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Example sentences for "huddle"

Lexicographically close words:
huckleberries; huckleberry; huckster; huckstering; hucksters; huddled; huddles; huddling; hue; huebsch
  1. Captain Pomery lay in the huddle of the forecastle, no man tending him: and old Worthyvale awaited burial, stretched in the hold upon the ballast.

  2. At a turn of his road where it branched toward the Huddle a group of young girls stood joking and laughing; before Jeff came up with them they separated, and all but one continued on the way beyond the turning.

  3. Folks from over Huddle way see the blaze, and helped all they could; but it wa'n't no use.

  4. The painter's mind fell into a chaos of conjecture and misgiving, so that he scarcely took in the words of the composite service which the minister from the Union Chapel at the Huddle read over the dead.

  5. Soon after leaving the "Slashes," a huddle of houses standing irregularly in a grove of magnificent oaks comes into view.

  6. He stood suddenly before a low, confused huddle of broken bricks and splintered beams, and looked about him uncomprehending.

  7. Painfully their eyes searched each huddle of clothing, scanned each dubious shape.

  8. The sky above the cemetery glowed with reflected light, the cause of which was not far to seek, for every window of the tall houses that overlooked it, and the huddle of booths about it, contributed a share of the illumination.

  9. There was a clear line of vision from the place where the fallen man had lain to the great spruce in the shadow of which was that huddle of tracks.

  10. As he did so he saw that the trail, which he was following, moved forward from the huddle of tracks by which he had paused, and that they led into an open lane in the trees.

  11. The native made no answer, and the party silently placed themselves in position for another night's rest, Docak not refusing to huddle in among them.

  12. If we will huddle together as closely as we can with the bear-skin wrapped about us I think we can stand it.

  13. Crammed into the form of a scent-bottle was a dirty huddle of wash-leather.

  14. She moved slowly toward the huddle on the cot, parasol leading, and her hands crossed atop the parrot.

  15. Mr. Pelz wound his way through an overcrowded huddle of furniture that was gloomily, uglily utilitarian.

  16. He sat his second hour there in a rather forward huddle beside the drawn shade of that window, the sotto-voce comings and goings, all the black-coated parvenus that follow the wake of death, moving about him.

  17. She sat, a small cold huddle in the center of the cab seat, toward him her quivering face flashing out as street lamps bounced past.

  18. Such a rush of outrage seemed fairly to strangle Mr. Kantor that he stood, hand still upraised, choking and inarticulate above the now frankly howling huddle of his son.

  19. To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.

  20. To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep.

  21. To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.

  22. But when Bucky had finished with the fellow and flung him a limp, writhing huddle of welts to the ground, three surprises awaited him.

  23. When Collins again found conversation practicable, the Rocking Chair, a white adobe huddle in the moonlight, lay peacefully beneath them in the alley.

  24. Into it, regardless of its dirt and its bleak, excessive discomfort swarmed some three hundred of the sinistrés, there to huddle the long winter away.

  25. I ordered my men to huddle in the lee and mend the sail.

  26. We huddle in our warm robes, the wind howling, and he says, in this new voice: “What has kept you?

  27. The windows looked out on a paintable series of backyards: on a sketchable huddle of old, stained, leaning wooden houses.

  28. She collapsed in a droop-shouldered huddle onto the bed.

  29. He had placed Fuzzy almost defiantly on his shoulder, and from time to time he could feel the little creature quiver and huddle against his neck as though to hide from sight under his collar.

  30. A huge gawky vehicle seemed to be waiting for the ship to land; it shot out from the huddle of gray buildings almost the moment they touched down.

  31. But a great many men together--a hot huddle of rational creatures--Hamlet himself would have lowered his contemplation a peg or two in my situation.

  32. When this takes place, so closely do they huddle that it is seldom more than the upper bird that can be seen.

  33. The latter, putting together two or three buffalo chips, or as many twigs, will huddle over them when ignited, and extract warmth and heat enough for cooking from a flame that could scarcely be seen twenty yards.

  34. Or in that little room upstair'd so high, Where London's roofs in thickest huddle lie, Who now returns at evening to entice To his fireside the joys of Paradise?

  35. When, at a turn in the road, the tall figure of the butcher is seen approaching, all flee, huddle behind the hedges, or shut themselves up in the cottages.

  36. Chip stooped and turned the sleeping one over on his back; the sleeper opened his eyes and blinked questioningly up at the huddle of bent faces.

  37. They had all but run over a huddle of humanity lying in the fringe of weeds and tall grasses that grew next the willows.

  38. Before him lay the city, an indistinguishable huddle of roofs and towers under the rainy night.

  39. The man at the rudder suddenly pointed to a huddle of lights to the south.

  40. Into this agreeable retreat the actresses were packed with all their bags and band-boxes; and their travelling-cloaks being rolled into pillows, they were soon asleep in a huddle of tumbled finery.

  41. They were obliged to huddle together and lie over one another!

  42. But the animal, startled by the shooting, unsatisfied that this huddle creeping toward him was wholly friendly, backed off.

  43. She followed as she saw a close huddle of men about the lighted doorway of the bunk house move slowly in, carrying a burden gently and as she neared the building a rather tragic quiet marked the group.


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