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Example sentences for "borne along"

  • For since they wander through the void inane, All the primordial germs of things must needs Be borne along, either by weight their own, Or haply by another's blow without.

  • The ship in which we sail Is borne along, although it seems to stand; The ship that bides in roadstead is supposed There to be passing by.

  • Across the land, across the sea, The merry strain is borne along; Ah!

  • Across the land, across the sea, The merry peal is borne along, And all the world must happy be To hear the oft-repeated song.

  • Across the land, across the sea, The merry strain is borne along; While even seraphs bend the knee Before the majesty of song.

  • They are propelled by means of numerous short threads or ciliae, which are in constant and rapid vibration; and, when thus supported in the water, they may be borne along by currents to a great distance.

  • Now with a vast impulse, like a torrent swelled with rain, he is borne along, and bears down the obstructing forests with his breast.

  • Over him the mist came floating, borne along by the wind which sighed around him; and that mist gradually overspread the scene upon which his straining eyes were fastened.

  • It was about a mile away, and the schooner, borne along now by the tide, was slowly drifting on to an unpleasant proximity to the rocky shore.

  • As they drifted on, borne along by the impetuous tide, the shores on either side changed, and new vistas opened before them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    borne along; borne away; can hardly; consists essentially; gave vent; intimate knowledge; modern warfare; neither would; private initiative; purely physical; room temperature; show that; sleeping apartment; sometimes done; soon found; standing position; this class; this society; wall paper; whose daughter; whose surname; will thus; you saw