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Example sentences for "precluded"

Lexicographically close words:
precisians; precision; preciso; precium; preclude; precludes; precluding; precocious; precociously; precociousness
  1. Special terms would probably be demanded for those who, like Nuns, are precluded by their calling from attending lectures at a University.

  2. Roman citizen, if he belong to the commons, be precluded from all hope of the consulate?

  3. The scope of the book precluded any detail in regard to the evolution of events since 1916, as it precluded any mention of individuals, save Mr. Arthur Griffith, who is the Hamlet of the piece.

  4. The shooting was usually wild and could be treated as amusing, but on occasions fatal results precluded any joking.

  5. Occasionally a few official lines have appeared in the newspapers about them, but the very nature of the work they have been doing has precluded any divulging of their activity.

  6. There we breakfasted, and pushed on, carrying water to a bivouac in the jungles, as the famine precluded our taking the march more easily.

  7. Sigismund and all the rest of the travellers were precluded from joining the repast, to which it was the intention of the prudent canons to give a semi-official character.

  8. It was there that Magennis's attorney had sent him the brief in that cause,--a charge which the etiquette of his profession precluded his declining.

  9. And his scrupulous fidelity precluded any possibility of Fibsy's getting away, or even getting out of the rooms allotted to his use.

  10. His illness precluded any insurance on his own life.

  11. The nature, however, of Sedgwick's orders precluded his doing this, and there is no mention of such a purpose among any of the reports.

  12. He was, however, precluded by his orders from trying to enter the capital, though he seems to have had a good opportunity for so doing.

  13. But orders precluded anything but an immediate advance.

  14. The drenching rain would have precluded the possibility of sleep without this additional cause.

  15. New Hampshire, and Congress itself, precluded negroes from serving in the militia.

  16. The agriculture of planting regions is, necessarily, very different from that of farming regions; and especially is the culture of the grasses to a very large extent precluded by the nature of the crops, the soil, and the climate.

  17. All the other grievances were to be carefully examined and redressed; and allusion was made to “still graver matters,” respecting which the commissioners “were not precluded from entering into an inquiry.

  18. Rattleton laid the whip over his horse and went by the couple at a pace that precluded any sign of recognition.

  19. Hudson thought the plan an excellent one, but was precluded from joining by family cares.

  20. The darkness precluded effective artillery action, and the attack failed; but all the other points previously held by the Germans were re-occupied.

  21. Under its walls he could accept a battle with advantage, since the fortifications, even in the event of defeat, assured a safe retreat and precluded pursuit.

  22. Darkness had already come on and precluded the use of artillery, but the infantry broke into the village at several points.

  23. Wooded heights and deep ravines separated the columns and precluded mutual support; each body had to provide for its individual safety in every direction.

  24. Later the place precluded the use of the railroad; still it was only kept under provisional observation till the 19th of December, when, after the fall of Montmedy, the 14th Division moved up before Mezieres.

  25. This situation in some measure precluded him from speaking, if he had been so inclined; but his influence was not the less in producing the results which followed.

  26. My rashness even hastened the completion of his scheme, and precluded him from the benefits of deliberation.

  27. The Prussian wars had destroyed those persons whose right to these estates precluded my brother's.

  28. Ordinarily this would have precluded all question, all entrance.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "precluded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    banned; barred; excluded; exiled; liquidated; prohibited; purged