MEN in a Sentence

Learn MEN 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.
397 example sentences for MEN, such as:
1. One of the men nodded in confirmation.
2. Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all.
3. Take a pain for a pleasure all wise men can.
4. Of young men die many, of old men escape not any.
5. The evidence against the two men was inconclusive.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MEN
men
 n.  the force of workers available
Classic Sentence: (195 in 14 pages)
1  I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
2  The sun rose; I heard the voices of men and knew that it was impossible to return to my retreat during that day.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
3  You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
4  I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
5  Yet it is terrible to reflect that the lives of all these men are endangered through me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
6  In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  One of the men nodded in confirmation.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  But here were books, and here were men who had penetrated deeper and knew more.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
9  Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  The hall was at present occupied by two deplorably sober men and their highly indignant wives.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  "Well, we're almost the last tonight," said one of the men sheepishly.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  They went upstairs to get ready while we three men stood there shuffling the hot pebbles with our feet.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
13  He watched while the two men standing closest glanced at each other and went unwillingly into the room.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
14  It excited him too that many men had already loved Daisy--it increased her value in his eyes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
15  Michaelis and several other men were with him--first four or five men, later two or three men.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  The men who arrived in the guise of drug dealers were actually undercover police officers.
2  The two men were far more alike than they would ever admit.
3  The male menopause is said to affect men who are approaching middle age.
4  The evidence against the two men was inconclusive.
5  A flexible retirement age is being considered by Ministers to unify men's and women's pension rights.
6  The four men arrested were described as really big fish by the U.
7  Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all.
8  The law cannot make all men equal, but they are all equal before the law.
9  Take a pain for a pleasure all wise men can.
10  I love the men flower heart also due, so I be more affectionate more ruthless.
11  The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquirde it.
12  The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
13  Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs.
14  A fool can ask more questions than seven wise men can answer.
15  Of young men die many, of old men escape not any.