Sentence Examples

1. The bonds were quoted, no longer at a hundred below par, but at twenty, at ten, and at five and paralytic old Lord Albemarle bet even in his favour.
2. And I who am here beside thee, may I not put myself on a par with the valiant Pierres, who pressed this very spot that I now press?
3. She made a humming noise, not answering my question, but that was something I considered par for the course with Josephine.
4. The display with which it is to be attended will be something rare and out of the common, for it will be celebrated in a meadow adjoining the town of the bride, who is called, par excellence, Quiteria the fair, as the bridegroom is called Camacho the rich.
5. I smiled at their delight, it felt good to be back on even par with them all.
6. The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and merely on account of its retrograde operations, has been called, as if par excellence, analysis.
7. My friend Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, is, in my opinion, if I am not partial, the second after the treasurer the rest of the great officers are much upon a par.
8. It was more important than just about anything else, on a par with the love between husband and wife.
9. While waiting, I assumed her conservative skirt and long-sleeve baby-blue sweater were par for the course when meeting her grandfather for brunch.
10. They picked at sandwiches on a par with the cardboard pasta in the pub a few days earlier and drank foul coffee from paper cups.