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Example sentences for "raved"

Lexicographically close words:
ravager; ravagers; ravages; ravaging; rave; ravel; raveled; ravelin; raveling; ravelings
  1. Thought I'd call to see you in your charming love-nest that Harry Green raved so about.

  2. One by one, the man picked a number of pebbles from among the dead leaves and the short grass within reach of his hand, as he answered: "Oh, I was just kidding when I raved about her to the bunch.

  3. But he blustered and raved and threatened what he would do.

  4. As the darkness deepened and the wind raved about the house, and the snow beat against the north windows, her anxiety increased.

  5. Young Harry raved of the vision that Joan had presented among the meadowsweets.

  6. Then he raved round the room like a derelict ship, Red Wull following uneasily behind.

  7. At the sight the little man neither raved nor swore: it was past that for him.

  8. The storm had raved itself out, and the stars were shining in the pacified dark sky.

  9. Crescentia and of their awful meeting again, until anger and rage and imprecations and loathing and curses raved like a stormy sea around the criminal, and threatened to annihilate him, to tear him to pieces in the madness of their fury.

  10. Women raved about her wonderful complexion, her splendid eyes, her magnificent hair, her graceful figure.

  11. The women raved about her figure, her coloring and her hair, and the men fell over each other in their eagerness to attract her attention.

  12. He remembered the black days when he had raved like a madman because the child was alive and the mother was dead.

  13. He just raved and said it'd be another hunchback like him and it'd better die.

  14. The great doors of oak and iron of the Gevangenhuis clashed to behind the prisoners, the locks were shot, and the bars fell home, while outside raved the furious crowd.

  15. Adrian leaped up; he shook his fist, he raved and stormed at the cold, impassive man before him.

  16. Twas that wicked young Mohun who, coming back from the provinces last year, where he had disinterred her, raved about her all the winter; said she was a pearl set before swine; and killed poor stupid Frank.

  17. All night Mysie tossed and raved in a high fever and delirium, while Mrs. Ramsay sat by her bedside, trying to soothe and quieten the stricken girl.

  18. He raved and swore and frothed like a churn, running here, there and everywhere nearly collapsing with rage, which sprang from terror.

  19. She raved about Robert, crying to him in her fevered excitement, and he, all unconscious, was at that time at his work, tired also and exhausted by his terrible night upon the moor.

  20. And so he raved on till he sat down to his frugal dinner of potatoes and buttermilk, after which he relapsed into silence again, and sat reading a newspaper.

  21. Wroe raved and threatened, but could not find the guilty parties.

  22. In his brain fever he raved incessantly of the poor dead girl, and for several weeks his life was despaired of.

  23. You are caught between two fires," the incendiary's stuttering voice raved on.

  24. Let him come, monsieur," raved Andre-Louis, his voice thick and concentrated.

  25. I had an interview with him, and he raved and blasphemed horribly.

  26. At times we others raved a little, or laughed a little, or cried a little, but the Halfbreed remained cool and grim.

  27. If I raved till doomsday I couldn't alter anything.

  28. The fierce wind had raved and calmed, and raved and calmed, but it had not shifted.

  29. At the close of that day Claudis Flamma discovered that he had been robbed--robbed more than once: he swore and raved and tore his hair for loss of a little bread and meat and oil and a flagon of red wine.

  30. More than ever, his circle of action in a drawing-room limited itself to producing music and then being raved over by ladies.

  31. If elsewhere the great society ladies had raved over the artist Lensky to an immoderate extent, they had quite ignored the man.

  32. He had cursed the temper of his blood; he had raved at himself for vulgar gratifications; and once more the struggle was renewed.

  33. Epps raved and stormed, and mounting his horse, galloped to neighboring plantations, making inquiries in all directions.

  34. Sister Agatha, who is a good creature and a born nurse, tells me that he raved of dreadful things whilst he was off his head.


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