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Example sentences for "gone"

Lexicographically close words:
gonads; gondola; gondolas; gondolier; gondoliers; goned; gones; gonfalon; gonfaloniers; gonfanon
  1. My dear Hope,--Your last letter was a help to me, for I began to feel as if every man had gone to his own house and left the matter.

  2. There must, however, have been some shortly preceding contact, or I should not have gone there to visit him.

  3. He is gone from us, but only gone before us.

  4. We should have gone to pieces but for those ten minutes.

  5. His opinions and feelings were Conservative in the constitutional sense, and in his early years seem to have gone a good deal further.

  6. What must I feel, whose life is gone ere it is well begun?

  7. For my part, I have never so deeply felt how impossible it is to separate the one who has gone from those whom he has left behind.

  8. You have not gone to the bottom of the difficulty.

  9. Newman is gone home to-day, and means to write to you tomorrow or next day.

  10. Thirty years have gone since your mother began to show to me the tenderness of an own mother.

  11. The padre said, "Whatever have you been and gone and done?

  12. Grant, and reprinted by permission of the family of General Grant I had never been a sportsman in my life; had scarcely ever gone in search of game, and rarely seen any when looking for it.

  13. Next morning, on looking for Mignon about the house, Wilhelm did not find her, but was informed that she had gone out early with Melina, who had risen betimes to receive the wardrobe and other apparatus of his theatre.

  14. I knew my regiment had gone up the Red River, but I was not disposed to break the letter of my leave; besides, if I had proceeded to Louisiana direct, I could not have reached there until after the expiration of my leave.

  15. They have gone through two editions in Italy, and are at present in the press of Didot at Paris.

  16. What is this which engages the student of the metaphysic cell, who had gone through the four Faculties, and is now once again grown old?

  17. CALL ME NOT DEAD" Call me not dead when I, indeed, have gone Into the company of the ever-living High and most glorious poets!

  18. Clotelle had already gone to bed, but her father's voice roused her from her sleep, and she was soon sitting on his knee.

  19. As soon as he revived, he shrunk from every eye, as if he feared they would take from him the freedom which he had gone through so much to obtain.

  20. While the old woman was thus lecturing her daughter upon her rights and duties, Henry, unaware of what was transpiring, had left the house and gone to his office.

  21. He had met a negro woman, who was also a runaway, and, after the fashion of his native land, had gone through the process of oiling her, as the marriage ceremony.

  22. Sam had gone to the city to attend a ball, and had decked himself out in his master's best suit.

  23. The secret was out; the fugitive had gone in at the front door and out at the back; and the reading of the warrant, nailing up of the door, and other preliminaries of the Quaker, was to give the fugitive time and opportunity to escape.

  24. Among the forty slaves that the trader had on this occasion, were some whose appearance indicated that they had seen some years and had gone through considerable service.

  25. I don't do something for you, and dat pretty quick, you'll be a gone coons and dat's sartin.

  26. He had gone too far to recede, however, and so submitted quietly to the directions of the doctor; and, after following the injunctions given by that learned Esculapius, was put to bed.

  27. And the androids at the factory were gone too.

  28. My men thought I'd gone crazy; maybe I had.

  29. This farce, I decided, had gone far enough.

  30. Have you gone an' lost what little bit of common sense you was born with?

  31. Blaine's book, sold over the counter, might have gone to the length of five thousand copies.

  32. Many letters addressed to me have gone astray.

  33. I think that she has gone forward to give warning that the Hesea's guests draw near.

  34. As I closed my eyes I saw her face that had been red as dawn turn pale as eve, for my words and all which might lie behind them, had gone home.

  35. For a moment terror seemed to take Ayesha, then it was gone as quickly as it came.

  36. Gone too were the symbol and the veil of flame behind it, only the glow lingered a little on the distant sky.

  37. Everything was gone now, except a shift and a last inner veil about the head.

  38. Has she gone back to--to reason with the Khania?

  39. Nor, indeed, did I do so until some days had gone by.

  40. Believe me, Leo, more than twenty centuries have gone by since I was seated on a steed, and yet thou seest I have not forgot my horsemanship, though this beast cannot match those Arabs that I rode in the wide deserts of Arabia.

