200 Compound Words Sentences, Compound Words List in a Sentences
afterglow
Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
afterlife
When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.
aftermath
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
afternoon
I had spent the afternoon replaying what I’d said to Maxon. No wonder I’d never had any friends. I was shockingly bad at it.
aircraft
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
airline
Please contact the airline company.
airplane
The airplane went into a spin.
airport
You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you’re like, ‘This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!’ And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn’t get to do anything. I tell people: I’ve been just about everywhere, but I’ve seen nothing.
This airport is easily accessible by bus.
alongside
C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts.
also
I guess because the shows were activist in their own way – the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know – people understand me very well. They also understand there’s a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
another
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.
anybody
I mean, why am I considered an ‘it girl?’ Because I’m in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here’s the thing with ‘it girl’ status. It’s great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?
anymore
Jonathan was not talking anymore because he had a broken heart.
anyone
I don’t take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
anything
Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I’ve had to deal with in politics.
anytime
We have no idea, but its not like we’re going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people’s heads?
anyway
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
anywhere
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
around
A crowd of people gathered around the speaker.
babysitter
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
backbone
My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
background
I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.
Respect is not something that you can ask for, buy or borrow. Respect is what you earn from each person no matter their background or status.
backward
Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. You never knew when you would be sling-shot backward into its grip.
ballpark
Malicious privilege is complaining that those starving outside the ballpark aren’t waiting patiently enough.
baseball
That is our baseball field.
basketball
Swimming and playing basketball are my favorite summertime activities.
became
Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid.
because
Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
become
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bedrock
The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America’s communities, large and small.
bedroom
I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That’s why I still love to sleep on couches now.
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blackbird
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
bookstore
Neither my friends nor the bookstore has the book.
bootstrap
A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices.
brainstorm
I didn’t mind if a formal brainstorm was chosen for the sake of presenting many ideas.
butterflies
His mouth skimmed my shoulder, up my neck, sending butterflies swarming through my insides.
bypass
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason?
candid
Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say.
cannot
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
cargo
The important cargo Jeremy wanted had arrived when he went home in order to get things he need.
carpool
I’m a mom, a full-time mom when I’m not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.
cheesecake
I like not only cheesecake but also cake.
commonwealth
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
counterpoint
There’s a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn’t have if the music wasn’t there.
courtroom
I have to give a testimony in the courtroom tomorrow.
courtyard
They had reached the cluster of trees in front of the courtyard leading to Frances Catherine’s cottage when she told him that outrageous lie.
crossword
I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword – I’m loyal to one particular paper, the ‘Guardian’ – and that’s my idea of a perfect morning.
daybreak
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
daylight
I don’t believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it’s not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o’clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.
daytime
We’re so overdressed for a daytime event about crochet.
dishwasher
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
earthquake
Chaos prevailed in the city, the earthquake affected everyone.
elsewhere
He lives elsewhere and, moreover, I don’t feel like seeing him.
everything
She may have heard everything you just said.
eyewitness
I teach a class on the evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony.
firefighter
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
fireflies
Alec noted with interest that when he did it, a few sparks escaped from his fingertips, like fireflies escaping from a jar.
football
Cristiano Ronaldo is a succesfull football player.
footprints
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
forbid
I forbid you to smoke.
forecast
Four percent inflation is forecast for this year.
forefront
Wishes can be your best avenue of getting what you want when you turn wishes into action. Action moves your wish to the forefront from thought to reality.
forehead
I know that I’ve got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I’m happy with myself. I’m not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
foresee
Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
foresight
If or when I do start going to an analyst, I hope to God he has the foresight to let a dermatologist sit in on the consultation.
forever
The “feminine” woman is forever static and childlike.
forget
Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.
forgive
I would forgive my mom, but she’s going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
format
Format or document format is the overall layout of a document or spreadsheet.
friendship
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
goodbye
They left without saying goodbye to us.
goodnight
I have to say goodnight now.
grandchild
That first scream, my lord, was indeed your daughter, my wife, and if you kill me, your grandchild will be quite without a father. Won’t you come in?
grandchildren
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
grandfather
My grandfather usually eats breakfast at six.
grandmother
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
graveyard
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
haircut
I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
hamburger
I generally eat hamburger in the canteen.
headache
I have a headache now.
headline
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?
headquarters
A headquarters is the entity at the top of a corporation that takes full responsibility for the overall success of the corporation, and ensures corporate governance.
henceforth
The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
herself
If you’re lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.
highway
There is a highway between the two countries.
himself
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
homemade
All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.
horseback
Set a beggar on horseback and he’ll ride to the devil.
horseshoe
A horseshoe and a four-leaf clover bring good luck.
household
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, ‘I’ll arrange a marriage for you at 18,’ but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
housewife
My mother is a housewife and cooks very well.
