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Example sentences for "passengers were"

  • Their fellow-passengers were in great variety, however, and thus partly atoned for their numbers.

  • It scarcely seemed to Basil and Isabel that their fellow-passengers were so interesting as their fellow passengers used to be in their former days of travel.

  • The ship was very full, but Mrs. March did not show the slightest curiosity to know who her fellow-passengers were.

  • An officer of the Carpathia called down that 710 of the Titanic's passengers were on board, but refused to reply to other questions.

  • On the deck where the first class passengers were quartered, known as deck A, there was none of the confusion that was taking place on the lower decks.

  • Among the Stephano's passengers were a number of Americans, who, like their companions in misfortune, had to seek the doubtful safety of small boats miles offshore.

  • Passengers were transhipped in the bar anchorage into small tenders, and were brought to a point about 500 metres from the end of the passenger mole.

  • In many cases, however, passengers were brought on in tenders and landed at the Riachuelo wharves, which were then under construction.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always accompanied; ancient philosophy; beau monde; buffy white; but must; each tooth; forget the; hardly possible; having caused; heart like; held until his death; its position; just west; passengers carried; passengers were; passive voice; permit them; pointed star; poor friend; really was; till they; turkey buzzard; yellow lion