The word “the” is a definite article used before a noun to refer to something specific or previously mentioned. Writers use it to specify and clarify meaning in almost every form of writing. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “the” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for The
We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
13 words, 70 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
They were the tracks of unshod ponies, three of them, and the ponies had been galloping.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
16 words, 88 characters
When the war broke out he left us, nor did I see him again for some fifteen or sixteen years.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
20 words, 93 characters
You cannot pass it without submitting to the humiliation of calling yourself Mr. Chamberlain.
Source: The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
14 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
I trust I give no offence to the companion of my youth, in submitting this proposition to his cooler judgement?
Source: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
20 words, 111 characters
As to the details of his life during these years he was very reticent, in fact he would not talk of them at all.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24 words, 112 characters
I had always been his favorite among the younger generation of Carters and so I hastened to comply with his demand.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
21 words, 115 characters
Or were they simply fools or cowards, submitting blindly, because they had not the wit nor the will to do otherwise?
Source: King Coal by Upton Sinclair
21 words, 116 characters
It was Tars Tarkas, and I could read his thoughts as they were an open book for the undisguised loathing upon his face.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
23 words, 119 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
And because of this conviction I have determined to write down the story of the interesting periods of my life and of my death.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24 words, 127 characters
It was agreed that I was to hold down our claim against the remote possibility of its being jumped by some wandering prospector.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
23 words, 128 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
My last sight of Powell was about three in the afternoon as he entered the shadows of the range on the opposite side of the valley.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 131 characters
My first recollection of Captain Carter is of the few months he spent at my father’s home in Virginia, just prior to the opening of the civil war.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
28 words, 146 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
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
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child.
Source: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
62 words, 338 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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