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Example sentences for "sent the"

  • I assumed command of the whole and the first night sent the commander of the other regiment the parole and countersign.

  • The moment I received the news of Van Dorn's success I sent the cavalry at the front back to drive him from the country.

  • Jackson and Bolivar were yet threatened, but I sent the reinforcements.

  • As soon as these shoals were passed, I sent the boats to lie in the channel that led to the harbour, and by this time it began to blow.

  • I had heard before, that when he sent the work to Petersburgh for imperial approbation, it was returned with orders to increase the panegyric.

  • In gallantry I sent the ring, The token of a lovesick king: Under fair Mab's auspicious name >From me the trifling present came.

  • And again he sent the third: and they wounded him also and cast him out.

  • And when Benadad heard this, he sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel: and they took Ahion, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the walled cities of Nephtali.

  • He sent the King a copy, without informing her.

  • Afterwards he sent the Duke of St. Albans to our King openly, in order to compliment him upon the marriage of the Duc de Bourgogne, but in reality to obtain the dismissal.

  • Frontenac, thereupon, sent the Chevalier de Clermont to scout as far as Lake Champlain.

  • But as soon as he was alone, he sent the manuscript to the printer.

  • He sent the letter by an orderly, and attacked his correspondence with a desire to put gunpowder on his quill.

  • He rejected with disdain the mild representations of the pope; he sent the marquis de Lavarden as his ambassador to Rome, with a formidable train, to insult Innocent even in his own city.

  • Philip king of Spain, alarmed at the reduction of Gibraltar, sent the marquis de Villadarias with an army to retake it.

  • My mother agreed, sent the invitation, which was accepted.

  • First by means of letters from the kindly priest whom we met in the camp of armed men; but he is now gone to his own country, and I sent the money to his brother.

  • I know when the hospitable old lady sent the dooli.

  • I sent the money to suffice for one year, and then I came, as thou seest me, to watch for thee going up into the Gates of Learning.

  • Dearest Cousin, "According to your desire I sent the warrant to sell the 'Swallow' and her guns.

  • Having secured his prizes, he sent the "Swallow" back to the mouth of the river to refit.

  • The French Governor of St. Martinique proved very hospitable, and, moreover, sent the Princes a timely warning that all the English possessions in the West Indies had surrendered to the Parliament.

  • Sent the boat to examine the reefs of coral near us.

  • Set up our rigging and stays fore and aft; sent the carpenter on shore to cut spars to fit our several guns on.

  • Employed making a raft of our spars and main keel: sent the carpenters on shore to build a punt.

  • Sent the 1st Mate with 4 hands in launch to the River to try for some birds.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another woman; but here; did this; does the; fine fresh; our political; remarks upon; sent against; sent ambassadors; sent away; sent for; sent forward; sent from; sent him; sent home; sent out; sent post; sent the; sent thither; sent through; sentient beings; sick person; stand upright; strain them; tartaric acid; under heaven