GOES in a Sentence

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326 example sentences for GOES, such as:

1. The weakest goes to the wall.
2. At Larting no one goes to church.
3. Yeah it goes downtown a lot of places.
4. Time goes with wind,I love you forever.
5. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

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 Meanings and Examples of GOES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
goes
 v.  present tense third-person singular of GO
 n.  plural of GO
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
2  Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
3  A man--I forget his name--a man connected with some Institute, a man who goes about giving advice, gratis, to descendants like ourselves, degenerate descendants, said.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
4  There she goes, the old party with the umbrella right under the 'orse's nose.'
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
5  At Larting no one goes to church.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
6  And goes on O then the unloosened ocean.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
7  There is no other door, and nobody goes in or out of that one but, once in a great while, the gentleman of my adventure.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
8  If you mean to say anything to me to-night, that goes against this candid remark, you had better let it alone.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
9  I have not forgotten where Mr. Sleary goes at this time of year, and I read of him in a paper only the other day.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
10  Look on the field, and say how goes the battle.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  He goes to make my brother prisoner," said Prince John to De Bracy, "with as little touch of compunction, as if it but concerned the liberty of a Saxon franklin.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  They were at once cosmopolitan and provincial, with the cosmopolitan provincialism of art that goes with pure social ideals.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  and too little of you goes that way, Hammond, my boy, married or not.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  Damned everybodies, as far as that goes, for they all do it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  But what goes in waste is saved in wages, and a lot more.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
16  The spectacle of Xerxes's defeat tremendously reinforced the traditional conviction that pride goes before a fall.
17  The traditional notion of marriage goes back thousands of years.
18  If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some, for the that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
19  Between two stools one goes to the ground.
20  When a company goes out of business, officials usually move in to take control.
21  The weakest goes to the wall.
22  The watch was cheap, but it goes quite well.
23  The news programme goes out four times a week at peak time.
24  It was Helen's idea and whatever Helen says goes.
25  When the sun comes in, the doctor goes out.
26  I babysit for Jane on Tuesday evenings while she goes to her yoga class.
27  Time goes with wind,I love you forever.
28  He goes overboard about every young woman he meets.
29  In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.
30  Yeah it goes downtown a lot of places.