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Example sentences for "supported"

Lexicographically close words:
supplyed; supplying; support; supportable; supporte; supporter; supporters; supporteth; supporting; supportive
  1. Supported by thy friend, and by thy king.

  2. Behind her comes the KING under a canopy, supported by four barons; courtiers follow, soldiers conclude the procession; as soon as it has entered the church the music ceases.

  3. She was seconded by an irregular but impressive chorus of admonition upon the perils of delay, led by Mercia in person and supported by a bevy of Christian Martyrs and Roman Dancing-Girls.

  4. I took the foot, supported on either hand by the President of the Boat Club and the Assistant Professor of Comparative Theology.

  5. Myself, I supported the favourite, for reasons of my own.

  6. It will show that zeal and love and faith must be supported by ample common sense and force of character, as in Mr. Holcombe's case, if great results are to hoped for.

  7. These Missions have to be supported by rich Christians, and when you find a man that has got much money, you will find that he is not a fool.

  8. Having two pieces of artillery, I ordered them to go forward on the road, supported by Colonel Ward's regiment, dismounted, and the remainder of the command to move in column in supporting distance.

  9. He pursued as they fled, and soon, supported by Captain W.

  10. Forrest was to move on the southeastern side of Nashville, supported by the Kentucky infantry brigade, and Morgan was instructed to dash into Edgefield and burn the cars, while Forrest was making all the racket he could.

  11. That night Breckinridge's entire battalion was sent to the town, supported by Bennett's regiment.

  12. They went forward gallantly, supported by a part of Ward's regiment.

  13. Upon the day before, Colonel Breckinridge had been ordered to move to Lebanon with his brigade, and a section of Byrne's battery, and was informed that he would be supported by Gano.

  14. They both supported themselves by honest toil, and their lonely and friendless situation had drawn them together with a warmth of affection, that even between a brother and sister has been rarely felt.

  15. A man who had escaped and just joined us, appeared so utterly terror-stricken at this discovery, that it was with difficulty he could be supported on his horse by the strong troopers who rode beside him.

  16. The logs and bushes were piled and burnt by her own strong and untiring hand; crops were raised, by which, with the fruits of her fishing and unerring rifle, she supported herself and her hardy brood of children.

  17. Gassendi supported this doctrine, and Newton demonstrated it.

  18. Other profound mythologists assure us that she fled into Arabia Felix; and this opinion is as well supported as the other.

  19. All night long she sat with her head resting on her hand, and her long black tresses falling neglected over the arm that supported her throbbing temples.

  20. The extraordinarily active zeal with which the clergy of monotheistic religions attack suicide is not supported either by the Bible or by any valid reasons; so it looks as if their zeal must be instigated by some secret motive.

  21. To make a slave-State of Kansas, the Missouri Compromise had been repealed, and a bogus legislature elected and supported by the successive Missouri invasions and the guerrilla war of 1856.

  22. Though Southern in feeling and pro-slavery in sentiment, he was true to his oath and his flag; and had he been properly encouraged and supported by his Government, would evidently have merited no reproach for inefficiency or indifference.

  23. Douglas had the ingenuity to be supported in the late contest, both as the best means to break down and to uphold the slave interest.

  24. But the Supreme Court of Missouri, so far from standing alone on this question, is supported by the decisions of other slave-States, including those in which it may be supposed there was the least disposition to favor emancipation.

  25. Long before the meeting of Congress, the Administration organ, the "Washington Union," heralded and strongly supported the new departure.

  26. Scarcely had they entered the conservatory when Romaine appeared, leaning heavily upon her brother's arm, and similarly supported upon the other side by her mother.

  27. For thus favoring themselves they are paid a sum that would have supported the national government previous to the late war.

  28. The effete and placid Thedor was supported by a Douma (Council) of five.

  29. Scarcely was this accomplished than he whirled away, as his father had done, into the troubled affairs of Poland, where he supported Duke Konrad of Mazovia against the party opposed to his regency, his murdered brother, Duke Lesko V.

  30. The Novgorodskie had supported the coup d'etat, and their Archbishop Makarie was rewarded with the vacant post.

  31. The Archbishop of Gniezno, who had at one time and another supported the Valois and Habsburg parties, on this occasion exerted his influence on behalf of the Rurikovitch.

  32. Secretly supported by many of the notables of Moskva, and openly by those of Novgorod, he resolved upon a bold bid for the recovery of his ascendency.

  33. Supported by the double certificate of Heaven and Sarai, with the iarlikh[63] of Usbek in his hands and his compliant Metropolitan at his side, the Grand Prince stood head and shoulders above his brother princes and would-be competitors.

  34. The influence of the latter, who had loyally supported his brother in all his vicissitudes, prevented the province from falling to pieces, and an unlooked-for event gave Galicia new importance.

  35. In one corner, supported by solid posts, he builds a shed, simply covered with branches; that his flock may there be sheltered from the heat of the day.

  36. Whether the supposition, which seems to be supported by the experiment above detailed, be correct or not, it is in no sense more wonderful than the facts which are already known respecting this curious and perfect organ.

  37. Because the elephant's head is so heavy, that it could not have been supported at the end of a long neck (or lever), without a provision of immense muscular power.

  38. Another extraordinary assertion is one which comes supported by a degree of authenticity that entitles it to consideration.

  39. Because they form a vacuum with the smooth and moist surfaces of their bodies, and are supported by atmospheric pressure.

