Use times in a sentence
Sentences starting with times
- Times may come when a man has to look out for himself. [4]
- Times change, and the day may come when you will have reason to fear him. [10]
- Times were hard, now, and they grew worse. [5]
- Times have changed, Nancy, and you yourself have been the first to admit it. [9]
- Times are getting hard. [9]
- Times have been hard these many years, and, craving your Majesty's pardon, our taxes have been heavy. [11]
Sentences ending with times
- They have helped your excellency with the Indians a hundred times. [11]
- You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of the times. [7]
- I have heard you say so a dozen times. [9]
- Nay, my dears, you need not cry out, such was the custom of the times. [9]
- Well, then, will you let me aid you--say till better times? [13]
- How is it you have loved a man for a whole year and suddenly... Why, you have only seen him three times! [2]
- My house my yard, everything around me, in fact, shows' that I am becoming one of these cattle--and I used to be thrifty in other times. [5]
- It was a wonder that the horses' legs were not broken a dozen times. [4]
- The Golden Stag will know hard times. [5]
- I used the Wildbad springs in all seventeen times. [10]
Short sentences using times
- Good times to you all! [5]
- Many, many times too true. [5]
- These are fearful times. [9]
- We met several times. [5]
- Those were primitive times. [5]
- These are sardonic times. [5]
- Oh, it's dreadful times! [6]
- Yes, a hundred times yes. [10]
- No, a thousand times no! [10]
- Faith, a hundred times less! [11]
Sentences containing times two or more times
- I know what you have done for me--" "I pleaded with Monsieur Fournel, knowing how you loved the Seigneury-- pleaded and offered to pay three times the price--" "Yourself would have been a hundred million times the price. [11]
- The snow-white bird, with the yellow head, scratched seventeen times before Xanthe, and, on reaching Mopsus, twenty-three times, which was perfectly correct. [10]
- I say it with shame, that I have learned fifty times, yes, a hundred times more about New Zealand in these two hours at this table than I ever knew before in all the eighteen years put together. [5]
- Ten times I went to the bedroom door, and as many times drew away again, my heart leaping within me at the peril which she faced. [9]
- Several times the watchers heard muffled sobs from the dark room where she lay at St. Denis, and many times the grieving words, "It could have been taken!--it could have been taken! [5]
- When that charge was brought forward by the Chicago Times, the Springfield Register [Douglas's organ] reminded the Times that the charge really applied to John Henry; and I do know that John Henry is now making speeches and fiercely battling for Judge Douglas. [7]
- The Grandson of twenty-three referred to himself five or six times as an "old traveler," and as many as three times (with a serene complacency which was maddening) as a "man of the world. [5]
- He uses it twenty times a day, or twenty thousand times a day; or a million times a day-- according to the exigencies. [5]
- It is melancholy to hear them jabber over the same pointless anecdotes three and four times of an evening, forgetting that they had jabbered them over three or four times the evening before. [5]
- It's a thousand times worse than that--oh, yes, a million times worse. [5]
More example sentences with the word times in them
- You'd gamble with your immortal soul, but you wouldn't sell it--not for three millions, not for a hundred times three millions. [11]
- He places at your disposal--this time, at least, he was not economical--a sum which will take you to the healing springs four or five times, nay, oftener still. [10]
- When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's. [5]
- 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]
- He took the young Marylander to task for going to the Church of the Galileans, where he had several times accompanied Iris of late. [6]
- But I tell you, sir, that it will not be over in seven times ninety days. [9]
- And, I tell you, better times are coming now. [10]
- The Chevalier needs you, and the Duc de Mauban needs you, but Detricand of Vaufontaine needs you a thousand times more. [11]
- On the Sahbath you will be able to attend divine service three times, which is expected of our teachers. [6]
- I confess to you that I've been a little afraid at times that you'd take after Jonathan's father. [9]
- I will give you something in my room which will pay the Nabathaean's charges ten times over. [10]
- But at times you seem so--indifferent, and you can't understand how it hurts. [9]
- I have heard you say so many times that nobody could be a great artist without passing years and years at work, and growing pale and lean with thinking so hard. [6]
- In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest.--The scarcity of such people is astonishing. [5]
- Why, Cap., don't you know, it's as much as a hundred times worse in there now than it was when he first got a-going. [5]
- Why, you ass, you have won a thousand times over what you lost. [9]
- By the time you have drawn twenty-one wales and written "William I.--1066-1087--twenty-one years" twenty-one times, those details will be your property; you cannot dislodge them from your memory with anything but dynamite. [5]
- The papers say you have a political mind--the statesman's intelligence, the Times said. [11]
