Sentence example with the word 'proverb'

proverb

adage, apothegm, cliche, dictate, gnome, mot, platitude, saw, stock saying, verse, word

Definition n. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

Last update: September 29, 2016


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In class today i has to find the proverb in the word propulsion   [Please select]

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The political state of the island during these years was very bad; in a report of 1872 there is recorded a proverb among the official classes, " every three years an outbreak, every five a rebellion "; but subsequent to 1877 some improvement was manifested, and public works were pushed forward by the Chinese authorities.   [Please select]

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*Do you know the proverb.   [Please select]

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Invent a story for some proverb.   [Please select]

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You know the proverb about doctors and their unbelief.   [Please select]

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The proverb says, `Let sleeping'--no, I don't mean _that_ exactly.'   [Please select]

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"You know the Latin proverb _meliora video_, and so on, Mr."   [Please select]

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"Enough," says our homely proverb, "is as good as a feast."   [Please select]

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The proverb truly says, 'He who does good to one who deserves it not, is always ill rewarded.'   [Please select]

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If it need wit to know wit, according to the proverb, Shakspeare's time should be capable of recognizing it.   [Please select]

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An Italian proverb, too well known, declares that, "if you would succeed, you must not be too good."   [Please select]

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