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Example sentences for "entered the"

  • Scarcely had I entered the cars, when the other thing began.

  • During their absence several new travellers entered the car, among whom was a tall old man, shaven and wrinkled, evidently a merchant, wearing a large heavily-lined cloak and a big cap.

  • She understood that some one had entered the room, and she thought of Rachela; but she found a kind of comfort in the dull stupor of grief she was indulging, and she would not break its spell by lifting her head.

  • I wonder where Isabel is," said Antonia; and with the words the girl entered the room.

  • With these feelings he entered the street of the village.

  • When he entered the hall, he found the Marquis of A---- giving orders to some of his attendants.

  • So resolving, he entered the apartment, and, in all courteous greeting, saluted both the mother and the daughter.

  • Oak was additionally detained in Casterbridge through having to give notice to the authorities of what had happened; and he then found that Boldwood had also entered the town, and delivered himself up.

  • Here he entered the porch, and, reclining upon the bench within, fell asleep.

  • Of those out of the house Oak was one of the first to hear of the catastrophe, and when he entered the room, which was about five minutes after Boldwood's exit, the scene was terrible.

  • I sank back in my seat, having just had time to resume my book before the Count, holding still another letter in his hand, entered the room.

  • We all hurried and took from our rooms the same things that we had when we entered the Count's house.

  • After that there was a sound of falling, and when he entered the room he found him lying on the floor, face down, just as the doctors had seen him.

  • A moment later he re-entered the apartment.

  • For two years she had not entered the capital, and much of that period had been spent in Paris.

  • Silently he entered the house, running quickly to a side door that opened upon the grounds.

  • In three minutes from the time he entered the shed he was stretched full length upon the straw, fast asleep.

  • Stooping, he entered the ill-smelling circular conduit, groping his way slowly along.

  • And then, bearing his burden carefully, Tantor, the elephant, entered the blackness of the jungle.

  • Throwing herself upon her stomach she wormed beneath the tent wall just as Malbihn, with a final word to his men, entered the tent.

  • Meriem saw and recognized him the instant that he entered the apartment.

  • A groan escaped him as he entered the hall.

  • When I entered the room I saw a small cradle in the corner.

  • Rosamond was proud when he entered the room, and when he approached her with a distinguishing smile, she had a delicious sense that she was the object of enviable homage.

  • As he entered the town he noticed the advertisement of an estate agent.

  • As he entered the hall, surprised at the darkness, he exclaimed: "The devil!

  • The latter got up, crossed the street, and going round to the back door, which he found wide open, entered the house.

  • Getting rid of this fear, he entered the king's room, whom he despatched with one stroke of his dagger.

  • Benedick, the moment he entered the room, began a lively conversation with Leonato and the prince.

  • Well, hum, not very," the Warden said, as we entered the Library.

  • Quite so, your Excellency," the Baron was saying as we entered the Library.

  • Among them I remember Carl Schurz, who was playing the piano when I entered the room.

  • Finally, just as a faint gleam of daylight arrived, we entered the captain's yard and delivered the message.

  • A procedure, it may be stated, requiring years of time and thousands of dollars, during which other infringers have generally entered the field, and all have grown fat.

  • She re-entered the hut, flung off her bonnet and cloak, and approached the sufferer.

  • At last he entered the bakehouse, and found there Robert Creedle sitting over the embers, also lost in contemplation.

  • He entered the plantation, and was no doubt going that way homeward to the mysterious hut he occupied on the other side of the woodland.

  • Minns, conscious that his diffidence and exclusiveness had prevented his saying above a dozen words since he entered the house.

  • Stupefied with drink, and bewildered with the scene he had just witnessed, he re-entered the tavern he had quitted shortly before.

  • Mr. Malderton, as a little spoffish man, with green spectacles, entered the room.

  • We entered the gate, Mrs. Petulengro leading the way, and proceeded to a small door near the east end of the church.

  • Nothing more entirely differing from either of these anticipations could have presented itself to my view than what I saw about one o'clock in the afternoon, when I entered the house.

  • I entered the room, which seemed to be a counterpart of the one which I had just left.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "entered 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:
    abstaining from; bide here; break their; burial place; came close; cavalry charge; east winds; entered into; entered the; entered upon; eyes opened; foreign intercourse; half cups; having read; high point; just step; peace times; popular referendum; select party; swooned away; there wasn; three small; unless otherwise; upon another