- 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]
- The army passing yonder would have been enough to destroy down to the last man a force ten times greater than the number of his people. [10]
- Boun' to git yo' money back a hund'd times, de preacher says! [5]
- During those 1500 years, Satan's influence was worth very nearly a hundred times as much to the business as was the influence of all the rest of the Holy Family put together. [5]
- In seven hundred years wages will have risen to six times what they are now, here in your region, and farm hands will be allowed 3 cents a day, and mechanics 6. [5]
- More times last year than the year before? [5]
- More times this year than last? [5]
- Several times a year she made this journey, landing at the Eperquerie Rocks as she had done one day long ago, and selling her beautiful wool caps and jackets to the farmers and fisher-folk, getting in kind for what she gave. [11]
- Any muggins can write about Old Times on the Miss. [5]
- Jim said bees wouldn't sting idiots; but I didn't believe that, because I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn't sting me. [5]
- I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more. [5]
- I reckoned I would have great times now if I was over at the town. [5]
- At times he would fain have me read to him as he lay in his great four-post bed with the flowered counterpane, from the Spectator, stopping me now and anon at some awakened memory of his youth. [9]
- The old man would a thousand times rather his wife lived than died. [11]
- You know I would a thousand times rather bake your cakes and clean your silver! [9]
- It should be worth ten times the other, and the world called the other the work of a genius, dog. [11]
- It was not worth a swing of the executioner's axe in these times of war. [9]
- Sun, Herald, Times, World, Harper Brothers and John F. Trow; also to the proprietors of the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe. [5]
- At times the world swam around me, and I could hardly keep from letting go, so dizzying was the appalling danger. [5]
- Well, it was wonderful to think of, and I says: "Why, I've heard talk about this Desert plenty of times, but I never knowed before how important she was. [5]
- Now it is won, I would give it up and a hundred times as much to hear you say, 'Come to Skaw Fell again. [11]
- Once a drunken woman spat at me and cursed me; once I was fired at; and many times from dark corners I heard voices crying, "Sauvez-moi--ah, sauvez-moi, bon Dieu! [11]
- Nuremberg had been witnessing this sort of experience a couple of times a day for about two weeks. [5]
- The opera alternates with the theater two or three times a week. [4]
- Young Mr. Colfax, with the excess of manner which was his at such times, excused himself and left abruptly. [9]
- I've seen him with my own eyes--and plenty of times, at that. [5]
- His answer, bringing with it her remembrance of her husband at certain times when it was not safe to question him, had silenced her. [9]
- But when alone with him he conversed in the old way, and his faults of memory seemed at times to disappear. [6]
- I have shared with her anything I have had since times went wrong with us and our family. [11]
- And then added with an oath and a nod and a vile remark: "Married three times to my knowledge. [9]
- Many times I wished that the charming anecdotes had not stopped with their happy climaxes, but had continued the pleasing history of the several benefactors and beneficiaries. [5]
- At times she wished she had rebuked Trixton Brent more forcibly, although he was not an easy person to rebuke; and again she reflected that, had she taken the matter too seriously, she would have laid herself open to his ridicule. [9]
- Many times that winter I was a guest at the yellow-brick house, and I have to confess, as spring came on, that I made several trips to Elkington which business necessity did not absolutely demand. [9]
- Then the elecampane wine did good service; yet was it not till she had drunk of it many times that her tongue spoke plainly again. [10]
- After cutting, they will weigh considerably less than a pound, but will be worth four or five times as much as they were before. [5]
- When a book will sell by subscription, it will sell two or three times as many copies as it would in the trade; and the profit is bulkier because the retail price is greater..... You didn't ask me for a subscription-publisher. [5]
- At times her will revealed itself in astonishing and unexpected flashes, as when once she announced that she was going to change Matthew's school. [9]
- And the Union will never be safe until the greatest crime of modern times is wiped out in blood. [9]
- If all men will eat onions at all times, they will come into a universal sympathy. [4]
- With joy I will do this, and a hundred times more. [11]
- He put the will carefully back in its place, and spread his mouth and swung his hat once, twice, three times around his head, in imitation of three rousing huzzahs, no sound issuing from his lips. [5]
- But the world will be cruel, and the times are threatening. [6]
- Several times his wife asked him the reason. [5]
- It covers a wide stretch of time--I don't know how many years--and in the course of it the chief actress is reincarnated several times: four times she is a more or less young woman, and once she is a lad. [5]
- I don't see why an officer should get two thousand five hundred times as much as a seaman. [11]
