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Example sentences for "great company"

  • The piebald bucked its way through the center of the camp, with a great company of men and boys racing along behind it and yelling at the top of their voices.

  • Shortly after Dancing Rabbit left them, they saw a great company of Blackfeet riding slowly over the ridge.

  • He had barely given the warning when a great company of horsemen rode out of the ravine and raced toward the astounded Sioux.

  • On the hill outside the town the young Mahdi, with a great company of his people, was waiting for him to bid him godspeed on his journey.

  • This was the place of the festival, and it was filled already with a great company of children, their fathers and their teachers.

  • He also had around him a great company, vavassors of Normandy, who to save their lord would have put their own bodies between him and the enemies' blows.

  • William passed along the plain, leading a great company of Normans, seeking the two viscounts, and calling out on the perjured men to stand forth.

  • So he went forth to them to the city gate, and with him the archbishop and Merlin, and Sir Key, Sir Brastias, and a great company of others.

  • Anon, Sir Tristram and Isault, with a great company, took the sea and departed.

  • So a great company of lords and ladies went forth to meet the brothers.

  • In it they told him that thousands of fair women in a great company were on their way to help the city, and if they were allowed to enter all chances of victory for his army would vanish.

  • And messengers came running breathlessly into the town, warning the people that a great company of soldiers was marching towards them.

  • So he sent a great company of nobles and ambassadors to the court of Brittany to ask King Theonotus for the hand of the Princess Ursula.

  • And thou shalt come out of thy place from the northern parts, thou and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army.

  • He had also in his train chariots and horsemen: and it was a great company.

  • And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: And there was a great company of publicans and of others that were at table with them.

  • And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

  • And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.

  • And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

  • Now, when Eric had sat two months and more in Mosfell cave and autumn was coming, he learned that Gizur and Swanhild had moved down to Coldback, and with them a great company of men who were sworn to slay him.

  • Now it was agreed that the marriage-feast should be held at Middalhof; for Asmund wished to ask a great company to the wedding, and there was no place at Coldback to hold so many.

  • Asmund took up Eric's case, for he was the most famous of all lawmen in that day, and when thirteen full weeks of summer were done, they two rode to the Thing, and with them a great company of men of their quarter.

  • On the day of the opening of the Thing Ospakar Blacktooth came from the north, and with him his son Gizur and a great company of men.

  • And there was a great company of publicans, and of other that sat at meat with him.

  • And a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

  • There followed him a great company of people, and of women, which women bewailed, and lamented him.

  • Looking that way, I saw a great company of horse coming down over the crest, the sun shining level on their arms and a green standard that they bore in their midst.

  • Tis an ample vaulted passage, as I dare say you know; and here I found a great company of people already driven by the same cause.

  • Godard was a-hunting with a great company of men, and Robert riding on a good steed found him and bade him to come to the King.

  • So Havelok went to fetch Goldborough, and Robert the Red and William Wendut led her between them till they came to the castle, where Ubbe, with a great company of knights, welcomed them gladly.

  • A great company of young men all over the land determined to build up a reputation for patriotism, statesmanship, wisdom and character.

  • Those whose harvest is delayed are a great company.

  • How the king of Armenia with a great company of Tartars was defeated at Cammella [Emesa] in Syria by the soldan of Egypt.

  • How there arose in Lombardy one Fra Dolcino with a great company of heretics, and how they were burnt 375 Sec.

  • Up through the Sixteenth, where a great company of people stood silent and with bared heads, the sad procession moved, past the old church, up through the swamp, and so onward to the home of the dead.

  • One time a great company of Papists came to discourse with me.

  • Passing thence, I met with a great company of professors in Warwickshire, who were praying, and expounding the Scriptures in the fields.

  • While they were with me, there came in one Cob, and a great company of Ranters with him.

  • On the road his power was increased by a great company of Britons; till with him was a multitude which no man could number, being innumerable as the sand of the sea.

  • He called together a great company of masons, carpenters, and cunning artificers; for it was in his mind to raise to their worship a monument of stone that would endure to the world's end.

  • A great company of folk, both rich and poor, gathered themselves together, and at this fair festival the king set the crown upon his head.

  • A great company of youths and children was gathered before the gate at the entrance to the city, and the messengers stayed awhile to mark their play.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great company" 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:
    great applause; great beauty; great care; great church; great concourse; great discovery; great importance; great impulse; great meeting; great misery; great need; great number; great practical; great principle; great profusion; great series; great storm; great success; great teacher; great want; great weight; great wrong; greater depth; greater good; greatly interested; greatly reduced