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Example Sentences

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.

Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.

Twenty-five more for-profits are on well on their way to doing the same thing.

Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?

The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.

At this stock-taking the number unaccounted-for is twenty-two, several of which are quite recent accessions to the Library.

Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.

But no other instance of for-tened is known, nor yet of crece as short for increes (increase).

At length the long looked-for copy arrived, he saw it, composed himself and died, 1543.

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When To Use

What are other ways to say for?

The conjunction for introduces reason, proof, or justification for an occurrence or action, but it does so as if the reason were an afterthought or a parenthetical statement: I was famished, for I had not eaten all day. Because introduces a direct reason: I was sleeping because I was tired. As and since are so casual as to imply merely circumstances attendant on the main statement: As (or since) I was tired, I was sleeping. The more formal inasmuch as implies concession; the main statement is true in view of the circumstances introduced by this conjunction: Inasmuch as I was tired, it seemed best to sleep.

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On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to for, such as: as, as long as, because, being, considering, and inasmuch as.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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