  41. Gone was the corpse of Leo, and gone too was Ayesha the imperial, the divine.

  42. Gone was the frowning sky and all the blue firmament seemed one tender smile.

  43. Yes; only you told me that she had gone some days ago.

  44. Then, having treated the wounds with ointment, he wrapped the limb with such a delicate touch that it scarcely pained me, saying that by the morrow the swelling would have gone down and he would set the bone.

  45. And why the deuce need Roderick have gone marching back to destruction?

  46. You have faltered and drifted, you have gone on from accident to accident, and I am sure that at this present moment you can't tell what it is you really desire!

  47. That evening on the terrace, late, after Mrs. Hudson had gone to bed, and Roderick being absent.

  48. The month ebbed away and Rowland daily expected to hear from Roderick that he had gone to Leghorn to meet the ship.

  49. Certainly, among the young men of genius who, for so many ages, have gone up to Rome to test their powers, none ever made a fairer beginning than Roderick.

  50. It was from Roderick, and consisted of but three lines: "I am gone to Frascati--for meditation.

  51. He heard nothing, and late one evening, not having seen his friend in three or four days, he stopped at Roderick's lodging to assure himself that he had gone at last.

  52. I have gone so far as to think at times that those childish kisses were a sign--a symbol--a portent.

  53. It just occurred to him that it was strange that Marguerite should have gone to him for assistance without any direction from himself to do so.

  54. It was my intention to have gone from this place to Almeria on horseback, but as R.

  55. And lone and wearily hath gone the day; For thou, whose presence like a flood is swelling With joy my life-tide--thou art far away.

  56. When he awoke in the morning the light had gone out; but a few pale, melancholy gleams of morning pierced the prison-bars, which were so far above him that it was not possible for him to reach them.

  57. Having gone thus far, it would have been inhuman to stop short.

  58. My companions have gone to know the state of the family who resided under this roof, and left me to beguile the tedious moments in whatever manner I pleased.

  59. Over this space I had gone a few hours before, and nothing like this was then seen.

  60. It was obvious to suppose that Clithero had gone abroad for a short time, and would speedily return; or perhaps some engagement had detained him at his labour later than usual.

  61. I had gone three steps beyond when I perceived a man by my side.

  62. You instantly supplied the last deficiency by seizing the gun and tomahawk of him who had gone forth, and who had negligently left his weapons behind.

  63. On his suddenly leaving me, at the conclusion of his tale, I supposed that he had gone upon one of his usual rambles, and that it would terminate only with the day.

  64. They told me that Waldegrave's sister had gone to live in the country, but whither, or for how long, she had not condescended to inform them, and they did not care to ask.

  65. There was reason to expect the speedy return of those who had gone in pursuit of the savages.

  66. So saying, he darted through the door, and was gone in a moment beyond my sight and my reach.

  67. A hundred times, when I had ascended some feet from the bottom, I was compelled to relinquish my undertaking by the untenable smoothness of the spaces which remained to be gone over.

  68. I had gone some hundred feet when the murmur, before described, once more saluted my ear.

  69. It appeared that Clithero had, during the night, risen from his bed and gone secretly forth.

  70. All my perils and forebodings were fresh in my remembrance: they had scarcely gone by; their skirts, so to speak, were still visible.

  71. I had now gone too far to recede, and the necessity that pressed upon me supplied me with words.

  72. The crone, thinking that Pinkel had burst with the quantity of porridge he had eaten, was not a little glad, clapped her hands together, and ran off to look for her daughter, who was gone to the well.

  73. The Many-furred Creature now ran into the kitchen, cooked the King's bread soup, and when the cook had gone she laid the golden reel in the dish.

  74. He had not gone a hundred paces, when the saddle turned and threw him roughly to the ground.

  75. As soon as she was gone to sleep the Old Man came, and, after looking at her and shaking his head as before, dropped her into the cellar below.

  76. She had not gone much farther when she met a goat tethered, and he said: "Oh, change my tether!

  77. In the evening the White Bear came and fetched her away, and when they had gone a bit of the way he asked her whether she had done as he had told her and refused to speak about him.

