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Example sentences for "sent out"

  • Before we left Noyers we sent out a summons, calling the Huguenots in all parts of France to take up arms again.

  • You will say that I hold them as hostages for the four prisoners, and that I demand that these shall be sent out here, with their horses and the arms of my two friends, and under the escort of two unarmed troopers.

  • Our cavalry was kept well to the front and frequent expeditions were sent out to watch the movements of the enemy.

  • The day before the departure the following order was issued: "Paroled prisoners will be sent out of here to-morrow.

  • A communication would doubtless have been made from the Home Office to some one at Folking, and as that would be sent out by the foot-postman it would not be received before nine in the morning.

  • It had now been decided that Bagwax was to be sent out to Sydney at the expense of the Caldigates.

  • In order that it might be done away with everywhere Congress (in January, 1865) sent out to the states a Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, declaring slavery abolished throughout the United States.

  • Count Saxe at length quitted his lines; and by way of retaliation, sent out detachments to ravage the Low-countries, to the very gates of Ghent and Bruges.

  • They reminded him of the declaration, in which he had promised that all the foreign forces should be sent out of the kingdom.

  • The mareschal de Lorges, in the beginning of June, passed the Rhine at Philipsburgh; and posting himself at Brucksal, sent out parties to ravage the country.

  • Louis XIV in 1689 sent out an expedition to colonize the lower Mississippi.

  • To this end he sent out a reconnaissance in the early morning, which included G Battery Horse Artillery, the 9th Lancers, and the ponderous 4.

  • An answer was given that a messenger with power to treat should be sent out, but in the interval Cronje had changed his mind, and disappeared with a snarl of contempt into his burrows.

  • That a strong contingent of Volunteers be sent out.

  • No, we did not begin in 1871, except with a single vessel in which I was interested, and which we sent out to see what we could do with it.

  • The only Greenland vessel we ever had any connection with was a Dutch vessel, sent out by an Amsterdam company last year, for the prosecution of the finner whale fishing at Iceland.

  • It seems a little peculiar, does it not, that the summer fishing should be prosecuted in the big boats, and that only the small boats should be sent out in winter?

  • The next time he sent out families, instead of single men.

  • For in 1626 the directors, ignorant of his failure, sent out a reinforcement of nine ships and five yachts under the command of the redoubtable Piet Hein.

  • This was bad enough, but it was made worse by the type of men whom the directors, all of whom belonged to the patrician regent-families, sent out to fill the posts of governor-general and the subordinate governorships.

  • When Le Geographe stood outside Sydney Harbour, a boat's crew of Flinders' bluejackets from the Investigator, themselves fresh from their own long voyage, had to be sent out to work her into port.

  • Holland Rose (Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era page 139) heightens the effect of his argument by stating that Bonaparte "sent out men-of-war to survey the south coast of Australia for a settlement.

  • The Church Missionary Society, founded in 1799, sent out, five years afterwards, its first representatives, MM.

  • Before he sent out a party detailed for a night attack that might easily go astray, he bethought himself of the device by which a ship is often guided into her haven, and hung up two lamps in the town as leading lights across the veld.

  • The mounted troops under Dundonald were sent out at mid-day to reconnoitre towards the N.

  • Bienville, in which he informed him that the Spaniards had sent out a detachment from New Mexico to go to the Missouris and to establish a post in that country.

  • He stated that on that occasion there were forty thousand Indians assembled, and consequently large hunting parties were sent out daily to procure food for such a vast host.

  • While at Taos, he was informed that Armijo had already sent out a company of one hundred soldiers to meet the caravan, and was to follow in person, with a thousand more.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    copper wire; eight inches; ground cloves; had hitherto; leave this; sent against; sent away; sent back; sent down; sent for; sent him; sent messengers; sent orders; sent out; sent over; sent the; sent thee; sent through; sent unto; sentient beings; sentry duty; shall choose; silent prayer; travel from; volcanic origin; whoever they