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Example sentences for "prepared"

Lexicographically close words:
preparations; preparative; preparatives; preparatory; prepare; preparedness; preparer; prepares; preparest; prepareth
  1. Now, as this article is prepared and sold both in crystals and in a liquid state, it would be desirable to know which of the two is meant before his disciples run the risk of spoiling their paper and losing their time.

  2. I was prepared to do so shortly after it first appeared, but I had reason to expect a reply from one more conversant with such archaisms.

  3. But, anxious not to return home without having some success to report, he was in any case prepared to winter in the New Land.

  4. Twenty of Cartier's men were set to turn the soil, and in one day had prepared and sown about an acre and a half of ground.

  5. If this statement is true, it must mean that Roberval sailed home again at the close of 1541, without having succeeded in finding Cartier, and that he prepared for a renewed expedition in the spring of the coming year.

  6. Now, Sir Thomas Colford was very rich, and it was whispered that if he were elected he would be prepared to show his gratitude in a substantial fashion.

  7. Are you prepared to support the abolition of 'tied' houses?

  8. Even Betty's wildest anticipations had scarcely prepared her for the blissful reality.

  9. So the two little girls settled themselves comfortably on the piazza steps, and their elders prepared to listen.

  10. Dr Leo of Berlin, who had himself prepared an edition of Coriolanus, was meditating a complete edition of Shakespeare on the plan we have adopted, but gave up the scheme when he found we had anticipated him.

  11. No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal, that she may be the better prepared for an answer, if peradventure this be true.

  12. Long after the rosy dawn I got up, drank some water, lit a strong cigar, and prepared to dress myself for the day's work.

  13. Unless the missionary is prepared to give up his calling in order to marry, his range of choice is necessarily limited to other missionaries; and missionaries, when at work, are usually widely scattered.

  14. After it is completed, the bride is escorted with much formality into the house, and to the bedroom prepared for her, where she is seated upon a bed resplendent with red satin quilts.

  15. Schlesinger and his assistants have prepared Table 6, giving the position, magnitude, and motions of the thirty-eight nearest stars, and especially the date at which each was nearest the sun.

  16. Mr. Free has prepared a summary of this Bulletin which appears in The Solar Hypothesis, Bull.

  17. In 1897 he prepared a paper on "A Group of Hypotheses Bearing on Climatic Changes," Jour.

  18. Arctowski,[13] for example, has prepared numerous curves showing the march of temperature month after month for many years.

  19. Ultimately, however, new stresses accumulate in the earth's crust, and the way is prepared for another great oscillation.

  20. By now it was twilight again, and Sir Owen made up the fire and prepared himself to slumber; and the bear lay down beside him and blinked at the fire like a great dog.

  21. Many of them had followed the example of Sir Gaheris and Sir Gareth and stood without arms; but Sir Mador was on his horse, fully armed, and prepared for combat.

  22. Nightly, on the days when she was being prepared to depart, she wept full sorely in the arms of her mother or of Bragwine her faithful gentlewoman; but in hall or abroad she was ever calm and cold, though pale.

  23. Then Sir Lancelot, leaving the weeping queen, wrapped his mantle round his left arm as if it were a shield, and prepared to sell his life dearly.

  24. But Sir Owen heeded them not, but mounted his horse, dressed his shield and lance, and prepared for the combat.

  25. When food had been prepared they sat down, and Geraint was placed between the white-haired man and his wife, and the maiden served them.

  26. And again the feast was royally prepared in the great hall of the court, but the king would not give the signal to sit to meat until he should have heard or seen some strange adventure.

  27. At last, when King Arthur prepared to depart, he went to the countess and besought her to permit Owen to go with him for the space of three months, that he might renew his friendships at the court at Caerleon.

  28. Thereafter Sir Geraint prepared to return to the court of King Arthur, and the Earl Inewl came to him with the maiden Enid, whose gentle face went pale and red by turns.

  29. And he prepared to throw his javelin-sticks.

  30. All now had mounted, and the first prepared to run at Sir Geraint, who backed his horse through the gateway into the open plain.

  31. It was late in the day when the two armies faced each other, and both prepared to pass the night upon the field.

  32. He prayed and commended his soul to God, and confessed his sins and prepared himself for death as behoved a good knight; and thereafter he slept sweetly.

