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Example sentences for "graybacks"

Lexicographically close words:
gravures; gravy; graw; gray; grayback; graybeard; graybeards; graye; grayed; grayer
  1. If you call the graybacks infantry and the fleas cavalry, what in the world do you call these, Si?

  2. I believe I've got a million graybacks on me.

  3. The graybacks in the water, realizing that they were engaged on an errand of peace and humanity, had left their muskets on shore.

  4. The woman moved towards the front door, and Tom through the back door; but as he was about to pass into the garden, he caught a glimpse of one of the graybacks in the rear of the house.

  5. The graybacks which crawled over his body at night, coming out of the cracks of the wall and the folds of his blanket to bite his flesh, no longer made him sick, for they were part of the system too.

  6. He obeyed the rules; he ate of the coarse fare, which satisfied his stomach but killed his palate; he developed indigestion and a small cough; he fought the graybacks that swarmed in his cell and sought to nibble on his body.

  7. This was satisfactory to our scout; for the sergeant appeared to have no knowledge that would be dangerous to him, and none of the graybacks recognized the pants he wore.

  8. Agreeably to the instructions previously given, his men stretched out into an extended line, and commenced firing at will upon the luckless graybacks who were in sight.

  9. The lieutenant had but fifteen men left to execute his part of the scheme, and there seemed to be double that number of graybacks lurking in and about the house.


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