How to use "object" in a sentence

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We tried to move onto this strange metal object to get close to him.

Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object.

I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that Constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government

If there be an object to HURRY any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take DELIBERATELY, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.

To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it

I walked with her to the hand-carriage before she had time to object.

But the object that most attracted Cosette's attention was a large, golden-haired doll in a beautiful long pink dress

It must have been a large object because, though muffled by the intervening walls, the sound was loud enough to rouse her.

Or perhaps this was the first time in all those months that she had been aware of being the object of such interest

For five or six months, I was an emotional wreck because every object in the house reminded me of Nancy

Several times, she was on the verge of tears as the sight of one object or another released a flood of memories

Not a single tree or any other sizable object remained, nothing behind which a man could hide

Any solid object placed in his 'transmitter' was instantly disintegrated - and then reintegrated in a special receiving machine.

It was only after the accident that I discovered he had put a second set of the control switches inside the disintegration booth, so that he could use himself as the object of the experiment.

By the desk was a small object

Then I saw a round object moving up and down

Then the humming stopped and the black, rounded object sank slowly out of sight into the pit.

Then there was a great flash like daylight and this strange object could be seen clearly.

I did not object: I have never loved my daughter.