Give

//ɡɪv//

"Give" in a Sentence (80 examples)

I may give up soon and just nap instead.

Do you need me to give you some money?

I would like to give him a present for his birthday.

Give me time to give you everything I have!

I give you my word.

Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.

It's over between us. Give me back my ring!

Peter was an altruistic video game player; he would give items to people who needed them, rather than selling them for personal profit.

I think I'm gonna sneeze. Give me a tissue.

I didn't mean to give you that impression.

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I gave him my coat.

I gave my coat to the beggar.

When they asked, I gave my coat.

I'm going to give my wife a necklace for her birthday.

She gave a pair of shoes to her husband for their anniversary.

I gave him my word that I'd protect his children.

I gave them permission to miss tomorrow's class.

Please give me some more time.

It gives me a lot of pleasure to be here tonight.

The fence gave me an electric shock.

My mother-in-law gives me nothing but grief.

it's giving me bad vibes — It's giving me old Hollywood (vibes)

"The outfit is giving me eighties fitness video vibes, but you wear it well."

it's giving old Hollywood (vibes)

[subtitle:] It's giving Wednesday Addams at the salon...

It's giving old Hollywood

Your outfit is giving more romance than bloodshed. Are you currently in love?

This outfit gives 'college girl that knows what she's doing' and even though I am the furthest from that, I'll take it.

I want to give you a kiss and a hug.

As mom gave us a long look, I gave a sigh and my sister gave a laugh.

I'd like to give the tire a kick.

I gave the boy a push on the swing.

She gave me a wink afterwards, so I knew she was joking.

Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].

Give me your hand.

On entering the house, he gave his coat to the doorman.

My boyfriend gave me chlamydia.

He was convinced that it was his alcoholism that gave him cancer.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

The doctors gave me morphine for the pain.

Playing for us tonight, I give you The Beatles!

Ladies and gentlemen of Rotary, I give you our president, Bill Robbins.

"Ladies and gentlemen... I give you... 'The Beatles'!..." announced Ed Sullivan above the screaming fans.

On this happy evening, I give you the bride and groom!

"I give you the bride: the new Baroness of Kilshane. May her life with her bold new baron be long and happy and fruitful." He lifted his cup. "To the bride!"

CORTEZ (raising whiskey glass) I give you President Lyndon Johnson. ONO: You can keep him. (They all knock back the whiskey, slam down the glasses. SAM pours again.)

"Sir Thomas," Malone said, "I give you Her Majesty, the Queen!" "To the Queen!" Boyd echoed. They downed their drinks and turned, as one man, to hurl the glasses into the wastebasket.

They're giving my favorite show!

We hope that the need to "give good e-mail" in response to questions from clients and potential clients will in fact induce firms to get serious about storing and reusing their expertise – and even become open to tailoring […]

[…]who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.

A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".

Social skills are required to meet new people in a chat room and maintain contact over time (“Do you give good e-mail?”). The Internet provides people with an opportunity to reinvent or misrepresent themselves.

He gives good face too, posing for the camera with hands on waist, eyes forward, legs crossed (Fig. 4.1).

I give it ten minutes before he gives up.

I'd give it a 95% chance of success.

I'll give their marriage six months.

One pillar gave, then more, and suddenly the whole floor pancaked onto the floor below.

A soldier noticed how earth "gave" as he walked over the shallow trenches.

The master bedroom gives onto a spacious balcony.

Beyond the stile stands an attractive row of riverside trees – alder, hazel, beech, hawthorn and ash. Go across to the far corner of a field, where a through-stile gives onto a small, lightly wooded hill,[…]

His window gave the park.

Columbus dwellers of Woodland Meadow Apts may not find themselves in a perfectly bucolic setting, as the residential complex gives onto a military defense logistics ground.

The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.

But there the duke was given to understand / That in a gondola were seen together / Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.

"Can do" gives me a choice, while "should do" gives me a complex.

He can be bad-tempered, I'll give you that, but he's a hard worker.

I give not heaven for lost.

I don't wonder at people giving him to me for a lover.

The umpire finally gave his decision: the ball was out.

These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

once again 'Tis given me to behold my friend.

Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.

The soldiers give themselves to plunder.

That boy is given to fits of bad temper.

Some moyst weather hath‥caused the powder to give and danke.

Whose eyes do never give / But through lust and laughter.

My mind gives ye're reserv'd / To rob poor market women.

This chair doesn't have much give.

There is no give in his dogmatic religious beliefs.

The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles.

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