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Example sentences for "reeled"

Lexicographically close words:
reeking; reeks; reel; reelected; reelection; reeler; reelers; reeling; reelly; reels
  1. As they reached her she threw down the reins and reeled and tottered on the seat.

  2. I must go after her--I must find her," he cried, then reeled dizzily.

  3. As the eyes of the horror-stricken boys and man strained toward them a sharp "spat" spoke from one of the soddy windows, and a naked savage reeled and fell from his horse.

  4. This process was continued until four cuts were reeled which made a hunk, and this was taken off and was ready for use.

  5. It was turned by hand and when enough yarn had been reeled to make a cut the reel signaled it with a snap.

  6. He reeled to his feet; she sat looking up at him, white, silent hands twisted on her lap.

  7. Bofinger, who at this moment reeled and fell into the chair.

  8. He reeled to the door and with a last effort opened it without noise.

  9. But now Jovita's breath came broken by gasps, Dick reeled in his saddle, and brighter and brighter grew the sky.

  10. He opened it, but fell back with a cry before the dripping half-naked figure that reeled against the doorpost.

  11. The monstrous waves, as they arose to combat the frail vessel in her swift career, made a bellowing clamour, and once or twice the ship reeled and staggered, as though about to lurch forward and go under.

  12. His voice failed him, and he reeled heavily against the sturdy form of one of the warders who held him--his lips were flecked with blood and foam.

  13. As she worked, the door opened and Vivienne LeMar walked or, rather, reeled into the room.

  14. He reeled and fell, a limp, helpless little body, on Miss Salome Whitney's broad, spotless sandstone doorstep.

  15. Had she-- As he entered, the actress reeled to her feet and came to meet him.

  16. Four days after Marcel reeled into Whale River with his battered dogs, bringing the man who was winning back life for Julie Breton, an exhausted dog-team limped in from the south.

  17. With a scream, a Husky reeled backward with a shattered hand, as his gun, torn from his grasp by the impact of the bullet, rattled on the stones.

  18. For a moment she reeled like a top, then rolled two or three times over, and finally disappeared altogether.

  19. Occasionally he would make his appearance, holding his sides convulsed with laughter, as he reeled and tottered in every direction, but without ever losing his equilibrium.

  20. The constellations reeled swiftly by, swiftly each tree and stone and landmark fled past my onward career.

  21. For a time hunger and sleep contended, till the constellations reeled before my eyes and then were lost.

  22. Jean entered the room in such an exhausted state that he reeled as if he had been drunk.

  23. At the first step he took he reeled and fell with his burden.

  24. At the corner of the Rue Dix-Potiers Maurice had an attack of dizziness and reeled as if about to fall.

  25. He reeled like a drunken man as he labored onward, surrounded by his comrades, who now were jeering at him for having yielded.

  26. Mr. Hardy was stunned by the attack and reeled away; and Dr.

  27. La Tour d'Azyr, overcome, reeled away to a chair and sat down heavily.

  28. His assailant reeled backwards a few steps, and then his heel struck a baulk of timber left on the ground by some workmen that morning, and he sat down suddenly in the mud.

  29. His head almost reeled at the thought how often he must have heedlessly rambled over places where countless sums lay, scarcely covered by the turf beneath his feet.

  30. I reeled as if I had received a mortal blow.

  31. In fact, he revolutionized the whole establishment, and gave it such a rouse, that the very house reeled with it.

  32. Her captain never so much as suspected the presence of a British warship until his vessel reeled under the shock of the ram, trembled from stem to stern, and began to settle quickly by the head.

  33. Tom, as they rose up; but the equilibrium was no longer to be maintained, and he reeled back in the arms of me and Tom.

  34. His head reeled at sight of the stairs, and he did not dare to attempt to descend.

  35. The gravel was rattling behind us, the trunks reeled by, and the rushing water seemed flying upward toward me.

  36. Wal, Tom, he reeled off a yarn one night that was 'bout the toughest I ever hed the pullin' on.

  37. And she reeled off the talk to him by the yard.

  38. On the first play he shot the ball to Steve, and Steve, making a good catch, reeled off ten before he was brought down.

  39. Suddenly, however, he reeled into sanity, for Jude had struck him across the cheek with the back of a hand trembling with new-born emotion.

  40. Abject terror possessed Joyce and she reeled as she stood, clutching the blanket closer.

  41. Filmer reeled before this announcement, took the stranger in from head to foot, then remarked in an awed tone: "The hell you are!

  42. They fought like men who fight when they feel the halter round their necks, but they reeled before the bayonet, and were soon in full stampede towards the city, to tell their comrades that the Feringhees had come to put them to death.

  43. So sudden was the onslaught and so daring in its conception, the huge mass of rebels reeled and broke into a confused rout.

  44. The rebels reeled before the shock, and fled, leaving the buildings in our hands.

  45. Thus at the last moment he swung himself backwards with a wrench upon the bridle, and there was a scattering of mire and gravel as his horse reeled down the slope to the river.

  46. The trooper heard him and swung round, but even as he did so the newcomer flung his arms about him and they reeled together down the little stairway.

  47. His clasped hands were uplifted--the boat reeled under him--he was poised for the mad plunge!

  48. To Richard's seeing they reeled away in disgust, even as did his thought from the images which his companion's words suggested.

  49. In the colourless sky stars reeled among the fleets of racing cloud.

  50. The red and purple trunks of the great fir trees reeled away to right and left as the carriage swept forward down the long avenue.

  51. Innumerable cabbages, innumerable stunted, black-branched apple and pear trees, avenues of dilapidated pea and bean sticks, reeled away to right and left.


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