Father

//ˈfɑːðə(ɹ)//

"Father" in a Sentence (54 examples)

His father would never sanction his engagement to a girl who did not share the same religious beliefs as their family.

Like father, like son.

Have you visited the town where your father was born?

You should ask your father for his advice and follow it.

Have you ever visited the office where your father works?

You look the way your father did thirty years ago.

Please give my regards to your father.

Your father went through all that trouble for your sake.

Your argument is not any more convincing than that of my stubborn father.

The sooner you return, the happier your father will be.

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My father was a strong influence on me.

The Pꝛouerbes of Solomon: A wiſe ſonne maketh a glad father: but a fooliſh sonne is the heauineſſe of his mother.

When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

Ah, but how beautiful (my baby boy) is! And he is mine, mine for ever. Even if he hates me he will be mine. He cannot help it, he is made out of me; I am his father.

My personal success or failure is insignificant; the rise or fall of the nation is my responsibility and must not be shirked. Upon introspection, I feel I am firmer than ever in confidence that the Communists will be defeated. These are feelings which will comfort Father's soul in Heaven.

Father, dear father Will you be proud of me? I wish I could be Just like you.

Shepard: The bartender over there? Liara: The matriarch hired by the asari government to track my movements? Shepard: She's your father. Liara: I know.

Speaking to reporters at Melbourne airport, their fathers thanked supporters and praised efforts from the Australian government, according to Nine News.

“There was just this opportunity with a father-son dynamic to really nurture,” she said. “If the boys are starting to learn that they’re not supposed to be girls and they’re not supposed to be too much like their mothers, or too close to their mothers, then the father really can step in.”

My friend Tony just became a father.

So Dauid ſlept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.

Therefoꝛe it is of faith, that it might bee by grace; to the ende the pꝛomiſe might be ſure to all the ſeede, not to that onely which is of the Law, but to that alſo which is of the faith of Abꝛaham, who is the father of vs all,

Come, father; you can sit here.

Bless you, good father friar!

My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.

The child is father to the man.

I was a father to the pooꝛe: and the cauſe which I knewe not, I ſearched out.

So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and loꝛd of all his houſe, and a ruler thꝛoughout all the land of Egypt.

Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics.

Soon after the announcement of this year's election results, Mereka said that "the father of all battles had just begun." His dispute with Muite goes back to March last year […]

"If UK GDP slows by 1 per cent, there is the mother and father of all recessions. It was exciting, but very bizarre, working in such an environment."

“The Father of All Battles” On March 23, 1991, a band of armed insurgents attacked the town of Bomaru […]

But may the Sun and gentle weather, / When you are both growne ripe together, / Load you with fruit, such as your Father / From you with all the joyes doth gather: / And may you when one branch is dead / Graft ſuch another in it's ſtead,[…]

In proceeding in this fashion, the fathers assembled at Pisa were following the generally accepted canonistic teaching of the day […]

On the part of the fathers of the synod, over 50 bishops, from every continent, spoke on different ‘group forms’ of the lay apostolate, whereas about 38 fathers made their own interventions in writing to the General Secretary.

Remember that the fathers of Vatican II had rejected the first draft of the constitution on revelation entirely.

Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.

The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather.

Well go too, we'll haue no Baſtards liue, / Eſpecially ſince Charles muſt Father it.

Cowards father Cowards & Baſe things Syre Bace;

I good youth, / And rather Father thee, then Maſter thee:

Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex / Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?

The relations of the sexes were so loose and vague that children could not be fathered on any particular man.

Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.

I will only do what Father asks.

...and our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.

In respect to our Lord (God), these are the less known Master, Father, and Sage.

Father Thomas was a good priest.

Father Smith, the social action director of the archdiocese, and Father William Killian, executive editor of the archdiocesan weekly, went to Brownsville, joined the field workers in picketing, attended several rallies, and marched in an eight-mile “pilgrimage.” They were arrested by local authorities for trespassing on private property and sent back to San Antonio. When Fathers Smith and Killian returned to the valley in early 1967 in defiance of Lucey’s specific orders, Lucey removed Smith as social action director and demoted Killian and several other activist priests for violating protocol.

On a merchant ship, Father Sinclair had to do safety drills every 10 days. On a fishing vessel, it’s monthly, and there is no requirement to check the log to see if the drill has been done or done correctly.

the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers

Claudius put a stop to these executions, and the Conscript Fathers, repenting, placed Gallienus among the divi , — which was equivalent to the maintenance of his acts.

When Romulus had left the earth and had become a god, the Fathers met together and appointed intermediate kings from the senate, to reign in turn each for five days, in the place of the king, till a new king should be chosen.

His duties were to command the army, to perform certain sacrifices (as high priest), and to preside over the assembly of the Fathers of the families, which was called the Senate, i. e. an assembly of old men (Senex).

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