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"The" in a Sentence (52 examples)

The password is "Muiriel".

I was in the mountains.

I don't know if I have the time.

I can only wonder if this is the same for everyone else.

I suppose it's different when you think about it over the long term.

The last person I told my idea to thought I was nuts.

If the world weren't in the shape it is now, I could trust anyone.

It depends on the context.

That's the stupidest thing I've ever said.

Let's consider the worst that could happen.

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I’m reading the book Mary reviewed. (Compare I’m reading a book Mary reviewed.)

You live on Main Street, don't you? You know, you should tell the mayor the street needs cleaning.

The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.

the street that runs all the way through my hometown

I sleep in the bedroom!

No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.

God save the Queen!

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

No one in the whole country had seen it before.

I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.

Take me to the airport/station/hospital/office/park/match/meeting/et cetera.

A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)

(informal) How's the wife? (= "How is your wife?")

How's the Sal today?

square the circle; feel the pinch; beat around the bush; throw the baby out with the bathwater

That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.

"Good Heavens, man! Why, he is the authority. If you want pure laboratory experiments those are the books."

“New Kid On The Block” doubles as a terrific showcase for the Sea Captain who, in the grand tradition of Simpsons supporting characters, quickly goes from being a stereotype to an archetype, from being a crusty sea-captain character to the crusty sea-captain character.

"My name," he said, "is Hercule Poirot." "Not," the Commissary stammered, "not the Hercule Poirot?"

‘[…] he introduced us to Gwenog Jones.’ ‘Gwenog Jones?’ said Ron, his eyes widening under his own goggles. ‘The Gwenog Jones? Captain of the Holyhead Harpies?’

That was the juiciest apple pie ever.

May the better man win.

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Stern and God-fearing, the Afrikaner takes his religion seriously.

The downy woodpecker can be found in the same environments as the hairy woodpecker.

The Bushes have held political office for several decades and the Kennedys longer.

That apple pie was the best.

Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

One doesn't choose the color of one's chess pieces; the white are assigned to the player who moves first.

the Irish are...; the Chinese are...; the French are...

The hotter(,) the better. (comma usually omitted in such very short expressions)

The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.

The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.

It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.

It was a difficult time, and I’m {none - not any} the wiser for it.

I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

We went the furthest under her leadership.

They trusted him the most.

valued at half a pound the bushel; paying seven dollars the year interest

Next morning I was up at an early hour, to see the market held near the water gate. The beef was excellent: but at the high prices of ten-pence and one shilling the pound; mutton at the same price; fowls a dollar the couple, and showing “more feathers than flesh.”

Feſtus ſayde with a lowde voyce: Paul / thou arte beſides thy ſilfe. Moche learnynge hath made the mad.

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