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

  • Or yes, it is. (9)
  • Speak up, or get down! (8)
  • Go, sir, or let me go on. (10)
  • But with the cane or with the fist? (8)
  • We must down on our knees or they. (10)
  • Did they indicate absolute or relative pitch? (3)
  • A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion. (4)
  • Offence or no offence, I speak and you listen. (10)
  • True or false, it does not affect my love for her. (10)
  • But nobody heard, or, at least, nobody answered her. (4)
  • There was no time for farther remark or explanation. (4)
  • It will stop the Memoirs, or else give them a polish. (10)
  • She was always having a glimpse of him somewhere or other. (4)
  • Then, before either could speak or stop her, she was gone. (8)
  • To talk like a lover, or like a man of honour, was to lie. (10)
  • Could he possibly wish, or bear, to, have anything altered? (10)
  • For her, apparently, Conrad had not died, or had died in vain. (9)
  • He got on best, or at least most evenly, with his eldest sister. (9)
  • We were one Sunday for Shakespeare; another for Nelson or Pitt. (10)
  • Its demeanor and gestures afford auguries, auspicious or sinister. (21)
  • It is possible, moreover, that he sailed from a Dutch or British port. (12)
  • Whatever he undertakes he does perfectly-approve of the pattern or not. (10)
  • It must be powerful or out of the way, or down it goes. (10)
  • Mr. Andrew bounced back two or three steps to regard the dusky sombrero. (10)
  • Dahlia, will you do me the favour to speak two or three words with me before I go? (10)
  • But I recall no mention of Longfellow, or Lowell, or Whittier from him. (9)
  • Great fortunes now are becoming the giants of old to stalk the land: or mediaeval Barons. (10)
  • He read two or three insufferable sentences from one of the love-epistles, and broke down. (10)
  • Elsewhere the Radical smites at iron or rotten wood; in England it is a cushion on springs. (10)
  • It is given very frequently at the present day during the Lenten season, in part or in full. (3)
  • He was a poor, thin little man, with a wife dying from consumption or something of the sort. (13)
  • Do not let any reflection fall on the principles or the care of the friends who brought me up. (4)
  • So the puppets were marshalled by Mrs. Doria, happy, or sad, or indifferent. (10)
  • Harriet was angry with his disbelief, or say, the grudging credit he gave to the glorious news. (10)
  • But in the end I did neither, and I have since survived my mortal shame some forty years or more. (9)
  • It was Sir Miles gout gave us the time or Tom would have been had up before we could do anything. (10)
  • Wherein do they disturb Judith or Wolfgang, except in a few empty notions and fancied advantages? (12)
  • Whether through prayer, or in the scent and feel of the clover, he found presently a certain rest. (8)
  • Of course, it seems odd to me, because so many of the Totteridges ran away, or did something funny. (8)
  • She had been too far withdrawn from fashion since her marriage to know whether it was still so or not. (9)
  • If you would only consent to be my wife I will go whithersoever thou sayest or do whatsoever thou biddest. (18)
  • Do you think I would force you, or even ask you, to go home with me to live unless you were entirely willing? (9)
  • By looking eternally inward, you teach yourself to fret, and the consequence is, or will be, that you wither. (22)
  • Fixed there by the keenest of all anguish, self-reproach, she could find no interval of ease or forgetfulness. (4)
  • If once you had an evil conscience, no confession or penitence, no parson and no absolution did you any good. (12)
  • A clock struck seven, and round the shady lime-tree a chafer or some heavy insect commenced its booming rushes. (8)
  • The small harps of various sizes had a compass from D, third line, bass staff, to D or E above the treble staff. (3)
  • Each after his or her fashion symbolised a return to nature by some act or word of self-abandon. (9)
  • What aspiration they possessed seemed devoted to securing for themselves the plums of official or industrial life. (8)
  • There was nothing now but death or surrender, and 1100 Americans laid down their arms and became prisoners of war. (19)
  • Even that might make him think she was afraid of him; or he might take it wrong, and believe that she cared for him. (9)
  • Regrets and repinings and repressions are going out of fashion; we shall have no time or use for them in the future. (8)
  • She is undoubtedly the last whom I or another person would have fixed upon as one to work me this unmitigated evil. (10)
  • And let us hold off from speculating when there is or but seems a shadow of unholiness over that mole-like business. (10)
  • But what I want you to realise is that feelings of horror and aversion such as those can never be buried or forgotten. (8)
  • Her calm sedate visage had the beauty of its youth, when lighted by the animation that attends meetings or farewells. (10)
  • She admitted that she was not the most sympathetic companion Nevil could have had on the way, either going or coming. (10)
  • Are they to be printed only in the magazines, or are they to be collected in volumes combining a variety of authorship? (9)
  • This pleasure came often from some vital phrase, or merely the inspired music of a phrase quite apart from its meaning. (9)
  • It appeared that Lapham required but to understand or feel the beautiful effect intended, and he was ready to pay for it. (9)
  • There were none of those circumstances which strike the Protestant as childish or as tawdry in the public offices of Rome. (2)
  • From France they went to Genoa, to Pisa and to Naples, whence they took steamer to Athens, where they stayed a week or so. (14)
  • Thirty or forty naked-looking ghosts of sheep were penned against the barn, and perhaps a dozen still inhabiting their coats. (8)
  • The oldest and most important is the Vina, which consists of a wooden pipe about four feet long attached to two gourds or resonators. (3)
  • That I shall stay yours, and Jon will stay hers; that you need never see him or her, and she need never see you or me! (8)
  • He noticed two or three silver threads in her amber-coloured hair, strange hair with those dark eyes of hers, and that creamy-pale face. (8)
  • For an hour or more he did not speak, though once or twice he moaned, and faintly tightened his pressure on her fingers. (8)
  • They were all getting themselves ready for the fray or the play of the coming winter; but there seemed nothing joyous in the preparation. (9)
  • He crosses to the outer office and passes through into it, with a quizzical look at Cokeson, carefully leaving the door an inch or two open. (8)
  • Then, in the stillness, Hilary seemed to hear, deep and very faint, the sound as of some monster breathing, or the far beating of muffed drums. (8)
  • Whether commiserating her utter helplessness or her complete isolation, he went farther to relieve her than to many, if not all, the other poor. (6)
  • The door opened at last, and a tall, powerfully framed man of thirty-five or forty, dressed in an ill-fitting suit of gray Canada homespun appeared. (9)
  • You will soon be able to judge of the general credit due, by listening to some particulars which you can yourself immediately contradict or confirm. (4)
  • Although he was a poor, hardworking young architect, he could talk hunters or motor cars or bridge whist, as the occasion demanded. (13)

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Definition of or:

  • or, or, adv. ere, before. (0) | or, or, conj. marking an alternative, and sometimes opposition . | prep. (_b._) before. (0) | or, or, n. (_her._) gold. (0)

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