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Example sentences for "others were"

  • One of them predicted his approaching death to Alexander Severus, another promised the empire to Diocletian, others were consulted by Aurelian.

  • Some local goddesses with different names but similar functions are equated with the same Roman goddess; others were never so equated.

  • Some Gauls or Belgæ were dolichocephalic, to judge by their skulls, others were brachycephalic, while their fairness was a relative term.

  • Others were ordered to be thrown into chains, and their cases to be considered at a future time.

  • The long street, deeply shaded in summer, was bordered by decorous homes, some of which had stood there for a century and a half; others were of the Mansard period.

  • Many sat about smoking their pipes and playing with the village children, others were in squads going to drill or exercise--something the Briton never neglects.

  • Of the corpses seen on the road, some had their hands tied behind their backs, others were burned, some had been killed by blows, and some corpses were those of children who had been shot.

  • The prisoners were placed in a large building on the cavalry exercise ground--"One woman went mad, some children died, others were born.

  • Others were marched to Louvain and eventually merged with other prisoners, both from Louvain itself and the surrounding districts, and taken to Germany and elsewhere.

  • Some of these were banished, others were flogged or imprisoned, and a few were put to death.

  • Others were imitations of Horace's satires and epistles.

  • Some fled precipitately, others were slain in the middle space, where also Cneius Fulvius himself, with eleven military tribunes, fell.

  • Others were incarcerated in Morro and Cabanas fortresses and in the other Spanish prisons in Cuba because they insisted on telling the truth to America and the world.

  • On the outbreak of this war some of the missionaries remained by their people, others were compelled to leave them.

  • Others were digging up and feeding among the young mimosa-thorns and evergreens.

  • Some of these had a superstitious origin; others were in accordance with the iron requirements of their savage etiquette.

  • They stood their ground resolutely for a long time; but the Iroquois pressed them close, three of their number were killed, others were wounded, and their ammunition began to fail.

  • Some were mere shapeless rolls; others were made up into clumsy effigies, adorned with feathers, beads, and belts of dyed porcupine-quills.

  • Some of them were gentlemen who had never labored with their hands; others were poor, idle fellows whose only wish was to do nothing whatever.

  • Others were fur-traders, while still others were men who came to the wilderness in search of excitement.

  • Others were envious of Sviatoslaf, the commander-in-chief, and were willing to sacrifice their own fame that he might be humbled.

  • Some of the princes of the old royal family were forbidden to marry; others were banished to Siberia.

  • Others were hung in chains, on gibbets near the gates of the city, and left, frozen as solid as marble, to swing in the wind through the long months of winter.

  • Others were The Hollander, Wit is a Constable, and The Ladies' Privilege (all 1640).

  • Many of them were as perfectly round as though cast in a mould, others were egg-shaped, and all were hollow.

  • He was the sober man, who had been asleep while the others were drinking.

  • Others were hung on lofty gibbets, and a fire being kindled under them, they finished their lives, partly by hanging, and partly by suffocation.

  • Others were fastened to the trunk of a tree, with a branch at top.

  • Others were employed in breaking up the large stones from the ruined buildings into smaller ones, which proved efficient missiles when hurled on the heads of the assailants below.

  • Others were attached to the gates of Orange and Egmont, calling on them to come forth and save their country.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "others 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:
    allied forms; diffused matter; dirty water; each type; extremely simple; natural being; one piece; others again; others are; others have; others said; others were; others will; paternal uncle; search for; shall lose; should feel; special creation; stood gazing; that quarter; the father; thing impossible; this age; three estates; what good; what say