effectual - use in sentences

Modifying Another Word

  • so: It was astonishing, I thought, how so mild a check could prove so effectual.
  • very: They are creditable to their authors and diffuse a good spirit even tho the method is too naive to be very effectual.
  • only: To explain the true is the only effectual mode of exploding the false.
  • not: This can present problems if sealing is not effectual.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: The Lord give his blessing to make sacred truths effectual upon the souls of men.

Modifies a noun

  • calling: In their effectual calling by the Holy Ghost, they die.
  • prayer: The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man has tremendous effect.
  • mean: I'll use more effectual means to clear ye out of my house, an ' save your skins too.
  • demand: And there was sufficient wealth in at least America and western Europe to create an effectual demand for a sound recording machine.
  • call: Looked at from the standpoint of signs and leadings, it seems as if it were likely to be an effectual call.
  • measure: Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode.

Used with adjective complement

  • render: In effect, the more traditional methods of green campaigns have been rendered even less effectual.
  • prove: It was astonishing, I thought, how so mild a check could prove so effectual.
  • become: We will delight in the laws of God; the preaching of the Word will once more become effectual in our lives.
  • make: Q. How are we to use the word, if we would have it made effectual to salvation?

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