give one an idea

Example Sentences

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These Egyptian things give one an idea of inexpressible ungainliness.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The hills and beautiful lake in the drawing give one an idea of Cumberland.” 

From Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath by Lansdown, Henry Venn

At present its broad avenues and streets give one an idea that it has made too much of itself.

From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

Only an intelligent study of a map of the city will give one an idea of its plan.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 by Various

All that one hears or reads of the extent of the Amazons and its tributaries does not give one an idea of its immensity as a whole.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various