Example sentences for: him--but

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

  • Malcolm cannot resist her--he has a sweet tooth that forever betrays him--but he finds her oxymoronic style hard to bear.

  • I don't know Derrick Thomas--I've never interviewed him, never met him--but I can't stop thinking about him.

  • He's incredibly smart and telegenic--it's always fun to watch him spar on TV, even if I disagree with him--but he's shown himself to be a helpless captive of another era, a two-prong outlet in a world of three-prong plugs.

  • But I note with glee that conservative defenders of the status quo argue a version of the old Jesse Unruh line about being able to take a man's money (to fully quote Jesse, "and eat his food, and drink his booze, and screw his women") and still vote against him--but, when the Heritage Foundation trots out its tabulation of how countries vote in the U.N.


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