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Example sentences for "our right"

  • While passing through the largest of these, we noticed several calabashes about pistol--shot on our right; and as we fancied one of them bobbed now and then it struck me they might be Indian fishing floats.

  • There did not appear to be an enemy to our right, until suddenly a battery with musketry opened upon us from the edge of the woods on the other side of the clearing.

  • As far as the eye could reach to our right, the herd extended.

  • The creek, which was a formidable obstacle for either side to pass on our left, became a very slight obstacle on our right.

  • Soon we were in the canoe again heading for the opposite shore, with a new set of rapids on our right.

  • Hooker was to perform like service on our right.

  • A movement by his left--our right--would obviate this; but all that was done would have to be done with the supplies and ammunition we started with.

  • On the 4th and 5th Sherman endeavored to get upon the railroad to our right, where Schofield was in command, but these attempts failed utterly.

  • This is evident from the fact that notwithstanding the early hour at which I had ordered the assault, both for the purpose of being the attacking party and to strike before Longstreet got up, Lee was ahead in his assault on our right.

  • Immediately before us, when the bands first came down into the valley, stretched an unbroken line, the head of which was lost among the river hills on the opposite side; and still they poured down from the ridge on our right.

  • On our right, in the afternoon, a high plain, partially covered with pine, extended about ten miles, to the foot of the Cascade mountains.

  • To our right we had always the mountains, from the midst of whose dark pine forests the isolated snowy peaks were looking out like giants.

  • On our right, slightly more forward, the Headquarters of an Italian Heavy Artillery Group, in front of them a British and an Italian Battery, one on each side of the road leading past Kaberlaba to the front line.

  • Another British Battery was less than a hundred yards in rear of us, and two others not far away on our right flank.

  • Passing us swiftly, they take up their position in a double line on our right, and stand there solemnly chanting all the while.

  • Leaving the valley of the Olifants to our right, we trekked along the high-veldt, and thus avoided all the fever country.

  • The position of the enemy was, by all the reports, about three miles from us, diagonally in rear of our right flank.

  • On our right, in front of Hooker, it was easy to turn the Confederate line.

  • Hooker's men, of the First Corps, were also by this time pushing up the mountain on that side of the turnpike, and we were not again troubled by artillery on our right flank.

  • Toward evening Major Lieper came up on our right to the place where the Fayette road passes over a long spur of the mountain which is known in the neighborhood as Cotton Hill.

  • In the broad, flat meadow, far down to our right, sports of different sorts were in progress.

  • They were gazing up in the sky, away to our right.

  • Away to our right it sounded, high in the air, apparently; a strange, humming noise.

  • Thus we travelled over a beautiful country, due north, with sufficient indications of the river on our right, in the slopes that all fell to that side.

  • Proceeding due north we had the river close on our right hand, when two miles on.

  • The cattle were yoked up early, and we travelled on over fine grassy plains, and with open gravelly ridges on our right.

  • We came at length on a sandy country with much Callitris, but the whole surface was undulating, and we crossed several chains of deep ponds, all falling to our right, or eastward; some containing water.

  • A shallow creek appeared soon thereafter on our right, in which our guide had expected to find water, but was disappointed; cattle having recently drank up there, what had been a large pond when he was there formerly.

  • Far away on our right, from a spot named the Observatory, we could see the extreme left of the Verdun position and shells bursting on the Fille Morte.

  • The Vimy Ridge was on our right, and before us was the old French position, with the labyrinth of terrible memories and the long hill of Lorette.

  • Mother' utters a horrible bellow from somewhere on our right.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our right" 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:
    easily recognized; good citizenship; mechanical explanation; our ancestors; our arrival; our citizens; our common; our company; our country; our days; our duty; our ears; our father; our hero; our knowledge; our language; our last; our literature; our lives; our new; our old; our ship; our time; our town; pale grey; several instances