How to use "without" in a sentence

It seems strangely quiet without Kristi and Megan

I manage the first few boulders without any problems and reach another drop

The time passes quickly Midday arrives without me realising.

120 hours without sleep

Two days without water

He looked at us without any interest

Ned Land could not escape without our help.

'Why is she reading a book without pictures or conversations?' she thought

'There are a lot of cats without a smile, but a smile without a cat! Now that's very strange!' Alice said.

Some couldn't eat or go to the toilet without help

I told her how I felt - I was sorry about the girl, and I didn't want to play in the group without her

The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived, without restriction, in one section, while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail, by the judgment of this great tribunal, the American people.

You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors

While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war

insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war - seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation.

Our Shastras say and I say so with the greatest deference to all the greatest religious preceptors of India but without fear of contradiction, that our Shastras teach us that there shall be no cooperation between injustice and justice, between an unjust man and a justice- loving man, between truth and untruth

Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live.

If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize, as we have never realized before, our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress can be made, no leadership becomes effective.

Our Constitution is so simple, so practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form

'She went away without a word of explanation.'

This time Jack the Ripper had time to finish his crime without interruption

It describes him as a solitary man who worked alone, without the help of an accomplice

The Ripper murders were the first of a new kind of crime: serial killings, savage, without an obvious motive, no clues, and very difficult to solve.

'What can I do for you, Monsieur?' he asked without looking up.

The man rose without another word, picked up his bag and stick, and left

Mme Magloire, an obedient servant, left the room without protest.

At the end of the year, however, Thenardier was not happy with just seven francs a month; he demanded twelve and Fantine paid without protest, happy that her daughter was being well cared for.

She approached them without thinking, and discovered that they had gathered around a travelling dentist

Madeleine, looking hard at Javert without expression, said quietly, 'I'm afraid I don't understand.'

Mme Thenardier glanced at the old man without interest

Finally, he looked up from the bill without expression and said, 'Tell me, is business good here in Montfermeil?'

I don't know how we would manage without the occasional rich and generous traveller like yourself

The old man put three 500-franc notes on the table and said, without smiling, 'Now fetch Cosette.'

Valjean laid Cosette on the bed without waking her

Marius returned to Paris, but continued to visit his father's grave regularly, without telling his grandfather

For the next few days he passed the bench in the Gardens without looking at her

He never appeared in the Luxembourg Gardens without the handkerchief pressed to his lips or his heart

He searched everywhere for them, but without success

Marius had lived for five years without much money, but he had never been really poor

We are without food, Monsieur, and without heating

'Our daughters barefoot and without a dress between them, while she wears leather boots and a fur coat? You must be wrong

The men put down their weapons and surrendered without a fight

Inspector Javert looked for Marius everywhere, but without success.

Forgive me for talking like this, I don't know what I'm saying - perhaps I'm annoying you? But the truth is, I can't live without you.'

Marius caught her and held her tightly in his arms without realizing what he was doing, lost in a mist of love

'A whole day without seeing you! That's unbearable!'

Marius, who had thrown away his guns and was now without a weapon, began to move towards a barrel of gunpowder he had seen near the door of the wine shop

She rested her head on his knee and said without looking at him, 'Oh, what happiness

She took hold of Marius's hand with her wounded hand and, without seeming to feel the pain, guided it to her pocket, from which he took the letter.

Valjean took the rope without speaking.

Valjean told him his name and stood, without moving, as Javert approached and stared into his eyes.

He did strange, unexpected things, like running up and down stairs without knowing why

He was, without doubt, a bad man, but Marius had promised his father to find him and help him

He employed agents to find Thenardier, but without success

He did it without any thought of a reward

He achieved this without cruelty, but without weakness

He had tried without success to find the man who had saved his father's lite at Waterloo, and now the man had come to him! He immediately asked the servant to show the man in.

The fog surrounds me, and the dark is without end

"Hello handsome," she always says to me, "another day at the office?" And I never say much, but I do not have to: we understand each other without words

And then the guard is at the door, a short fat man who looks at us, smiles and then opens it without a single question

He wants to say something, but without proof he has nothing, and the judge can do nothing.

The government uses most of the city's energy to build virtual simulations, so that people can experience beautiful places without actually going anywhere

"But who would have sent it without a note? Gran thinks..

"Not without you," repeated Cham

"The only thing I can ask is this: if I do Pod Life without you, will you still be here for me when I come out? Can you wait two years?"

"And Cham is going to do Pod Life without me."

"But not without us," she added hurriedly

"Not without you," she said at last

The first few days without Cham were horrible

Sala raised her drink to her lips without looking at Wena

The sandwiches were dry, but I ate them without thinking

You are getting lazy without me to watch you.'

He can't live in that empty house without Rebecca

We stared at one another for a moment without speaking.

Jasper ran on ahead and took the right-hand path without waiting for us.

The door opened without a sound and Mrs Danvers came into the room

Then I heard voices and, without thinking, I hid behind the door

I missed Maxim now and felt lonely without him

'I hate being here without you.'

They all stared at me without moving

We sat there together for some minutes without saying anything

What were they all saying now? What was happening? What would I do if Frank came back to Manderley without Maxim? I thought again of that dreadful word - murder

Frank took the diary without a word and went into the next room

Perhaps he had wandered away from the wrecked bus and had been found miles from the scene of the accident, without identification, unable to tell anyone who he was or where he came from

She was able to think about the boy without crying, to visit his grave without being overcome by grief

It was so huge that a DC-9 airliner could be rolled onto it without using half the space available - a feat that had been accomplished as part of a production number on a similar stage at a hotel in Reno several years ago

The dress rehearsal ran without a problem

However, his features were large, square, and utterly without evidence of patrician blood, and even after the mellowing influences of elocution teachers, his naturally low, gravelly voice belied his origins in a rough Brooklyn neighborhood.

