Use the word by in a sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use by in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for by.
- A bat went by. (8)
- Do me in by all means! (8)
- Emilia sat by her harp. (10)
- And, by heaven, he had cause. (10)
- Day by day Richard visited his mother. (10)
- But what a thing here is, by way of a boat! (4)
- They answered by a sullen shrug and taunt. (10)
- By some childish impulse Fleur unbuttoned it. (8)
- The opportunity was offered by Sir Willoughby. (10)
- They came down, by what seemed a miracle to Mr. (8)
- As I said, I am grievously offended by deception. (10)
- I saw that she was possessed by one of her furies. (10)
- We consider that we have not lost by his temerity. (10)
- I can give no proofs, but I judge by the best evidence. (10)
- He was arrested in his hasty passage by Cecilia Halkett. (10)
- The sisters were strangely overclouded by this incident. (10)
- By the time I get to the knoll they may be gone somewhere else. (4)
- And that one, dearer than the blood of her body, imperilled by her. (10)
- He was backed by his sister in the assurance that he had been duped. (10)
- Mr. Weston was to call in the evening, and she must return it by him. (4)
- There, by the door, her aunt was standing, and would have kissed her. (8)
- He was by her side, hearing and seeing her, not less than four hours. (10)
- Perhaps I have as yet no right; but by what other name can I call you? (4)
- Thus did a nature distraught by pain obtain some short lull of repose. (10)
- Yet he omitted to inform his wife, even by a look, whom he had met here. (5)
- The pregnant woman was kneeling by the hearth and splitting kindling wood. (12)
- It was done by implication, and you, evidently, do not understand that method. (12)
- By placing two of these trees together, a perfect end was formed for the house. (17)
- Without another look Malloring passed the three by, and walked back to the house. (8)
- He did not doubt my honesty, and I astonished him by taking him quite in earnest. (10)
- This point had been established before by different persons who had been examined. (13)
- And my belief is, they have parted by consent, and Letty Dale wins the day at last. (10)
- He was on the footing where men are precipitated by what is within them to blunder. (10)
- Heriot kept his eyes on them; his mouth was sharp, and his arms stiff by his sides. (10)
- Everybody of any consequence or notoriety in Bath was well know by name to Mrs Smith. (4)
- I believe there was not a word uttered by me throughout the dinner that escaped him. (10)
- Laetitia profited by this absurd allusion, thanking Clara in her heart for the refuge. (10)
- It was not hers, but Horace must know it by heart, and in his anger he might tear it up. (8)
- The elder sister left the younger to profit solely by these offices as much as possible. (9)
- By his side sate Augusta, and on the same seat with me were your Mother and Lady Dorothea. (4)
- Upon the encouragement given him by Ellen, Boyne seized the chance of being of the opposition. (9)
- She followed him timorously into the corridor, lit by a hanging lamp, turned low for the night. (9)
- There was a path bordered by tall poplars in autumnal foliage, a path of mud, of black morass. (12)
- Really I could only describe his erratic nature by commending you to the study of a dragon-fly. (10)
- But it was a thing to be done by hints, by fits, by small doses. (10)
- Down what a vale of little intricate follies should we be going, lighted by one ghastly conclusion! (10)
- He was punished, half way to frenzy behind his placable demeanour, by having Dr. Schlesien for chorus. (10)
- Giacinta read his meaning by signs, and caught her mistress by the sleeve, using force. (10)
- Yet I have seen a flower of Erin worn by a Saxon gentleman proudly; and the Hibernian courting a Rowena! (10)
- I wrestled with her, and by grace I conquered her to come with me of a free will, and be out of his snares. (10)
- They felt the death again, a whole field laid low by one stroke, and wintriness in the season of glad life. (10)
- Tea at Worsted Skeynes was served in the hall on Sundays, and was usually attended by the Rector and his wife. (8)
- Now Jorian DeWitt had affirmed that the wealthy widow Lady Sampleman was to be had by my father for the asking. (10)
- I am grown wretchedly thin, I know; but I will not pain you by describing my anxiety; you have seen enough of it. (4)
- However, she is not a craven who compliments him by rearing him, and he might prove that there is no need for fear. (10)
- He had not wavered in the usual assumption of omniscience, but he was by no means sure that he had given right advice. (8)
- She was not the less disposed to rebellion by a very present sense of the justice of what could be said to reprove her. (10)
- As soon, however, as the consciousness of all this was forced by continual repetition on Marianne, she could stay no longer. (4)
- He struck me as simple, honest, and full of good feeling, a very good American to my thinking…. By all means come to Madrid. (14)
- There was a strange ringing in his ears; his head seemed bursting; his chest was oppressed by the constriction of his clothing. (1)
- To take himself seriously, yet never bore others by letting them know that he did so, seemed to have been his ruling principle. (8)
- The Corelli principles were carried to France by =Leclair= (1687-1764), who received his training from Somis, a pupil of Corelli. (3)
- But as she sat a leaden feeling slowly closed her heart, varied by nervous flutterings, when she saw someone whom she ought to know. (8)
- Almost it let the sound elude, When chuckles three, a warble shy, From hazels of the garden came, Near by the crimson-windowed farm. (10)
- It was a great satisfaction to Elinor that Mrs. Jennings, by being much engaged in her own room, could see little of what was passing. (4)
- If this shall appear by the report of the consul to have been practised, I shall press for his trial or release with great earnestness. (14)
- Their conference was put an end to by the anxious young lover himself, who came to breathe his parting sigh before he set off for Wiltshire. (4)
- She looked at her niece, and a dim appreciation of this revolt of life menaced by death, of youth threatened with extinction, stirred in her. (8)
- Still they may have thought, by meeting Richard and his inamorata, there was a chance of laying a foundation of ridicule to sap the passion. (10)
- In the autumn of this year (1813) Lower Canada was threatened by a force of 7000 Americans, {272} commanded by General Hampton. (19)
- So extreme was her dread of Mrs. Warwick, that she drove from the London railway station to see Constance and be reassured by her tranquil aspect. (10)
- As he dismounted he was greeted by the master of the house on the portico, while his horse was attended by a watchful black servant. (18)
- Disconcerted by this damning evidence of indigestion, his countenance showed that he considered himself to have been too lenient to the wine of an unhusbanded hostess. (10)
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