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

The Indians rowed with quick choppy strokes.

It will be the starting point of everything.

The younger of the two was a stranger to me.

I spoke to him about the Mantegnas in Milano.

Uncle George was smoking a cigar in the dark.

The bull could not make up his mind to charge.

We all looked⁠—the knuckle was black and blue.

The two Indians sent them back to the shanties.

It is the one country that everyone is sure of.

He and Ag could hear them below on the balcony.

We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.

All her muscles are trying to get the baby born.

Then three more came over further down the wall.

Across the bay they found the other boat beached.

Sometimes the bull only bumped him with his head.

An old woman stood in the doorway holding a lamp.

He set down his suitcase and knocked on the door.

The bull looking at him straight in front, hating.

She lay in the lower bunk, very big under a quilt.

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

Uncle George sat in the stern of the camp rowboat.

The prisoners had been brought in for the hanging.

The young Indian pulled the boat way up the beach.

All the shutters of the hospital were nailed shut.

The guards who had been holding him up dropped him.

He bought the blacksmith shop from old man Horton.

The other five stood very quietly against the wall.

“But how is the movement going in Italy?” he asked.

All the old women in the camp had been helping her.

“How about a chair, Will?” asked one of the guards.

It was early September and the country was pleasant.

All the time now Liz was thinking about Jim Gilmore.

When he started to kill it was all in the same rush.

The others went down and took the bottles with them.

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

At the lake shore there was another rowboat drawn up.

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

Villalta became one with the bull and then it was over.

The first German I saw climbed up over the garden wall.

The Maritza was running yellow almost up to the bridge.

After a while it got dark and the searchlights came out.

Rinaldi lay still in the sun, breathing with difficulty.

The Hungarians were backing their wagon out of an alley.

A big old wrought-iron grating from the front of a house.

Ag never got an answer to the letter to Chicago about it.

Then she added irrelevantly: “You ought to see the baby.”

The blacksmith shop was painted red and faced the school.

There was farming country and timber each way up the road.

Two soldiers carried him downstairs and out into the rain.

They came out onto the gallows through a door in the wall.

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