shall

Example Sentences

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Reflecting on his legacy, Winston Churchill liked to say, “I shall leave it to history, but remember that I shall be one of the historians.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Markets, he said, may be skeptical of any assurance that this, too, shall pass.

From Barron's

“I shall use this place—wherever they’re taking us,” he said.

From Literature

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”

From Literature

She’d told me once, on the very first day she came into the nursing home, “I might as well be honest with you. I do not like being in here, not one bit. But since I am, and since we shall be seeing rather a lot of one another, then you may call me Lizzie.”

From Literature