  78. When you have gone twenty-four miles on your journey, look back, and see what you will see.

  79. The huntsman grumbled, and Bruin grunted, as they followed slowly after; when to their great joy they saw the woodman, before he had gone many yards, pull up his horse once more and turn round.

  80. But she had not gone far when she met a horse grazing in a field, and when he saw her he said: "Rub me!

  81. But before he had gone a hundred yards, four terrible griffins attacked him, and the King stood a good chance of being torn to pieces by their long claws.

  82. For very delicate work in transparent glaze or under-glaze painting, the whole surface may be gone over with very fine sandpaper and polished with the hand.

  83. When quite dry, the whole form should be carefully gone over with a very fine sandpaper.

  84. She went on rocking herself to and fro, her stays creaking, and a faint moaning sound coming from her lips; and suddenly she drooped over her lap, her hands fallen to her sides, as though she had gone into a kind of coma.

  85. She must have gone up towards the Downs by the lane where I had twice met her; gone up, and stopped at the very gap in the bank where she had been sitting lost in that heavy dream when I saw her last.

  86. And he relit his pipe, which had gone out.

  87. His wife, feeling the dew, had gone in, and he had followed; Alicia had not seemed to notice.

  88. They did; for when I went home for good, six months later, I found that she had only just gone into a place with an old lady-patient of mine, in a small villa on the outskirts of our village.

  89. The war has gone on so long that many of us have forgotten the sense of outrage and amazement we had, those first days of August, 1914, when it all began.

  90. And he, with the tiny placid baby, had gone off into another sort of dream, with his slightly frowning, far-away look.

  91. And turning her back on him, she had gone on smearing it with Chinese white.

  92. She said something about bed in a queer voice; they had taken candles and gone up.

  93. To have gone up to her would have been like breaking up a lovers' interview, and he turned round instead and went away.

  94. Let song itself, and votaries of verse, Breathe mournful accents o'er our Cino's bier, Who late is gone to number with the blest!

  95. From this circumstance it was feared that Ugolino might be inclined to listen to those maligners who accused Petrarch of having gone to Avignon for the purpose of undermining the Bishop in the Pope's favour.

  96. I must have passed between their two armies if I had gone by land; this obliged me to re-embark at Lerici.

  97. They set out from Avignon in the month of March, 1349, and arrived at Parma, but did not find the poet, as he was gone on an excursion to Padua and Verona.

  98. Laura, a married woman, who bore ten children to a rather morose husband, could not have gone to meet him at Vaucluse without the most flagrant scandal.

  99. Pope Urban, fearing the heats of Italy, to which he was not accustomed, had gone to pass the dog-days at Monte-Fiascone.

  100. The apostle's next long stay was at Ephesus, whither he seems to have gone in the course of the same year in which he left Corinth (A.

  101. Had I so gone the murders would not probably have been committed.

  102. I always deplore my unfortunate decision to make that detour, always feeling that if I had gone to the Lodge by the ordinary way the murders would have been prevented.

  103. The old methods of dead-and-gone agitators were to be improved upon, new ones invented and exploited, and a decisive battle fought for Irish independence.

  104. That debt was never repaid fully, and had it not been for a sudden revulsion of feeling in Ormonde's favour Lord Essex might never have gone to Ireland.

  105. When the dried grasses from one of these nests were stretched and measured, all were found to be very nearly the same length, showing to what pains the little weaver had gone to make the nest neat and pliable, yet strong.

  106. By the last of May all the warblers are gone from the neighborhood except the constant little summer yellowbird and redstart.

  107. They run up and down the reeds and on the water's edge long after most birds have gone to sleep.

  108. Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree.

  109. And, in the anthracitic coals, this process appears to have gone to such a length, as to destroy the original structure altogether, and to replace it by a completely carbonized substance.

  110. And it will be obvious that when the rising of the sea has gone so far as completely to cover the highest points of the island, the reef will have passed into the condition of an atoll.

  111. Then they must have gone for a row, and they didn't take us!

  112. This was some days after the cross man had come to the camp and had gone away.

  113. Only, as Aunt Lu had gone back to her city home, Mrs. Brown had learned to make the tarts, and Bunny and Sue were very fond of them.

