The word “am” is most often the first-person singular present form of the verb be, used to express existence, identity, or state of being from the speaker’s perspective. It is also used as an abbreviation for ante meridiem (a.m.), indicating time before noon. Writers use it to describe personal states, assert presence, or specify time of day. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “am” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for Am
I am a very old man; how old I do not know.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
12 words, 43 characters
My name is John Carter; I am better known as Captain Jack Carter of Virginia.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
15 words, 77 characters
Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
25 words, 130 characters
I am the more willing to comply, because I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so very frequently asked me—“How I, when a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?”
Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
42 words, 212 characters
I am not given to needless worrying, but the more I tried to convince myself that all was well with Powell, and that the dots I had seen on his trail were antelope or wild horses, the less I was able to assure myself.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
44 words, 217 characters
I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
52 words, 239 characters
I know that the average human mind will not believe what it cannot grasp, and so I do not purpose being pilloried by the public, the pulpit, and the press, and held up as a colossal liar when I am but telling the simple truths which some day science will substantiate.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
51 words, 268 characters
I know that the average human mind will not believe what it cannot grasp, and so I do not purpose being pilloried by the public, the pulpit, and the press, and held up as a colossal liar when I am but telling the simple truths which some day science will substantiate.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
51 words, 268 characters
It is true that I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print; but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can scarcely accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
53 words, 285 characters
However, I am not prone to sensitiveness, and the following of a sense of duty, wherever it may lead, has always been a kind of fetish with me throughout my life; which may account for the honors bestowed upon me by three republics and the decorations and friendships of an old and powerful emperor and several lesser kings, in whose service my sword has been red many a time.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
69 words, 376 characters
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