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"Contract" in a Sentence (39 examples)
The aggressive salesman urged me to sign the contract right away.
After much effort, he ended up with a contract.
We made a contract with the firm.
He was compelled to sign the contract.
The contract, if you were forced to sign it, is invalid.
That's against the contract.
The politician had sticky fingers, and 5% of every contract ended in his pocket.
They are satisfied with the contract.
The businessman is thinking of rescinding the contract.
The aggressive man urged me to sign the contract.
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sign a contract
write up a contract
read a contract
countersign a contract
legally-binding contract
unwritten contract
Marriage is a contract.
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel
But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Abſtracte: and other called nombers Contracte.
The snail’s body contracted into its shell.
to contract one’s sphere of action
We ſee in all things how deſuetude do's contract and narrow our faculties, ſo that we may apprehend only thoſe things wherein we are converſant.
Mutual was the sudden transport; / Breathless questions followed fast, / Years contracting to a moment, / Each word greedier than the last; […]
The word “cannot” is often contracted into “can’t”.
The company contracted with the council to build 200 new houses.
We have just contracted new pest control services.
We have contracted an inviolable amitie, peace, and league with the aforesaid Queene.
Many persons […] had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity […] prohibited by law.
She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
to contract a debt
Smit with the love of Siſter-arts we came, / And met congenial, mingling flame with flame; / Like friendly colours found our arts unite, / Each from each contract new ſtrength and light.
This talent of discretion, […] is no where so serviceable as to the clergy, to whose preferment nothing is so fatal as the character of wit, politeness in reading or manners, or that kind of behaviour, which we contract by having too much conversation with persons of high station and eminency; […]
A love like mine, Sir, I feel, is contracted once and for ever.
At that time, the city [Christiania, now Oslo] was in the grip of a cholera epidemic, and victims were dying at the rate of 60 a day. Bradshaw contracted the disease, and died on September 6 [1853].
An officer contracted hepatitis B and died after handling the blood-soaked clothing of a homicide victim […]
And didſt contract, and purſe thy brow together, / As if thou then hadſt ſhut vp in thy braine, / Some horrible counſell: […]
The truth is, ſhe and I (long ſince contracted) / Are now ſo ſure that nothing can diſſolve vs: […]
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