Sentence for not | Use not in a sentence

Sentences using the word not. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use not in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for not.

  • Has he not? (8)
  • May she not, Carlo? (10)
  • His eyes did not open. (8)
  • I could not ask them. (10)
  • Did you notice, or not? (10)
  • In these days he did not drink. (8)
  • Why did he not speak tenderly? (10)
  • He had not forgiven Anne Elliot. (4)
  • It was not difficult to guess . (10)
  • For was he not almost a prophet? (10)
  • She did not feel it, nor did he. (10)
  • Not a coherent thought would come. (8)
  • She will not let me call her brave. (10)
  • Not much of a manager, brother Tony. (10)
  • Here there was not any human society. (10)
  • You have not forgotten the boulevards? (10)
  • Mr. Twisden is not personally concerned. (8)
  • He could not live in such an atmosphere. (10)
  • Are not the lines sharp, the stanzas solid? (10)
  • Does she not sympathize with our social life? (18)
  • There was not a touch of autumn in the weather. (2)
  • He simply could not bear joking on such subjects. (8)
  • But Sheila did not move; she was trembling with anger. (8)
  • She was not to be diverted; she settled into antagonism. (10)
  • Aud the rent must not be over eight hundred for the winter. (9)
  • Wilfrid did not contemplate his havannah with less favour. (10)
  • Grant it to me, and do not stay to poison my last days here. (10)
  • Not a finger must be raised to hinder the process of the Law. (8)
  • Her hair is not done up, but tied back with a piece of ribbon. (8)
  • The wise youth did not see why they should exaggerate a trifle. (10)
  • But I do not mean to imply that his case covers the whole ground. (9)
  • He faltered, and she did not speak, but her head drooped a little. (9)
  • Whatever touches our emotions should be spontaneous, not a craft. (10)
  • Outwardly they were not unlike other young ladies with wits alert. (10)
  • Not even this small piece of generosity was permitted her, it seemed. (8)
  • She was very earnest and very sad, not seeming to have much strength. (22)
  • There he installed her, with an eager look that she would not notice. (10)
  • But that hope I have, and I am confident that you will not destroy it. (10)
  • Nothing exonerated him, but at least he had the grace not to beg secresy. (10)
  • Not Death, my friends, but Life, is the bride of this doomed fortieth year! (10)
  • Far away on the further; bank throbbed some huge machine, not stilled as yet. (8)
  • If it had not been for that start of amazement, I should have died of terror. (6)
  • A moment or two she did not answer, and then forswore herself, and said, Yes. (10)
  • Silence he had found better for all parties; one did not make a fool of oneself. (8)
  • It is a singular fact, I have not known what this love is, that they talk about. (10)
  • It was pretty much luck, and whether the officers happened to be in good-humor or not. (9)
  • I fancy the trouble is that he was not brought up to work, in a nation of day laborers. (14)
  • I should find another Egoist, not so bad, but enough to make me take a breath like death. (10)
  • Now, too, he would have preferred loneliness; but he did not want to wound the physician. (12)
  • Greater Grub Street is not given to reviling the public for lack of ideals or appreciation. (16)
  • More than a minute of the terrible length of the period of torture must have gone: two, if not three. (10)
  • And he must be thoughtful for these people: he sent Sarah word that Christopher should not touch drink. (10)
  • If he kept it, Lottie would be sure to find it, and he could not bring himself to the sacrilege of destroying it. (9)
  • She seemed to rely entirely on the force of her beauty, and to care little for those who did not acknowledge it. (10)
  • You know, Clara, and you should know me in my weakness too, I do not claim servitude, I stipulate for affection. (10)
  • The Squire could not bear being played to, but it was the only command likely to be obeyed that came into his head. (8)
  • These apprehensions, perhaps, were not founded entirely on reason, and certainly not at all on truth. (4)
  • I do not know whether Mrs. Agassiz has put into her interesting life of him, a delightful story which she told me about him. (9)
  • I do not think she got on with the Last Days of Pompeii very rapidly; its immediate interest was superseded by other things. (9)
  • Indeed, I question if a great deal of the bitterness the thought of it inspires, does not depend upon that very circumstance. (6)
  • Lynch was not a bad fellow, but, like most soldiers of the old Army, had been quite carefully divested of an aesthetic sense. (8)
  • Supposing the circumstances not to have helped her to shine as a heroine, while he was reduced to appear no hero to himself! (10)
  • She could not forgive her brother, and yet she dared not reproach him, for that would have inculpated Nevil. (10)
  • Soames had not seen it in the City since his father retired from business five years ago, and its incongruity gave him a shock. (8)
  • She had no natural connexions to assist her even with their counsel, and she could not afford to purchase the assistance of the law. (4)
  • In any case, if the sums I laid out in literature could not have been comparatively great, the excitement attending the outlay was prodigious. (9)
  • He seemed to have no sense that the Universe was equally compounded of those two symbols, whose point of reconciliation had not yet been discovered. (8)
  • Once safely on the pavement outside, she realized that the apartment was not only unfinished, but unfurnished, and had neither steam heat nor elevator. (9)
  • While the latter, then, was doing this, Shelton enjoyed the luxuries of self-denial, hunting up things he did not want, and laying them in two portmanteaus. (8)

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Definition of not:

  • not, not, adv. a word expressing denial, negation, or refusal. | not in it (_coll._), having no part in some confidence or advantage. (0)

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