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Example sentences for "hurried back"

  • Having done this, we hurried back to the canoe, and paddled away to the huts.

  • We hurried back to the house to see if Mr Sedgwick was able to assist us.

  • Now was the time, therefore, to beat our retreat, and we hurried back to the fort with an account of what we had seen.

  • I hurried back, and now, assisting him to dig, we uncovered a considerable number--two or three dozen at least.

  • We hurried back, and a few seconds later were in the courtyard of the disused factory.

  • I go call oders;" and loading himself with twice as much as we could have attempted to carry, he hurried back to the camp.

  • While I was at the furthest point the dread seized me, that although the hut was in sight some creature might have stolen in, and I hurried back, dreading to find my fears realised.

  • Not delaying to kill any birds, as the rest of the party were waiting for their dinner, we hurried back to the camp.

  • So without a moment's rest he hurried back to St. Nedyelka.

  • Overjoyed at his good fortune the little shoemaker hurried back to earth.

  • The young devil, delighted with his bargain, hurried back to hell and told all his black comrades how grateful they ought to be to him for saving them from the farmer who was planning to bind them, hand and foot, with bast.

  • I hurried back to camp and procured my gun and accouterments and started to overtake the troops.

  • We hurried back to escape their bullets, which we considered more dangerous than those of the enemy.

  • With this he hurried back to the men just behind us, and in a breath told them the situation, and urged them to come on without delay.

  • Then he hurried back to Berlin for the meeting of the Estates General, which had been hastily summoned to prepare for the new elections.

  • From Breslau he hurried back to Berlin, from Berlin down to Pomerania, where his wife was staying with her father; then the same week back to Berlin, and started for St. Petersburg.

  • In his private letters he harps on the same string; he spent June in a visit to Moscow but he hurried back at the end of the month to St. Petersburg to receive news of the war.

  • On each occasion when he hurried back, he dreaded to find that his patient had expired during his absence.

  • He hurried back to light a fire, and prepare breakfast.

  • At last, in despair of killing one, he looked out for some of the feathered tribe, and succeeded in knocking over a couple of white cockatoos and a green pigeon, with which he hurried back to the hut.

  • I hurried back to give Farrar a hand with the ropes, and it was O'Meara who caught the one I flung ashore and wound it around a pile.

  • With a twinge I remembered what Mr. Chase had said about the barrister's condition, and I hurried back to Gloucester Street, much to the surprise of those I met on their way to the meeting.

  • I hurried back to the office to make my final report to Mr. Graham, and to get the abstract which Rogers had promised to have ready, and which was awaiting me on my desk.

  • He hurried back as soon as the news overtook him.

  • We hurried back to jolly, friendly Geneva, where I could walk five miles per diem in air that was the very elixir of life to my system, physical, mental, and moral.

  • His eyes were bright with excitement; as he hurried back to offer his arm to his wife, he said: “I must be on Broad Street when the Northern train comes in.

  • I hurried back to the Colonel of the 6th Black Watch, and I was with him in his dug-out at 6.

  • With a light heart--for it was a splendid sunny day--I hurried back to discover the battalion plunged into the deepest melancholy.

  • We hurried back to the camp at Behagnies and composed fresh orders, while Jumbo re-marked his maps and reshuffled his aeroplane photographs.

  • Disgusted by the sight, we hurried back to our camp.

  • We hurried back, Boxer still keeping up his barking, preventing our footsteps being heard.

  • We hurried back, and were in time to assist in leading the horses and cattle down to the river.

  • I woke up, as it were, the moment I got rid of him, and felt quite myself again; and then I hurried back, as you know.

  • I had business on the other side of the city which detained me for some hours, and when at last I could get away, I hurried back, being naturally impatient to rejoin her.

  • We hurried back because Mr. Hamilton-Wells became homesick suddenly while we were abroad, and I don't think it will be possible to get him to move again for some time.

  • Sandy, who was of this opinion, told Ewen and me to wait while he hurried back to obtain a coil of rope which he had brought from the boat, as also the assistance of some of the other men should they have returned.

  • Satisfied that our visitors were Polar bears which must have come from the main land, I hurried back, closing the door behind me to prevent them from entering.

  • I hurried back, expecting to find that he had been attacked by the bear.

  • He hurried back, and as he came along he heard the negroes close at his heels, shouting and shrieking over their victory, and threatening to attack Stillwater House.

  • And, not without some fear that he might be seen by the blacks, who now covered the opposite hill, he hurried back to his friends.

  • He hurried back to the beat, passing the fisherman's hut on his way.

  • I hurried back to Vienna again in order to put the arrangement for Tristan on as firm a basis as possible.

  • The next day I hurried back to Karlsruhe, where my announcement was received by the Grand Duke with kindly acquiescence.

  • With every confidence in a favourable result I bid him farewell, and he hurried back to Vienna to set to work at once.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hurried back" 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:
    beloved friend; best compliments; civil laws; dear young; dried fruits; free citizen; great pace; heavy blow; human shape; hurried away; hurried back; hurried down; hurried forward; looks like; many believed; motor cycle; printing from; religious experience; saw the; shot from; small place; steel rails; various occasions; white stripe; would save