just

How to use just in a sentence

"Sure," grinned Stanton, with all the deceptive, undauntable optimism of the Just-Awakened.

MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVEELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT

It is served by a ministerial-looking butler and a just-ready-to-be-ordained footman.

Till now one with sudden hiss: "But-good Christ-just look-why, the roof's leaning—!"

In it were included the names of his brother, of Couthon, and of Saint-Just.

We hurried back for them, forgetting that we had promised ourselves a long just-us talk to bridge the months of separation.

PARIS VISTASHELEN DAVENPORT GIBBONS

No just-minded person, whatever his sympathies, can condone such unfair and un-British tactics of war.

A clear-headed and just-minded, though pale and anxious-looking man in poor health.

The stillness of just-before-dawn was broken by the distant rumble of an internal-combustion engine.

OPERATION TERRORWILLIAM FITZGERALD JENKINS

Glad I never attended one of the just-rolls-and-bacon kind, Louise rebelliously declared.

But Pathfinder had too much native courtesy, and was far too just-minded, to allow the attack to go unnoticed.

THE PATHFINDERJAMES FENIMORE COOPER

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OCTOBER 26, 1985