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Example sentences for "picketted"

Lexicographically close words:
pickers; picket; picketed; picketing; pickets; pickin; picking; pickings; pickle; pickled
  1. Pertinent to these inquiries, General Knefler says, that the road chosen for the movement had been patrolled and picketted by my cavalry.

  2. The road was then patrolled and picketted by cavalry detachments of your command.

  3. Having fed our own horses, and picketted them for the night, we rolled ourselves in our plaids, and with the saddles under our heads, were soon sound asleep.

  4. Embers of the watch-fires gave sufficient light to distinguish the sleeping figures of the troops, with horses picketted near.

  5. A few horses were picketted about the great patio, and two or three ox-carts with hide bodies were serving for boudoirs to damsels, who had come from afar to mingle in the ball.

  6. The horses were picketted and hobbled in a rich grassy bottom close by, from which the quiet munch of their equine jaws sounded pleasantly, for it told of healthy appetites, and promised speed on the morrow.

  7. Well-known to him was that distant rumbling sound that floated on the night air into the fur-trader's camp where he was picketted close to Cameron's tent.

  8. When he had completed this task, he took his rifle, and leaving Charlie picketted in the centre of a dell, where the long, rich grass rose high above the snow, went off to hunt.

  9. Joe, springing to the assistance of Pee-eye-em, whose favourite horses were picketted near the tent.

  10. Suddenly Charlie, who was picketted a few hundred yards off in a grassy spot, broke his halter close by the head-piece, and with a snort of delight bounded away, prancing and kicking up his heels!


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