More
Words to look
add-list |
www.use-in-a-sentence.com
English words and Examples of Usage
Example
Sentences for "averse "
And next they cause the parts of homogeneal fluid bodies readily to adhere together and mix, and of heterogeneal, to be exceeding averse thereunto.
Although the benefits are most evident in the first cross, after which, from pairing the cross-bred animals, the defects of one breed or the other, or the incongruities of both, are perpetually breaking out-yet, unless the characteristics and conformation of the two breeds are altogether averse to each other, nature opposes no barrier to their successful admixture; so that in the course of time, by the aid of selection and careful weeding, it is practicable to establish a new breed altogether.
’ Yet these guides and boatmen are fine, hardy fellows, and of great endurance, but they appear averse to trying their strength under new conditions.
Amalrick, however, was averse to this delay, and his royal master therefore consented that the ceremony should be performed before a deputy.
He was averse to the employment of violent remedies and the[34] excessive use of emetics and purgatives so much favoured by his fellow-practitioners.
Meurice was ignorant of metapsychical phenomena, and averse to becoming acquainted with the practices of spiritism or anything of that nature.
The Etruscan prospectors would not have been averse to this extension of the dominions of their war-lords, as their trade was doubtless increased thereby.
Along{171} with its vegetable food it takes a certain number of small aquatic insects, and when this food cannot be obtained it is not averse to good hard grain of any kind.
The mass of the people, who never suffered in their own pockets, were not altogether averse to seeing the rich plundered occasionally, especially as it was the policy of the robbers to be free and open-handed with a part of their booty.
The Puritans, for example, were not averse to blood, either in their food, their politics, or their theology, while Shaw is almost Buddhistic in his tender-heartedness.
[357] of this Book, where we examined this notion, it appeared that Common Sense is not only not explicit, but actually averse to explicitness, on this subject.
-It is the same with hot and angry Horses, whose Memory is so exact, and who are so ready to be disorder'd and put out of Humour, that if the least thing comes in their Way during their Lesson, they no longer think of what they were about: The way of dealing with these Horses, is to work them with Lunettes on their Eyes; but it must be remembered, that this Method would be dangerous with Horses which are very impatient, hot, and averse to all Subjection, and so sensible to the Aids, as to grow desperate to such a degree, as to break through all Restraint, and run away headlong; it is therefore unsafe with these Horses, because they could not be more blinded even with the Lunettes, than they are when possessed with this Madness, which so blinds them, that they no longer fear the most apparent Dangers.
42 more results not shown.
Academic English Words List and Example
Sentences
Example sentences with the averse , a sentence example for averse , and
how
to make averse in sample sentence, Synonyms and Collocations for averse
how do I use the word averse in a sentence? How do you spell averse in a
sentence? spelling of averse
Search
Example Sentences for any English Word here ....
Translate
Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning
Longman Dictionary Meaning
Macmillan Dictionary
Meaning
Oxford Dictionary Meaning
Collocations
Synonyms
Share on Facebook