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Example sentences for "sent against"

  • We sent against them a single shout; and they became like the dry sticks of the fold-builders.

  • The Adites called the truth a lie: but how great was my vengeance and my menace; For we sent against them a roaring wind in a day of continued distress: It tore men away as though they were uprooted palm stumps.

  • Whatever is in the Heavens and the Earth is God's!

  • The Talmudists also enlarge on the honour paid to Adam.

  • Yet it was forbidden you to drive them out.

  • When the Holy One, Blessed be He, would create man, He took counsel with the Angels and said to them, We will make man in our image.

  • Lucius AEmilius Paullus, the consul, sent against Perseus, defeats him, and reduces all Macedonia to subjection.

  • Livius, though the landing-places were rugged and difficult, sent against them a party of the auxiliaries, composed of Issaeans, and light infantry of Smyrna.

  • Caius Plautius, the praetor, sent against him, is equally unfortunate.

  • Across the lake at Fort Frontenac the enemy held a force ready to be sent against Oswego if Shirley went on, for the capture of Braddock’s papers had revealed all the English plans.

  • Thereupon, the Resident was ordered by His Excellency to quit Gwalior, and the Dada prepared his troops to oppose forces of the Company, if sent against him; hence the campaign now about to take place.

  • O true believers, remember the favor of GOD towards you, when armies of infidels came against you,d and we sent against them a wind, and hosts of angels which ye saw not:e and GOD beheld that which ye did.

  • Verily we sent against them a roaringl wind, on a day of continued ill luck;m 20 it carried men away, as though they had been roots of palm-trees forcibly torn up.

  • And in the tribe of Ad also was a sign: when we sent against them a destroying wind;u it touched not aught whereon it came, but it rendered the same as a thing rotten, and reduced to dust.

  • Allah to you when there came down upon you hosts, so We sent against them a strong wind and hosts, that you saw not, and Allah is Seeing what you do.

  • Y: So We sent against them a furious Wind through days of disaster, that We might give them a taste of a Penalty of humiliation in this life; but the Penalty of a Hereafter will be more humiliating still: and they will find no help.

  • Remember Allah's favour unto you when there came against you hosts, and We sent against them a great wind and hosts ye could not see.

  • Shigemori's record shows him to have been at once a statesman and a general.

  • Now when Vittigis heard this, he sent against them an army with Unilas and Pissas as its commanders.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also occurs; another individual; contagious diseases; country parson; favorable impression; here intended; more severe; mountain climbing; original plan; particular instances; sent ambassadors; sent back; sent for; sent forward; sent free; sent him; sent messengers; sent orders; sent post; sent thee; sent them; sent word; sentient beings; sentry duty; things above; what little