Sentence for state | Use state in a sentence

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

  • She preserved her state. (10)
  • I detest this state of things. (8)
  • Let him go and state the case. (10)
  • His state of mind is inexplicable. (12)
  • I was led into the rooms of state. (10)
  • It seemed a farcical state of things. (10)
  • My present state is miserably irksome. (4)
  • How long was this state of things to last? (8)
  • Two days were passed in a state of suspense. (19)
  • At the present time it is a State institution. (3)
  • His not seeing it showed the state he was in. (10)
  • A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion. (4)
  • I may confess to you the real state of matters. (6)
  • He usually lay in a state of convulsive rigour. (12)
  • He is in a highly-coloured, not to say excited state. (8)
  • It helped her to fall into a state of insensibility. (10)
  • Reverence for the state of marriage is unknown to him. (10)
  • What have you been up to, to get into a state like this? (8)
  • Account for the state of the men last day or two, Miller? (8)
  • He found it not difficult to tell her the state of his case. (13)
  • State the differences between the Greek and the Church Scales. (3)
  • I will not be so bold as to state which of the two I think right. (10)
  • Clad in his priestly robes, he was laid out in state in the church. (2)
  • He did really look and speak as if in a state of no common enjoyment. (4)
  • The state of aimlessness in hot perplexity demands a show of action. (10)
  • Thousands of us are in a starving state at home this winter, Patrick. (10)
  • Adrian hurried after Richard in an extremely discontented state of mind. (10)
  • Why not let the Standard Household-Effect Company, and finally the state? (9)
  • His recollection of the state, after a lapse of minutes, was pleasurable. (10)
  • So soon as you return to Berlin, be sure to call on the secretary of state. (12)
  • As an intermediary, permit me to state that you are taking superfluous trouble. (10)
  • Hence the disposition to view American composition as still in a state of pupilage. (3)
  • The chronicle of the House would state that the last Earl of Romfrey left no heir. (10)
  • I had now the free range of the State Library, and I drew many sorts of books from it. (9)
  • The inflated state of the unchivalrous middle, denominated Manchester, terrified him. (10)
  • The Musgroves, like their houses, were in a state of alteration, perhaps of improvement. (4)
  • He gave me the thin beer of our boyhood, that I might the more soberly state my mission. (10)
  • Down that staircase she had perhaps been conveyed in a state of well-prepared insensibility! (4)
  • And, what was winked at in an obscure young Member is anathema for an Under Secretary of State. (8)
  • Signs were not wanting that this desperate state of things had caught the eyes of the community. (8)
  • That in itself is a dangerous state of affairs: but it seems to be one that might be rectified. (16)
  • I have had to correct him, for to me he quite exposes the state of his heart towards dearest Rose. (10)
  • Distrust had brought the state of war, which allows not of the wasting of our powers in confessions. (10)
  • His intention was to visit Mrs. Hughs in Hound Street, and see with his own eyes the state of things. (8)
  • All of these decisions were taken on appeal to the highest court of the state and were there affirmed. (16)
  • It was, in short, the embodiment in music of the medievalism which had so long controlled Church and State. (3)
  • My state was lower: besides misfortune I now found myself exalted only to feel my profound insignificance. (10)
  • And now, Greg, referring to the state of your cellar, our young friends here mean to float with us to-night. (10)
  • No prospect of future happiness can ever perfectly exclude all regret at quitting our present state for ever. (6)
  • An agricultural population fed to the point of efficiency without disturbance of the existing state of things! (8)
  • When an old Johnny got to such a state it was really a mercy when he snuffed out, and made way for younger men. (8)
  • Louise de Seilles would have been another self; Louise was away; when to return, the dear friend could not state. (10)
  • I have no doubt literature would do this; but in such a state of things there would be no provision for the critics. (9)
  • He must have been in a singular state not to see her heart in the refusal, as was she not to see his in the request. (10)
  • But Roberval wrought nothing, and famine at length reduced the survivors to a state of abject dependence upon the natives. (19)
  • It was meant to be a National Monument; and its present state is a very suitable monument to certain national characteristics. (2)
  • Short letters from Frank were received at Randalls, communicating all that was immediately important of their state and plans. (4)
  • We are now in a sad state; no house was ever more altered; the whole party are at war, and Mainwaring scarcely dares speak to me. (4)
  • There were none of them sorry to see a gentleman in that state; some of them had perhaps seen Alan in that state before. (9)
  • Water gave out too, and starvation was a welcome state: our hunger was so much less disagreeable than our thirst that it was a real treat. (7)
  • Sir Willoughby battled with himself to repress a state of temper that put him to marked disadvantage beside his friend Horace in high spirits. (10)
  • The transgression cost seventy-five men their positions, and for the rest of the season other circuses marvelled at our state of grace and piety. (21)
  • Authors of exceptional excellence receive from the state marks of signal esteem, being appointed to the positions of laborers in the Department of Highways and Cemeteries. (7)

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