Sentence examples for thine from high-quality English sources.

• Thine answer!

• Thine office shall be permanent in thee and thy line for ever.”  

• The same (and no other) shall the object of my longing be which is of thine.

• “She kissed the boy, and said, caressing him, 'It is for thine own dear sake.

• ‘They belong to King Grisly-beard, hadst thou taken him, they had all been thine.’

• But if thou live remembered not to be,   Die single and thine image dies with thee.

• Go with thine uncle Hertford and thy people, and come again when my body is refreshed.”

• Be not self-willed for thou art much too fair,   To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.

Use thine in a sentence.

• If my slight muse do please these curious days,   The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise.

• —bewildered in the brilliancy of thine own imagination, and fallen in the flames of thine own youth!

• Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly, Or else receiv’st with pleasure thine annoy?

• consummation, being a member of it, of a common society; so must every action of thine tend to the perfection and consummation of a life that is truly sociable.

• Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing, And heavy ignorance aloft to fly, Have added feathers to the learned’s wing, And given grace a double majesty.

• How much more praise deserv’d thy beauty’s use, If thou couldst answer ‘This fair child of mine Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,’ Proving his beauty by succession thine.   

• In “Henry IV, Part I”, the rebel Hotspur is so unwilling to listen to counsel that his ally Northumberland blasts him for “tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!”

• I will return perfect courtier; in the which my instruction shall serve to naturalize thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier’s counsel, and understand what advice shall thrust upon thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and thine ignorance makes thee away.

thine sentence examples

•                     142 Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving, O but with mine, compare thou thine own state, And thou shalt find it merits not reproving, Or if it do, not from those lips of thine, That have profaned their scarlet ornaments, And sealed false bonds of love as oft as mine, Robbed others’ beds’ revenues of their rents.

• Moreover, whole dramata, and uniform scenes, or scenes that comprehend the lives and actions of men of one calling and profession, as many as either in thine own experience thou hast known, or by reading of ancient histories; (as the whole court of Adrianus, the whole court of Antoninus Pius, the whole court of Philippus, that of Alexander, that of Croesus): to set them all before thine eyes.

•                     1 From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding:   Pity the world, or else this glutton be,   To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.

•                     11 As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow’st, In one of thine, from that which thou departest, And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow’st, Thou mayst call thine, when thou from youth convertest, Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase, Without this folly, age, and cold decay, If all were minded so, the times should cease, And threescore year would make the world away: Let those whom nature hath not made for store, Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish: Look whom she best endowed, she gave thee more; Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:   She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby,   Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.