Sentence with word against. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use against in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for against.
- What have you against him? (10)
- How cosy it looked against her! (8)
- She has sworn an oath against us. (10)
- Elinor even advised her against it. (4)
- He struck his hands against his chest! (8)
- Nedda rubbed her cheek against his hand. (8)
- I told ye I was a bad man to be up against. (8)
- Noel pressed his hand against her warm cheek. (8)
- They were in silhouette against the blue sky. (1)
- Do not let your delicacy take arms against me. (10)
- He was standing with his back against the door. (8)
- We shall soon be in arms, one against the other. (10)
- At that look Hilary braced himself against the wall. (8)
- Against the window-pane is pressed the face of a man. (8)
- Mr. Bennet protested against any description of finery. (4)
- Only Victor, no other, stood with her against the world. (10)
- Leaning against the creepered wall he tore open the letter. (8)
- He felt it as a fortification against every mishap in life. (10)
- She fought against Dover: do men feel such compliments as these? (10)
- Pressing the end of her cigarette out against the bank, she turned over. (8)
- Force is painful and futile, and merely recoils against him who uses it. (12)
- Derek had jumped down to rescue her and struck his head against a grindstone. (8)
- From beginning to end, the whole thing has been utterly against my principles. (8)
- He felt no anger against George; it was the woman that excited his just wrath. (8)
- He is rough, and you have often been against him, for one unfortunate reason. (10)
- But Winton knew well that she was moping, and cherishing some feeling against himself. (8)
- A corner of it, catching her eye as she lay, seemed to rise up in judgment against her. (4)
- Against the darkness of the open French window, he turned round to fire a parting shot. (8)
- He spent the whole day in a queer mood, cherishing a kind of sullenness against himself. (8)
- Walking up and down with the stride of a dervish, she fought against her darkening fears. (12)
- And, look you, David Roberts, Chapel tells you ye can do that without Going against Nature. (8)
- James said that he considered the request, and seeing no good reason against it, consented. (9)
- They prophesied against her chances of a good sleep at night, if she did not eat heartily. (10)
- But only by pressing her hand against her lips had she smothered a burst of bitter laughter. (8)
- A Union Jack happened to be leaning against the monument, and when she had at last finished, Mr. (8)
- Mrs. Shorne but very imperceptibly protested against the notion, and from one to another it ran. (10)
- He had at times thousands hugged against his bosom, and his heart swelled to the money-bags immense. (22)
- Is there any philosophy or religion or conviction that is not smashed to bits against this one fact? (12)
- The spaniel John sighed, the fox-terriers dropped their ears, and lay down heavily against each other. (8)
- Meanwhile Cuthbert Grant and his Bois-Brulés began final hostilities against the Red River settlement. (19)
- His niece was deep in thought likewise, trying to harden and prepare herself against farther questioning. (4)
- He seemed to be using against us the law of probabilities: of so many efforts one would eventually succeed. (7)
- Nevil should have stuck to that, instead of trying to galvanize the country and turning against his class. (10)
- His displeasure against herself she trusted, reasoning differently from Mrs. Norris, would now be done away. (4)
- They had made the Marienburg their home, and kept it against foreign and domestic foes for five hundred years. (9)
- She marvelled that when she thought of an outspoken complaint against him, her conscience gave her no support. (10)
- Some common proceeding against him, some decision and plan, some protective measures were absolutely necessary. (12)
- He stole forward on the grass patch, hit his shin against the green-painted chair, and held his breath at the sound. (8)
- Rocco was spurred by his personal grievances against her in a manner to make him forget his desire to be rid of her. (10)
- The latter is not a cantata, but rather a great suite, in which vocal movements are balanced against orchestral numbers. (3)
- What would he not have accomplished, that was brilliant, and beautiful, and soothing, but for this dead set against him! (10)
- I know of a surety what this Sword will do, and I wot the oil he distilleth strengtheneth Shagpat but against common blades. (10)
- The only offence against him of which she could accuse herself had been such as was scarcely possible to reach his knowledge. (4)
- She yellowed, and took hold of the nearest Serpent horribly, crying: Dare against me to rebel, Ye, the bitter brood of hell? (10)
- He and I met Kiomi on the road to the race-course on the Southdowns; the prettiest racecourse in England, shut against gipsies. (10)
- Sitting on the stone, with one hand pressed against his side, and the other tilting up the flask, he was grey from head to foot. (8)
- The parson is defending himself against the charge of inconsistency in allowing his youngest son to raise a company for the war. (14)
- Revolt against staleness and clipped wings, against the terrible security of his too solid reputation, smote him. (8)
- A man of full growth ought to know that nothing on earth tempts Providence so much as the binding of a young woman against her will. (10)
- On the whole, it was not a lazy afternoon that the Countess passed, and it was not against her wish that others should think it was. (10)
- He would warn his public against books which would disappoint them; he would take pleasure in praising books which would please them. (16)
- She had a novel, with her finger between its leaves, pressed against her heart, after the manner of ladies coming out on hotel piazzas. (9)
- The captain judicially decided the case against the English pipe, as a newer pipe of grosser manufacture, not so curious by any means. (10)
- Half the confusion and fever of the world comes of this vendetta he declares against the hapless innocents who have once done him a wrong. (10)
- They did not understand, that as a precautionary measure against just such accidents, the fiery animals are trained to run with the music. (21)
- Lavender crawled out, and taking up a dinner-knife, rolled his napkin round his arm, and prepared to defend himself against the German Army. (8)
- It was disagreeable, but he had weighed it against other disagreeable alternatives which might happen if he could not get the money he needed. (13)
- An incessant struggle of one man with the world, which position usually ranks his relatives against him, does not conduce to soundness of judgement. (10)
- A cloak of thick rough woollen cloth, like the mantle of the ancient Dacian, was their covering by night, and their chief protection against the weather. (20)
- He passed into the foyer, and from that came into the library, where he showed against the dark background in an attitude of entreaty slightly burlesqued. (9)
- Besides, experience taught him that an offence would be more easily pardoned the more his master himself disliked the person against whom it was committed. (5)
- Dr. Mulbridge found little practice among them; while attending their appointed fate, they were so thoroughly salted against decay as to preserve even their families. (9)
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Definition of against:
- against, a-genst’, also a-gnst’, prep. opposite to: in opposition to: in contact or collision with: in provision for: in exchange for, instead of: (_b. and shak._) by the time that, elliptically for ‘against (the time) at which’ or ‘that i come.’ (0)
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