Here you’ll find examples of “A” taken directly from published works. These real-life uses highlight how writers put the word into action and provide insight into its place in everyday writing.
Real Sentences for A
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
So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
17 words, 74 characters
Gunn dominated the place, and his vile personality hung over it like a shadow.
Source: Captain Rogers (The Lady Of The Barge) by W. W. Jacobs
14 words, 78 characters
It would grow up to be a man, a human soul, with a personality all its own, a will of its own!
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
22 words, 94 characters
His manners were perfect, and his courtliness was that of a typical southern gentleman of the highest type.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
18 words, 107 characters
His horsemanship, especially after hounds, was a marvel and delight even in that country of magnificent horsemen.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
17 words, 113 characters
I spent nearly a year prospecting in company with another Confederate officer, Captain James K. Powell of Richmonds.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
18 words, 116 characters
I was then a child of but five years, yet I well remember the tall, dark, smooth-faced, athletic man whom I called Uncle Jack.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24 words, 126 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 thought at the time that he was praying, although I never understood that he was in the strict sense of the term a religious man.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 131 characters
His property was left in such a way that I was to receive the entire income for twenty-five years, when the principal was to become mine.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 138 characters
Powell, who was a mining engineer by education, stated that we had uncovered over a million dollars worth of ore in a trifle over three months.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 143 characters
She would impose her will, but her will would be only that a person or two shouldn’t lose a benefit by not submitting if they could be made to submit.
Source: The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
30 words, 150 characters
Possibly I had conjured up impossible dangers, like some nervous old housewife, and when I should catch up with Powell would get a good laugh for my pains.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
28 words, 155 characters
In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 158 characters
There were no marks of violence on the body, and with the aid of a local physician the coroner’s jury quickly reached a decision of death from heart failure.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
29 words, 158 characters
He was a splendid specimen of manhood, standing a good two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, with the carriage of the trained fighting man.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
30 words, 164 characters
The Publishers of the Standard Novels, in selecting Frankenstein for one of their series, expressed a wish that I should furnish them with some account of the origin of the story.
Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
31 words, 179 characters
His features were regular and clear cut, his hair black and closely cropped, while his eyes were of a steel gray, reflecting a strong and loyal character, filled with fire and initiative.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
32 words, 187 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
He seemed always to be laughing; and he entered into the sports of the children with the same hearty good fellowship he displayed toward those pastimes in which the men and women of his own age indulged; or he would sit for an hour at a time entertaining my old grandmother with stories of his strange, wild life in all parts of the world.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
64 words, 339 characters
Upon my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is given in the following pages, accident threw me into the society of several gentlemen in Richmond, VA, who felt deep interest in all matters relating to the regions I had visited, and who were constantly urging it upon me, as a duty, to give my narrative to the public.
Source: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
77 words, 423 characters
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