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Example sentences for "admitted"

Lexicographically close words:
admissions; admit; admits; admitt; admittance; admittedly; admitteth; admitting; admixed; admixture
  1. I didn't think about it at all," admitted the little man.

  2. He admitted to himself that the Nationalists had the latest and best.

  3. A large and imposing portal admitted the visitor to a small tower occupied by the guards, through which the real entrance was approached.

  4. Ay, there are men who are ashamed of nothing so much as of the cross which their Master bore for them," admitted Gerhardt sorrowfully.

  5. Unbarring the door, she admitted a muffled man, whose face was almost covered by a woollen kerchief evidently arranged for that purpose.

  6. Then the barefooted friar led him into a chasm, and unlocked an iron door in the rock, by means of which Lazarus was admitted into the heart of the mountain.

  7. The purgatory was accordingly suppressed, the cave closed, but not destroyed, and no pilgrims admitted to it; this was in 1497.

  8. The other inhabitants, seeing its great utility, wanted also to have their chambers, but they were not admitted unless they contributed to the cost of the undertaking, and to this they willingly agreed.

  9. Then, in 1747, the trustees yielded to the general demand and admitted slavery.

  10. One State, Florida, was admitted to the Union during Tyler's administration.

  11. Illinois was admitted in 1818, being the third of the five States formed from the old Northwest Territory.

  12. When it is remembered that these changes were the result of a war in which the capture of Quebec was the decisive conflict, it will be admitted that there was ample warrant for pronouncing it one of the great battles of the world.

  13. The rule is that whenever a new State is admitted to the Union its representative star shall appear in the blue field of the banner on the 4th of July following its admission.

  14. The State was admitted August 21st, increasing the number to twenty-four.

  15. All admitted the necessity of reducing the rations, but it was done to that extent that the men suffered continually from hunger.

  16. He graduated at Harvard, at the age of twenty, and was admitted to the bar three years later.

  17. A number of States were admitted to the Union while Monroe was President.

  18. The Communal Councils have not yet been fully admitted to the Council system, and seem to have but little vitality.

  19. Even Vorwaerts admitted there was cause of complaint.

  20. Germany would have been admitted to the League in time to take part in arranging its own penalties and we should thereby have got the best guarantee possible for the permanence of the peace in respect to Germany.

  21. If it had admitted Parliamentary institutions at all they would only have been subordinate to Council control.

  22. Deviations may be admitted where the customs frontier reaches the sea or other waters.

  23. Next came Peter Gale, the man who had undertaken to perform the functions of steward, though he frankly admitted that he knew little or nothing about the duties of the post.

  24. Perhaps she spoke even too plainly of her husband, but the occasion admitted of no sort of apology for him; there was no deceit about her, and as little flattery.

  25. He admitted the facts, with the exception of the statement that he had inquired of the Lord for David.

  26. This message was, I know, delivered by Sturt himself to several; but circumstances admitted not of their further adherence.

  27. He was passed on to the gate, and admitted into cantonments; and was said to be the bearer of a letter from Mahommed Akbar Khan.

  28. We were taken to a fort; but not admitted into it: and after a time had tents pitched for us.

  29. I had the second; and took a dark cow-house; the only light admitted being from a door down a long narrow passage and a hole in the roof.

  30. As a schoolboy, he covered the margins of his books with caricatures upon his master and upon his fellow-scholars, and at the age of sixteen he was admitted a student in the Royal Academy in London, then in its infancy.

  31. Barclay's smile was as rare as a straight flush anyhow, he admitted to himself, but the assertion sounded well.

  32. The doctor admitted the force of his superior's argument, and said no word.

  33. It must be admitted that she had her faults--like Little Billee.

  34. The unprotected female must be pretty, or must at least possess feminine graces which stand in lieu of prettiness, and which can put forward a just and admitted claim for personal admiration.

  35. It must be admitted that the ill-nature of tourist parties in this respect is justified to a great degree by the experienced results of any exceptional good-nature into which soft-hearted persons may be occasionally betrayed.

  36. But Miss Thompson is wrong for all this, and I think it will be admitted that I have made the best of Miss Thompson's case.

  37. Despite his curiosity it was nearly half-past eight when he arrived at Mr. Tredgold's that evening, and was admitted by his host.

  38. Well, we might if we could get one cheap," admitted Tredgold, cautiously.

  39. Captain Wagstaffe was an admitted master of this game.

  40. I may be wrong," admitted Wagstaffe handsomely, "but that's my reading of the situation.

  41. Thus, the affair admitted of some excuse, and Don Miguel was grateful to Jack for performing what should have been his duty.

