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Example sentences for "men were"

  • It was easy to see that what he was listening to touched him painfully, and that the two diametrically different men were fighting a battle which could never lead to any satisfactory issue.

  • The troops and ships of the victorious Caesar were close at hand; many of Gabinius' men were serving in the Egyptian army.

  • Then the footsteps of men were heard in the anteroom, and Iras, who was the first to notice them, cried eagerly: "The moment is approaching!

  • In German 2 men were examined, and 1 woman: 1 man was good, and 1 woman.

  • In logic 28 men were examined, and 1 woman: the woman came out fifth in rank, and she had only been at it a month.

  • My men were in good spirits too, notwithstanding they had been a good deal hustled around since daylight, with losses that had told considerably on their numbers.

  • Here I joined Crook, informing him that I had just got word that Torbert was driving the enemy in confusion along the Martinsburg pike toward Winchester; at the same time I directed him to attack the moment all of Duval's men were in line.

  • Rosser's men were mostly at their homes, where, on account of a lack of subsistence and forage in the valley, they had been permitted to go, subject to call.

  • In 1464, nine of the Deputy's men were slain in a broil in Fingall, by tenants or servants of the Bishop.

  • At this point, when the minds of men were stirred, the writings of Wycliffe were brought to Bohemia, and added fuel to the fire.

  • For this crime the three young men were beheaded in a corner near Green Street.

  • As long as men were sinners, he said, they were not to try to obtain saving faith by any efforts of their own.

  • What sort of men were employed by Ferdinand to administer justice in Bohemia?

  • So far as there has been any noticeable effect on the gold content of the ores, it has been due to the leaching out of other constituents, principally pyrite and other sulphides, leaving the gold present in slightly larger proportions.

  • A foot of soil may represent the weathering of a hundred feet of limestone.

  • Availability of iron ores is limited, not by total reserves, but by economic conditions.

  • Men were beginning to doubt both King Louis and King James, when, at length at the beginning of May, the French ships were signalled from the cliffs of Kerry.

  • On the coasts of Cork and Kerry nearly one thousand men were lost or cast away.

  • It was the English backs that the French saw, that day: Talbot's men were in full retreat on Meun.

  • As the train approached Taling ho groups of men were hoeing in millet fields, thirty in one group on one side and fifty in another body on the other.

  • The Cave-men were, undoubtedly, considerably in advance of the Men of the Drift.

  • The road that leads from barbarism to civilization is long and difficult, and it is not strange that but one or two families of men were able to attain that end by their own unaided effort.

  • Fraim of the boat, some papers and a few other trivial articles of but little importance.

  • Friday 1805 Some little rain all the last night with wind, before day the wind increased to a Storm from the S.

  • Just as morning was breaking, a Swedish officer with seven men climbed up the hill to reconnoitre the castle, and found to his surprise that the drawbridge was down, but a guard of 200 men were stationed at the gate.

  • Men were eager to know the true feeling of the government with regard to the states.

  • They pretended that, while following forms, men were forgetful of republican energy, and that the defence of Louis XVI.

  • And so it came about that, within three days of our shameful retreat, a tenth of my men were at work on the new project.

  • By the time I had reached the seashore, most of my men were in their boats.

  • Klow's men were putting up a plucky fight, and showing no signs of fearing us.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "men were" 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:
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