  40. We cannot reasonably dispute the truth of these ecstatic trances, the elevations of the body of some saints to a certain distance from the ground, since these circumstances are supported by so many witnesses.

  41. He entered, supported on either side by his sponsors, Richard and William Longsword, and knelt gracefully down before the Queen, though more than half the homage was silently rendered to Edith, who sat on her right hand.

  42. But amidst the abject superstition which now prevailed, the military spirit also had universally diffused itself; and though not supported by art or discipline, was become the general passion of the nations governed by the feudal law.

  43. The front part is of rather smaller diameter and is cut off on a slant, which enables the jar to be lifted and supported on the larva's back as it moves.

  44. Occasionally poles are seen extending across the reentering angles of a house or are supported on the coping and rafters.

  45. The other warp stick is supported in a similar manner, while the thread is passed around both in a horizontal direction preparatory to placing and stretching it in a vertical position for the final working of the blanket.

  46. The upper portion of the flight, consisting of three steps, has been abruptly turned at right angles to the main flight, and is supported upon rude poles and beams.

  47. The outer end of the lower pole is supported from the roof beams by a cord or rope, the latter being embedded in the mud plastering with which the hood is finished.

  48. In an upper story of Walpi also, partitions occur that are not built immediately over the lower walls, but on large beams supported on masonry piers.

  49. The front of the hood is supported by a second flat stone which rests at one end on a rude shoulder in the projecting slab, and at the other end upon the front edge of the buttress.

  50. In addition to the principal mantel ledge, a light wooden shelf was arranged against the wall on one side of the flue, one of its ends being supported by an upright piece of wood with a cap, and the other resting on a peg driven into the wall.

  51. On the east side of the lodge was an entrance supported by stakes and closed with a buffalo robe, and the whole structure was then thickly covered first with boughs, then with sand, giving it the appearance of a small earth mound.

  52. These holes receive one end of a warp stick, the other end, being supported in a corresponding hole of the heavy, movable stone seat.

  53. The opposite side of the hood is supported by a flat stone, firmly set on edge into the masonry of the wall.

  54. Above the great open fire-places were mantels of black marble, one of which was supported by white figures.

  55. A broad hall ran through the house, and above either wide doorway the portico roof was supported by iron brackets.

  56. In 1792 he came to America and supported himself for a time teaching English to French emigrants.

  57. When it is found that the interests of other organizations conflict with the program of the church, the interests of the American public will give the preference in support to the church, or to the tax-supported institution.

  58. They should be supported according to their needs through missionary aid, and their acceptance of difficult work should enhance rather than lessen their standing in the church.

  59. The church needs organizations supported from funds not coming through the regular channels founded on the budgets of individual churches.

  60. The ceiling should be supported by steel beams instead of posts.

  61. But as soon as the fight against the saloon had been carried to the point of its legal elimination many of those who once supported the barroom because of the profit to them became its opponents.

  62. According to a theory originally advanced by Professor Hull, and ably supported by Professor Bonney, the pebbles of the Bunter were mainly derived from the Paleozoic Rocks of the N.

  63. Where the dip is low, and the overhanging rocks are supported by the vast pillars left by the workmen, these excavations form magnificent caverns of peculiar weirdness and beauty.

  64. This hospital is supported by the friends of the system of homœopathy.

  65. The weight which gives the blow is supported by a strap passing over a wheel in constant motion.

  66. The former School of Art, a voluntary association supported by public subscription (and to which Miss Ryland had been a generous donor) being transferred to the Corporation.

  67. The Institute is supported by the chief medical men of the town and neighbourhood.

  68. Guizot left it on record that when he first visited this country nothing surprised him more than the constant recurrence of the words that met him at every turn in London--“supported by voluntary contributions.

  69. The Charity is supported by voluntary contributions, supplemented to a considerable extent by payments on behalf of the inmates.

  70. The article is supported on a piece of pumice stone and the necessary heat produced by the flame from a mouth blowpipe.

  71. This is supported by annual subscriptions.

  72. The chairman having taken his seat with great solemnity, the secretary supported him on his right hand, and the porter stood bolt upright behind them, forming a warm background of waistcoat.

  73. The old oak roof supported by cross-beams, the hoary walls, the marble tablets, and the cracked stone pavement, were refreshing to look at.

  74. Martin, taking the foot of the bed, supported her on the other.

  75. The door was thrown open at this juncture, and Miss Pecksniff entered, tottering, and supported by her three bridesmaids.

  76. But the wall, supported by an earthwork, did not give, and Longstreet's riflemen lay behind it waiting.

  77. His uniform, of the finest cloth, was heavy with gold braid and gold epaulets, and the great yellow silk sash about his waist supported his gold-hilted sword.

  78. Hill held him on his feet, and the young staff officers, now crowding around, supported him.

  79. Buford and Reynolds had shown the penetration and resolution of Jackson himself, and their troops had supported them with a courage and tenacity never surpassed in battle.

  80. The Church of England to be alone the true and orthodox, and to be supported out of the coffers of the State.

  81. Turning to Pearson, who had so nobly supported him in his arduous labours among the sick daring the voyage: "What wilt thou, friend, that I should call this place?

  82. Wenlock thanked him, and supported by a couple of men was carried below.


  83. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supported" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accepted; acclaimed; admired; admitted; approved; backed; borne; favored; favorite; held; popular; received; sustained