  33. You might smooth to the utmost the path of learning, remove every pebble from the track; but then you must finally insist with decision on the pupil taking your arm and allowing himself to be led quietly along the prepared road.

  34. When evening came I prepared to step over in order to seek a conference with Mademoiselle herself on the subject; I had not had time to pay the visit before, having been all day closely occupied in class.

  35. The strain retreated, its sound waxed fainter and was soon gone; my ear prepared to repose on the absolute hush of midnight once more.

  36. I shall only have to order a slight mourning dress, which will be much sooner prepared than the nuptial trousseau.

  37. He hurried on as if fatigue had no longer power over him, insomuch that his young guide could hardly keep up with him, till he reached the village inn, where, as Powis had said, a cleanly though homely bed was soon prepared for him.

  38. She had just completed her nosegay, when Mrs. Ross and Joanna arrived; the former with a new assortment of work prepared for Ellen's completion, who sighed when she saw the quantity to be executed.

  39. He has only prepared for you years of anguish, of vain regret, of useless discontent, which will for ever destroy not only the glow upon your cheek, but the spring and elasticity of your mind.

  40. While the messengers were away, the old men of the tribe in whose Noorumbah, or hereditary hunting lands, the Boorah was to be held, prepared the sacred grounds.

  41. This done they place their charges in slightly scooped-out places, already prepared in the inner ring.

  42. Girls have told me that they got very tired of being away with only the old woman for so long, and were glad enough when she told them they were to move to a new camp, nearer to the big one, which the women had prepared for them.

  43. Such teaching is good in such places; but the speakers must be prepared to rough it--to give and take, to be ready in repartee, to be abundant in anecdote and illustration.

  44. The food, prepared by steam, is ground at the depot in Bell-lane.

  45. Prepared mineral color was not used, but dry “raw or green” color purchased at an ordinary paint shop.

  46. The Costumes Are Impromptu,= and may be prepared in a few minutes.

  47. Place the table near a window where there is plenty of light and under it lay a piece of oilcloth to protect the floor; thus prepared you may plunge into your work and accomplish wonders without disturbing the general order of the room.

  48. Wearing such a gem, then, she entered the fatal alcove, and, with a smile on her face, prepared to employ her fascinations on whoever chanced to come within their reach.

  49. Satisfied now that he had a ticklish matter to handle, he prepared for it, with his usual enthusiasm and circumspection.

  50. The written end had indeed disappeared, but there was one word left, which he had no sooner read than he gave a low cry and prepared to leave for New York on the same train as Mr. Grey.

  51. What passed between us in the short interview we held together you will find me prepared to state, if necessary.

  52. Mr. Durand, you appear to have prepared yourself for departure somewhat prematurely.

  53. I who loved him felt that it was not, and consequently was more or less prepared for the change which now took place in the inspector's manner.

  54. Fortunate is the man who may count upon one sympathetic listener, too deeply interested in his most ordinary experiences for boredom; prepared to take his side (with or without justification) against the world.

  55. Carrissima, arriving with Phoebe at half-past four, was prepared to admire everything.

  56. Carrissima was prepared to condone an offence, the importance of which, she supposed, she had exaggerated; and perhaps if she were to make herself more abject, he would grasp the olive branch.

  57. His thoughts already outran him to Golfney Place, where he fully expected to hear from Bridget's lips that she should be prepared to marry him within a week or a fortnight at the latest.

  58. In her wrath she had felt prepared to think anything that was vile of both Mark and Bridget; but only for the moment.

  59. But while she would have been prepared to go to great lengths in order to prevent her brother from entering into what she could not help regarding as an unsuitable marriage, she saw that he had made up his mind.

  60. Carrissima, now prepared to recognize deception everywhere, found it difficult to look cheerful.

  61. One of the documents prepared at that time contained grandiloquent passages that were a portent of coming events--though I was ignorant of the fact.

  62. I have prepared for a siege; and I have enough food in this room to keep me going for a day anyway.

  63. Arrived there, I calmly sat down and prepared to prove my whole case.

  64. Under this influence he had prepared the words which he was to deliver at the Fete.

  65. She had gone so far, she was prepared to go further to save this Seigneury to Louis.

  66. Stop this nonsense," he said, as Louis Racine prepared to attack again.

  67. I am prepared to go any length; but never mind that now.

  68. Neither am I prepared to admit what possibly inexperience in debate may be eager to affirm, that the ratiocinative perspicuity of a post-prandial collective intelligence has been fruitless in result.

