NOR in a Sentence

Learn NOR 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.
310 example sentences for NOR, such as:
1. Love can neither be bought nor sold.
2. I don't blame you, nor I don't blame myself.
3. Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.
4. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.
5. It was neither whining nor reproachful, but drily resolute.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of NOR
nor
 conj.  used before second or further of alternatives; introducing further negative statement;
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was neither whining nor reproachful, but drily resolute.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  I don't blame you, nor I don't blame myself.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  The backwoods folks and the swamp dwellers owned neither horses nor mules.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, Ellen O'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed French-woman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their just punishment for any infringement of decorum.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  True, he never made love to her, nor did the clear gray eyes ever glow with that hot light Scarlett knew so well in other men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Too often she had surprised him when his eyes were neither drowsy nor remote, when he looked at her with a yearning and a sadness which puzzled her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  "There's none in the County can touch you, nor in the state," he informed his mount, with pride, the brogue of County Meath still heavy on his tongue in spite of thirty-nine years in America.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  I like him, but it's neither heads nor tails I can make of most he says.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  She had never seen her mother stirred from her austere placidity, nor her personal appointments anything but perfect, no matter what the hour of day or night.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  The inner grace from which these signs should spring, she never learned nor did she see any reason for learning it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (100 in 7 pages)
1  Have no doubts because of trouble nor be thou discomtited; for the water of life's fountain springeth from a gloom bed.
2  Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call; she come unlooked for, if she comes at all.
3  Tell not all you know nor judge of all you see if you would live in peace.
4  Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.
5  I am who I am, your opinion is neither desired nor required.
6  The greatest treasures are not gold, nor jewels, nor works of art.
7  In your life, there will at least one time that you forget yourself for someone, asking for no result, no company, no ownership nor love.
8  Neither Mr Rose nor Mr Woodhead was available for comment yesterday.
9  Knowledge is the most precious treasure of all things, because it can never be given away, nor stolen nor consumed.
10  Money is neither good nor bad, but all depends on what use is made of it.
11  Love can neither be bought nor sold.
12  To forgive is not to forget, nor remit, but let it go; to be lonely is not because you have no friends, but no one is living in your heart.
13  Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
14  A true great man will neither trample on a worm,nor sneak to an emperpor.
15  Marchers jeered at white passers-by, but there was no violence, nor any arrests.