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Example sentences for "requested"

Lexicographically close words:
repute; reputed; reputedly; request; requeste; requestes; requesting; requests; requiem; requiems
  1. They each then requested the conveyance of some last communication to their families, and, in a few moments, the drop fell.

  2. They entered into conversation in the course of the evening; and Dillon requested her to meet him on the following day, as he had something particular to say to her.

  3. As some little security against idle application, it is requested that letters may be addressed (post paid) A.

  4. The demeanour of Greenacre, after his conviction, partook of the same firmness and determination which he had hitherto maintained; and upon the day after his condemnation he requested to be supplied with pens, ink, and paper.

  5. On Wednesday morning, a woman requested a young man to make his way over the garden-wall, and ascertain if a pig that belonged to Mrs. Franks had any provision.

  6. A new application on her behalf was therefore decided upon to Mr. St. John Long, who was requested to devise some means by which the impending mischief might be prevented.

  7. A carrier's cart passed him soon after he reached the public road, and his load being heavy, he requested permission to place it on the tail-board.

  8. Death song--It seems to have been a chivalrous custom among the eastern tribes to give to the condemned prisoner who requested it a chance to recite his warlike deeds and to sing his death song before proceeding to the final torture.

  9. I observed Blanket turned aside to avoid the serpent, but made no signs of attack, and I requested the interpreter to get down and kill it.

  10. The nobles, having requested Alvarado to allow Montezuma to join them, and been refused, prepared now to keep the festival without him.

  11. Cortes at once knew that he was to have a struggle, but, desirous of peace if possible, he requested of the people through Aguilar, that he might meet their chiefs.

  12. Afterwards, having married Doña Catalina, upon the birth of his first son, he requested the Governor to stand as the god-father.

  13. I invited this young man in, and requested him to take a seat with me at the table.

  14. The officer on duty, when requested by the convict to allow him to ascend the ladder, coolly drew his gun, and told him if he dared to ascend he would send buckshot into his body.

  15. The latter is requested “not to forget what is due from one gentleman, though in a humble sphere, to another.

  16. Mr. Knox then requested Mr. Superintendent Dunlop to communicate what had occurred to the Commissioners of Police.

  17. Gentlemen are requested to act honourably, and send me the promised percentage on the Two Thousand, for the labourer is worthy of his hire.

  18. It is not easy to disprove a calumny, and the onus of proof ought always to be thrown upon the calumniator, but this calumniator was anonymous and intangible, so the son of the victim was requested to repel the charge.

  19. In April of the following year the Librarian reported to the Committee that he had received during the year 10 pounds for fines, and he requested that he might retain the amount for the purpose of forming a Local Reference Library.

  20. In 1879 the Librarian requested the Committee to allow him to purchase works relating to Norwich, which eventually led to the formation of the Local Collection, which is described on pp.

  21. We are requested to state that the insane person who lately attempted to obtain an entrance into Buckingham Palace was not the Finsbury renegade, Mr. Wakley.

  22. The three Senecas requested them to demolish it and go away, which the Frenchmen refused to do; on which the Senecas asked the English envoys, Schuyler and Livingston, to induce the Governor of New York to destroy the obnoxious building.

  23. The treatment of the captives was told to the Marquis de la Maisonfort, late captain of the "Vigilant," now a prisoner on board the ship he had commanded, and he was requested to lay the facts before Duchambon.

  24. Radulphus having, apparently in reply to this letter, requested Colet to proceed to explain the other days, Colet, in the second letter, takes up the subject where he left it in the first.

  25. The chief men of this ancient town, having heard of his approach, sent him a present of wines, requested his company to dinner on the following day, and offered him the escort of one of their number for the remainder of his journey.

  26. It is particularly requested that this regulation be adhered to.

  27. It is particularly requested that the cadets bring their linen clean and clothes and boots in good order when they join the ship, and also when they return from leave, and that the outfit as required be complete.

  28. It is, therefore, requested that their friends do not give them any money except on joining or on their return from the vacations, and then the amount must not exceed ten shillings.

  29. Parents and guardians are, therefore, requested to pay no bills that may be sent to them.

  30. This oval piece was surrounded by hedges of enormous growth, and the cultivator was requested to remove to another piece more out of the way.

  31. All the tenants are earnestly requested to attend regularly at the House of God during the times of Divine Service, with their families, to the best of their abilities.

  32. John Bunsby had requested his passengers to go below; but this imprisonment in so narrow a space, with little air, and the boat bouncing in the gale, was far from pleasant.

  33. As I was requested in the circular I received, I indicated the section of the building where I would like to be, and this room was assigned to me.

