Sentence for postpone | Use postpone in a sentence

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• Beauchamp declined to postpone his proposal until the following day. (10)
• If we postpone the first number till February I might get a little paper into that. (9)
• Patrick was not asked to postpone his departure from Earlsfont, nor was he invited to come again. (10)
• His fertile ingenuity spared mine the task of persuading him to postpone the drive to Lady Sampleman. (10)
• He will postpone his departure again and again, hour after hour; and I have known the sun to go down on his delay. (2)
• Her time of a month for the consideration of my proposal will be up in a week, but I cannot postpone this longer. (18)
• From every kind of life they had retired, and, waiting now for a more perfect day, were doing their utmost to postpone it. (8)
• It appeared that he had wished his uncle to withdraw with him, and Mr. Romfrey had bidden him postpone private communications. (10)
• Without defending himself, as he might have done, he entreated me to postpone our journey for a day; he and Janet had some appointment. (10)
• Mrs. March said she did not care which it was; and she was patient of the denouement, which began to postpone itself with delicate delays. (9)
• It might be he, and March was glad to postpone the impending question to his curiosity concerning the immediate business Fulkerson might have with him. (9)

Also see sentences for: defer, delay, reprieve, suspend.

Definition of postpone:

• postpone, pst-pn’, v.t. to put off to a future time: to defer: to delay: to subordinate. | n. postpone’ment, act of putting off to an after-time: temporary delay | also postp’nence (_obs._). (0)

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