Sentence for both | Use both in a sentence

Use the word both in a sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use both in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for both.

• They both stood up. (8)
• Both seemed affected. (10)
• Sit down, both of you. (8)
• I want to have them both. (9)
• Sometimes dey takes both. (9)
• It is of you both I speak. (10)
• They both wore a pensive air. (9)
• They both look intently at him. (8)
• Both were dressed for an expedition. (10)
• He made sign to them, and both rose. (10)
• She saw them both looking back at her. (4)
• With all my heart I embrace you both. (12)
• Their fortune on both sides is splendid. (4)
• Both had a literary bent; neither wore a hat. (8)
• We both thought it would be a comfort to you. (4)
• You will see them both this morning, I dare say. (4)
• He gripped the edge of the table with both hands. (8)
• Help from me would have been the betrayal of both. (10)
• I confess the news caused me both pain and merriment. (2)
• Luciano and his mother both counselled his departure. (10)
• Stephen merely clapped both elbows against his sides. (10)
• But one or the other, if not both of them, I must have. (4)
• Queer trance of an existence, which both were afraid to break. (8)
• She seemed to smile and be soft all over, and she took both his hands. (8)
• At tea, which they both took with lemon, Soames spoke of the Transvaal. (8)
• Both are somewhat protected from the rest of the travellers by newspapers. (8)
• If he had loved you, would I not have done all that I could for you both? (10)
• Both leaned back in their chairs, and spoke with their eyes on their books. (10)
• Both being spirits formed for action, a perplexity found them weak as babes. (22)
• Both would be ready to take up their burden, if the burden was laid on them. (10)
• Giacinta drove him forth in the act of smiting his forehead with both hands. (10)
• Was it because he was dreadful enough for both, all the time, without doing anything? (9)
• Stephen worked in the Law Courts, Thyme worked at Art; both were doing something definite. (8)
• He walked off to find his father, but was quickly back again with both Mr. and Mrs. Weston. (4)
• In his imagination he stood identified with Italy: the betrayal of one meant that of both. (10)
• To be both generally blamed, and generally liked, evinces a peculiar construction of mortal. (10)
• Doctor had fascinated Miss Dale; so that, both within and without, Sir Willoughby was uncomforted. (10)
• Gratian and Noel had mounted the stairs with lips tight set, and eyes averted; both were very pale. (8)
• He was silent and they both remained watching the rising sun till they could not bear its splendor. (9)
• They had their ramble, agreeable to both, despite the admonitory dose administered to one of them. (10)
• Quickly, not to lose the effect, she grasped her skirts strongly in both hands, and went downstairs. (8)
• Both he and his wife were accessible to cases of distress, but the nature of their charity was different. (8)
• Emilia fell into a chair and propped her head behind both hands, tapping the floor briskly with her feet. (10)
• They were standing before a creature called the meercat, which reminded them both of old days on the veldt. (8)
• The Marches walked home, both because it was not far, and because they must spare in carriage hire at any rate. (9)
• I respect dogs much in the domestic circle; but on the highway, or sleeping afield, I both detest and fear them. (2)
• There never was anything about Durgin in the letters, and Westover was both troubled and consoled by this silence. (9)
• So I admired it cordially both for form and colour, telling them, and very truly, that it was as beautiful as gold. (2)
• The lustrous little ring of hair wound round his heart; smiled both on its emotions and its aims; bound them in one. (10)
• But, ere Kuni disappeared, he had repaired the oversight, and both desired to ascertain the fate of their former charge. (5)
• She stared about: his phantom seemed present, and for a time she beheld him both upright in life and stretched in death. (10)
• They both kiss their hands to the car again, and, their faces being very close together, they impulsively kiss each other. (9)
• William Eden, a mere figure-head and courtier, was the intimate friend and political supporter of both Carlisle and Selwyn. (18)
• If any one had asked him if he wanted to own her soul, the question would have seemed to him both ridiculous and sentimental. (8)
• It was so providential, if it was providential at all, that they were both humbly silent a moment; even Mrs. March was silent. (9)
• Next morning she had forgotten both, and sent for a third, simply because his name in the telephone directory had pleased her. (12)
• Mr. Field made them a flying visit, then both Mr. and Mrs. Field came to Madrid to be with them and give them help and comfort. (14)
• You may remember that I left Hamburg a week before Christian Wahnschaffe, and rented a comfortable apartment for us both in Berlin. (12)
• Her eyes, so pitch dark against her white face, and the short fair hair, which curled into her neck, seemed both to search and to plead. (8)
• Both of the defendants referred to were convicted of the crime for which they were indicted, and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. (16)
• Rich, handsome, courteous, generous, lord of the Hall, the feast and the dance, he excited his guests of both sexes to a holiday of flattery. (10)
• She grew more tolerant of both the Pasmers as the danger of greater intimacy from them, which seemed to threaten at first seemed to pass away. (9)
• They were perfect friends, but never seemed to have occasion for verbal confidences, both having the competitive self-consciousness of Forsytes. (8)
• Edmund had descended from that moral elevation which he had maintained before, and they were both as much the better as the happier for the descent. (4)

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Definition of both:

• both, bth, adj. and pron. the two: the one and the other. | conj. as well: on the one side. (0)

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