Sentence for rule | Use rule in a sentence

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  • If this exception were the rule! (8)
  • That is my rule. (10)
  • But the rule is otherwise. (16)
  • Fortunately, as a rule we cannot. (8)
  • You rule him with a rod of iron. (10)
  • You rule him with a rod of iron. (22)
  • Individual ownership was the rule. (16)
  • Two a day had always been his rule. (8)
  • Do you rule this country or do you not? (8)
  • Where two men meet the better man will rule. (8)
  • She had a rule to apply to, which settled everything. (4)
  • I shake hands with the herd That flock beneath his rule. (10)
  • A violation of the rule is a really deadly personal attack. (10)
  • Truth admits but the one rule: No deficiency, and no excess! (8)
  • With a Cistercian rule, perhaps they might have lasted longer. (2)
  • Superficially she seems to rule him through her own servility. (12)
  • And it will not be a rule he submits to, but a love he accepts. (10)
  • They are poison: they have thirst First for love, and next for rule. (10)
  • Why had she swerved from her good rule of open, instant explanations? (10)
  • She will rule him through her love of him, and through him all about her. (10)
  • And she should not have matter to rule her smooth brows: that he swore to. (10)
  • Over the world, gloriously spread below, she, like a statue, seemed to rule. (8)
  • His expression, as a rule so tell-tale of his emotions, baffled Keith utterly. (8)
  • A man lives up to what there is in him, and Jackson Hart would follow the rule. (13)
  • All seemed now fair sailing for all the colonies under the rule of King George. (19)
  • Both favoured Home Rule for Ireland, but neither thought it possible to grant it. (8)
  • Impersonality was in fashion, and as a rule he believed in thinking impersonally. (8)
  • These annoying conditions, however, do not present themselves as a general rule. (21)
  • And say, we intend to make the laundress cook our dinners in chambers, as a rule. (10)
  • And say, we intend to make the laundress cook our dinners in chambers, as a rule. (22)
  • That would be difficult to know, for the free lance, as a rule, keeps no cash-book. (16)
  • They did not speak of Noel as a rule, but one evening she expressed her views roundly. (8)
  • J. Fenimore Cooper was plaintiff in another suit which illustrates the same rule of law. (16)
  • And secretly fettered by that rule is Art, whose business is the creation of vital things. (8)
  • Complaints are the rule, even from those who have had their way in the choice of officers. (7)
  • No rule, no law, not even the mysterious shackles that bind men to their own self-respects! (8)
  • He should be many-sided, and he is often most engaging when he seems least heedful of rule. (16)
  • He imagined no new rule of life, and no philosophy or theory of life will be known by his name. (9)
  • You will not rule me, but you will invigorate, and if you are petted, you shall not be spoilt. (10)
  • Nor is the literary disguise, as a rule, of such great consequence, or so difficult to penetrate. (16)
  • That is Rule Number 1 of American psychology—and of English, too, but more especially of American. (16)
  • Living in a world where demand creates supply, we writers of fiction furnish the exception to this rule. (8)
  • Moreover, it was a great political prize, and men of letters are, as a rule, non-combatants in politics. (14)
  • Paderewski has not taught, as a rule, since his great triumphs as a virtuoso, but he has made exceptions. (3)
  • However, now let Cecilia understand that we English, calling ourselves free, are under morally lawless rule. (10)
  • The English reviews were of great use to me in this; I made a rule of reading each one of them quite through. (9)
  • It is a good rule to be on your guard wherever you hear great professions about a very little piece of virtue. (2)
  • It is a gift that may now and then be the ruin of promising youths, though as a rule they find it helpful enough. (10)
  • It is a gift that may now and then be the ruin of promising youths, though as a rule they find it helpful enough. (22)
  • The rule is, that when we have yielded initiative to a woman, we are unable to recover it without uncivil bluster. (10)
  • She was in charge of two wards, and as a rule took the day watches; but some slight upset had given her this extra spell. (8)
  • As a rule, he was averse to seeing much of musicians, in spite of his friendship with Liszt, Hiller, Berlioz and Schumann. (3)
  • Men whose work in life demands that they shall daily whip their nerves, run, as a rule, a little in advance of everything. (8)
  • For, precisely in this supreme branch of the public life are we most menaced by the rule and license of the leading spirit. (8)
  • Possibly because of their rule over him then, the change in him was so instant from flattered delight to vexed perplexity. (10)
  • She respected the high landmark possessing such principles; and she was therefore enabled to lead without the wish to rule. (10)
  • I felt that there ought to be, and that there ought to be some rule as to where the number of each tandem should be displayed. (9)
  • Hollow blocks, as a rule, are not used for foundations, although they are satisfactory under buildings not higher than 40 feet. (17)
  • It can be safely set forth as a rule that the rougher the texture of the brick used, the rougher and wider should be the joint. (17)
  • It is generally admitted that a window has little architectural charm without muntins, and these are made ¾ inch wide, as a rule. (17)
  • Imagine an existence in which happiness, of whatever intensity, is the rule, and discomfort, of whatever moderation, the exception. (7)
  • Ravening king of the folk, for that thou hast thy rule over abjects; Else, son of Atreus, now were this outrage on me thy last one. (10)
  • The overthrow of Blankenberg took place as forecast, and Philadelphia has since enjoyed boss rule again, with plentiful scandals.—H. (16)
  • We had often remarked that in our independent way of travelling constant variety was the rule, and monotony of incident never possible. (20)
  • It was the descendants of these settlers whose opposition to British rule caused them in the next century to be banished from the country. (19)
  • An exception to the general rule of precocity among musicians, it was not until his sixteenth year that he resolved to devote himself to music. (3)
  • Rightly or wrongly (there are differences of opinion about it) Mr. Beamish repressed the chthonic natural with a rod of iron beneath his rule. (10)

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