  114. And it had been very still and quiet since the red-haired boy had gone ashore on the island.

  115. She was all alone in camp, for Mr. Brown, the children, and Bunker Blue had gone fishing.

  116. They've taken their blankets and gone out there to sleep.

  117. Maybe he's gone home and left us," said Sue.

  118. They had taken a walk back in the woods, when Tom started to wash the dishes, and when Bunny and Sue were playing house in the leafy bower, and they had gone farther than they intended.

  119. Of course Tom was not in any real danger as long as he kept still, and Mr. Brown might easily have gone out and rescued him in another boat.

  120. Then he had set the trap again, and had gone off.

  121. All this while Daddy Brown and Mother Brown knew nothing about their children having gone out in the night.

  122. While Tom was doing the dishes Bunny and Sue had gone off into the wood a little way, to where they had made for themselves a little play-house of branches of trees, stuck in the ground.

  123. We'll just come out at night, when they've gone to sleep.

  124. Then Tom came out of his hiding place, where he had gone after he heard Mrs. Brown say they were going to the fall.

  125. For Bunker had gone to the other end of the island, and he was sitting on a log, waiting for a fish to bite.

  126. He may come when he thinks the man has gone away.

  127. As the bear had gone up the gully they went down, and they did not come to a halt until they had placed at least quarter of a mile between themselves and the caves.

  128. Well, I declare, if he hasn't gone and worn the very overcoat itself!

  129. He would say no more, and in a few minutes he and his companions were gone and the Rover boys were left to themselves.

  130. As soon as the doctor was gone Dick announced his intention of returning to Putnam Academy.

  131. The wind had gone down, and when all retired within the shelter not a sound but the merry crackling of the fire broke the stillness around them.

  132. Having gone to the trouble of chopping a hole for the pole, John Barrow suggested they might try their hand at fishing.

  133. The Rovers had gone back for these things, but had found some money gone, also a curiously shaped dagger and a map, which had been in the cave on a rude table.

  134. The one that had been wounded in the eye was mortally hit, however, and staggered in a heap before he had gone ten paces.

  135. Following this had come a journey to Africa and into the jungle in search of Mr. Rover, and this mission accomplished, the Rover boys had gone West to establish a mining claim in which their father was interested.

  136. Try another two shots," suggested Tom, after an hour had gone by, and Sam did so.

  137. To his way of thinking everything had gone wrong, and he wondered how matters would terminate.

  138. Conrad had gone down-town; the two girls lay abed much later than their father breakfasted, and their mother had gradually grown too feeble to come down till lunch.

  139. He had gone on some such terms before; was it now for the last time?

  140. It was really not so late as the children's having gone to bed made it seem; but at nine o'clock it was too late for any probable visitor except Fulkerson.

  141. He asked if he was not to have the pleasure of seeing Miss Dryfoos, too; and Mela said she reckoned the girl had gone up-stairs to tell her.

  142. She had flung back in his teeth the good-will toward herself with which he had gone to Beaton.

  143. Decidedly," thought Beaton, "she is far gone in good works.

  144. He had gone every day to see Lindau, but this day he had thought he would not go, and that was why his heart smote him.

  145. Christine had got out of Mela that her father had been at Beaton's studio; and then she had gone at the old man and got from him every smallest fact of the interview there.

  146. When Kendricks came with Beaton to call after her father's dinner, she used all her cunning to ensnare him, and she had him to herself as long as Beaton stayed; Dryfoos sent down word that he was not very well and had gone to bed.

  147. Let things have gone ever so far, they can stop, and turn about again, cannot they?

  148. In short, things have gone so far that I cannot recede; because--things have gone so far.

  149. I verily thought, one day, she would have gone into fits about a picture of a man, that Rachel lit upon by accident, as if a picture had any sense to hurt a body!

  150. Here, if you can stand the odious smell of ottar of roses, take these letters and read them, foolish man; and keep them till the shocking perfume is gone off.

  151. Several knights had gone out to attempt the destruction of the creature, but not one had returned, and at last the Grand Master, Helion de Villeneuve, forbade any further attacks to be made.

