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Example sentences for "clashed"

Lexicographically close words:
claro; clarum; clarus; clase; clash; clashes; clashing; clashings; clasp; clasped
  1. It seemed as though islands were torn from their places, or mountain clashed against mountain, so great was the shock of the ships.

  2. Headlong from the chariot he fell, and his armor clashed about him.

  3. His teeth clashed together, as he concluded: "There is no medicine in this land to cure this sickness.

  4. XVII O the bliss upon the plains, Where the joining heroes clashed Shield and spear, and, unabashed, Challenged with hot chariot-reins Gods!

  5. VI O the bliss upon the plains, Where the joining heroes clashed Shield and spear, and, unabashed, Challenged with hot chariot-reins Gods!

  6. The deer's antlers clashed as he strode into the shrine, clashed against the grinning statue of Kali.

  7. Carshaw's eyes clashed with Clancy's, as rapiers rasp in thrust and parry.

  8. His black and beady eyes had just clashed with those of a notorious crook, who suddenly remembered an urgent appointment elsewhere.

  9. Louder, still louder, rising like some all-conquering flood, while silver anklets clashed until the brain was nigh to splitting with the din.

  10. The muffled tones of the old grandfather's clock in the hall clashed the hour of ten.

  11. Then came huntsmen with hounds, armed with lances, and behind them dancing soldiers, who clashed shields and swords in rhythm, accompanying their dance with choric song.

  12. The spectators swayed and quivered, shouted and roared, women waved their veils, men clashed potsherds; some yelled out bets, and one or two from behind stumbled forward and fell among the occupants of the benches in front.

  13. But, although this clashed a bit with his preconceived ideas, he knew that many of the nicest Panamanian families lived in modest quarters.

  14. And yet he was working for what he thought was expediency; but it was not--not at all, for it clashed with moral rectitude.

  15. The lurid morning shall reveal A fire no king can smother Where British flint and Boston steel Have clashed against each other!

  16. Soon the mass, being too tightly packed, could advance no further; pikes clashed in the air, and the arrows of the Barbarians were shivering against the walls.

  17. A petticoat of many-coloured stripes fitted closely on her hips, and fell to her ankles, where two tin rings clashed together.

  18. They lacked space; they thronged half-rearing together, and their tusks clashed against one another.

  19. Then seizing the handles of their swords they met at close quarters, and, as they clashed their shields together, raised a great tumult of battle around them.

  20. Then the waves of great contention clashed together, and a divided opinion went forth through the army of the Greeks; to some it appeared advisable to give a victim to his tomb, and to others it appeared not.

  21. And Cuculain shook them and bent them, and clashed them together, but they held firm.

  22. But Cuculain looked narrowly upon the weapons, and he struck the spears together and clashed the sword upon the shield, and he brake the spears in pieces, and the sword, and made chasms in the shield.

  23. They toiled for awhile knee-deep in very cold water while the rocker clashed and rattled, and Ingleby, whose face grew a trifle grim as the time wore on, washed out the residue of its contents in a little pan.

  24. She was a trifle imperious, and now her will had clashed with one that was as resolute as it.

  25. It was only when the weapons clashed loudly together that Craig came out of his daze.

  26. Gemme, near Luçon, their armies clashed in a fierce, stubbornly fought engagement.

  27. On September 30, at Moncontour, the two armies clashed in a preliminary engagement.

  28. Spain and France clashed in Switzerland, too, at this time.

  29. If it flew easily between the rocks, then the ship could safely follow it with no chance of being ground to pieces as the islands clashed together.

  30. In obedience to its advice the heroes clashed their swords and spears furiously against their shields until the birds, terrified by the noise, flew away and never returned.

  31. The men liked each other and their personalities did not clash, or would not have clashed had they chanced to come to terms of acquaintance.

  32. The hostile fleets clashed into the fight as bulls, bellowing sullenly, rush upon each other with lowered heads and bloodshot eyes.

  33. The tree-frog blew his alto horn; the jar-fly clashed his tinkling cymbals; the woodpecker rattled his kettledrum, and the locust jingled his tambourine.

  34. There were giants in the Senate in those days, and when they clashed shields and measured swords in debate, the capitol trembled and the nation thrilled in every nerve.


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