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Example sentences for "equalled"

Lexicographically close words:
equalized; equalizer; equalizes; equalizing; equall; equallie; equalling; equally; equals; equanimity
  1. The work of the 36th Division in this area almost equalled that of Flanders.

  2. General who was in command of the Division for the greater part of the campaign, and who led it throughout with a confidence in it only equalled by its confidence in him.

  3. One of his plans, connected with Mackenzie's possession of the Lewis, in its barbarous and cruel details, almost equalled the Raid of Cillechriost.

  4. Her eloquence is seldom equalled and she is a woman of deep learning, a cogent reasoner and a brilliant thinker.

  5. Again and again at the close of the suffrage hearings the chairman and members of the committee said that none on other questions equalled them in dignity and ability.

  6. The President's address was preceded by one given by Professor Potter on The Making of Democracy, which had seldom been equalled in its statesmanlike qualities.

  7. Olympia Brown, now eighty-four years old, whose excellent voice was not equalled among any of the younger women.

  8. It was only equalled by the vexation of those who were opposed to him.

  9. His sense of duty in matters spiritual was only equalled by his affectionate regard for his relatives.

  10. His kindness and condescension to the poor was equalled by his most considerate respect and regard to the feelings and character of the humblest of his professional brethren.

  11. This he succeeded in doing, and had a long and successful career; his fame as a pilot only equalled that which he bore when employed as a sailor.

  12. The grief of having to leave my old shipmate behind was only equalled by the mystery of what had become of him.

  13. These men created in Germany, under the “Führerprinzip”, a National Socialist despotism equalled only by the dynasties of the ancient East.

  14. In the midst of these reflections a song, which for sweetness and tranquilizing melody I have seldom heard equalled and never surpassed, broke the stillness of the scene and added to the melancholy interest of the occasion.

  15. You are explaining to me that the immensity of the world of creation reaching to awful eternity is only equalled by the immensity of the descent to the shapeless nonentity; and that is your God!

  16. The old silver drachmas were replaced by new drachmas, of which seventy-three equalled one hundred of the old.

  17. Zenobia was the most lovely as well as the most heroic of her sex, no woman of Asiatic birth ever having equalled her in striking evidence of valor and ability, and none surpassed her in beauty.

  18. He was a listener, not a talker, yet no Theban equalled him in eloquence in time when speech was needful.

  19. Several species of Paloeothere are known, varying greatly in size, the smallest being little bigger than a hare, whilst the largest must have equalled a good-sized horse in its dimensions.

  20. You, who have made yourself the centre of a circle which, for the varieties of its fascination, has never perhaps been equalled in this country?

  21. But of all her attractions, and of all the evidences of her cultivated mind, none equalled the extraordinary grace of her conversation.

  22. In this situation she was at length surprised by Delvile, whose uneasy astonishment that she had failed in her appointment, was only to be equalled by that with which he was struck at the sight of her tears.

  23. The consternation of Cecilia at these speeches could by nothing be equalled but by the shame of Henrietta, who, though she knew not to whom her mother made them, felt all the disgrace and the shock of them herself.

  24. The death rate among the children has not equalled one child per family.

  25. The American Anti-Slavery Society's twenty-seventh report said "Northward migration from slave land during the last year has fully equalled the average of former years.

  26. It far surpasses the work of Ptolemy, which had been without a rival for eight centuries previously, and it has only been equalled in modern times by the surveys of Argelander, Gould, Heis, and Houzeau.

  27. No other actor of the part has equalled him in softness and winning charm of humour.

  28. No other representative of Pangloss has quite equalled Jefferson in the element of authoritative and convincing sincerity.

  29. But no other actor who has trod the American stage in our day has equalled him in certain attributes of tragedy that are essentially poetic.

  30. Only one man of our time has equalled Edwin Booth in this singular splendour of countenance--the great New England orator Rufus Choate.

  31. The subtlety of it was only equalled by its intensity, and neither was surpassed except by its reality.

  32. Now the French were equalled in their own style by an English poet.

  33. Without Troilus and Criseyde the works of Chaucer would be an immense variety--romance and sentiment, humour and observation, expressed in poetical language that has never been equalled for truth and liveliness.

  34. It started a sumptuous quarterly, "The University Socialist," the contents of which by no means equalled the excellence of the print and paper.

  35. Their development of the arts and crafts has never been equalled in the modern time.

  36. During the first five months in 1917 the Government of the United States reached a record for expenditures never before equalled in American history.

  37. But none of the ancient battles equalled in importance the series of great victories won by the Allied force over those of Germany in 1918.

  38. It is, therefore, interesting to collect the passages in which he speaks of an elegy only equalled in our language by Lycidas, and in the point of passionate eloquence even superior to Milton's youthful lament for his friend.

  39. I have seen men behave with courage and resolution before now, but so much determined bravery can hardly be equalled in any part of the history of ancient Rome.

  40. It needs hardly be said that her astonishment was only equalled by her raptures of joy.

  41. The astonishment of Aladdin when he rubbed the lamp and saw the effects of that operation could not have equalled mine, when I saw Genoa put on the light and life of day like a garment.

  42. When we were taking leave, my eyes accidentally meeting his, I could not but observe that his gravity equalled my own; for it had entirely taken place of the smiles and good humour with which he had met me.

  43. Sir Francis Egmont, whose surgical skill was only equalled by his human kindness, had told her all.


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