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Example sentences for "returning from"

  • I have not been at Paris; I am returning from Chartres.

  • After that, he gave a mission with Father Vincent in Hull; in returning from Hull, he stopped at Lincoln to visit Mr. Sibthorpe.

  • He found at his lodgings, on returning from a quĂȘte a few days after, l,000f.

  • Brunetto describes himself as returning from an embassy to the King of Spain, on which he had been sent by the Guelph party from Florence.

  • Not fifty months shall be passed, before thou shalt learn, by woeful experience, the difficulty of returning from banishment to thy native city" v.

  • You had not been married two years when, on returning from Italy, your husband told me that he aspired to royalty.

  • The skunk, returning from a neighborly visit to the Hermit's cabin, probably with a view to a meal of fat chicken, advanced with its usual air of owning the earth.

  • Late afternoon of a bitter March day found Dave Lansing, hunter and trapper, returning from a trip to the nearest town after supplies.

  • It was Pal, returning from an excursion of his own into the woods.

  • Aaron King and Conrad Lagrange were returning from town.

  • Aaron King and Conrad Lagrange, returning from a long walk, overtook Myra Willard, who was returning from town, just as the woman of the disfigured face arrived at the gate of the little house in the orange grove.

  • I expressed to the Duc de Beauvilliers, with my accustomed freedom, that the Duc de Bourgogne seemed to me very gay on returning from so sad a campaign.

  • This was the name employed when the King changed his coat, in going or returning from hunting or a walk.

  • The next day Hilary Vane, returning from one of his periodical trips to the northern part of the State, invaded his son's office.

  • Mrs. Maturin, returning from an errand, paused for an instant in the doorway, and ran forward and bent over Janet.

  • One day, returning from an excursion to Fuentarabia, she stood waiting for a train on the platform of the little frontier station at Hendaye.

  • Five months later, Alfonso XIII, returning from Germany, where he had been to pay his accession-visit to the Berlin Court, stopped to spend a day incognito in Paris.

  • For instance, one afternoon she sent for me on returning from a morning excursion: "M.

  • At this juncture the servant unfortunately appeared on the stairs, returning from an unsuccessful pursuit of the robber.

  • These owners, returning from one of their many holidays abroad, had found on shipboard the Lady of Cedar Hill, on her way back from Norway.

  • In the agony of all this Jack, returning from a "detail" to the quartermaster's tent, heard his name shouted where his tent had been.

  • Revolving in his troubled thoughts ways to relieve these despondent moods, Sir Donald is returning from a trip to the station.

  • Returning from one of these calls, Esther speaks of the curious actions of a shabbily dressed old man then in sight, whom she often had met.

  • Gentlemen, some of the highest station, going or returning from court, were often the victims of the depredations committed in the royal precincts.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "returning from" 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:
    boil them; civil war; clear water; eight members; eighty yards; fortnight later; great interest; holy word; horizontal position; lesser degree; maternal impressions; must hurry; not seem; oxidizing agent; proper person; religious significance; returning from; returning home; stir until the sugar; story told; things must; what passed; will lose