FATHER in a Sentence

Learn FATHER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
353 example sentences for FATHER, such as:
1. My doctor is my father's cousin.
2. I heard father and mother talking about him.
3. It is a wise father that knows his own child.
4. You must account to father what you have done.
5. My father won't let people talk me over either.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FATHER
father
 n.  a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
 n.  a person who founds or establishes some institution
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  My father won't let people talk me over either.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  My doctor is my father's cousin.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  He is quite poor and if I die he will have all Misselthwaite when my father is dead.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  And my father would not have hated to look at me.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  I'm your master," he said, "when my father is away.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  "I wish my father would come home," he said.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  He had not meant to be a bad father, but he had not felt like a father at all.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  Colin put out his hand and laid it on his father's arm.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  He began to find himself hanging around her father's house, nights, and feeling very miserable.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  I heard father and mother talking about him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  Yes, he's got a father, but you can't never find him these days.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II.
12  Say, I reckon your father's poor, and I'm bound to say he's in pretty hard luck.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
13  He said his father and his two brothers was killed, and two or three of the enemy.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII.
14  There's twelve of us an my father only gets sixteen shilling a week.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  The king, her father, seeing that something had frightened her, asked her what was the matter.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE FROG-PRINCE
Example Sentence: (143 in 10 pages)
1  Her misbegotten father spent most of his adult life in prison.
2  Becoming a father signified that he was now an adult.
3  We're sorry to hear that your father's in hospital again.
4  My father commissioned a real estate agent to sell our house.
5  It is a wise father that knows his own child.
6  The father buys, the son bigs, the grandchild sells, and his son thigs.
7  His father rapped out an answer and then left the room.
8  Once they settled in, my father looked back over his shoulder and asked the children if Santa had found them yet.
9  Susan visualized her wedding day and saw herself walking down the aisle on her father's arm.
10  The artist has succeeded in portraying my father to the life.
11  She was made her father's attorney when he became ill.
12  Luckily, Nancy's father and her attorney were one and the same person.
13  You must account to father what you have done.
14  My father bought a new suit on his charge account.
15  His father threatened to beat the boy if he stole again.