NOR in a Sentence
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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.
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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Meanings and Examples of NOR
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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.
2 I don't blame you, nor I don't blame myself.
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.
4 The backwoods folks and the swamp dwellers owned neither horses nor mules.
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.
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.
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.
8 He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them.
9 He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.
10 The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.
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.
12 I like him, but it's neither heads nor tails I can make of most he says.
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.
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.
15 The inner grace from which these signs should spring, she never learned nor did she see any reason for learning it.
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.