- Did not you, whose life is a thousand times more important than mine, of your own free-will go into captivity and to death in order to save our father? [10]
- The young fellow whom they call John said he knew all about it; he had just lighted a cheroot the other day, when a tremendous conviction all at once came over him that he had done just that same thing ever so many times before. [6]
- For Dr. Leigh, whom she had sought out several times, was reserved, and did not voluntarily speak of Father Damon; she had heard that he was throwing himself with more than his usual fervor into his work. [4]
- At times the whole drift of life, of the easy morality of the time, is against her. [4]
- I read the whole book twice through and some of the chapters several times, and the reason that that was as far as I got with it was that I lent it to another admirer of yours and he is admiring it yet. [5]
- Even the priest who visited him several times was by no means kindly disposed towards her. [10]
- Even Mrs. Waring, who resembled a Roman matron, with her wavy white hair parted in the middle and her gentle yet classic features, sighed secretly at times at the unyielding attitude of her husband, although admiring him for it. [9]
- The good American who hired me to go to his country is to pay me $12 a month, which is immense wages, you know--twenty times as much as one gets in China. [5]
- By John Smith, who heard him read eight times. [5]
- Many a man who has come into some property after he has sold all his little antiquities has offered me ten times the price I have paid him to get them back again, generally in vain, unfortunately. [10]
- Blessed are those who can sleep quietly in times like these! [6]
- Hereupon the Sultan, who at all times lacked moneys, notwithstanding the heavy tribute he levied on all merchandise, commanded that Herdegen and the Bohemian should be led away again and then he asked this overweening ransom. [10]
- It isn't worth while, in these practical times, for people to talk about Indian poetry--there never was any in them--except in the Fenimore Cooper Indians. [5]
- The trees from which the fine fruit I have spoken of, came, had been planted and replanted sixteen times, and to this treatment the proprietor of the orchard attributed his-success. [5]
- The interest with which the fair daughter of his companion-in-arms watched his deeds and his destiny, the modest yet ardent devotion afterwards displayed by the much sought-after young widow, who coldly repelled all other suitors, had been a delight to him in times of peace. [10]
- The rock on which she stood gave her feet sufficient support, as it had done many times before. [10]
- But these delights, which Nemu had passed a thousand times, had never had any temptation for him. [10]
- The danger in which Heinz stood of being drawn into the monastery made him deeply anxious, and he had already ventured several times to oppose his design. [10]
- Nearer the stockade, where the keepers of the fort might venture out at times, a more orderly growth met the eye. [9]
- There are times when--" "When there is nothing to say," he suggested. [9]
- At other times, when the light was perfectly clear and not too strong, and the village side of the crag was brighter than the other, more accurate relations of The Stone to its pedestal could be discovered. [11]
- It was as when several grafts, bearing fruit that ripens at different times, are growing upon the same stock. [6]
- There are times when our friends do not act like themselves, but apparently in obedience to some other law than that of their own proper nature. [6]
- At such times, when one's consciousness of outer things is dormant, an earthquake might continue for some minutes without one realizing it. [9]
- There were times when Jim's nerves were shaken in his struggle against the unseen foe, and he had spoken to her querulously, almost sharply. [11]
- There were times when I went to bed and, unable to sleep, I would get up at two o'clock or three o'clock in the morning and write till breakfast time. [11]
- There were times when I was careless--careless in my dress when I got older. [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]
- There were times when I should have gone away if I hadn't made a promise to stay in Ripton. [9]
- And at times when I felt her hand fall into mine or press against my brow, the pain seemed more endurable. [9]
- Thirty years later, when his fame was not much more extended, his pay for the same matter would have been fifteen times as great, that is to say, at the rate of thirty cents per word. [5]
- There were times when he seemed to understand, and whether he did or not she poured out her heart to him. [4]
- There was times when he ranted about like a crazy man, but mostly he was always sittin' an' starin' with eyes that made a man curse. [13]
- There were times when for months you forgot me; and then--then--" Suddenly a dreadful suspicion seized his brain. [11]
- There are times when every woman feels she must have a confidant, or her heart will burst--have counsel or she will die. [11]
- There are times when Ethiopian minstrelsy can amuse, if it does not charm, a weary soul, and such a vacant hour there was on this same Friday evening. [6]
- There were times when Cynthia leaned over him, listening as he breathed to know whether he slept or were awake. [9]
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