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Example sentences for "starred"

Lexicographically close words:
starn; starost; starosta; starostine; starre; starres; starrie; starring; starry; stars
  1. But to the unpondering ear the jubilation carried it, as to the eye tartans and white cockades made color, made high light, splashed and starred and redeemed the gray town.

  2. Starred all through was innocent merrymaking, license held in leash.

  3. Huge trees rose like the pillars of a cathedral nave, branching far above her head and shutting out the daylight; and up their trunks ran starred creepers of every hue, fighting their way up to the sun.

  4. It would be invidious to pursue the fates of this ill-starred evening.

  5. When he opened his eyes, which had remained closed in prayerful meditation during his rapid descent, he found himself in a vast vault, bespangled overhead with luminous points like the starred firmament.

  6. In the ill-starred war against Pekah, the king of the northern kingdom, he lost his first-born son, a great hero.

  7. The narrow street, running from the glittering Boulevard, was steeped in bluish gloom, starred at long intervals by a few gas-lamps.

  8. The news of the ill-starred attack on San Thomé reached Madrid on May 3, and London on the 8th.

  9. It is known that Raleigh crossed the Atlantic for a second time on board one of the ships of Gilbert's ill-starred expedition to the St. Lawrence in the winter of 1578.

  10. He chose a pleasant spot, in the full eye of the autumn sun, on a rounded boss of rock, whose crumbling clefts were still starred with wild pinks and rich yellow tormentils.

  11. A dappled Thracian charger bears the knight, His pasterns flecked and forehead starred with white.

  12. A good steady drill in arithmetic, geography, and language might have given his understanding a chance; but this ill-starred boy never had a steady drill in anything.

  13. Mr. Jefferson showed him the cipher letters of that mysterious and ill-starred adventurer, which convinced Mr. Clay that Burr was certainly a liar, if he was not a traitor.

  14. The order was then given to weigh anchor, and half-an-hour later the Zebra was standing out to sea on as ill- starred a voyage as vessel ever made.

  15. How I execrated that ill-starred jade, and the Dutch skiver, but for whom I might at this moment have been my own master.

  16. What strong heir or well-starred son would have sat side by side with such as these, letting a shameful bargain utterly unnerve the warrior?

  17. Books starred by an Idaho girl are: At the Foot of the Rainbow Promised Land Friar Tuck Treasure Island King of the Golden River Water Babies The Crisis The Varmint Set of Kipling Set of W.

  18. And likewise, though Belleair has plutocrats in abundance, they are not starred for their wealth, as are the Palm Beach millionaires, nor yet for their social position, but are rated strictly according to their club handicap.

  19. A rude iron cross, still standing by the road at Gudesburg, is said to mark the place where the ill-starred and unoffending young man met his doom.

  20. Facing them, on a throne of gold, with a tiny crown of gold starred with bright-eyed diamonds on her head sat a real little human girl, with a shabby old dolly in her arms.

  21. As she spoke, she led the way through a little narrow path, that crossed a heath where heather grew, and great masses of yellow starred ragwort.

  22. The moon shining that night was very bright, and, the heavens being starred in such brilliant splendor, they saw almost as well as by day.

  23. The night did not darken as it wore on, still starred brilliantly and lighted by a full, silver moon, which seemed to Will on these lone plains of the great West to have a size and splendor that he had never noticed in the East.

  24. The flaming rose glooms swarthy red; The borage gleams more blue; Dim-starred with white, a flowery bed Glimmers the rich dusk through.

  25. The wise men of the land said that the ill-starred child had perished, as they had foreseen, and the people echoed their words.

  26. No one, save the Seneschal of the Royal Household, and the Master of Ceremonies bore the unruly boy any malice, but every one pitied him as an ill-starred child.

  27. And the old nurse called the poor little creature, "an ill-starred child, a dear pitiable princeling.

  28. When George threw his arms around her neck and asked her if it were really true that he was an ill- starred child, and would never have anything but bad luck as long as he lived, she nearly burst into tears.

  29. It was a chestnut, with a starred forehead, parading in a far corner.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "starred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    decided; emphatic; forceful; forcible; italicized; pointed; positive; stressed; unfortunate