How to use "word" in a sentence

He surprised all of us, and we didn't say a word.

That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretext to do it, I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny

I decided what kind of people they were before they said a word to me

'She went away without a word of explanation.'

He did not say a word.

Polly was an 'Unfortunate': a polite Victorian word for a prostitute

He knew that Lipski was the name of a Jewish murderer, and in 1888 it was an insulting word used against Jews

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

Without a word, she fell to her knees and kissed the back of M

Without another word, the robber took the wounded man's watch and purse, and disappeared into the night.

She! Everyone who has ever loved will feel the force of that small word

Her heart on fire, she took the notebook upstairs to her bedroom and read every word again

'Tell me about it,' he said to Marius, who stared back with silent amazement, unaware that the word 'grandfather' was responsible for the change in the old man's behaviour

It is a red serviette with a single word written again and again in black ink.

"But I can't understand a word you're saying."

So the word 'passenger' describes you very well, don't you think?"

"Will you be long? I'd like a word."

Without a word, he started the car and we drove on

That terrible word - murder - would be on every front page.

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

No one said a word and the doctor went on, 'Mrs de Winter looked a healthy woman

She had been sorry that he'd had to know, but she hadn't said a word to him; she'd offered no explanations, no reassurances

At a few minutes past eleven o'clock, a secretary from San Diego put five dollars in a slot machine and hit a jackpot worth $495,000; word of that even reached backstage in the showroom

Sooner or later word of her ranting's about poltergeists might get back to her daughter in Sacramento, and then the pressure to move to California would become unbearable

But she stared into his dark, expressive eyes, and she knew that he'd meant every word he said.

Elliot shook the machine harder than he had done the last time, then harder still, but it continued to repeat the two-word message in the voice of the country singer, as if an invisible hand were holding the pick-up stylus or laser-disc reader firmly in place.

Following the monotonous, earsplitting repetition of that two-word message, the silence was stunning.

He stopped to have a word with a strikingly pretty cocktail waitress, and she smiled at him

something there isn't any word for."

"There's a word I don't like

It's right up there on the bad-word list beside broccoli."

Without a word, Andre rushed off to his laboratory

Without a word, he took the sheets of paper Helene had given me and started to read

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

You know the word because you've seen it so often before

Don't say a word to her about the baby

The smoke (or flame, perhaps, would be a better word for it) was so bright that the deep blue sky overhead seemed to darken as these clouds rose

'Speak! The word of God is with me!'

Upon my word, Watson, there is something very attractive about that yellow face at the window, and I would not miss this case for worlds.'

We did not say another word about the case until late that night at Holmes' house in Baker Street, just before Holmes went to bed.

To this day, if you say the word 'Cats!' to Montmorency, he'll stop walking

We didn't say one word

After some time, she noticed that someone had written the word 'Look' on the ground with a stick

She dug in the earth under the word and found a piece of paper

He had left a note on the Count's body with the single word 'Traditore' - the Italian word for traitor - written on it.

When we use the word "feminism", we are talking about a number of political and social movements and ideas that have one goal

People called her "the flying housewife", which is a word for a woman who stays at home to look after her husband and children

Pass the word to everyone."