As she was mopping the last corner of the kitchen floor, as she was thinking about how dreary life would be without her friends and her slot machines, she heard a sound in another part of the house

"You can go straight from office work to scuba diving without changing clothes."

She had to know if he'd been in the house, in Danny's room, without her knowledge or permission.

"Why would someone break in and leave without taking anything?" Michael asked.

Only a skilled burglar could have broken in without leaving a trace

And why would a first-rate burglar leave without taking anything? Why break in merely to write on Danny's chalkboard and to wreck the dead boy's things?

The laser whispered through twenty names, forty, sixty, seventy, without producing the lines about Danny that had been on the first printout

How could he make the room colder without using the air conditioner? Whoever he was, he could override her computer from another terminal in the building; she could accept that

And the past two weeks, I've dreamed about him every night without fail

"If your husband's likely to cause trouble, then we'll move fast and without fanfare

Tina felt as if they had talked without pause all evening, speaking with quiet urgency, as if each had a vast quantity of earthshakingly important information that he must pass on to the other before they parted

And they wouldn't have wasted so much time coaxing him to cooperate; they would have used force without hesitation

They wanted to gain his cooperation without violence because they were reluctant to mark him; their intention was that his death should appear to be an accident or a suicide

Then they would carry him out to the garage, prop him up in his little Mercedes, put the seat belt snugly around him, and start the engine without opening the garage door

She hesitated, but then opened the door without removing the heavy-duty security chain

These days, you're crazy if you open your door without knowing exactly who's on the other side of it."

Vince would survive, although he might need hospitalization, and he wouldn't be able to swallow without pain for days to come.

Crazily, Tina felt as if her nightmare had not come from within her, but from without, as if some person or force had projected the dream into her mind in an effort to-

The door that connected the garage to the house opened without warning, but with a sharp, dry squeak of unoiled hinges.

We should be able to talk without being overheard

"About half the others were buried without viewings," Tina said.

Then you can follow him without being seen, at your leisure."

"I think I can find it without any trouble

They reached the funeral home without incident.

When she turned to Elliot again, she was clearly ready to get the hell out of there, without questions, without argument, without the slightest delay.

A neatly folded pair of twenty-dollar bills, placed without ostentation into the hand of a front-desk clerk, was almost certain to result in the timely discovery of a forgotten vacancy.

It wasn't a pretty job, but it also wasn't without a measure of real dignity and heroism

The Explorer, equipped with heavy chains on its big winter-tread tires, bit into the snow and chewed its way forward without hesitation.

For as long as he could remember, he had been fascinated with death, with the mechanics and the meaning of it, and he had longed to know what it was like on the other side - without, of course, wishing to commit himself to a one-way journey there

She went back upstairs without saying goodbye.

Because of the sleeping pill I slept heavily, without dreaming

Trembling with fear and disgust, I crawled over to where I could read it without touching it.

I said the things to her that it was my duty to say, remembering all the time how that morning I had said that a world without Colonel Protheroe would be a better place.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out

I could see he was dead without touching him.'

Lady indeed! That woman could push a knife into you without feeling anything.'

The third I could guess without reading it.

'It was absolutely necessary for a shot to be heard because without it Mrs Protheroe might have continued to be a suspect

But he could not leave without telling Anne

All this happened so quickly that I stood without moving, shocked by the flashes of light

'New attempts have been made to signal, but without success,' was how the evening papers later described it

We got there without any problems at about nine o'clock, and the horse had an hour's rest while I had supper with my cousins and left my wife in their care.

I got to my feet at last and, keeping low, managed to get into a wood near Maybury without the machines seeing me

Besides this, Londoners are very used to feeling safe, and exciting news is so normal in the papers that they could read reports like this without great fear:

He returned and tried to concentrate on his examination notes, but without success

The Martian, without using his Heat-Ray, walked calmly over their guns.

None of the wars of history had such an effect - six million people, moving without weapons or food or any real sense of direction

You can't possibly move without making a noise, and I think they are outside.'

On Earth they could not move without effort, but even at the end of their time here they remained active

Also, strange as it may seem, the Martians were absolutely without sex

But no human being saw as much of them as I did and lived to tell the story, and I can say that I have seen four, five or six of them slowly performing the most difficult work without sound or any other signal

I sat staring in front of me, trying without success to find a way of arguing against him

It was a sad movement between two notes, 'Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla,' continuing without stopping

I marched on without fear towards this great machine, and then, as I came nearer and the light grew, I saw that a number of black birds were circling and gathering around the top of it

Just then, as Holmes was talking, we heard someone walking up the stairs, and then a man walked into the room without knocking.

'How boring life is without mustard!' said George.

He fell into the deep hole without knowing anything

'Well, just put the potatoes in without peeling them

The rain continued without stopping.

We ate it without speaking

I can't sit and see her life going wrong without feeling it

I hope you aren't the kind of person who's unhappy without adventures.'

Until you came here, Laura was like hundreds of other women who marry without being attracted to their husbands

'I know that Percival has debts,' she said, 'but I won't sign anythin without reading it first.'

'If she dies without children, I'll get twenty thousand pounds.'

I still loved Laura, but I knew I had to live without her

When I've given you the confession and the proof you ask for, the Countess and I will leave this house without any interference from you.'

In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry without her husband

And she was the first person to fly alone without stopping from Mexico City to Newark, USA, which she did in 14 hours and 19 minutes.