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Example sentences for "raised his"

  • The policeman looked up, and, catching his eye, raised his finger to admonish silence.

  • Instead he raised his voice in the call of distress common to his tribe, adding to it the warning which would prevent would-be rescuers from running into the clutches of Sabor.

  • Then with his foot upon the carcass of Numa, he raised his voice in the awesome victory cry of his savage tribe.

  • His countenance relaxed, and he raised his glass to his mouth with an air of greater enjoyment of its contents than he had before evinced.

  • He raised his head in amazement, and as he did so, saw by the reflection in the opposite glass, that two of the party behind him had risen and were standing before the fire.

  • It seemed to her now that she had never had but one name in her heart, and upon her lips--Zilah.

  • He raised his round, uneasy eyes to Andras, who was striving to appear calm, but whose lips twitched nervously.

  • The colonel, furious, raised his hand, and for the second time the man spat in his face.

  • Then he raised his eyes to the next with a kind of secret, calm impatience, as if he expected, hoped for something at the end of this slaughter.

  • As they approached to address him, he raised his head, and with a supplicating action signed to them to leave the place.

  • He raised his daughter in his arms, and bent wistfully on her face his attentive and pitying eyes.

  • He raised his head, and looked up at her, vacant and wistful, forlorn already, as if the death-parting was over.

  • Once he raised his eyes in despairing appeal to the heaven that frowned over his head; but still, no word, or tear, or groan, escaped him.

  • He raised his head; he saw Antoinette; he looked wildly at her, as though he did not recognise her.

  • Buckingham, hopelessly infuriated, raised his whip; but his arm was seized by a couple of officers.

  • From time to time, only, Fouquet, absorbed by his work, raised his head to cast a furtive glance upon a clock placed before him.

  • The officer, who had been twisting his hat about in his hands, with an embarrassed air, for several minutes, raised his head at these words.

  • A horseman was going rapidly along the road leading towards Blois, which he had left nearly half an hour before, passed the two travelers, and, though apparently in haste, raised his hat as he passed them.

  • He raised his head, and, as he did so, violently started.

  • I raised his head, and held the billy to his lips; but, being in too great a hurry, I let his head slip off my hand, and most of the water spilled over his throat and chest.

  • When I had gone a few yards, my faithful companion, now left alone on the log, raised his voice in lamentation, after the manner of his subspecies.

  • Then returning to my patient, I raised his head, and held the pannikin to his lips.

  • He raised his head, spoke in the language unknown to me, and the armed men and the litter bearers grouped round him, bending low, their eyes fixed on the ground.

  • He raised his eyes as he spoke, and mine followed his.

  • Then he raised his head, and, without looking round at me, went on in a low tone: "And what is in the future?

  • They bartered the very shirts from their backs for food.

  • When they neared the fort the Spaniards rushed out upon them and, unheeding their cries for mercy, slew them to a man.

  • So now two companies were formed, one of London merchants called the London Company, one of Plymouth merchants called the Plymouth Company.

  • Snorri also, his son who had been born in Vineland, grew to be a man of great renown.

  • But directly he raised his shoulders he knew that the man was dead!

  • He raised his voice: "Master Pierre, I have reflected well; there is but one means of safety for her.

  • He raised his eyes to the roof of the church.

  • All at once he raised his head, his hollow eye appeared full of light, and his voice burst forth like a clarion: "Down with them, Tristan!

  • And next year, if God and our Lady (here he raised his hat) lend us life, we shall drink our potions from a pewter pot!

  • He raised his hands a little and let them fall helplessly by his side--nothing more.

  • Imagine, he raised his hat to begin with.

  • He raised his face, pale, full of unexpressed suffering.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raised his" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    billy goat; cloth decorative; conscious states; dear teacher; distinct races; fear from; force and; fourth dimension; general practitioner; great house; human flesh; industrial workers; international agreement; life unto; loved the; naval cadet; raised again; raised from; raised from the dead; raised his; raised myself; raised platform; raised thee; small wire; this court; three acres