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Example sentences for "leveled"

Lexicographically close words:
leve; leved; levee; levees; level; leveler; leveling; levell; levelled; leveller
  1. A rifle was leveled threateningly at the doctor.

  2. With a final dip, McCready leveled off and made a landing.

  3. His weapon also lay on the floor; and Cedric stood before him with cross-bow leveled at his heart.

  4. Into that howling mob we rushed with leveled lances.

  5. To all these the young forester answered never a word, but stood with leveled weapon till I had passed from sight and hearing.

  6. Already my cross-bow was leveled at the gray beard of the leader on the other side of the moat.

  7. Like reeds before the tempest's frown, That serried grove of lances brown At once lay leveled low; And closely shouldering side to side, The bristling ranks the onset bide.

  8. It was a fair and gallant sight, To view them from the neighboring height, By the low-leveled sunbeam's light!

  9. The men fell back and leveled their pieces.

  10. They leveled all obstacles by the vigor of their arm and the sweat of their brow, and from their successes has arisen the hope of acquiring every thing by the inspiration of their talents and the force of their genius.

  11. Waterboer, the chief, commenced firing, and leveled one of their warriors to the ground; several more instantly shared the same fate.

  12. In her hand she held an immense horse pistol, which she leveled in the Captain's face, its flaring, bugle-shaped muzzle gaping not a yard from his nose.

  13. Two or three bayonets were leveled upon Alice.

  14. He leveled it at the fort and touched the trigger.

  15. The aeronometer marked twelve thousand feet when he leveled the machine and began to take an interest in military affairs.

  16. Over the German front-line trenches he dipped steeply down, but such had been his altitude that he was still ten thousand feet high when he leveled out above his aerodrome.

  17. Hal paused and leveled his revolver in deliberate aim.

  18. With an evil light in his eye, the Montenegrin leveled the revolver directly at Hal and his finger tightened on the trigger.

  19. Again the door swung inward and two faces appeared, revolvers leveled before them.

  20. Instantly fifty rifles were leveled at the automobile, now fast eating up the short distance to the Greek frontier, and a score of bullets struck the car in the rear.

  21. A second, thinking to take advantage of this action, slipped upon the giant from behind and leveled his revolver at Ivan's head.

  22. He leveled his own revolver at the queer-looking creature before him and Stubbs placed his newly-acquired revolver in his coat pocket.

  23. He snatched it up and leveled it at his adversary.

  24. As they came nearer to the boys, they leveled their weapons as if determined to prevent further escape.

  25. Harris leveled his glass at the distant ledge once more, and seeing him thus occupied the boy crept down the incline to the west of the slope, and disappeared in a narrow and rather dismal-looking opening in the cliff.

  26. The grinding sound leveled off into a bare hum.

  27. The system leveled out and the power is back on and controlled.

  28. A thousand rifles, I say, were leveled upon you in that bright moonlight, Mr. Moore.

  29. Even the brigade of British-Indian cavalry that went to Khinjan on the strength of his report and leveled its defenses with the ground, had not been able to find the famous Caves.

  30. The yery Orakzai Pathan who had sat next King in the Cavern of Earth's Drink, and who had carried the message for him, was creeping up behind the women and already had his rifle leveled at the man with boils.

  31. The fact that it was a mosque, and that it was the only building used as such in Khinjan, had saved it from being leveled to the ground by the last British expedition.

  32. The last expedition out of India had leveled every bit of those defenses flat with the valley, but Khinjan's devils had reerected them, as ants rebuild a rifled nest.

  33. Two of Chester's pursuers approached him warily with leveled revolvers, apparently fearing a trick.

  34. Almost directly ahead stood a squad of armed men, their rifles leveled straight at the occupants of the oncoming car.

  35. Man is scourged into greatness by adversity, and leveled into mediocrity by prosperity.

  36. By this time glasses from the warship were being leveled at the strange craft that was to be seen floundering through the sea, headed for the harbor where the battleship was at anchor.

  37. At 5 to 6 years there is a leveling of the permanent pinchers, the pinchers usually being leveled at six and both pairs of intermediates partially leveled and the corner incisors showing wear.

  38. At the same instant two men rushed across the room and leveled their revolvers at me.

  39. As the two men leveled their guns at me I put up my hands, and I want to say I stood at "attention.

  40. George Howard, young man, if you think he would for thousands miss seeing that symbol of rebellion leveled before the flag of his majesty.

  41. To gain that end huge buildings were leveled through the agency of dynamite.

  42. Stern snatched up the revolver and leveled it.

  43. Allan projected the light forward again, and at sight of a moving mass, vague and intangible, among the gigantic fronds, leveled his automatic.

  44. By rare good luck the Good News had been in an easy dive when the accident occurred and had leveled off of its own accord.

  45. The express was limping toward a small clearing and Tim, now under it, leveled off and made a fast landing.

  46. Just before they slid into the side of the mountain he leveled off and set the plane down almost on the edge of the rocky shelf.

  47. They were almost on the tree tops when Tim pulled the nose of his ship up and leveled off with his plane under control.

  48. The pilot kept the stick back until they reached 6,000 feet and then leveled off on their course.

  49. The Good News shot skyward, then settled rapidly, but Tim leveled off and after a shaky moment, was heading for the next control point.

  50. Instantly his foes rushed upon him to complete their work, when, rising on his wounded arm, he leveled his revolver with his left hand and shot them down as they were almost upon him.

  51. Instantly however Billy returned the shot, and the revolver of Hugh Hall fell from his hand, for his arm was broken; but he picked it up quickly and leveled it with his left, and two shots came together.

  52. But crouching down in their little fort of flesh and dirt, Lew Simpson and his man and boy comrade leveled their rifles over the bodies of the slain animals, and, as the bowling red-skins came within sixty yards, fired together.

  53. Troy took a look at the blasters leveled at him and silently walked between them to the hangar door.

  54. Fearfully Nell and Jim turned, to be appalled by four naked, painted savages standing with leveled rifles.

  55. Their roughly leveled summits measure 20 by 10 feet and are covered with traces of house walls; and it is evident that groups of small-roomed houses were clustered also around the sloping sides.


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