  152. For one moment a boat's crew had a sight of a helpless figure bound to a spar, and guided by a little childish swimmer, who must have gone overboard with his precious freight just before the explosion.

  153. So we will only wait to tell how he showed his remembrance of what he had gone through in his African captivity.

  154. The Duke's wiser friends proposed to wait till he could be joined by Bonstetten and the troops who had gone towards Zurich, and the Baron von Hasenburg (i.

  155. Young Scipio was then only seventeen years of age, and had gone to his first battle under the eagles of his father, the Consul, Publius Cornelius Scipio.

  156. At last everyone was gone to bed, and there only remained in the room with Helen, an old woman, whom she had brought with her, who knew no German, and was fast asleep.

  157. Young people had grown up to whom the being thrown to the lions, beheaded, or burnt for the faith's sake, was but a story of the times gone by.

  158. He that hath gone through manie perils and returned safe from them, makes but a merriment to dilate them.

  159. This is our custome, which a hundred times and more hath paid mee custome of crownes, when the poore fellowes haue gone to Gehenna, had course bread and whipping chere all their life after.

  160. That firme affiance, quoth I, had I in you before, or else I would neuer haue gone so farre ouer the shooes, to plucke you out of the mire.

  161. You haue read stories, (He bee sworne he neuer lookte in booke in his life) how many of the Romane worthies were there that haue gone as spies into theyr enemies campe?

  162. At that moment Kari, who had gone forward, called to me.

  163. Messengers had gone before us, so that when we drew near all the people of the Chancas came out to meet us, a mighty multitude, who spread flowers before us and sang songs of joy.

  164. Half of all my gains I have given and still give to those who minister to poverty and sickness; you will find a list of them when I am gone should you wish to continue the bounty, as to which I do not desire to bind you in any way.

  165. What had become of the other men I do not know, but orders had been shouted from all quarters, and some had gone this way and some that.

  166. At length I fell asleep, and as it seemed but a few minutes later, though really six hours had gone by, was awakened by Kari, who told me that the dawn was not far off and came to help me to buckle on my armour.

  167. After they were gone he crouched over the fire rubbing his thin hands to warm them, and said suddenly: "Now tell me of my sister's death and all the rest of your tale.

  168. The dream ended thus, though I wished very much that it would go on, and I felt as though it had gone away as such visions do.

  169. Moreover, Kari was gone leaving me utterly alone among these strangers, and whether he would return again I did not know.

  170. He had no bow and all my arrows were gone save three, but of these I, who was noted for my archery, determined to make the best use I could.

  171. When he was gone my anger against him passed, since I saw that he was warning me of more than he dared to say, not for himself, but because he loved me.

  172. I feared lest the dream meant that you had gone to join your brothers in the deep.


  173. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absconded; absent; ago; anemic; antiquated; antique; asleep; away; beat; beaten; big; bloodless; breathless; bushed; bygone; chicken; consumed; cowardly; dated; dead; debilitated; deceased; defunct; deleted; demised; departed; dissipated; done; drain; drained; drooping; droopy; dull; effete; elapsed; eroded; exhausted; expectant; expecting; expended; expired; extinct; fagged; faint; fallen; feeble; finished; flabby; flaccid; floppy; forfeited; forgotten; gone; gravid; heavy; hopeless; imbecile; impotent; impoverished; inanimate; incorrigible; incurable; inoperable; irreclaimable; irrecoverable; irredeemable; irremediable; irreparable; irretrievable; irreversible; irrevocable; lacking; languid; languorous; lapsed; late; left; lifeless; limber; limp; listless; lost; martyred; missing; nerveless; nonexistent; obsolete; over; parturient; passe; passed; past; pooped; powerless; pregnant; prostrate; released; reposing; rubbery; ruined; sainted; sapless; shrunken; slack; sleeping; soft; spent; spineless; spout; squandered; still; stillborn; strengthless; subtracted; terminal; tired; undone; unnerved; unstrung; used; vanished; wanting; wasted; weak; weakly; whacked


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    gone aloft; gone away; gone before; gone days; gone down; gone forth; gone from; gone home; gone over; gone through