however
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
ideal
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
income
He has a sufficient income to support his family.
infuse
Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes.
inhale
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.
inside
Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
itself
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they’re not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
jackpot
You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.
jellyfish
The jellyfish or medus is a sea creature that is freely floating and without a brain, in the Scyphozoa and Cubozoa classes.
keyboard
My keyboard is broken.
lawsuit
You told me this lawsuit isn’t about race.
layout
Format or document format is the overall layout of a document or spreadsheet.
lifelike
In a morbid condition, dreams are often distinguished by their remarkably graphic, vivid, and extremely lifelike quality.
lifelong
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
lifetime
Love at first sight is easy to understand; its when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
longhand
I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day’s writing.
mainstream
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
meantime
He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.
meanwhile
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
moonlight
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
moreover
The client relationship, moreover , is about to get a whole lot deeper.
motherhood
I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That’s why people love me.
motorcycle
I think it’s highly unlikely that I’ll ever see my stolen motorcycle again.
newspaper
I tore the newspaper into pieces.
newsworthy
I’ve been on the cover of ‘Time’ magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I’ve worked with teams all my life, but I’ve been nice and I’ve been kind.
nobody
You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you.
notebook
Is that pink thick closed spiral notebook yours or mine?
nowhere
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
oneself
While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.
overcoat
The child had no overcoat on although it was very cold.
passport
You must have a passport to go abroad. Will Julia have had her passport by the time we get the plane ticket?
password
Please enter your user name and password for the following server.
paycheck
I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month – because my father would be waiting for paycheck – the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.
pickup
I was rear-ended by a pickup truck.
playhouse
The kid has been running and jumping in the playhouse for 2 hours.
popcorn
When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I’d lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan’s popcorn with me to the movies.
railroad
The railroad is parallel to the road.
railway
He looks toward the railway car’s open door, where streaks of dark water blanket the world.
rainbow
Last week, the children drew a rainbow picture.
repairman
I paid the repairman his money.
schoolwork
You have some schoolwork to do.
skyscraper
The skyscraper was built on a solid foundation.
snowball
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
snowstorm
I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom’s family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car – it was the late sixties – and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.
software
They deal in software products.
somebody
But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.
someday
I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.
somehow
When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you’re pretty sure he’s suffocating. So you don’t sleep anyway.
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
someone
It’s not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it.
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
someplace
My father was a strange combination of drill instructor and Alice’s white rabbit: he always had someplace important to go and enjoyed bossing everyone else around
something
Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a blog for people with attention spans.
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
sometime
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
sometimes
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
somewhat
I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
My marriage? Up to now everything’s okay. But it’s a real marriage – imperfect and very difficult. It’s all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we’ve emotionally evolved.
somewhere
I hope there is someone happy somewhere far away.
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.
subway
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
superhero
What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films – their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
superhuman
I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that.
supermarket
You will pass a supermarket on your left.
supernatural
I would bend over backward to be back on Grey’s. Any day, I’ll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.
superpower
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.
superstar
He became a superstar overnight.
sweetheart
Abraham Lincon failed in business aged 31, lost a legislative race and 32, again failed in business at 34, had his sweetheart die when he was 35, had a nervous breakdown at 36, lost congressional races aged 43, 46 and 48, lost a senatorial race at 55, failed in his efforts to become vice president of the U.S.A aged 56 and lost a further senatorial contest at 58.
tablespoon
The tablespoon is not clean.
target
The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.
taxpayer
A taxpayer is an individual or business entity that is obligated to pay taxes to a federal, state, or municipal government body.
teamwork
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
teenager
Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It’s when you make your best friends – I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.
tenfold
Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
textbook
This textbook is designed for beginners.
themselves
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
therefore
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.
timetable
But I have learned that you can’t just create your own timetable and will it to come true.
today
The painting I saw today was like wisdom of owls.
together
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want – a life in peace.
turnaround
Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview.
typewriter
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer’s block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter – now, computer – lit up a cigarette.
underage
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran’s ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
undercover
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
undercut
Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
undergo
The surgeon persuaded him to undergo an organ transplant.
undergraduate
On bad days, I think I’d like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, ‘Yeah, right, I’m going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.’ No. No.
underground
He likes to explore underground caves.
underlie
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
upbringing
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I’m constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I’ve been on.
upcoming
Steve could use a little extra time to review for the upcoming test.
update
My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my ‘Top Ten’ friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
upgrade
It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.
upheld
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that’s what? Children. Monogamous relationships.
uphold
The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.
uplift
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
upload
How often do you upload photos to your Instagram account?
upon
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
upright
I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
uprising
Her analysis of the causes of the uprising was correct.
upset
He had forgotten his mother’s birthday, but he lied a white lie not to upset him.
upside
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.
upstairs
Frank went upstairs to the attic.