Prepositions Examples Quotes & Sayings

Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide. — Phillis Wheatley

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence. — Masiela Lusha

Let the Kez come," Tamas roared. "Let them send their greatest generals after us. Let them stack the odds against us. Let them come upon us with all their fury, because these hounds at our heels will soon know we are lions! — Brian McClellan

Some people drip wax on themselves like a human chianti bottle to see if they feel anything ... .but getting a wicker basket to fit them is a fiasco — Josh Stern

Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in the dirt. There were more than two bodies buried here. Pieces of me that I didn't even know were under the ground. Pieces of dad, too. — Laurie Halse Anderson

A preposition is a word that shows a relationship between its object and another word in the sentence. Examples: By grace are ye saved through faith. (Ephesians 2:8a) These two prepositions introduce phrases that tell us how individuals are saved: By grace and through faith. Both prepositional phrases are used as adverbs because they modify the verb are saved. — Shirley M. Forsen

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses. — Franz Grillparzer

She looked like she was waking up in a strange place - only she knew she hadn't gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually life. — David Levithan

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. — Susan Sontag

That a teacher of the gospel should first be a partaker of it is a simple truth, but at the same time a rule of the most weighty importance. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Being brave isn't the same as not being scared, though, it means going through with something even if it totally terrifies you. — Kara Taylor

We're not exactly together and were not, not together. We're in together-limbo. We're test-driving together to see if we want to buy it. — Kristen Ashley