Sentence for fain | Use fain in a sentence

Fain sentence examples. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use fain in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for fain.

• Are not thy red lips fain? (10)
• He would fain have run away. (10)
• Feeling herself in the clutches of a gossip, she would fain have gone. (10)
• After three days of cold and hunger they were fain to give up the attempt. (19)
• But he was fain to admit it to be an eminently proper demand for enlightenment. (10)
• But he was fain to admit it to be an eminently proper demand for enlightenment. (22)
• After an hour of hot fighting, Charnisay was fain to acknowledge himself baffled. (19)
• Being travellers ourselves in a small way, we would fain have seen these other travellers alight. (2)
• Where darkness all her daylight drinks, She fain would find a leader lynx, Not too much taxing mental sloth. (10)
• He forgets his forbidding age, in the emotions of the past, and would fain give her the benefit of a demonstration. (21)
• The general manager always strives to be at the scene ahead of the artful lawyer, who would fain share in the damages. (21)
• Further to quote from the same volume of The Book: There is pain in the surrendering of that we are fain to relinquish. (10)
• The evil system which we would fain replace with a better has gone on so long that it almost seems part of the order of nature. (14)
• You see eminent in him what we would fain have brought about in a nation that has lost its leg in gaining a possibly cleaner morality. (10)
• Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free. (10)
• Personally, we laugh at him; you had better not, unless you are fain to show that the higher world of polite literature is unknown to you. (10)

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Definition of fain:

• fain, fn, adj. glad or joyful: inclined (with to_): content to accept, for want of better: compelled: (_spens._) wont. | v.i. (_spens._) to delight. | adv. gladly. | adv. fain’ly, gladly. | n. fain’ness, eagerness. (0) | fain, fn, v.i. (_spens._). same as feign.(0)

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