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Example sentences for: dem

How can you use “dem” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Niggers all work on de Mississippi, Niggers all work while de white folk play, Pullin' dem boats from de dawn till sunset, Gittin' no rest till de Judgement Day.
The parliamentary home of Wilhelminian and Weimar Germany displays the proud dedication Dem deutschen Volke (To the German People) on a Neo-Classical façade built in 1894 by Paul Wallot.
"I had done made some flanel cakes, a little tea, and some lemonade, but I 'lowed as how dat would not be enuff fo' dem gemm'n.
There the equivalent is: Besser ein Spatz in der Hand als eine Taube auf dem Dach , Better a sparrow in the hand than a dove on the roof.
There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.