We found over 1000 examples of how to use great in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 1000.
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| 1. | The father of a father is a grandfather, a grandfather's father is a great-grandfather, a great-grandfather's father is a great-great-grandfather, but no word has been decided upon for the generations before great-great-grandfather. | |
| 2. | My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was a bricklayer and died in seventeen seventy-four, at the age of forty. | |
| 3. | My grandmother's mother is my "great grandmother," so my great grandmother's mother is my "great great grandmother"? Is that right? | |
| 4. | No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and he does it without effort. | |
| 5. | Tom's great-great-great grandmother lived in Scotland. | |
| 6. | Even though great men flatter themselves with their great accomplishments, they're rarely the result of great planning, but more often of mere chance. | |
| 7. | Tom was my great-great-great-grandfather. | |
| 8. | My father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather all had the same name as I have. | |
| 9. | Kotlin Island, an island 32 kilometres west of Saint Petersburg, was taken from Sweden in 1703 by Peter the Great, who then founded Kronstadt and left Pushkin's great-grandfather, Abram Gannibal, the main character in Pushkin's unfinished book, Peter the Great's Negro, to oversee the construction. Kronstadt was also the birth place of Pyotr Kapitsa, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978. | |
| 10. | Who will be the first to live until the birth of his great-great-great-grandson? | |
| 11. | My great-great-great-grandfather was a pirate. | |
| 12. | Our company was founded in 1899 by my great-great-great-grandfather. | |
| 13. | My father's great-grandfather was older than my mother's great-great-grandfather. | |
| 14. | Xi is a great gentleman. He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday. | |
| 15. | My great-great-great grandfather lived among Indians for twenty years. | |
| 16. | Cicero was a great orator and a great philosopher; therefore, a great poet. | |
| 17. | Alfred, King of England, was a great scholar as well as a great ruler. | |
| 18. | Holmes is a great pipe man as well as a great detective. | |
| 19. | In addition to being a great statesman, Churchill was a great writer. | |
| 20. | Besides being a great statesman, Sir Winston Churchill was a great writer. | |
| 21. | I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general. | |
| 22. | Great bulk does not always mean great weight. | |
| 23. | He is a great statesman, and what is more a great scholar. | |
| 24. | One fine morning in spring along came the great-great-granddaughter of the man who had built this house. | |
| 25. | A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges. |