Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "forted"

Lexicographically close words:
forta; fortalice; fortasse; fortassis; forte; fortemque; forteresse; fortes; forth; forthcoming
  1. The inhabitants of the lower end of the Cove, and along Clover Creek, forted at the house of Captain Phillips, some two or three miles above where Williamsburg now stands, which was turned into a temporary fortress.

  2. A band of roving Indians were known to be in the country, as several robberies had occurred in Hartslog Valley, at houses belonging to men who with their families were forted either at Lytle's or at Huntingdon.

  3. Directly north were the forted villages of the Watauga pioneers, in the valley of the upper Tennessee, and beyond these again, in the same valley, the Virginian outpost settlements.

  4. We built log huts and forted for the winter on the Monongahela about fifteen miles above Pittsburg.

  5. They lived in little forted towns that had been moved successively up, up, up the Missouri.

  6. Here he met Lewis, forted in that winter camp.

  7. Yes, sir; I did; I saw that they had forted up all around the cave.

  8. It is important to keep in mind the territorial organization of the militia companies and regiments; a county and a regiment, a forted village and a company, were usually coextensive.

  9. All the little forted villages north of the Kentucky, and those lying near its southern bank, were plunged into woe and mourning by the defeat.

  10. One peculiar provision was made necessary by the system of settling in forted villages.

  11. They were also familiar with the representative system; and accordingly they introduced it into the new communities, the little forted villages serving as natural units of representation.

  12. It was impossible to raise such a body among the scantily garrisoned forted villages of Kentucky.

  13. They were, in consequence, unable to meet the enemy in the open field, and gathered in their stations or forted villages.

  14. Among many others the forted village at Wheeling was again attacked.

  15. I have simply stated to you how these negroes and Indians are Forted up that you may better know how to deal with them.


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