Sentence Examples

1. They complied without hesitation, though many a fearful and anxious glance was thrown behind them, toward the thickening gloom, which now lay like a dark barrier along the margin of the stream.
2. The vast canopy of woods spread itself to the margin of the river, overhanging the water, and shadowing its dark current with a deeper hue.
3. The aircraft banked sharply several times and missed hitting the building by a wide margin.
4. Men who are not in business do not understand how precarious the margin is between success and failure, profit and loss.
5. Immovable as that rock, of which each appeared to form a part, they lay, with their eyes roving, without intermission, along the dark margin of trees, that bounded the adjacent shores of the narrow stream.
6. I asked him what he was laughing at, and he replied that it was at something the book had written in the margin by way of a note.
7. She traced random doodles into the margin and stilled her impatience.
8. As he remembered everything Waterstone had done for him, rationality won by a slim margin.
9. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to great floods.
10. After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extremity of the portage.