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Example sentences for "paced"

Lexicographically close words:
paand; paar; paba; pabulum; pace; pacem; pacemaker; pacer; paces; pach
  1. I have dreamt of such things; I have paced these old cloisters when a boy and when I was miserable at home, and I have had visions, and this was one.

  2. The freshman, who read the Latin and Greek classics as he paced 'the High,' had other ways of calling attention to himself in the public places of Oxford.

  3. He paced rapidly the narrow space of that star-roofed floor, and, pausing at the parapet, looked again upon the grey and melancholy heavens.

  4. He walked away and paced slowly along the edge of the wall, studying every yard of it.

  5. I paced the distance from one tree to the other, and found it to be seventy yards, and the amount of descent not more than thirty-five or forty feet, or less than one in five.

  6. She rose and watched his restless steps as he paced the floor.

  7. Mary had risen from the bed once and paced the floor in the dark for more than an hour, like a frightened, wild animal, trapped and caged for the first time in life.

  8. III Rufus Sollenar paced his office, his hands held safely still in front of him, their fingers spread and rigid.

  9. Rufus Sollenar paced its esplanades, measuring his steps, holding his arms still, for the short time until he could board the Mars rocket.

  10. He paced the total course of their development.

  11. He sprang up and paced the room, making his golden spurs jingle at each impatient stride.

  12. Ralph sprang up and paced about the room.

  13. He paced back and forth, his hands clasped behind him, his head bowed moodily, and his shoulders drawn together in a way that made him seem older and more portly.

  14. Jim Galway and Ropey Smith were walking side by side, keeping a measured step as they paced off a certain distance, while Bill Lang and Pete Leddy and Jack stood by.

  15. The governor rose and paced the room thoughtfully.

  16. He nodded, passed into the yard, and there he paced up and down.

  17. He paced up and down the room to regain his composure.

  18. He arose and paced up and down the room lost in thought.

  19. As he paced the bridge, backwards and forwards, he halted each time just for a moment when he came to where John had propped his back against the binnacle and tilted his stool at an angle that threatened collapse.

  20. The philosopher paced the deck with his chin in the air, and came aft.

  21. Domitia paced the room, in an agony of mind, now shivering with cold, then with face burning.

  22. He paced the room, halted, stood in front of the clepsydra and looked at the dropping water.

  23. Domitia paced up and down this walk for some while.

  24. And so he hated, with all the strength of a strong nature, the immaculate, courteous, well-bred man who paced the deck each day smoking a fragrant cigar after his meals.

  25. Within Bridge paced back and forth the length of the little building.

  26. Only the sentry paced up and down the sidewalk in front.

  27. On the night he had spent there he had seen sentries before the bank, the guardhouse, and the barracks in addition to one who paced to and fro in front of the house in which the commander of the garrison maintained his headquarters.

  28. TWIXT LOVE AND DUTY FOR an hour Barbara Harding paced the veranda of the ranchhouse, pride and love battling for the ascendency within her breast.

  29. He paced the lofty aisles of Amiens, loitered by Ardennes Abbey, climbed into the strange towers of Laon, analyzed Noyon and Rheims.

  30. Bowers paced the room with his catlike tread.

  31. Harsanyi paced up and down the long rug in front of her.

  32. When they reached the depot, Mr. Kronborg paced the platform somewhat ceremoniously with his daughter.

  33. He paced up and down, and each time that he did so, he paused a little before a great door at the end, a huge blind portal, with much carving about it, which he somehow knew he was forbidden to enter.

  34. Then without a word he rose, and went from the chamber; and he stepped out into the garden, and paced there wondering; he saw the trees stand silent in their sleep, and the flowers like stars in their dewy beds.

  35. An hour later, fuming, Bors paced back and forth across the floor of a cabin in the flagship.

  36. The stout man, Morgan, of the space-yacht Sylva, paced up and down the room where he waited to be called.

  37. He paced back and forth in the control room.

  38. They had paced the northern piazza while conversing.

  39. He paced the shrubberies, cool with moonlight and with dews; and his agitation subsided when all eyes but those of Heaven were withdrawn.

  40. Evors paused a moment and paced up and down the avenue with Vera by his side.

  41. Venner paced the floor of the drawing-room moodily, racking his brains to discover a way out of the difficulty.

  42. The Bargee man who paced me from Stapleton.

  43. Charteris quickened his stride, and, paced by the bicycle, spun along in fine style.


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