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Example sentences for "itched"

Lexicographically close words:
italiennes; italische; itan; itaque; itch; itches; itchiness; itching; itchy; item
  1. A close-packed ring of Bedouins girt the messengers round about, and those who understood passed whispered words to their fellow warriors, till soon a threatening murmur rose, and many a scimitar itched to leave its sheath.

  2. Then, with a glance of loathing, Jason picked up the bed in his fingers, that itched to pick up the warder by the throat, and swept out of the place.

  3. Hardman's fingers itched at the trigger he had not the courage to pull.

  4. It itched at the fingers longing for the trigger.

  5. With the thought came a great itching of his kneecap; then his foot itched so as to make him squirm and wear horrible expressions.

  6. Posie never stopped clapping her hands except when the Witch's Wig itched her nose.

  7. It was when the Witch's Wig itched her nose that the Rich Man slunk away on all fours to be washed.

  8. As for Dunmore, his shrill prattle never ceased, and he danced and vapoured and fingered his small-sword, till my hands itched to throw him into the blackberry thicket.

  9. My right hand itched for a sword-hilt; I longed to see him facing me as I never had craved for anything in this world or the next.

  10. A few mosquitoes were fattening themselves on him, and a bite in the small of his back itched so that he wanted very much to squirm and wriggle.

  11. Her ankles especially tickled and itched to the point of anguish.

  12. Chorus: He had kept one perilous little tooth, And it itched as our chaplain spoke.

  13. Come to the point, come to the point," said the Home Secretary, putting out his hand as if it itched to touch the bell on the writing-table.

  14. I itched to commence with murder--to tackle the stiffest problems first, and I burned to startle and baffle the world--especially the world of which I had ceased to be.

  15. Secretly, he itched to get his armored train into point-blank engagement with the Bolshevik armored train.

  16. Many a Yank has itched to get his hands on the Russian Archangelite soldier, especially some of our hard old sergeants who wanted to put them on police and scavenger details to see them work.

  17. Ere the children had covered the two miles most of them conceived such a new appetite that their fingers itched to undo their lunch packets.

  18. The mail-clad itched for it, and sought it in advance.

  19. This done, he itched to search the cellar himself: there might be other invaluable morsels of evidence, an ear, or even an earring.

  20. I was sick of the pious make-believe, and itched to escape over here.

  21. His fingers itched towards Chopin or Mendelssohn, for the sole reason that the technique of these composers was in his blood.

  22. Her fingers itched to retie the bow of his cravat for him, to pull him here and there into shape.

  23. I sat there squirming while he piled the top on a couple whose only crime was parking overtime; I itched from top to bottom while he slapped one miscreant in gaol for turning left in violation of City Ordinance.

  24. I itched to take a look, but Phelps was not having any; he stopped my single step with a hand on my arm.

  25. My finger itched a bit, saving the situation.

  26. Always we itched for something external to take the blame for our own follies and crimes.

  27. Tho' I were put out of the Garden of Eden as a consequence, I itched to have it out with his Grace then and there.

  28. No more blithe errands over the mountain to Clovelly and elsewhere, though Jake knew the issue now and itched for the battle, and the vassals of the hill-Rajah under a jubilant Bijah Bixby were arming cap-a-pie.

  29. Every time he saw anyone busy jumping his cardboard mannikin, his fingers itched with impatience to be at the same game,--an impatience that soon grew well nigh intolerable.

  30. This done he itched to search the cellar himself: there might be other invaluable morsels of evidence, an ear, or even an earring.

  31. His fingers itched to be at his throat, regardless of custom or law.

  32. How the long sinewy fingers itched to clutch that throat above the red neckerchief!

  33. She saw the tools under her hands, and her very fingers itched to begin.


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