1286 examples of supes in sentences

One after another now the wireless of the Queen Mary picked up the battle cruisers Defense, Black Prince, Warrior and the super-dreadnaught War-spite, all of which chanced to be within range of the Queen Mary's wireless.

He fails to make it either straightforward or appropriate, and declines into the super-subtle or wiredrawn.

"That would be super," he said.

Not, indeed, that all religious-minded persons do, or ought to, enter into that external state of life; nor that all who so enter are by temperament and sympathy fitted for it, but that the institution points to the Church's recognition of what is technically called the "way of perfection" as something exceptional and super-normal.

Man at his best is most at home, where at his worst he is least at home, namely, in the world of those super-realities which are touched and felt by the soul, but refuse to be pictured or spoken in the language of the five senses.

"An incident of the great battle was the torpedoing of the super-dreadnaught Marlborough, which is now safely an harbor.

Then there is the Super-Careerist.

Every unpleasant social fact, every outrage to our best instincts, every exhibition of incapacity, incompetency, inefficiency, indifference, every example of super-criminal negligence is pardoned as an effect of that universal sin, human nature.

Moreover, the progressive principle has recently been applied by imposing a "super-tax" on incomes in excess of £5,000, which also requires a declaration, the tax being necessarily assessed upon the possessor of the income and not at the source.

The super-tax, it may be observed, occupies a position in the English system similar to that of the additional tax in the United States, serving to increase the tax upon the larger incomes in accordance with the principle of progression.

The "Sunday blood," the super-superb sartorial equestrian of our annual Fast-day, is not imposing or dangerous.

"VIRGIL makes AENEAS, a bold avower of his own virtues, "Sum pius AENEAS fama super aethera notus; "which, in the civility of our Poets, is the character of a Fanfaron or Hector.

They all have shown a human turn, from Nero down to you, But now my life-long dream of a super fiend at last seems coming true.

But the hated Saxon balked you and the desperate fighting Frank Hurled back our super devils and took us on the flank.

That drama has degenerated into a very feeble farce now, and the actors in it would be quite outdone in their travesty by any average corps of "supes" at one of our theatres.

This consisted of "supes," with banners and bagpipes; and though they were really teamsters in disguise, their hostile appearance and the depressing music of the bagpipes so shocked the English that they did not stop running until they reached Berwick.

R81662, 2Aug51, RKO Radio Pictures, inc. (PWH) She supes to conquer.

(In Super-science fiction, Sept. 1940) © 19Jul40; B466051.

(In Super science novels magazine, Mar. 1941)

Wright shorthand (super-syllable) 6th ed.

R81662, 2Aug51, RKO Radio Pictures, inc. (PWH) She supes to conquer.

[Illustration: THE SUPER-HUMAN DOG.

But I rather specially enjoyed the title-piece, which tells how the super-patriotism of an aged volunteer defeated the kindly plans of those who would have saved him fatigue by assigning to him the rôle of casualty in a trench-relief practice.

Sometimes it consists in the perception of super-physical phenomenathe unfurling of a strange and wonderful land; and again it appears to be a higher power of ordinary vision, a kind of seeing to which the opacity of solids offers no impediment, or one involving spatial distances too great and too impeded for normal physical vision to be effective.

In much tribulation do I write thee as to the contention which hath arisen among our stock actors and supes of the Globe.

1286 examples of  supes  in sentences