Sentence for nay | Use nay in a sentence

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  • Nay, not more! (10)
  • Nay, pardon: I disturb. (10)
  • Nay, there is more to come. (19)
  • Nay, the name was mentioned. (10)
  • Nay, how could he let you go? (10)
  • Nay, I may risk declaring it is! (10)
  • Nay, more, he revived their topics. (10)
  • Nay, I followed my paternal impulse. (10)
  • Nay, why not trust to the old woman? (10)
  • Nay, were all in the secret, Thrice jilted! (10)
  • Nay, he had already consulted with brother jurats. (10)
  • Nay, the colour of your Hair is not very different. (4)
  • Nay, it would be too hard upon you, if it were otherwise. (4)
  • Nay, in mercy to the poor gentleman, friendship it must be. (10)
  • Nay, if it is to be guesswork, let us all guess for ourselves. (4)
  • Nay, extreme exhaustion even prevented the movement of her lips. (5)
  • Nay, not wrath the king possessed, But a radiance of the breast. (10)
  • Nay, and there is no justification for the breach of a moral law. (10)
  • Nay, she could secretly congratulate herself on not being deceived. (10)
  • Nay, more than a cynical world, these latter will be sensible of it. (10)
  • Nay, my friend and precious friend, these four fingers I must retain. (10)
  • Nay, the gayest rattle-brain is the least likely to escape such a desire. (5)
  • She resisted; nay, resolutely returned to the lawn-sward. (10)
  • Nay, before even the heart embraces him, he must completely purify himself. (10)
  • Nay, nay, I entreat you; for one moment put down your work. (4)
  • Nay, more: the man would devote all his days to her, though he is dumb as a dog. (10)
  • But if the squire were here with his yea and his nay, by heavens! (10)
  • Nay, rather, it is alone amidst these things, and the eye takes note of them by a separate effort. (9)
  • Nay, and let him look the hero still: all the more does he point finger on his meanness of nature. (10)
  • Nay, she would not listen to a depreciatory word on him from her cousin Henrietta Kirby-Levellier. (10)
  • One thing was certain: Lienhard would watch her breathlessly, nay, tremble for her. (5)
  • Nay, he probably brought to him from the kitchen, on his own account, a piece of roast meat or a sausage. (5)
  • She knew how prodigiously it waxed on crumbs; nay, on the imagination of small morsels. (10)
  • Nay, perverse as it seemed, she doubted whether she might not have felt less, had she been less attended to. (4)
  • Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. (4)
  • Nay, if Semestre had tempted her with the sweetest cakes, she would not have left her favorite nook by the spring now. (5)
  • To be held in light esteem, nay, even despised, was part of her calling, like her constant wandering. (5)
  • Nay, to be an exalted variety is to come under the calm curious eye of the Comic spirit, and be probed for what you are. (10)
  • Nay, I think we should be so scrupulous in such matters as to acknowledge even an apt quotation when we owe it to another man. (14)
  • They discoursed to her of the degeneracy of the manners, nay, the morals of young Englishwomen, once patterns! (10)
  • Early in the war, nay, even long before the war broke out, the Boston mobs had set upon them for their loyalty. (19)
  • Nay, she beheld herself as the outer world wexedly beholds a creature swung along to the doing of things against the better mind. (10)
  • It would be unnatural, nay, suspicious, if she did not sometimes long for the old freedom and her former companions. (5)
  • And she answers with no sign; Utters neither yea nor nay; Fires the water hued as wine; Kneads another spark in clay. (10)
  • Deplore it; but to condemn an Italian gentleman without hearing his personal vindication, is infamous; nay, it is Austrian. (10)
  • Nay, now we found ourselves near the end of the Allée Verte, and on the very threshold of Brussels, we were confronted by a serious difficulty. (2)
  • Without any reason that could justify, any apology that could atone for the abruptness, the rudeness, nay, the insolence of it. (4)
  • Like the professor, nay, like Alvan himself, he would not see that she was the victim of tyranny: none of her signs would they see. (10)
  • Nay, the most worthless creatures are most serviceable for examination, when the microscope is applied to them, as a simple study of human mechanism. (10)
  • Nay, the most worthless creatures are most serviceable for examination, when the microscope is applied to them, as a simple study of human mechanism. (22)
  • She felt as though everything which surrounded her was too small, the house, the apartments, her own chamber, nay, her very clothing. (5)
  • Nay, but earnestness works out its own cure more surely than frenzy, and it should be preferable to think him sound of heart, sincere though mistaken. (10)
  • The scene was wondrously beautiful, but Xanthe had not gone to the spring to gaze at the landscape; nay, she scarcely knew that it was lovely. (5)
  • She was recovering, and was a talkative woman, whose intrusive loquacity at first annoyed Kuni, nay, when she could not silence it, caused her pain. (5)
  • But more, the birds of air, nay, grave owls (who stand in this metaphor for whiskered experience) thronged, dashing at the apparition of terrible splendour. (10)
  • But more, the birds of air, nay, grave owls (who stand in this metaphor for whiskered experience) thronged, dashing at the apparition of terrible splendour. (22)

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Definition of nay:

  • nay, n, adv. no: not only so, but: yet more: in point of fact. | n. a denial: a vote against. | n. nay’ward (_shak._), tendency to denial: the negative side. (0)

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