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Example sentences for "hustled"

Lexicographically close words:
hussies; hussy; husting; hustings; hustle; hustler; hustles; hustling; huswife; hut
  1. The well-disposed would not, however, join the mutinous, and they were immediately hustled into a boat, and left to the mercy of the waves with one pair of oars.

  2. Proudly up channel their galleons swept, Swiftly our pinnaces hustled and leapt At their rear.

  3. I have heard, and I watched them fly All the wild leaves In a hustled crowd, to the stormy sky, At his word.

  4. Houses were bombed, and people hustled out in a hurry.

  5. When he had eaten till his belt was tight for the first time in many moons, back he was hustled to the Captain.

  6. And almost hustled me into this room to meet you.

  7. Beth had no explanation to offer, and was hustled off to the nursery, and there shut up for the rest of the day.

  8. It was all arranged offhand in less time than I have taken to tell of it, and I was hustled out to where a row of cow-ponies patiently awaited the pleasure of their hard-riding masters.

  9. And he hustled me out of the office in the midst of my thanks.

  10. Just hustled ashore to have a squint at those cunning weasels alongside the coal wharf, guessed they'd played us a mighty smart trick way back at Malta, and was mighty inquisitive to see 'the cut of their jibs'.

  11. Ping Sang must have hustled them at Peking," said Helston to me, evidently surprised at the promptness of the Chinese Admiralty.

  12. As the Armada slowly rolled eastward, it was beset on all sides by Lord Howard's lighter fleet, and for a whole week was battered and hustled along without being able to induce the enemy to close.

  13. All the clergy who attempted to use the new Service-book were hustled and driven away (July, 1637).

  14. The Speaker was hustled from his chair and Cromwell bade his men "take away that bauble," the great mace, which lay on the table and represented the dignity of the Commons of England.

  15. I'm a Chinaman to be hustled and beaten by a gang of bullies?

  16. Though hustled and broken they re-formed and clung doggedly to their task, firing at the groups of Boers who surrounded the guns.

  17. With the new year his number of prisoners fell, but he had taken so many, and had hustled the remainder to such an extent, that the fight seemed to have gone out of the Boers in this district.

  18. The main body of the Boers was hustled swiftly along from August 7th to August 10th, from Graaf-Reinet to Thebus, and thrust over the railway line at that point with some loss of men and a great shedding of horses.

  19. In a scrambling and ill-managed action we had lost our detached left wing almost to a man, while our right had been hustled with no great loss but with some ignominy into Ladysmith.

  20. He was hustled off the hills, however, the Australian Bushmen with great dash carrying the central kopje, and the guns driving the invaders to the westward.

  21. The Boers were hustled off the kopjes from which they tried to cover their rear.

  22. Botha, however, was a leader of spirit, not to be hustled with impunity.

  23. Having got to the north of the British forces Botha made no effort to get away, and refused to be hustled by a reconnaissance developing into an attack, which French made upon April 27th.

  24. The boys were not able to bathe and be rubbed down there, so they hustled on their clothes and prepared to make for the hotel, where they might cleanse and refresh themselves after their successful struggle.

  25. This was prevented, however, at this time, as the boys were hustled into their rooms.

  26. Billy, and he hustled out to have further convulsions in the anteroom.

  27. I got on the cars, but was hustled off mighty quick, because I had no pass.

  28. In five minutes a slight jerk of the neck indicated a successful observation, and he soared out, wheeled like a flash, and half turning on his side, hustled down in the foliage of a tall wattle and back again to his perch.

  29. A turtle detected in shallow water falls a comparatively easy prey, for on being hustled it soon loses heart and endeavours to hide its head, ostrich-like, when it is easily captured.

  30. The birds' eggs on the coral banks also make an item in the blacks' bill of fare; while the frantic little fish hustled towards the shore are captured by the million in coffer-dams made of loosely twisted grass and beach trailers.

  31. She hustled the infant to his parents and then hustled back to serve her hungry household.

  32. After explaining what had happened to the gaping habitues of the castle, I hustled upstairs with Holmes, and we changed our wet clothes immediately, putting on dry ones, after advising Demetrius to do the same.

  33. Holmes, as he gripped me by the arm, and hustled me into the closet, the door of which stood slightly ajar.

  34. And he grabbed Launcelot by the arm and hustled him down the stairs, then returned and faced the Earl.

  35. The Earl and the rest of us found chairs in the drawing-room as Thorneycroft, looking very important, hustled out in the corridor to rope in the next victim.

  36. I was seized and pulled roughly to my feet by four soldiers, and hustled along with the party into a wooded ravine, through which we climbed sharply upward.

  37. Old Trowley hacked a place for himself in the thickest of the press, and laid about him with such desperate fury and such fearful oaths that the buccaneers hustled each other to get out of his way.

  38. But pretty soon, as luck would have it, Smith, died and she hustled him into the grave.

  39. You pack up and go back, and stay there, or I'll have you hustled into a tomb quicker'n lightning.

  40. In a moment his arm was seized by the younger man, he was hustled into the carriage which had brought him, and driven off at a pace so swift that he had the sense at once to abandon the design of leaping out which he had hastily formed.

  41. Tower had been savagely cracked over the head by an Adlon waiter armed with a tray while being hustled out of the hotel by the police.

  42. Then she hustled away, in the most motherly fashion, to prepare for me what turned out to be a suite-de-luxe.

  43. At these words, Pao-yü lost all patience, and laying hold of lady Feng, he hustled her about for a few moments.

  44. Chia Yün shouted, "stay your hand; it's I who have hustled against you.

  45. And forthwith the whole bevy of public servants hustled Feng Su on, as they went on their way back; while every one in the Feng family was seized with consternation, and could not imagine what it was all about.

  46. And Hannasyde abused the coolies with the luggage, and hustled the people on the platform, and prayed that the roof might fall in and slay him.

  47. For a minute Kitty studied him curiously as he hustled along, favoring his horse up the hills but swinging to the stirrup as he dodged bushes across the flats; then she flung out her hand impulsively, and called his name.

  48. They took him to the Cours St. Louis, where, being hustled by the crowd and very ineffectually defended by the Guards, he tried to enter the Cafe Mercantier, but the door was shut in his face.

  49. I was hustled and even received several blows; but at length M.

  50. Potts was hustled and precipitated into the carriage by the pair, with whom he partook this last glimmer of their night's humorous extravagances, for he was an easy creature.

  51. Scorch caught up his cap and hustled her out of the gate, and out of the main office door, and whistled shrilly to an elevator that was just shooting down.

  52. She was hustled into the elevator with a crowd of other people and the car almost immediately began to ascend.


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