2216 examples of extra in sentences

If I can hit on the right scheme I won't ask you anything extra for it, Mr. Bamberger!

These occasions found the service in the Town House short- handed, and the girl (a cheerful body, with no airs) turned to and took her share in the extra work.

" Mabel put the tea back on the kerosene stove to stew, with an extra handful of black leaves in it.

The biggest fools are the extra smart ones, whose pride and peculiar joy it is to "beat the game.

" The Syrian had hard work to keep his temper, for he had fallen on the haft of the hidden knife and it hurt him between two ribs, where a poorly conditioned man is extra sensitive.

You mayn't even amuse yourself; you have to let the game amuse you, without turning one trick for the sake of an extra smile; most of the humor comes in anyhow, from knowing more than the other fellow thinks you do.

When the price falls she may, indeed, buy more; but it will not be because she separates out and considers by itself the extra utility of an additional pound.

The utility which a business man derives from the things which he buys for business purposes is the extra receipts which he obtains thereby.

In the end the national government exists only that it may provide for a limited number of national necessities, as for example, defence against extra-national aggression, the conduct of diplomatic relations with foreign powers, the maintaining of a national currency and a national postal service, the provision of courts of last resort, and the raising of revenue for the support of these few and explicit functions.

At best, however, this seems to me but an indifferent substitute, an inadequate "extra," doing limitedly the real work of education by indirection.

But you ought to take a good look at yourself: all you can do is fast one day extra every week, and not a day goes by that you don't bark at somebody.

The very chip squirrels in the stone-walls, who have a family custom of making a market-basket of their mouths, were rushing about with chops incredibly distended, and their tails had an extra whisk of thanksgiving alertness.

He threw an extra earnestness into his voice.

Professor Herndon, the head of the expedition, was on the deck when the captain and I came up out of the cabin, and Herndon was everything the comic papers show in the make-up of science professors, with a little bit extra for good luck.

Most of them belonged to the city troops which Augustus had gathered as an extra force after the disaster to Varus.

1 magazine pocket, double, web. 2 extra magazines. 1 pistol belt (except for men armed also with the rifle).

(c) Extra clothing and articles to be carried on the soldier or on the packed saddle.

The surplus kit for each man consists of 1 breeches, pair. 1 drawers, pair. 1 shirt, olive drab. 1 shoes, russet leather, pair. 2 stockings, pair. 1 undershirt. 1 shoe laces, extra, pair.

The kit of each man will be packed as follows: Stockings to be rolled tightly, one pair in the toe of each shoe; shoes placed together, heels at opposite ends, soles outward, wrapped tightly in underwear, and bundle securely tied around the middle by the extra pair of the shoe laces, each bundle to be tagged with the company number of the owner.

However, in order to establish the point still more clearly, he stated some facts, such as the following: During slavery, it took six men to tend the coppers in boiling sugar, and it was thought that fewer could not possibly do the work; but now, since the boilers are paid for their extra time, the work is monopolized by three men.

There were so many extra sports provideda magic lantern, and dissolving views for the last evening, with cakes and crackers, and amusing recitations, and all went very merrily to bed, looking forward to the following day, when they should see their friends and homes once more.

Hastings, D.B., extra Vol., 461-73. 2.

World, 148-51; Hastings, D.B., extra Vol., 109-56.

Deane, Pseudepigrapha; Hastings, D.B., extra vol., 66-8. 3.

THE EXTRA DAY by Algernon Blackwood.

2216 examples of  extra  in sentences