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Example sentences for "reached the"

  • He knew that the poor tailor's son could only have accomplished this by means of the lamp, and traveled night and day until he reached the capital of China, bent on Aladdin's ruin.

  • At length, guided by the light, he reached the door of the most splendid castle he could have imagined.

  • When he reached the palace he asked for Miranda, but by this time everyone had heard the story of her adventures, and did not want her to go back again to the King of the Sheep, so they refused sternly to let him see her.

  • But at last they told him to keep always south, and with the land on his left and the sea on his right, till he reached the Island of the Fairies of the Garden.

  • In spite of being so cold and weary when he reached the castle, he had taken his horse to the stable and fed it.

  • Some hours after sunset I reached the convent of Santa Saba, and there remained for the night.

  • Long before midnight we reached the hamlet in which we were to rest for the night; it was made up of about a dozen clay huts, standing upon a small tract of ground hardly won from the forest.

  • The hill was lofty enough to show me the fairness of the land on all sides, but I have an ancient love for the mere features of a lake, and so forgetting all else when I reached the summit, I looked away eagerly to the eastward.

  • The next morning I reached the débouchure of the Jordan, where I had hoped to find a bar of sand that might render its passage possible.

  • He trudged doggedly on until he reached the flat.

  • When he reached the flat by half-past five, it was still dark.

  • You can go to the deuce as far as I am concerned," he said, as he reached the door.

  • When we reached the top of the hill, the road was lined with carriages, wagons, spring wagons, and saddle horses.

  • When we reached the door I wondered where she would put me, but she pushed clothing together on a bed, and helped me up, and that was great fun.

  • Before we reached the Deams' I wished that we had carried them as mother told us, for we had lost three, and if we stopped to hunt them, more would hide.

  • I reached the dining-room door when every one was gathering for supper.

  • As we reached the maiden's-blush apple tree came another call, and it sounded pretty cross, I can tell you.

  • After the carriage had travelled a mile of this avenue, we reached the summit of rather an abrupt eminence, one of the many which added to the picturesqueness, if not to the convenience of this rude passage.

  • I reached the hall, and listened for a moment to ascertain whether all was silent around; no sound was audible.

  • These, traversing the road between at their horses' full speed, reached the town of the Leontines in the evening.

  • There was a bare chance of saving Ghak and Perry, and as I reached the branching of the canyon I took the chance.

  • At length he spied a dangling creeper about the bigness of one's wrist, and when I reached the trees he was racing madly up it, hand over hand.

  • Unmolested I reached the top of the canyon where I found a sheer drop of two or three hundred feet to the bottom of a rocky chasm; but on the left a narrow ledge rounded the shoulder of the overhanging cliff.

  • At that point it reached the center of gravity of the five-hundred-mile-thick crust.

  • He reached the shelter of the mimosa bush unperceived and there waited.

  • In about twenty minutes more we reached the entrance to the harbour, which was crowded with boats full of people who had come out to see us.

  • Then we passed on up the stair till at last we reached the top, where we found a large standing space to which there were three entrances, all of small size.

  • We reached the hen-house, and contemplated the banner of freedom lying ready to flaunt the breezes at the supreme moment.

  • Presently I reached the end of my wanderings.

  • I squirmed up the lade among the slippery green slime till I reached the mill-wheel.

  • I crawled through the thicket, reached the edge of the stream, and in cover of the bushes put a hundred yards or so behind me.

  • I crawled on my belly in the lee of a stone dyke till I reached the fringe of trees which surrounded the house.

  • After a while she saw a light above her, and, following in its direction, reached the mountain-top.

  • Through rookery after rookery of birds, we climbed until we reached the edge of the summit.

  • One day there came a violent whirlwind which twisted the ship about, and, lifting it into the air, carried it upward into the sky, until it reached the Moon.

  • When he reached the camp he found that the pardon had been received and the execution stayed.

  • Finally it reached the pier, and stopped as if to listen.

  • He walked shamblingly, when he reached the street, keeping close to the fences as he went on, now and then touching the pickets with his hands like a feeble old man.

  • When he reached the nearest of the factories he heard the exhaust of its engines long before he could see the building, so blinding was the drift.

  • The girl saw him before she reached the table, gave a little gasp of surprise, and halted with one hand carried prettily to her breast.

  • Just before he reached the corner of the lot, he encountered upon the pavement a citizen of elderly and plain appearance, strolling with a grandchild.

  • However, misfortune had rendered Pascal timid and suspicious, and it was not until he reached the baron's house that his fears vanished.

  • When we reached the station we found a train ready to start, and we took our places in it.

  • Chupin's mind was so busily occupied with these thoughts that he reached the Rue d'Anjou and M.

  • The hermit's boy was tired out by the day's outing, yet he pulled a fairly quick stroke and it was not long before he reached the dock at which he and Hiram Bodley were in the habit of leaving their boat.

  • Tired though he was the boy pulled with might and main, and so reached the dock of the physician's home in a short space of time.

  • But he kept on and went down another flight and reached the office.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reached the" 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:
    acid reaction; break their; dark clouds; divine justice; each four; easily digested; good share; great national; half broad; local circle; medical officer; more quickly; nice colour; plain knitting; rain water; reached camp; reached from; reached home; reached the; rubbed smooth; seems likely; straight replied; successive stages; time presses; will please