Sentence Examples

1. Every child who marched out of the main doors was dressed in the regimental school uniform, the height of order and decorum, and the education about as good as money could buy.
2. Most recently Josh had been forced to buy a new set of pans for the kitchen and make sure no other iron was around.
3. Not long into our relationship, Celestino told me the story of the day a German tourist arrived, fell in love with the island and asked to buy a field of potatoes.
4. All that hard work, all those careful calculations as to how much stock to buy, what price to sell it at, and the man ended up here, lying in a pool of his own blood.
5. Catherine moved to stand in front of Jack, he had no idea what she was thinking, but if it might buy his brother some time then so be it.
6. That and fifty cents would buy me a cup of coffee, I thought, feeling the same pain of rejection he must have felt earlier.
7. Lots of folks had their own milk or eggs, or bought from neighbors, but others, especially them hippies who started making their homes back in the woods, still needed to buy theirs.
8. I remembered the first time I met Celestino, climbing down the stairs to the subterranean art gallery in a little plaza in Haría, admiring the artworks on display, thinking I might buy something small, approaching the man standing by a small desk with my inquiry to find he was the artist.
9. A curious observer with enough coin to buy ale, he had been welcome.
10. I needed another book like that, so when Elbert was finished wrapping, I asked if I could buy it.