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Example sentences for "amidst the"

  • Alla ad Deen returned home in the order he had come, amidst the acclamations of the people, who wished him all happiness and prosperity.

  • He persisted in importuning his mother to execute his resolution, and she, as much out of tenderness as for fear he should be guilty of greater extravagance, complied with his request.

  • He was so long before he could check himself, that it had like to have been fatal.

  • But when we depart thence we shall ride all day and sleep amidst the mountains, and if we be not beset that night or the morrow's morn thereof, safe and unfoughten shall we come to Cheaping Knowe.

  • So he rode till he came into the town when the fair morning was still young, the first mass over, and maids gathered about the fountain amidst the market-place, and two or three dames sitting under the buttercross.

  • He was educated in the Lesser Asia, amidst the scandals of the Arian controversy.

  • The Gothic king did not long enjoy this splendid and honorable reception; and, as temperance was not the virtue of his nation, it may justly be suspected, that his mortal disease was contracted amidst the pleasures of the Imperial banquets.

  • The glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthroned and sphered Amidst the other.

  • Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.

  • But seven only were wanted; and running down a galley punt into the surf, they leaped in and dashed through the breakers, amidst the cheers of those on shore.

  • In 1817 the pathetic idyl, wrought out amidst harsh discord, had found its earthly close in the family vault at Windsor, amidst the lamentations of the whole nation.

  • In the meantime the awful march went on, amidst the rigours of winter, in wild snowy passes, by savage precipices, while the most unsparing guerilla warfare was kept up by the furious natives at every point of vantage.

  • The travellers wended their way through a living mass in brilliantly illuminated streets, amidst the sending up of showers of rockets, the ringing of bells, the huzzaing of the people, the glad shouting of the Eton boys.

  • A little after eight her Majesty landed at Granton Pier, amidst the cheers of her Scotch subjects.

  • At times I thought I could hear, amidst the noises of the tempest, something like the roll of distant artillery; but the thunder swelled in sullen roar above all, and left me uncertain as before.

  • And I thought of all those things, of all that happiness, amidst the hubbub of the markets of Paris, before those poor dead flowers whose graveyard the footway had become.

  • Along the footways, amidst the jostling of the street traffic, her nimble fingers were ever flowering though she gave them not a glance, but boldly scanned the shops and passers-by.

  • The footway was now becoming populated: a crowd of people had awakened, and was moving hither and thither amidst the vegetables, stopping at times, and chattering and shouting.

  • For a long time he dreamt of a colossal picture which should represent the loves of Cadine and Marjolin in the central markets, amidst the vegetables, the fish, and the meat.

  • Whenever an old oil or almond dealer failed to get a hearing, amidst the clamour, for some plan by which he could save France if he were only a master, he took himself off to Eugene and shouted his marvellous suggestions in his ear.

  • He dreamed of victory to be followed by a happy life with Miette, amidst the peacefulness of the universal Republic.

  • And, amidst the throbbing of the sky, the waters and the darkness, the children reposing on the grass sought each other's hands and pressed them.

  • His helmet cloven in two, his face all streaming with blood, but still calm in its ghastly hues, amidst the foremost of those slain, fell the fated Haco.

  • Close by his banner, amidst the piles of the dead, William the Conqueror pitched his pavilion, and sate at meat.

  • Then grinned, no doubt, amidst the dames, As Nero fiddled to the flames.

  • Dwells he amidst the diamond's flame, A throne his hallowed shrine?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amidst the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    amidst the; appointed professor; back street; commercial treaty; different nations; doing business; folks used; forty weeks; free citizens; graphic account; immediate danger; inform you; library economy; never could; political science; shall burn; steam power; take station; thin membrane; two different; whereas those; young gentleman