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Example sentences for "tackled"

Lexicographically close words:
taciturnity; tack; tacked; tacking; tackle; tackler; tacklers; tackles; tackling; tacks
  1. The Chancellor quarter tackled surely and Ira's attempt to get past him failed.

  2. Immediately little Brown has it, passes to Martin, who on being tackled passes to The Don.

  3. Other diseases are caused by spirits not amenable to herb-dwelling spirits; they must be tackled by spirits of a more powerful grade.

  4. To my great surprise, that same afternoon he deliberately tackled me on the subject of the real reason that induced Osai Kwofi Kari Kari to cross the Prah in January, 1873.

  5. However, one distinguished critic has tackled my Fetish, and gallantly: the writer in the Edinburgh Review.

  6. Once inside the kraal, the wild animals are tackled by the tame elephants ridden by mahouts, and are secured with hide ropes to the trees of the stockade, which is formed of stout timber for the purpose.

  7. The marquis must have spoken about the kind of education which Julien had received for one of the guests tackled him on Horace.

  8. This varied work, tackled as it was with all the ardour of suffering ambition, soon robbed Julien of that fresh complexion which he had brought from the provinces.

  9. Here, as soon as the door had been shut, Mr. and Mrs. Dale both tackled him.

  10. Then for the first time it tackled the heart of the matter, in revising the commodity rates in the great cases now under review.

  11. So he was put to work and the first thing he tackled was beans.

  12. Paul Bunyan tackled a real problem when he came to Westwood.

  13. Many years' experience of being tackled at full speed on the football field had taught him how to fall.

  14. Finally, in desperation, I tackled the huge unabridged dictionary, with the same result.

  15. Throwing fastidiousness and delicacy to the winds, I seized the heap of string and tackled the job.

  16. One day, though, one of the salesmen whom I had turned away tackled Grant while I was downtown.

  17. His first impression was that he had tackled a dozen Oochaks instead of one.

  18. Smothered under Pete's heavier body Neewa began to realize, at the end of those three or four minutes, that he had tackled more than was good for him.

  19. They tackled me first on Flobert rifles; I quoted them at exactly 10 per cent, above cost to import, but they declared I was too high.

  20. The first man I tackled was a pious-looking deacon, and I began to whistle 'The Ninety and Nine' as I went toward him, so that he might understand that I was a Bible class scholar.

  21. Then we tackled the rose trellis, speedily completing it, for only two arches remained to be built, one of the carpenters having built three for me the day before, while waiting for some shingles to come for the barn.

  22. We got into our oldest clothes when we reached home, I put on rubber boots, and we tackled the pool.

  23. A rainy day followed the holiday, and in the rain we first set out the roses, which had arrived by freight and which Bert brought over from the village on an early trip, and then tackled the rest of the interior of the house.

  24. He was assured that the King's grief at his present troubles would prevent his giving audience; and the Protestant envoy then tackled the Council on the subject.

  25. Then Margery Morton was tackled by Sir Anthony Browne.

  26. On his way through Rochester, Wolsey tackled Fisher, who was known to favour the Queen.

  27. I seized the opportunity, and tackled the woman about the medicine.

  28. I grew suspicious, and one day I suddenly tackled Edwards.

  29. After a fight and a short, brilliant run, Dick was tackled by Filmore's fullback.

  30. Two of the home team tackled that left end, but he shook them off.

  31. Some of the more mischievous or spirited actually tackled unsuspicious comrades, toppling their victims over to the ground.

  32. He ran back to the station and tackled the porter anew.

  33. She tackled her father at breakfast, which, as a rule, he gobbled up in silence, thinking of the day's work ahead.

  34. It would begin when he tackled Susan and her mother, and he knew that this first encounter would be no bloodless victory.

  35. I could have tackled Morse alone, and he's bigger than I am.

  36. I wish they'd tackled me," murmured the sturdy Clinton.

  37. The last bunch the sophs tackled were too much for them, and they had to call for help.

  38. You and I were the only ones they managed to get this far, and they wouldn't have had me, only about a dozen of them tackled me at once.

  39. It was about midday when they tackled the manatee, and Dick must have been alone with it for a good many hours.

  40. We're pretty well acquainted with the critters already and if we tackled another it would likely be a bigger one, and the sample we had was about all we could manage.

  41. You are too weak to help yourself if he really tackled you.

  42. Nobody had mentioned the subject to Abner since Hudson had tackled him at the works.

  43. One evening, finding Mary alone, he tackled her.

  44. Without this soaking he could not have tackled it, for though his bristling moustache concealed the fact, he had scarcely any teeth.

  45. That night he was too late to see Mary; but next morning, when he arrived at the work, he tackled Munn on the subject of the Redlake scandal.

  46. Now, I never did think Skip could fight any great deal, 'cause how was it when he was over to Brooklyn, an' that feller tackled him?

  47. So I asked him if he didn't think it would be best to have some grub before I tackled sich a job as that.

  48. Yes; an' if the cops hadn't come along so soon Skip would have been sorry he tackled sich a job.

  49. Do you tell me that any man--forty years younger than you--could have tackled that case more neatly?

  50. Do you remember the case you tackled yesterday afternoon?

  51. At that instant there was a cry from the Spaniards, and though I turned round instantly, I saw that every one of them had been tackled by one of the English seamen, aided by the Flemish passengers.

  52. Three of the largest of the Beggars' ships attacked the Admiral, the others tackled his consorts, the two squadrons running on together.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tackled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.