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Example sentences for "join the"

  • The next day all the male population of the city were compelled to join the army in the field, and only the gunners and garrisons on the river-face remained within.

  • Lomax's cavalry, then in the Luray Valley, was ordered to join the right of Gordon on the field of battle, while Rosser was to carry the crossing of Cedar Creek on the Back road and attack Custer.

  • After the work laid out for General Sheridan and yourself is thoroughly done, proceed to join the Army of the Potomac by the route laid out in General Sheridan's instructions.

  • My desire to join the army at Shiloh had now taken possession of me, and I was bent on getting there by the first means available.

  • It is to listen to His word, to know Him, to honour Him, to love Him and to join the company of His followers.

  • All in Bohemia who refused to join the Utraquist or Roman Catholic Church were to be expelled from the country; all nobles harbouring Brethren were to be fined, and all their priests and teachers were to be imprisoned.

  • If the Lot said "No," he was rejected, and informed that the Lord did not wish him to join the Brethren's Church.

  • We know that the scandalous order was issued that all Protestant married ministers who consented to join the Church of Rome might keep their wives by passing them off as cooks.

  • So any selfish hog who doesn't join the Chamber of Commerce ought to be forced to.

  • Babbitt explained with frequency, "You couldn't hire me to join the Tonawanda, even if I did have a hundred and eighty bucks to throw away on the initiation fee.

  • The only good that came of it was that it frightened all the "moonshiners," and caused them to join the church.

  • But the Earl Moyses, seeing no prospect of regaining his patrimony, and determining not to be under subjection to the Germans, led his troops against Busca, was defeated, and fled to join the Turks.

  • Being a keen student of human nature, he rightly supposed that she would not care to join the colony, but he thought it his duty to mention that there was a colony.

  • Intriguing with a Spanish minister and the Spanish governor of Louisiana to secede from their own people and join the King of Spain.

  • Should it be the bloody path, you may leave this town in safety to join the English, and we shall then see which of us can stain our shirts with the most blood.

  • Your father went away to join the side he believes in, the side we all believe in--the King's side.

  • My Lord Baltimore descended listlessly from his cabriolet to join the group.

  • He had not started until several hours after them, when, having given his last orders and made all final arrangements for the management of affairs during his absence, he had ridden on to join the army.

  • Emilius himself was wounded, but managed to join the infantry.

  • Already the repeated excuses which have served you from abstaining to join the armies in the field have been a matter for much comment.

  • They opened the gates sooner than I had expected, and I found the village inhabited only by women, old men, and children, the whole of the fighting men having been called away to join the Romans.

  • The creek came from north and north-east and flowed to the south-west, to join the Condamine.

  • We passed a creek flowing to the eastward to join the Mackenzie, and continued our route through patches of Bricklow scrub, alternating with Bastard-box forest, and open Vitex scrub, in which the Moreton Bay ash was very plentiful.

  • Had'st thou but longer stayed, it had been thine To keep the husband and the sire apart, And, as the Sabine women did of old, Dash down the threatening swords and join the hands.

  • Nor fails to join the host a hardy band Of Cappadocians, tilling now the soil, Once pirates of the main: nor those who dwell Where steep Niphates hurls the avalanche, And where on Median Coatra's sides The giant forest rises to the sky.

  • Enchelaean tribes Whose king was Cadmus, and whose name records His transformation (12), join the host; and those Who till Penean fields and turn the share Above Iolcos in Thessalian lands.

  • Shall unknown nations, touched by western strife, And monarchs born beneath another clime Brave the dividing seas to join the war?

  • Mormon 4:3 3 And the remainder did flee and join the inhabitants of the city Teancum.

  • The party of the Protestants, ready at any moment to join the Bohemians, had the preponderance in the city; those in the country had already begun to levy troops against him.

  • Turenne received permission to join the Swedes; and the last campaign of this eventful war was now opened by the united armies.

  • Denmark, as Duke of Holstein, was himself a prince of this circle, and by considerations equally powerful, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was induced to join the confederacy.

  • Superior to that pusillanimity which made far more powerful princes bow before Ferdinand's might, the Landgrave William was the first to join the hero of Sweden, and to set an example to the princes of Germany which all had hesitated to begin.

  • One family, who had journeyed a long distance to join the church in Kirtland, changed their minds because Joseph's wife invited them to have a cup of tea "after the word of wisdom was given.

  • On the contrary, a leading member of the church informed me that Young invited Rigdon to join the Mormons is Utah, but that Rigdon did not accept the invitation.

  • Their life was public and epicurean; their initiation a mystery; and the highest in the land aspired to join the brotherhood.

  • My blood came hot and cold, tears pricked my eyes, my head whirled, I felt an almost irresistible impulse to join the dancers.

  • Out of the maniap's one person after another came to join the group, some with mere excitement, others with consternation in their faces.

  • Rougon endeavoured to raise doubts by saying the villages were taking up arms in order to join the army of the insurgents, and not for the purpose of attacking the town.

  • If he remained silent, it must be that the victorious Republic had sent him to join the pretender in the dungeons of Vincennes.

  • Small bands, on their way to join the insurgents at Orcheres, still passed along in the distance, through the valley of the Viorne.

  • Three years before, after his second fight with the Iroquois, a young man of his company had boldly volunteered to join the Indians on their homeward journey, and winter among them.

  • Trenchant, an excellent pilot, was forced to join the party.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "join the" 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:
    amusing incident; call attention; ere long; has been already mentioned; hath ordained; iron plates; join the; join the brimming river; join their; join them; joined them; joining hands; joint commission; joint committee; joint disease; joint meeting; joint resolution; joint session; joint stock; know not; lecture tour; more interesting; pressure engines; these things; three table; whose land