Use us in a sentence
Sentences starting with us
- Us men would loaf around and talk; and a man would say, 'There she goes! [5]
Sentences ending with us
- Ye temple-servants, seize your staves, and spread in every part of the city the news of the miracle which the Divinity has vouchsafed to us. [10]
- They 'll 'crock' your fingers, but they can't burn us. [6]
- You must!--it is your duty; you take the taxes, and you are put there to take care of us! [10]
- They told me you'd arrived--why didn't you come to us? [9]
- It will tell you, too, what it means to me, and what I see before us. [11]
- So I beseech you to leave us. [10]
- I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part, however low it may sink me, shall never break the tie of personal friendship between us. [7]
- I can see you sewing for us, I can hear you praying for us. [9]
- You cannot fight; you saved your life by boarding us. [11]
- Then why are you herewith us? [9]
Short sentences using us
- Telegraph us how you are. [7]
- You attack us without cause. [11]
- It isn't so with us. [5]
- He is going with us. [2]
- The spirits are with us. [11]
- She will go with us. [11]
- She must come with us. [10]
- To us she was divine. [5]
- Who will stop us? [9]
- Did they thank us? [9]
Sentences containing us two or more times
- In each of your letters to us, you will state the number of certain votes both for and against us, as well as the number of doubtful votes, with your opinion of the manner in which they will be cast. [7]
- 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]
- That must make you happy, father.--But tell us, pray tell us where the wound hurts that the murderer gave you? [10]
- Leave us as you found us. [11]
- His words so wrought upon us that it was a relief to us all when the conversation drifted into a more cheerful channel and the natural features of the curious country we were in came under treatment. [5]
- The only danger would lie in the crowd discovering us in this holy spot, where the Muezzin calls to prayer, and giving us what for, before he could interfere. [11]
- She soon found work for us, making us do many a Samaritan-task; and many a time have we marvelled to mark the skill with which she wove her web, and the wisdom coupled with her open-handed bounty. [10]
- He really was with us but twenty-five years, for he did not go with us to Europe, but he never regarded that as separation. [5]
- Those who fought with us but now were to shoot us at sunset, and remain here till other troops came. [11]
- They are coming with staves and spears and they will tread us down as grass and burn us in this house like the locusts cast into the oven. [10]
More example sentences with the word us in them
- We had a youth living with us by the name of Jim Wolfe. [5]
- But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
- You lent us yours yesterday, Paulus, and I must--" "I should soon have forgotten it," interrupted the other. [10]
- 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]
- If you see your way to meet us in New Orleans, drop me a line, now, and as we approach that city I will telegraph you what day we shall arrive there. [5]
- Wishing to make your visit here as pleasant as we can, we wish you to notify us as soon as possible whether you come this way, how many, and when you will arrive. [7]
- My brush and your stylus will earn us more in no time. [10]
- Let us have your story, and be merry. [9]
- Had you uttered your real opinion in the first place, the wine would have tasted better to us both. [10]
- Now I suppose your present idea is, to leave us a little more in the dark. [5]
- If you keep your heart pure, and constantly think of the time which shall be fulfilled for each of us, to our ruin or to our salvation, you will pass unharmed through this great peril. [10]
- We all feel your deep trouble with you; and we would hope, if we might, but your words deny us that privilege. [5]
- Favour us with your decision as speedily as possible, ma'am. [12]
- Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations. [7]
- He is the youngest of us all, but a great future awaits him. [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]
- So the seven young men said one to the other, let us get up and travel. [5]
- You see that young lady coming to us with my husband? [11]
- Then come forward, you, the youngest of us all, who are so highly trusted by this holy assembly. [10]
- But we and you, tender-hearted priestess of a gracious goddess--leading us friends of the Muse--we pursue a different course! [10]
- She's never known you, never seen what most of us have seen, that all you have--or nearly all--is your lovely looks, and what they call a kind heart. [11]
- The cruelest thing you Yankees did was to force us, who couldn't fight, to go over there for sympathy. [4]
- What may delight you will cost bitter tears to many others, and so let us both hope that this splendid spectacle may now have reached its climax, and soon may come to an end. [10]
- How he discovered you were with us I know not. [9]
- He told us you were down in Boston at a fashionable school. [9]
- And even if you turn me out of the house--I will not help to drag us into deeper wretchedness; I will take no part in the performances. [10]
- As long as you travel with us, keep as near me as you can. [12]
- Jean said: "Joan, you told us yourself that you were going to Uncle Laxart's to nurse his wife, but you didn't say you were going further, yet you did go on to Vaucouleurs. [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]
- Didn't I tell you those criticisms would be the making of us, when they first began to turn you blue this morning, March? [8]
- And Davy, do you think you can sing that song you gave us the other night? [9]
- I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail. [9]
- And now, suppose you step over at once and let us see General Scott (and) General Cameron about assigning a position to General Fremont. [7]
- I confessed to you once that Mr. Parr had made for us all the money we possess. [9]
- Manners will tell you of their kindness to us, but I vow I have not been able to see it. [9]
- I says: "Oh, you needn't be afeard, sir, she carried the three of us easy enough. [5]
- Then, of course, you must show us the mill working at night, and afterwards--may I ask it?--you must all come and have supper with me at the summer hotel. [11]
- Speed also says you must not fail to send us the New York Journal he wrote for some time since. [7]
- You must live, you must not die; for see, Publius here asks me to be his wife, and the Immortals only can know how glad I am to go with him, and Irene is to stay with us, and be my sister and his. [10]
- I don't believe you mean to try to astonish us when you come back to spend your summers here. [6]
- Send us what you may know of your army vote. [7]
- Something--call it anything you like--made us meet on this neutral ground. [11]
