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Example sentences for "had succeeded"

  • General Weitzel was not then in the city, having taken offices in one of the neighboring villages after his troops had succeeded in subduing the conflagration which they had found in progress on entering the Confederate capital.

  • He had succeeded in stealing the government of his country, and made a change in its form against the wishes and instincts of his people.

  • It was the month of December, and during the nine months that I had been in correspondence with his party I had succeeded in acquiring an extraordinary influence.

  • We had worked for years in misery, such as I have but faintly described, to overcome the difficulties of this hitherto unconquerable exploration; we had succeeded--and what was the result?

  • Bordenave in exasperation when at last he had succeeded in separating them.

  • It had assumed a grave expression, and into the beautiful eyes she had succeeded in infusing a look of sadness.

  • My purpose was to put my papers in order transfer them to other parties, dispose of my effects, and depart with Kingsley to the new countries, of which he had succeeded in impressing upon me some of his own opinions.

  • Delpech, who had been summoned from Montpellier, had succeeded in extracting the bullet, and though he spoke no word of hope, he did not expressly declare that the case was hopeless.

  • What he did try to find on leaving was whether or no he had succeeded in rendering himself unrecognizable, for he could not trust to this experience, weakened by the fact that this old friend was a photographer.

  • Either he had succeeded in rendering himself unrecognizable or he had not; but it was done, and now he could do nothing more.

  • He knew her well enough to know that he had succeeded.

  • You see that Khaujeh Houssain sought your friendship with a treacherous design to take away my life; and, if he had succeeded, there is no doubt but he would have sacrificed you also to his revenge.

  • While the king of China encamped in the place where prince Amgiad met him, the prince returned to inform the king of the magicians, who waited for him impatiently, how he had succeeded.

  • In 1857 Wali Khan, one of the sons of Jehangir, had succeeded in gaining temporary possession of the city of Kashgar, and seemed for a moment to be likely to capture Yarkand also.

  • He had succeeded in the great object of his life, the union of his race, and he had well avenged the death of his father and grandfather; but his ambition was not satisfied with this success.

  • He seemed to have the faculty of hearing when asleep, and generally appeared in my room before he had succeeded in getting his eyes completely open.

  • Beyond this we entered the pine forest, and by the time we had reached this point I had succeeded in leading the conversation to the subject of clerical marriages.

  • He had succeeded to a great degree in conciliating them, but the news of the death of the Due d'Enghien alienated from him minds which were still wavering, and even those which had already declared in his favour.

  • Although he may be said to have failed most signally in his design, he felt considerably better than if he had succeeded.

  • At the date of our story he had succeeded in paying up the entire amount within eight hundred dollars, a mortgage for that amount being held by Squire Haynes.

  • It yielded him no little encouragement to know that another boy, placed in similar circumstances, had succeeded, and he just felt that he would have very much less to contend against than the brother of whom Mrs. Chester spoke.

  • Such was the noble confidence which had succeeded in the Hindoo's mind to his first movement of unreflecting fury, caused by the infamous calumny, that, once alone with Adrienne, he did not even allude to that shameful accusation.

  • He had succeeded by force of will, and because he was very rich.

  • Whenever he thought he felt that at heart any man disliked him, but would not admit it and tried to cover it up so as to remain on good terms with him, he would never rest until he had succeeded in proving to him that he was his enemy.

  • He had two friends who were music mad like himself, and he had succeeded in making them share his enthusiasm for Christophe.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had succeeded" 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:
    determine the; gruff voice; had already; had before; had brought; had come; had committed; had expected; had found; had given; had happened; had killed; had left; had loved; had met; had never before seen; had now; had only; had put; had reason; had set; had some; had spent; had time; looking like; what passes