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Example sentences for "levelled"

Lexicographically close words:
level; leveled; leveler; leveling; levell; leveller; levelling; levelly; levels; leven
  1. With a growl of rage, Victor bent forward and levelled an arm through the opening.

  2. That laugh levelled the last barrier of doubt and fear and nerved Sofia finally to test the forlorn hope she had been nursing ever since Victor had let her see a little way into his mind as to her fate.

  3. Then I climbed on the step-ladder and levelled the top piece, which I nailed down.

  4. Then, of course, I laid an even line of the best bricks all the way around, and levelled them carefully.

  5. Hard then mounted the 3 x 3 chestnut joists, levelled them as I set them, and connected the tops, leaving a space for the next connection on the final post to the west.

  6. At the minute, I set the shadow between the noon lines, levelled it with thin bits of match underneath, and glued it down.

  7. The Romans had aspired to be equal; they were levelled by the equality of servitude; and the dictates of Augustus were patiently ratified by the formal consent of the tribes or centuries.

  8. Every season, scores of lives are lost in the hurricanes that sweep over the islands; the sand, being so close to the water, will often be levelled off to the water-line.

  9. This has been thrown down since the peace, and the site, together with the glacis, has been levelled and portioned out for new buildings and promenades.

  10. The travellers had now only to descend to the Atlantic by limitless plains, levelled by nature.

  11. We believe that they were especially levelled against him and his plain-speaking 'Register.

  12. There is extant among the works of Seneca a little treatise called Apocolocuntosis, that is, pumpkinification, or the metamorphosis into a gourd, a sharp satire levelled against the apotheosis of the Emperor Claudius.

  13. Thor's knees were smiting together, but he levelled the spear and made a feeble lunge toward the brute.

  14. That meant a mother Bear at hand, and Thor looked about with some fear, but seeing no signs of any except the little one, he levelled the gun and fired.

  15. His soldiers made a deadly push through the entanglements of the levelled trees and against the barricade, behind which the defenders were almost wholly protected.

  16. Bradstreet levelled it, ruined seven armed vessels, put as much of the plunder as he could carry on two others, and returned to Oswego unmolested.

  17. From every vantage ground of knoll and bole, and on three sides of the column, the concealed muskets were levelled upon the English, who returned the fire.

  18. The ground is levelled and surrounded with a mud or stone wall, not exceeding eighteen inches in height, and having a flood gate above and below.

  19. Boldly he levelled his spear and made a thrust that would probably have killed the beast, if it had not caught the point of the spear and turned it aside.

  20. It raged with intense severity for four hours, and in that short space of time destroyed the new town of St. John's, which had been rebuilt since the French invasion, and levelled almost every house with the ground.

  21. Houses were levelled in an instant with the ground; many of the small dwellings were completely lifted from off their slight foundations, and carried by the wind to some distance.

  22. As Ned spoke he levelled his piece, and aiming carefully, pulled the trigger.

  23. Price meanwhile posted himself on the forecastle, and kept the telescope levelled at the shore.

  24. Oliver levelled his keen eyes on him, as though noting down observations, while he was burning for tidings of Mary, yet held back by reserve and sense of the uncongeniality of the man.

  25. So Beltane rode up the glade and wheeling at a distance, came galloping down with levelled lance, and thundered by with the cap fluttering from his lance point.

  26. So saying, he levelled his lance, and a hundred lances sank behind him.

  27. In one of these forays, at the very opening of the twelfth century, Donald surprised Kinkora in the absence of its lord, razed the fort and levelled the buildings to the earth.

  28. Per contra it was pointed out from the same source that "by dint of expenditure of 276 rounds of high explosive per gun in one day, the French levelled all the enemy defences to the ground.

  29. Besides, if you levelled things up to-morrow, they would be levelled down again the day after.

  30. On seeing the men burst out with their levelled spears from the wood, the Sard gave a scream of terror and threw himself upon his face.

  31. One I levelled to the ground with my staff; doubtless he is only stunned and will be able to tell you more when he recovers.

  32. As the door was opened Malchus sprang forward, but the lights of several lanterns showed a dozen men with levelled spears standing in front of the cabin.

  33. Perhaps the most convincing evidence of denudation on a magnificent scale is derived from the levelled surfaces of districts where large faults occur.

  34. There are some levelled spaces, however, both ancient and modern, in the Morea, which are not due to denudation, although resembling in outline the terraces above described.

  35. When the assault is made for which the signal is the crushing shot of an enormous cannon being levelled hereon under cover of the stormy darkness, you will be inundated by the sands of a desert storm.

  36. Tiger Cat, enraged at the captive being so swiftly snatched out of his power, levelled a gun at the poor frightened thing over Oliver's shoulder.

  37. Suddenly, with an action as rapid as thought, that weapon was picked up and levelled at the shoulder upon a bush, very thick with foliage, about a hundred and fifty paces afar, and instantly fired.

  38. Every telescope in the fort had been called into requisition; and as they were now levelled in the direction of the fire, sweeping the line of horizon around, exclamations of surprise escaped the lips of several.

  39. Still there were half a dozen muskets ready to be levelled on him should he approach too near to his fugitives, or manifest any other design than that of simply recapturing them.


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