BELIEVE in a Sentence

Learn BELIEVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for BELIEVE, such as:

1. You have to believe in yourself.
2. He is too intelligent to believe that the U.
3. Who are ready to believe are easy to deceive.
4. Detectives believe that the victim knew his killer.
5. She's very slick, but I don't believe a word she says.

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 Meanings and Examples of BELIEVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
believe
 v.  accept as true; take to be true
 v.  be confident about something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I believe he is well up in anatomy, and he is a first-class chemist; but, as far as I know, he has never taken out any systematic medical classes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  If my view of the case is correct, and I have every reason to believe that it is, this man would rather risk anything than lose the ring.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
3  This last statement appeared to me to be so startling, that I could hardly believe that he was in his sober senses.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
4  We are of those who believe in those sacred writings, drawn in Egyptian letters on plates of beaten gold, which were handed unto the holy Joseph Smith at Palmyra.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
5  The pulses in my temples beat like sledge-hammers, and I believe I would have had a fit of some sort if the blood had not gushed from my nose and relieved me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
6  The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
7  If he had been one there was no reason to believe that he had ceased to be.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
8  For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
9  It was as though they had never seen these things before, and even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
10  But she always made such excellent excuses, and purred so affectionately, that it was impossible not to believe in her good intentions.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
11  He refused to believe either that food would become more plentiful or that the windmill would save work.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
12  And as to the Battle of the Cowshed, I believe the time will come when we shall find that Snowball's part in it was much exaggerated.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
13  Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
14  "I do not believe that Snowball was a traitor at the beginning," he said finally.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
15  I don't believe" she said with her odd little smile, "that there ever were such people.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We believe that he has been training an army and storing up arms.
17  Some scientists believe that soon it will be commonplace for people to travel to the moon.
18  Detectives believe that the victim knew his killer.
19  Some people believe that violence is an effective way of protesting.
20  He is too intelligent to believe that the U.
21  Whatever nonsense the papers print, some people always believe it.
22  They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same paltry resources.
23  I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade.
24  Forget all the reasons why it won't work, and believe the one reason why it will.
25  She's very slick, but I don't believe a word she says.
26  Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it.
27  You have to believe in yourself.
28  Who are ready to believe are easy to deceive.
29  Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money.
30  Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.