  42. I'm so glad to see you, Mr. Kennedy," greeted Elaine unaffectedly as Jennings admitted us.

  43. Still, as Jennings admitted Craig, it was sufficiently evident by the manner in which Elaine left Bennett and ran to meet Craig that she had the highest regard for him.

  44. He accompanied the words with the sign and Michael, taking care that the words be heard, in case anyone was listening, admitted him.

  45. We were admitted at once, for Aunt Josephine had never quite understood what was the trouble between Elaine and Craig, and had a high regard for him.

  46. The tribunes of the people now grew more turbulent; they proposed two laws: one to permit plebeians to intermarry with the patricians; and the other, to permit them to be admitted to the consulship also.

  47. However, he admitted his wife and his horse to that honour; and to give a finishing stroke to his absurdities, became a priest to himself.

  48. The young Henry was the affianced husband of the Princess Mary, in consequence of which, Eleanora had admitted him to an intimacy, and evinced for him an affection almost equal to that enjoyed by the royal children themselves.

  49. Lofty windows admitted the light, which, shaded by curtains of varied colors, was tempered to a soft radiance that filled the apartment with an indefinable bloom.

  50. To detach Prince Henry, who was enthusiastically fond of his tutor, from the party of Becket, the king sent for him to be crowned at Westminster, and admitted to a share of the government.

  51. From Constantinople the Hungarian leader sailed for Cyprus, where he was admitted to an audience, with Hugh and Alice, king and queen of that island and thence with favorable winds passed over the Levant, and landed in safety at Acre.

  52. The mollified portress immediately admitted them, muttering apologetically, "The wayfarer and benighted are ever received with Christian charity, by the sisters of the blessed St. Bernard.

  53. Through this wicket she admitted her young disciple, and in this retreat, with missionary zeal, commenced her efforts for the conversion of the Mussulman.

  54. Texas was admitted into the Union; the articles of annexation providing that it might be subdivided into five states, at any time it chose to make such division.

  55. It was precipitated upon Congress by the application of Missouri, in 1818, to be admitted into the Union.

  56. Allow no more visitors to be admitted to the jail.

  57. The stately edifice rises from three sides of a court, whence we are admitted to a large hall on the lower floor which she used as a theatre.

  58. The trimmest of little maids admitted us at the gate and led along a path bordered with flowers to the cottage door, where stood Miss Begg beaming a welcome upon the pilgrims from America.

  59. From the Gothic door-way of the mansion we are admitted to a gallery with a low-vaulted roof of stone upheld by massive columns.

  60. Mary subsequently became a servant in the house of Burns's landlord, Gavin Hamilton, a lawyer of Mauchline, who had early recognized the genius of the bard and admitted him to an intimate friendship, despite his inferior condition.

  61. Already, taking into account the state of the flooded fore compartments, the volume of water admitted into the ship was causing her to move sluggishly.

  62. A stoker was admitted to the ward under the inexplicable error that he was your son.

  63. Her thin bow plates were burst outwards, while the for'ard watertight bulkhead was strained till it admitted the sea like a mill sluice.

  64. A faint detonation, caused by the release of the propelling charge of compressed air was followed by the rush of the water admitted into the now empty tube to compensate the loss of weight of the torpedo.

  65. You did," admitted the captain, with a hearty laugh.

  66. She admitted the impeachment with an accusing blush.

  67. Oh, Harold, I trust you; but why did you disappear and make all the world believe you admitted yourself guilty?

  68. Barker admitted that his joints "creaked" considerably; still, he was full of enthusiasm.

  69. We were soon admitted to a delightful comradeship with the Mongols of our valley.

  70. Although the Mongols all admitted the efficacy of my foreign medicines, nevertheless they could not bring themselves to dispense with the lama and his prayers.

  71. He was admitted as a barrister-at-law in April, 1821.

  72. Mr. Boswell, of Cobourg, admitted that Sir Francis had said he knew a good deal.

  73. It has at all times been admitted in the first place, that the Act 31st Geo.

  74. The Wesleyan body, whose members in Upper Canada have increased eight thousand during the last four years, will be satisfied on the payment of the sum admitted in their behalf.

  75. But here is an express requirement for the exclusion of persons from the Wesleyan Church for that which it is admitted is not "immoral conduct," namely, neglect of class-meeting.

  76. This day I have been admitted into the Methodist Connexion, licensed as a Local Preacher, and recommended tn the Annual Conference to be received on trial.

  77. Even under the Old Testament they were admitted into it by circumcision.

  78. Infants, therefore, are capable of being admitted into the Church, and have a right thereto.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "admitted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.