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Example sentences for "dismantled"

Lexicographically close words:
disloyalty; dismal; dismall; dismally; dismantle; dismantling; dismasted; dismay; dismayed; dismaying
  1. A vessel dismantled and moored in a harbour, either for want of employment, or as unfit for further service.

  2. Its forts, therefore, had been dismantled of guns, and its works permitted to fall into disuse.

  3. But, instead of bringing these points of natural defense up to the highest degree of modern efficiency, the French had dismantled them entirely, so as to make Rheims with its glorious cathedral an open town, safe from bombardment.

  4. The forts that had been dismantled were hastily patched up and new guns mounted for emergency use.

  5. As dusk approached we passed a dismantled old fort, situated upon an island called Ile aux Noix, and entered a region inhabited by the large bull-frog, where we camped for the night, amid the dolorous voices of these choristers.

  6. The old navy yard, with its dismantled hulks lying at anchor in the stream, occupies both banks of the river.

  7. The interior is remarkable for the painful incongruity of the chancel--a pseudo-classical structure, built in 1743, to replace the dismantled monastic choir.

  8. The chapel and the now dismantled great hall on the S.

  9. It is supposed to have belonged either to an earlier building or to some dismantled church in the neighbourhood.

  10. There are yet remaining two walls of its memorable donjon, reminiscent of the struggles of the Duke of Montgomery, but the ancient fortress-château itself was dismantled in 1598.

  11. Its two sombre towers, square at the base, but dwindling to an octagon, enflank an enormous shell, now dismantled and all but dismembered.

  12. On one side of the plaza is a large and towered church, while beside it stand the extensive, crumbling walls of a dismantled convent.

  13. It was to be so far dismantled as only to be used as a commercial city.

  14. At least it had been stronger, and its fortifications were more extensive, though the place had been dismantled by Saladin before he left the coast.

  15. Porpoise in March last, Commodore Bligh ordered her to be dismantled and laid up in ordinary in the King's Yard.

  16. It is not easy to trace, subsequently, the doings of the Lady Nelson, and presumably for a year or two she lay dismantled in Sydney Harbour, and during that period is described as "nothing more or less than a Coal Hulk.

  17. The captain had left, his presence being urgently required on deck, and the low, earnest tones of the missionary sounded impressively in the cabin of the dismantled brig.

  18. True to the old instinct, Captain Weber's first impulse was to walk to the binnacle, and then to glance aloft at his dismantled masts and rigging.

  19. The altars were dismantled and the gray dust lay thick upon them, with fragments of plaster here and there.

  20. They were half dismantled and much dilapidated, but not altogether unfurnished.

  21. With its long rows of dismantled windows and black, ragged holes, it is as ghastly as the eye-sockets in a decaying skull.

  22. They preferred the noble vessel too late for the tide, contending with winds and waves, dismantled and unrigged, to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.

  23. On the dismantled embarkation there was not a stick that could be used for rowing; and it was necessary to propel it with their outspread palms.

  24. Before the altars are dismantled for Good Friday, she typifies by lights and flowers, her gratitude for that passover supper in the upper room.

  25. He was buried in his loved Alcalá, and his tomb still rests in the dismantled town whose University has been removed to Madrid.

  26. She found that to get the best possible one she would have to sit down among the graves close to the little dismantled chapel.

  27. He passed a few yards up the lane, till at a turn he could discern the dismantled house.

  28. The fortifications of the town were dismantled in 1838.

  29. Faintly lighted by a few dripping candles is the long dismantled chapel; and damp, dreary, funereal-looking, is the whole scene.

  30. These had found occasion to fight with our fleet; and accordingly they arrived dismantled by cannon-shots, and with many wounded men.

  31. Item: That he had dismantled the forts and walls of artillery, and had left no good piece, contrary to the ordinances of your Majesty, and to all good government.

  32. Moreover, he knew better than any other man the conditions likely to be existent in the dismantled vein.

  33. While she had rearranged her dismantled pompadour, suspiciously awry since her husband's unwonted caress, she had explained quite carelessly that he need not worry.

  34. We reached that place so dismantled and the crew so weak that we were a most piteous sight, and with only nine or ten jars of water.

  35. Quite dismantled and very necessitous, it entered by the bar of Camalayuga to the city of Segovia, which is at the head of the island of Luzon opposite Great China.

  36. The old mill to which I have twice carried you, and to which I must carry you again, was, as I have already said, a dilapidated and much-dismantled structure.

  37. I felt that I had been led there; and without a thought of what I was doing, pressed on with ever-increasing rapidity till I came to the open doorway with its dismantled entrance.

  38. Manschoff dismantled his steeple and placed a half of the roof in each trouser-pocket.

  39. As he uttered these words in a sort of frenzy, his eye caught a glimmering of light in one of the dismantled cottages; it was that in which Meg Merrilies formerly resided.


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