Example Sentences

I'm going to see the chiropractor this afternoon

Indigenous peoples living in high Mayan are Peruvians.

"The indigenous peoples are at war with the highland Mayans, said Dr. Robinson. "My money's on the Mayans."

"You won't be profiting from your perfidy," said Prudence, "I've alerted the authorities."

Waggery means jocularity, waggish behavior or remarks. His waggery can get annoying after awhile.

Active voice is when the subject of a sentence does the action. Passive voice is when the subject of a sentence receives the action. A sentence that has passive voice usually has the word by in it and the verb has a form of be in it and is in the past tense.

Oh! Susannah, now don't you cry for me,

For I've gone to California with a banjo in my knee....

As some folks use "oh" to designate a 'zero', they might say that the meeting time is "Oh-Dark-Thirty", meaning thirty minutes after dark.

"Janie tried to drop the gem, but she just couldn't, it was just too powerful for her to understand."

My mother is single.

The police haven't a single clue as to the perpetrator's identity.

Jacob knew that his father would disown him, if his father ever discovered that Jacob wanted to become an actor, so Jacob decided to change his last name.

"The dance gives students from the two schools a chance to meet."

"It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the group."

"He gives his grandmother candy on her birthday."

"Building something with your own hands gives you a sense of accomplishment."

Tidily, I cleaned my room just as my mother had told me to.

Kicking in that door was quite a heroic effort.

The monkey would screech every time it saw a banana.

I am glad you asked me to use that word in a sentence.

It is not recommended to use "hussy" as it is considered a derogatory and outdated term to describe a woman. It is more respectful and appropriate to use alternative words such as "woman" or "person."

This is for using it as a noun. "There was a lot of hugger-mugger about the order of the jumbled papers."

He went out of his way to embarrass her in spite of their past friendship.

It means that morality is a trait of humans alone. Other animals don't think about whether it is right or wrong to kill... they kill to live, or out of fear, or to protect themselves from being killed. They sometimes don't have a special affection for their children, and will sometimes leave one to starve in order to help the others survive. Things like that. Humans worry about morality, other forms of life (as far as we know) do not.

On September 16th Mexicans celebrate their independence day with a fiesta.

I don't know what would possess you to use this word.

Your subconscious is the part of your mind which is going about its business without your knowledge. Conscious thoughts are the ones you're aware of, like you reading this paragraph, thinking you're a bit hungry, and wondering if you let the cat out. Subconscious thoughts are ones you're not aware of, but which are always rumbling around under the surface. You might make a decision without really being aware why you picked one choice, but underneath your conscious thoughts, your brain had made a subconscious decision.

"The doctor used the stethoscope on the patient to try and hear his heartbeat and breathing patterns."

Your obvious mistruth is no more than a blatant lie.

Get down from there before you hurt yourself.

Can you get the cookie jar down from the cupboard please.