  34. Dick, who had requested Tom to let him take the wheel for a time.

  35. The chief modestly requested similar honors for his "papoose," and that individual was treated to the straps of a captain.

  36. He began to cry and requested permission to go and wash his face and quiet down.

  37. Chekalinsky shook him by the hand in a friendly manner, requested him not to stand on ceremony, and then went on dealing.

  38. Everyone not here on business is requested to keep away!

  39. He requested Raskolnikoff to sit down once more, continuing, nevertheless, his tramp about the room.

  40. Monsieur Auffray rose, as surrogate-guardian, and requested to be heard.

  41. The grandmother made a vow, and requested the priests to say a mass every morning at daybreak before Pierrette rose,--a mass at which she and Brigaut might be present.

  42. In spite of the previous ignoring of his protest, he now, on March 3, requested that the Lords should define his powers, and did so in such a way as to imply a demand for more extended rights and privileges than he at present possessed.

  43. They were next requested to sing two or three of their native songs.

  44. Mr. Tyson seeing that there was not a minute to be lost, requested the constables to go on board with him for the purpose of rescuing the free man who had been deprived of his rights.

  45. Mr. Tyson requested that he might be asked into the room where we were then sitting, and if further privacy were necessary he should have it.

  46. That the petition now read be adopted by this meeting, and presented to both Houses of Parliament; and that the Right Honorable Earl Stanhope be requested to present the same to the House of Lords, and Lord Sandon to the House of Commons.

  47. He accordingly requested certain individuals, who had sometimes lent him their assistance, to accompany him to the scene of suspicion, in order to obtain, if possible, additional proof.

  48. The trader, who seemed dumb with confusion, made no answer; and Mr. Tyson requested his boatmen to row off.

  49. He then requested it to be added to the above, that 'if he tells a lie, God sees him by day and by night.

  50. Under these circumstances, he wrote a note to the agent, Brown, and told him that it would be wrong to leave the school shut up while the children of the neighborhood remained untaught, and requested him to seek another teacher.

  51. And then Claudia arose, drank the ice-water brought her by the viscount, set the empty glass on a stand and requested Lord Vincent to give her his arm down the room, as she wished to speak to Captain Burghe.

  52. And then Professor Adams arose and announced the young author of the thesis which he had just read as the successful competitor for the highest honors of the school, and requested him to come forward and be invested with the prize.

  53. I requested him to render for me into English two or three places that were beyond my reach; and when he had done it, he asked me, in French, what I had done for Mrs. Jervis.

  54. He requested that the bodies of our soldiers who had fallen in the streets should be tenderly cared for, and sent to their State, Massachusetts.

  55. I had been privately requested to say nothing about woman suffrage, to which Mrs. Grey had not then given in her adhesion.

  56. Before the dessert was served, we were requested to leave the table and return to the sitting-room.

  57. Before taking leave of me the visitor named a certain day on which he requested that we would come to breakfast at his house.

  58. From the school I went to the hut of a colored woman, who had requested the honor of entertaining me at lunch, and who waited upon me with great good-will.

  59. She accordingly requested him one day to meet her on the following morning, before the hour for the family breakfast.

  60. Shortly after his retirement from active business, the Board of Brokers of New York requested him to sit to A.

  61. When she had finished her diatribe the chairman of the legislative committee said to our chairman, Mr. Blackwell, "A list of questions has been handed to me which the petitioners for woman suffrage are requested to answer.

  62. We have sometimes been requested to supplement our annual congress by an additional day's session at some place easily reached from the city in which the main meeting had been appointed to be held.

  63. When they requested me to speak, which they did presently, I could only say, "I am with you.

  64. I was requested to leave my poem in the hands of the committee for publication in a volume which would contain the other tributes of the evening.

  65. The chairman of the committee of invitation privately requested me beforehand not to speak either of woman suffrage or of the Christian religion.

  66. In her absence I was requested to pour tea.

  67. To this end it was requested that certain treaties with foreign nations which imposed restrictions on the trade of various parts of the empire with each other should be denounced.

  68. I requested all except the surgeons to leave the room.

  69. A young lieutenant requested to be placed on the witness-stand to testify of one occasion when he knew that the prisoner had passed their picket-lines.

  70. Then they requested a narrative of my journey all the way from Kentucky.

  71. The first requested permission of the guard, and was allowed to enter with the express provision that his conversation should be confined to religious topics.

  72. They requested to have our names written in the little diaries many of them carried.

  73. The ladies who had been so bountiful, requested some of our party to stand up that they might have a good look at them.

  74. Then they requested an hour to pray before entering the future world.


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