- The stars, as you know, proclaim to you, as to me, that a higher power has joined us as light and warmth are joined. [10]
- Tell us why you haven't brought her into the daylight, why she isn't claiming her husband at the polls. [11]
- It is because you have married a divorced woman under circumstances that have shocked us. [9]
- We know that you have armed a vast host against us, and we are ready to buy peace and liberty by a yearly tribute. [10]
- 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]
- Merry Xmas to you from us all. [5]
- And what do you expect us to do? [9]
- What's the reason you couldn't get us up a paper on the strike? [8]
- How I wish you could see us felling trees to make bullet-moulds, and forging slugs for canister, and making cartridges at night with our bayonets as candlesticks. [9]
- A gentleman like you could give us twenty-five, and never know it was gone. [9]
- Go, and when you come again, it will be for us to part in peace--at least in peace. [11]
- But there, if you can, let us hear what man it is who disturbs the home of the philosopher. [11]
- Do you think you can better yourselves, on that subject, by leaving us here under no obligation whatever to return those specimens of your movable property that come hither? [7]
- With us what you call time is a spacious thing; it takes a long stretch of it to grow an angel to full age. [5]
- My love to you both, and to all of us that are left. [5]
- With love to you both from us all. [5]
- Speak up, man; you are forgiven for deserting us. [9]
- I think New York agrees with us both wonderfully. [8]
- She was smiling, yet looking at us with shining eyes. [9]
- He does not yet know of my purpose, but I am sure that he would help us if a thousand deaths threatened him. [10]
- You smile, and yet I feel sure that long as you have desired to revisit your dear Hellas, you will not be able to leave us quite without regret. [10]
- 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]
- I have not yet been released from the duties I undertook there, and it will be more worthy of us both that Asclepiodorus should give you the daughter of Philotas as your wife than that you should be married to a runaway serving-maid of Serapis. [10]
- To-day again, as yesterday, a storm burst over us. [10]
- Night caught us yesterday where we had to take quarters in a peasant's house which was occupied by the family and a lot of cows and calves--also several rabbits.--[His word for fleas. [5]
- They gleam golden yellow, and will yield us snow-white meal when they are ground, and yet they grew from a rotting seed. [10]
- There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the engines, a powwow of cussing, and whistling of steam--and as Jim went overboard on one side and I on the other, she come smashing straight through the raft. [5]
- And as the years went on we'd realise how every form of success was offset by something undone in another direction, something which would have given us joy and memory and content--so it seems. [11]
- 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]
- Even after three years of more or less intimacy between us, Farrar still wore his exterior of pessimism and indifference, the shell with which he chose to hide a naturally warm and affectionate disposition. [9]
- A few more years in the service, and our savings and the pension together will be enough to support us there and lay aside a little marriage dowry for our daughter. [10]
- On every New Year's day I have always sent a present of coffee and perique to my cousin the Marquis, and it is Mademoiselle who writes to thank us. [9]
- A hundred more years and many of the barbarisms still lingering among us will, of course, have disappeared like witch-hanging. [6]
- We lived among ye, poor as ye are poor, yet rich for that Egypt was no poorer because of us. [11]
- We mane business, ye know; and the sooner ye put us on the scent of a V, the asier yell save yerself from a dale of trouble. [5]
- We never even wrote you, because we were always so sure, from day to day, that our affairs would finally so shape themselves as to let us get to Scotland. [5]
- As Mr. Clemens wrote you we would say "do not send us any more money at present" if we were not afraid to do so. [5]
- If it is written on the leaves of the Tree of Life that the white man rule us for ever, then it shall be so. [11]
- Instead of neatly written labels, living lips told us their names. [10]
- So Clara is writing a Florence friend to take a look round among the villas for us in the regions near that city. [5]
- An Englishman may write with the most brutal frankness about any man or institution among us and we republish him without dreaming of altering a line or a word. [5]
- I wish he wouldn't persist in liking us so; I can't think why he keeps it up. [5]
- That Injun devil wouldn't make any more of drownding us than a couple of cats, if we was to squeak 'bout this and they didn't hang him. [5]
- Either of us would, I doubt not, be willingly apprised of his error. [6]
- A real reform would settle them once and for all, and wind up by giving us an alphabet that we wouldn't have to spell with at all, instead of this present silly alphabet, which I fancy was invented by a drunken thief. [5]
- He said he would secure us a hotel if he could, but if they were all full he would ask them to build another one and hurry up and get the paint and plaster dry against we arrived. [5]
- He said he would sail his balloon around the globe just to show what he could do, and then he would sink it in the sea, and sink us all along with it, too. [5]
- A true Egyptian would rather starve, than eat out of the same dish with one of us. [10]
- In these circumstances would policy allow her to consider us? [5]
- I believe they would not, in fact, generally know it but for your misrepresentations of us in their hearing. [7]
- We, the majority, would not strive to dissolve the Union; and if any attempt is made, it must be by you, who so loudly stigmatize us as disunionists. [7]
- My best possession would not have seemed too dear a price to pay for some magic spell that would have brought you to us when, at the festal games, I danced and sang to the tambourine while the loudest shouts of applause greeted me. [10]
- Handcuffs and chains would look still better on Jim, but it wouldn't go well with the story of us being so poor. [5]
- He said he would live to be avenged; said he would make our lives a curse to us. [5]
- Therefore if we would live she wished us presently to be gone. [4]
- If only they would leave us in peace--" "Hark, that is Pollux; I know by the dogs," said the woman, hastening as fast as she could over the threshold and out to meet him. [10]
- And how gladly would I work for us both--for I am very handy and hard-working, but. [10]
- Some of us would have liked to hear more about those letters in the divorce cases, but the Counsellor had to leave the table. [6]
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