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Be in a sentence

Sentence examples for be. Learn how established writers used the word in their sentences. Learn how to imitate them to express your idea.

Be yourself.

Don’t be a hick.

You’ll be stale.

I would not be rude.

It will be observed.

No, but I hope to be.

Don’t be a damn fool.

Don’t try to be funny.

We’ll be fine afterward.

You needn’t be superior.

“Wouldn’t that be awful?”

It’ll be all right, John.

A man ought to be married.

You will be uncomfortable.

We’ll be out of it tonight.

The man looked to be alone.

“Don’t be sore,” John says.

You don’t have to be afraid.

Be yourself,” Walcott says.

Every man ought to be married.

He was going to be an engineer.

No one seemed to be tending it.

Only to get a job and be married.

Please, please don’t be that way!

Anything that size would be angry.

She used to be able to understand.

Be a man, my son,” said one priest.

I said, “Don’t be a damn fool, Luis.”

“I’m afraid I won’t be able to,” I said.

Three of the men to be hanged were negroes.

It will be the starting point of everything.

Stretcher bearers would be along any time now.

There’s liable to be a hell of a lot of trouble.

I’d be a God damned fool to live anywhere else.

“There’s going to be a moon tonight,” said Nick.

He thinks you should be allowed to drive the car.

In two weeks it’ll be the longest day in the year.

I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.

“But you’ll have to be up with the lark,” she added.

The baby wants to be born and she wants it to be born.

Five men sentenced to be hanged were in the five top cells.

“I’ll be back in the morning,” the doctor said, standing up.

Also he wished to show he could hold his liquor and be practical.

“I thought you might be here,” she responded absently as I came up.

It’ll be all right for bait but it’s better with the ventral fin in.

His town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by actualities.

If no one came for them they would be left to waterlog and rot on the beach.

Of course, the great thing in this sort of an affair is not to be shot oneself.

Charley Simmons, who is just your age, has a good job and is going to be married.

The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be⁠—will be utterly submerged.

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