  69. We are not prepared to say he had not done so in the present case.

  70. Her mind was not prepared to receive it, as, not having had much time to reflect since her birth, she had not noticed that her domestic life had anything exceptional about it.

  71. But he was prepared to demonstrate the fallacy of each of these on many different grounds, the least of which would be fatal to the pretensions of his opponents' arguments in more than one particular.

  72. But while apt to feel pique at any doubt thrown on the wisdom of the scheme, the latter was not prepared to forego the luxury of making fun of it himself.

  73. Are you, if you are a lady, prepared to deny this last item?

  74. She seemed to have been very carefully prepared to go into Society, and to look down on it now that she had arrived.

  75. But Marianne was not prepared to accept the view suggested.

  76. He was rather disgusted to find that, whatever he decided on to enjoy next, it would have to be in the house, unless he was prepared to get wet out of doors.

  77. But Judith says she isn't prepared to take up her parable on the subject--doesn't know enough about the matter.

  78. It is not, I hope, necessary for me to say, at this table, that I am not one of that group of indiscriminate Thinkers who are prepared to welcome the germination of the Political Idea in the crude brain of every Sciolist.

  79. Pray heaven that it be not a dangerous one; but the interests of science must be promoted, and I am prepared for the worst.

  80. A second memoir prepared by him to the same effect was intended for the Minister of War, but Father Berton wisely advised silence to the young cadet (Iung, tome i.

  81. Bourrienne had prepared his Memoirs himself, he would not have stated that while he was the Emperor's minister at Hamburg he worked with the agents of the Comte de Lille (Louis XVIII.

  82. Apparently Albitte and Salicetti wets not acquainted with the secret plan of campaign prepared by the younger Robespierre and by Bonaparte, or with the real instructions given for the mission to Genoa.

  83. Should it be your plan to extract five or six millions from Venice, I have expressly prepared this sort of rupture for you.

  84. I can't see what good that would do," she said, with some relenting toward a smile, in which he instantly prepared himself to bask.

  85. Dan felt it a hardship to part with them, but he prepared to take himself off.

  86. XV She barely touched the breakfast prepared by the methodical Sugihara, who had already buried the silver, and cut the pictures from their frames, rolled, and tied them securely.

  87. I have been managing people all my life, and have prepared this force to like you.

  88. Isabel prepared the remains of the feast for Mr. Clatt, and asked Sugihara if he would object to relieving the watch, that the wharfinger might snatch a few hours' sleep.

  89. I must go home and see that everything is in order--the beds aired, and lunch prepared for Mr. Gwynne in case he should turn up.

  90. The next morning he rose, dressed himself with care, and prepared for a journey, but before he had even set out from Haworth two men came riding to the village post haste.

  91. They hastily packed up their things, took places viâ Antwerp to London, and prepared to start.

  92. As was to be expected neither we nor our poems were at all wanted; but for this we had been prepared at the outset; though inexperienced ourselves, we had read the experience of others.

  93. Thus prejudiced and evangelical Haworth had prepared the woman who rejected its Hebraic dogma, to find out for herself the underlying truths.

  94. The boats were prepared for the service, and the boats' crews and officers held ready whilst the Patrick Henry steamed in towards the Congress.


  95. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prepared" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agape; agog; anticipating; anticipatory; armed; briefed; calculated; career; certain; clairvoyant; coached; competent; confident; conversant; divinatory; eager; endowed; equipped; expectant; expecting; experienced; farseeing; farsighted; finished; fitted; forehanded; foreseeing; foresighted; forestalling; forewarned; game; gaping; groomed; hopeful; informed; initiate; instant; intuitive; invested; loaded; mature; mobilized; optimistic; order; planned; poised; practiced; prearranged; prepared; primed; professional; provided; provident; providential; prudent; qualified; ready; rigged; ripe; sagacious; sanguine; seasoned; skilled; sure; technical; trained; vigilant; waiting


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    prepared chalk; prepared for; prepared from