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Example sentences for "rescued"

Lexicographically close words:
rescinding; rescission; rescript; rescripts; rescue; rescuer; rescuers; rescues; rescueth; rescuing
  1. Divine service, and made him prisoner, but the Romans rescued him, and Cencius had to take to flight.

  2. He was indeed again rescued by force, but Frederick I.

  3. The Romans indeed rescued him, but the emperor’s sudden arrival in Rome led him, in order to avoid making inconvenient terms of peace, to seek his own and the church’s safety in flight.

  4. The people indeed rescued him, but he died some weeks after in a raging fever in his 80th year.

  5. Perhaps she is pinned down under the seat where you rescued me!

  6. It seemed that all were now rescued who could escape by their own efforts or be carried out by the workers.

  7. Then as if I had in sober truth rescued her from an Alpine height or an Arctic floe, I busied myself with nothing but lighting the gas and starting the fire.

  8. Señor Ortega stood waiting patiently with his handbag, like a rescued wayfarer.

  9. The rescued one craned his head as far as he could.

  10. I don't wonder your own people give it up if you have to be rescued every half-hour.

  11. She wasn't much of a boat when finally they got her into quiet water; but the main thing was they had escaped with their lives and rescued a good proportion of their winter provisions.

  12. Theseus receiving Thanks from the Rescued after killing the Minotaur.

  13. But Hercules appeared upon the scene, killed the monster, and rescued the maiden.

  14. The body of Achilles so treacherously slain was rescued by Ajax and Ulysses.

  15. But the hero himself undertook to slay the monster, on condition that, if the maiden were rescued by his valor, she should be his reward.

  16. He had rescued Andalusia both from herself and from subjection by the foreigner.

  17. A woman being haled to prison on such a pretext roused the people of the Albaycin; they rose in arms and rescued her, and Granada was filled with uproar and barricade-fights.

  18. A stray child was rescued from the streets by a society which is extending its operations very rapidly, and the little creature was placed as a boarder with a cottager in the country.

  19. I love the smiles of his wiser years; but they would never have been so calmly content, so cheering with all their inscrutable depth, had not the man been weighed down with some dark sorrow before his soul was rescued and purified.

  20. The rescued children are eagerly sought after in the Colonies; and I am not aware of any case in which one of the young emigrants has expressed discontent.

  21. I rescued him from a heap of soft coal below.

  22. For both as republic and state, it has busily heaped honours and solid rewards upon its sons who rescued it from the wilderness.

  23. I have a place in which we can hide, and as soon as he is rescued he must be taken out of sight.

  24. Some said he was the son of a Caucasian woman lost in the Gobi and rescued by a mad lama of Tibet, who became father of Moyen.

  25. The word that men had been rescued passed out of the shaft house before they could get out of the cage, and a great shout went up.

  26. I am glad your filial piety has, in some measure, rescued your father's name from that neglect.

  27. At the siege of Gibralter he was on a floating battery and blown up, but being uninjured was rescued from the sea and distinguished himself during the further operations against that fortress.

  28. Nightmares haunted him in which he was being hunted and mocked by a jeering crowd, until Sims arrived and rescued him in the cab.

  29. He also conducted a persevering search close to the enemy for wounded men, twenty of whom he rescued and brought back to the trenches.

  30. Among the officers rescued with Lady Sale was Lieutenant Mein, of Her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, who had distinguished himself by his gallantry in the retreat from Cabul, before he was taken prisoner.

  31. The gallant young officer at once returned and rescued his friend; but the delay was fatal.

  32. He would have been killed by the Afghans had not a sapper and two men of the 13th rushed forward and rescued him.

  33. He also rescued a wounded man from the open, though he had himself just been wounded by a bullet in his side.

  34. But you failed to discover that she was rescued from the Indians; gave birth to me, your daughter, Hester; and only died two years ago.

  35. I can't tell what I said, only I implored her not to think so, and told her that her having been rescued was a sign that Heaven would have her repent and come back, but she laughed that horrible laugh.

  36. Great was his joy a few weeks later when he was attracted by the shouting of the natives and looked up to see a white man and to find himself rescued at last.

  37. At its first trial more than two hundred persons were rescued from the wreck of the Ayrshire on the New Jersey coast, when no other means could have availed.

  38. At the same time the mess-cook prepares and serves out hot coffee alike to rescued and rescuers.

  39. When rescued they had been fourteen hours on the rock.

  40. Miss Lucy on our arrival rushed into her father's arms, and was warm in her praises of the gallant way in which Tom had rescued her.

  41. I hope," he added, "that we shall see you and your messmates again, and I shall be especially pleased to welcome that brave young fellow who so gallantly rescued my daughter.

  42. They boldly boarded the burning ships and rescued the perishing crews.

  43. He in a short time returned, and then, to my surprise, gave his mother and sister a full account of the way I had rescued Monsieur Planterre from the hands of the mob.

  44. That noble fellow, Hill, knows that such may be the case as well as I do; and I admire his calmness, and the care he takes not to show us that he fears he and his people may suffer the fate from which they rescued our ship's company.

  45. Mr Martin and his wife and daughter warmly expressed their gratitude to us for having rescued them from their perilous position, saying that they must have perished had we not come to their assistance.

  46. I went to bed with a heavy heart, thinking how many times Ndova had rescued us from hunger and perhaps starvation.

  47. It was a similar contempt of justice that caused the Americans to revolt, and most happily rescued that fine country from the worst of despotism.

  48. Very prudently, there was no attempt made that night to take into custody the man who had been rescued, or those who had rescued him.

  49. And Abisai the son of Sarvia rescued him, and striking the Philistine killed him.

  50. So David recovered all that the Amalecites had taken, and he rescued his two wives.

  51. I am speaking of my sister, Olga Petrovitch, whom you rescued from the hands of Major Devinsky.

  52. I dare say this fair Dulcinea del Toboso, whom your lance so gallantly rescued from the power of the brigands, was, after all, not worthy of your devoted affections.

  53. He well knew the dreadful deeds which had been done by the ministers of religion and he could never venture to entrust the rescued girl within the powers of the infuriated monks.

  54. By acting as I would desire, you will deserve the warmest gratitude from all you benefit, and the King himself will in time learn to thank you for having rescued him from the thraldom of the tyrant who now holds him in such abject subjection.

  55. But she says you have to do these things when you have a genius in the house, and cites the case of Kipling's "Recessional," which was rescued from the depths of his wastebasket by his wife.

  56. Mrs. Elliott rescued the drawing, smoothed it out, framed it, and was allowed to hang it in her chamber.

  57. Otoo and I lived with the natives of the atoll for a week, when we were rescued by a French cruiser and taken to Tahiti.

  58. Vessel containing French and Belgian refugees sunk near Calais, probably by a mine, the passengers being rescued by a British ship; Germans claim that the British ships have been driven back from the Belgian coast.

  59. If any man had rescued you from shipwreck or from a fire, you would assuredly hold yourselves bound to him by a debt of everlasting thankfulness.

  60. It is a woman, Eugene, I rescued from absolute starvation, and she is so grateful, and seems so desirous of doing something to render herself useful, that I am mortified almost at her sense of the obligation.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rescued" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    emancipated; free; freed; liberated; redeemed; released; unbound; untied