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shew - use in sentences
Object
- thyself: If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
- mercy: Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them.
- taste: I keep her at a school of design all day; she shews a great taste for drawing.
Modifying Another Word
- forth: In other words, we [ p.15 ] are completely changed and transformed and our very lives will shew forth the faith we profess.
- clearly: Beside, in my plan I clearly shew how much profit the Crown ought to get per annum.
- not: She found her royal husband laughing heartily at a letter which he would not shew her.
- only: One is lucky when the insolence of a wretch like this only shews itself in the guise of jesting.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- off: She never spoke to her, except to shew off her French, which she could speak well.
Used with why or when
- what: For the word " number " here shews what place in language, in grammar, we assign to the word.
- why: It follows, to shew why he is said to be an heir appointed.
- that: There was no date on the stone; but official documents shew that said repairs were done in 1545.
Infinitive complement
- have: Thus have we examined the successive schisms and feuds that sacred history shews to have arisen from the mission of our Lord.
Preposition: of
- cattle: October 20 th 1790 At Brentwood Fair in Essex on Friday there was a prodigious shew of lean cattle of different kinds.
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