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Don't is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Don't in a sentence

Don't meaning

  1. do not (negative auxiliary).
  2. does not.
  3. Used before an emphatic negative subject.

Using Don't

  • The main meaning on this page is: do not (negative auxiliary). | does not. | Used before an emphatic negative subject.
  • In the example corpus, don't often appears in combinations such as: you don't, don't have, don't come.

Context around Don't

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 33.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 0 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Don't

  • Common combinations in this set include you don't, don't have and don't come.
  • By corpus frequency, "don't" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with don't

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

But don't look because you don't want to see what you don't like, right? (17 words)

I don't have a FB page, don't know what Instagram is, don't Tweet or "Like" anything. (19 words)

We don't take corporate cash, we don't have ads, and we don't put our reporting behind paywalls. (20 words)

If a player chooses to remove the initial don't come and/or don't pass line bet, he or she can no longer lay odds behind the bet and cannot re-bet the same don't pass and/or don't come number (players must make a new don't pass or come bets if desired). (57 words)

I just don't want to be doing — I don't know, somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful Resolute Desk — the great Resolute Desk — I think wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I don't know. (46 words)

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a list of dos and don'ts regarding pronouns, including 'Don't say someone's pronouns aren't real (e.g. Mx, Ze, Xe)' and 'Don't say using 'they' as a pronoun isn't grammatically correct'. (44 words)

But don't look because you don't want to see what you don't like, right? (17 words)

Example sentences (20)

If a player chooses to remove the initial don't come and/or don't pass line bet, he or she can no longer lay odds behind the bet and cannot re-bet the same don't pass and/or don't come number (players must make a new don't pass or come bets if desired).

Labour is sending a chilling message to aspirational parents: don't try to improve your lot, don't make sacrifices, don't work hard and don't do what you think is best for your children.

You don't get it from Hollywood, you don't get it from popular culture, you don't increasingly, certainly don't get it from your schools.

A player betting don't pass and don't come every roll and laying 10x odds receives a 2% profit on the initial don't pass / don't come bet each roll.

If the player requests the don't come odds be not working ("Off") and the shooter hits the don't come point or sevens-out, the don't come bet will be lost or doubled and the don't come odds returned.

And we don't give babies to women who don't have them themselves because, for example, they don't want to ruin their bodies or things like that.

But if you don't like facts then avoid everything that say anything you don't want to hear, you have done that up until now so I don't expect you to change.

Don't be afraid to get in there and have a go, don't be afraid of boys judging you, don't be afraid of those older men in the community judging you," she said.

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Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a list of dos and don'ts regarding pronouns, including 'Don't say someone's pronouns aren't real (e.g. Mx, Ze, Xe)' and 'Don't say using 'they' as a pronoun isn't grammatically correct'.

We don't take corporate cash, we don't have ads, and we don't put our reporting behind paywalls.

But don't look because you don't want to see what you don't like, right?

Crowds touring overseas to cheer on their national side can often be heard declaring: 'Don't take me home, please don't take me home, I just don't want to go to work.

Two months later, on July 19, 1993, Clinton announced its "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy toward homosexuals in the U.S. military.

As for why people lack the protection, a third of workers (33%) say they're healthy and don't need it, 29% say they can't afford it, 11% don't see the value in it, and 10% don't know what it covers.

If you don't, it's also cool, you don't have to believe anything I believe, we have far more in common than we don't.

I just don't want to be doing — I don't know, somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful Resolute Desk — the great Resolute Desk — I think wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I don't know.

And there's a few odd cases that work, but generally you don't change, when people live longer, because these are the payout annuities, you don't change your reserves and when interest rates go down, you don't change in reserves.

I don't have a FB page, don't know what Instagram is, don't Tweet or "Like" anything.

I don't love you baby / I don't love you no / I don't love you anymore / But I still miss you, still miss you sometimes.

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Common combinations with don't

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "don't" in a sentence?
An example: "If a player chooses to remove the initial don't come and/or don't pass line bet, he or she can no longer lay odds behind the bet and cannot re-bet the same don't pass and/or don't come number (players must make a new don't pass or come bets if desired)." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "don't" from authentic English texts.
What does "don't" mean?
Don't means: do not (negative auxiliary).
How many example sentences with "don't" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "don't", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.