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Example sentences for "denned"

Lexicographically close words:
denke; denken; denkt; denn; denne; denner; denominate; denominated; denominates; denominating
  1. It denned back in the canyon where they could not see.

  2. They denned in small openings in the tangled mass of parasitic growths which flourished in such thickets.

  3. Here it was thick as quilting, and infinitesimal creatures denned under it.

  4. Upon this good supply of mutton and pork they laid on the final layers of fat, and then returned to their wilderness and denned up for the winter.

  5. The last thing in the autumn, before they denned up, the two bears made a long journey of several days to the nearest settlement, where they killed several sheep, and also carried off two small pigs.

  6. The chipmunks and mice have also denned up, so there is not much for bruin to do but sleep.

  7. There in the wilderness, where lumbermen alone penetrated, Black Bruin denned up and slept away his fifth winter.

  8. It denned back in the canyon where they could not see it.

  9. Surely you couldn't have picked up all that news while being denned in here.

  10. The most likely places to find a bear denned up are under a ledge of rocks, under the roots of a partly fallen tree, under an over-hanging sand bank, or in a rocky crevice in the mountain side.

  11. To kill a bear that is already denned the dog is better left at home, for he will be of no use and you run the risk (if he is plucky) of his being killed in the den.

  12. It is a much more dangerous job to tackle a newly denned bear than in the spring when they are stupid from their long spell of hibernation.

  13. Admirals was denned as extending, in a certain particular, to the "main stream of great rivers nigh the sea.

  14. An' why does he grow so fast during the four or five months he's denned up an' dead to the world without a mouthful to eat or drink?

  15. Since then Thor had denned eight times in that cavern home.

  16. In southern Colorado and in the Yellowstone Park region many have denned up at about the altitude of six thousand feet.

  17. In this passage the mystic observes how the natural power of running water to suggest spontaneous movement, and therefore life, is accentuated and denned by the actual results of the river's beneficent overflow.

  18. Once grant that Nature Mysticism, as denned and illustrated in the preceding chapters, is a genuine form of Mysticism, and his difficulty would be solved.

  19. A holy man, or marabout, denned on the top and we must pay our respects.

  20. Besides coyotes, which are everywhere common, the plains were infested by lobo wolves, a very large and powerful species; they denned in the breaks of the plains and it was then easiest to destroy them.

  21. Under my winter cottage at the Meadows Ranch in Arizona skunks always denned and lay up during the cold weather, selecting a point immediately under the warm hearthstone.

  22. It was not easy to detect its colour and markings in that dim light, but its shape stood out clear and sharply denned against the brilliant sunlight streaming down into a windfall just beyond, and Dyer pronounced it to be a jaguar.

  23. The rest of the pack had denned to the south and few encroached on Breed's hunting territory.

  24. Night after night Breed heard the howls of the lone she-coyote that had denned in the windfall.


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