Read full poem →“Oh, when the sun calls me, then I can wait for no man,
But back I must go again, to my own land!”
And now we’ve made him, he’ll have to stay,
Dictionary Entry
Something that is mandatory or required.
In a Sentence
“If you'll be out all day, a map is a must.”
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take mustgo mustmake mustalways mustknow mustmust theremust one
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Poetry examples for “must”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →— Ah, life, what is it but a fower?
Why must true lovers sigh?
Read full poem →Are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we can, and if we can we must.
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
Read full poem →JOAN. Who’s that, who’s that got hold o’ me? Let go! I must go to ’im.
Read full poem →-Ah, life, what is it but a flower?
Why must true lovers sigh?
Be kind, have pity, my own, my pretty,-
Read full poem →Which, this same night,
Must lose its heat.
To give strength to a lame man’s feet.
Read full poem →"Here the hangman stops his cart:
Now the best of friends must part.
Fare you well, for ill fare I:
Read full poem →"Lie down in the bed of dust;
Bear the fruit that bear you must;
Bring the eternal seed to light,
Read full poem →To-morrow after new young men
The sergeant he must see,
For things will all be over then
Read full poem →Need only look the other way.
But no, they will not; they must still
Wrest their neighbour to their will,