for the machinery of criminal justice, and for the recurring farce of imprisoning on short sentences and discharging those felons to go on with their work of swindling and robbing. [4]
- For the first year or so he sees that they are just as much pupils of their Maker as the young of any other animals. [6]
- In the first year of their marriage he used to consult her about all his schemes, and value her keen understanding. [4]
- During the past year no differences of any kind have arisen with any of these republics, and on the other hand, their sympathies with the United States are constantly expressed with cordiality and earnestness. [7]
- More than a year had passed since she had seen him, but there was no emotion, no ardour in their present greeting. [11]
- Stand back thar, ye critters," he shouted, brandishing his rifle in their faces. [9]
- In the Palace yard a thousand men stood at attention, and at their head was Cushnan Di with fifty hillsmen. [11]
- I may be wrong, but I have an idea that when the people of this country learn how their legislatures are conducted they will want to change things. [9]
- Don't believe no wrong of nobody, not till y' must,--least of all of them that come o' the same folks, partly, and has lived with yo all their days. [6]
- Meanwhile Bartja had written Sappho a farewell letter, and was sitting over the wine with his fellow-prisoners and their elder friend Araspes. [10]
- I have neither written nor made a speech on that subject, because that was their business, not mine, and if I had a wish on the subject, I had not the power to introduce it, or make it effective. [7]
- Instead of neatly written labels, living lips told us their names. [10]
- Many of their writings, too, are full of poetical beauties. [10]
- 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]
- Get them to write their wills now, or it may be too late by -and-by. [5]
- We need not write their names on these walls, after the fashion of those civic dignitaries who immortalize themselves on tablets of marble and gates of iron. [3]
- Enough that they write "delightful spot" in their diaries, and hurry off to new scenes, and more noisy life. [4]
- He and Cloud-in-the-Sky wrapped themselves in their blankets like mummies, covering the head completely, and under the arctic sky they slept alone in an austere and tenantless world. [11]
- But they also wove into my life something else which lends their memory a melancholy charm. [10]
- If they have wounds, we will make them heal; if their heads are turned, we will screw them the right way round; if their souls are dark, we will light up a flame in them. [10]
- My father was wounded, and then the priest frightened them, and they gathered their dead together and buried them. [11]
- The swell people wouldn't call anybody but themselves 'clean,' and those others would drop sort of meekly into their way of talking and they wouldn't call themselves clean. [5]
- Sometimes her eyes would wander off to Mr. Bernard, and their expression, as old Dr. Kittredge, who watched her for a while pretty keenly, noticed, would change perceptibly. [6]
- The freed people would surely not do more than their old proportion of it, and very probably for a time would do less, leaving an increased part to white laborers, bringing their labor into greater demand, and consequently enhancing the wages of it. [7]
- The heavenly spirits would submit only to those mortals who shared in some of their highest characteristics. [10]
- She said she would say good-by to her father and uncle in the morning if it should still be their purpose to go, instead of tarrying awhile to see the city. [5]
- Later, perhaps, they would relent and see something of their friends, and throw open again the gates of a beautiful place long closed to the world. [9]
- Some, no doubt, would rather have fought than have had peace at the price; but they could not free their minds from the sacred force which had brought most of the crowd of faction-fighters to their knees. [11]
- Some apes, however, would probably declare that they could and did admire the beauty of the coloured skin and fur of their partners in marriage. [1]
- Ah, if he would only have patience, or if she could keep him distracted through this winter and their night, she might save him. [9]
- During flight, moths would often be able to escape from their enemies; nevertheless, as the hind-wings are then fully exposed to view, their bright colours must generally have been acquired at some little risk. [1]
- I believe they would not, in fact, generally know it but for your misrepresentations of us in their hearing. [7]
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