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Example sentences for "the tent"

  • Is the tent a station for the general of the Moslems?

  • The stillness of evening was broken by the monotonous, not unmusical creaking of a Persian wheel at some little distance to the left of the tent.

  • Broomhurst took her hand and led her over the threshold back into the tent.

  • I left it in the tent," she said, speaking very clearly and distinctly; "and then will you go on reading?

  • Mrs. Drayton was resting in the tent on Tuesday afternoon.

  • She was bareheaded, for the covering of the tent projected a few feet to form an awning overhead.

  • From the litter again he brought a carpet or square rug, and covered the floor of the tent on the side from the sun.

  • He beheld the kneeling camel, the tent, and the man standing prayerfully at the door.

  • In keeping with a custom derived from Abraham, the tent of the Bedawin yet shelters his horses and children alike.

  • Presently their hands fell apart, and together they went out of the tent.

  • The tent is set, and the bread is ready for the breaking.

  • Then he left, and made his way back to the tent of Mohammed Beyd.

  • Yawning, and stretching his arms above his head, he turned slowly toward the opposite end of the tent.

  • He came at last to the pile of blankets spread upon several rugs close to one of the tent walls.

  • Motioning for Chulk to follow him, he passed out of the tent by the same way that he had entered it, and walking boldly through the village, made directly for the hut where Jane Clayton had been imprisoned.

  • He gave his horse to one of the soldiers, linked his arm in that of Heideck, and took him off to the tent he occupied in the camp, giving the while most exuberant expression to his delight at having seen him again.

  • The astonishment that prompted this question was a very natural one, for the lean, dark-skinned little man who had just appeared at the entrance of the tent was no other than his faithful servant Morar Gopal whom he had believed to be dead.

  • For a moment he stood stock-still at the entrance to the tent, and his dark eyes beamed with pleasure at having found his master again unharmed.

  • He had not concluded the sentence when the tall form of the Prince made its appearance at the entrance of the tent.

  • Irwin made no reply, but whistled to his servant and went back into the tent, revolver still in hand, without a single word to Heideck.

  • The next minute the sad letter was finished, and Raynal walked out of the tent, and confronted the man he had challenged to single combat.

  • He rose that moment and went like a flash of lightning out of the tent.

  • In his belt her groping fingers came upon the hilt of a long hunting-knife, and with this she cut a hole in the back wall of the tent.

  • Quickly her eyes ran round the interior of the tent, taking in every detail of its equipment and contents.

  • Now the Russian was lifting her to her feet and attempting to drag her to the camp cot that stood at one side of the tent.

  • Next a flap of the tent down on the floor is raised, and you reconnoitre, looking your very worst and holding a knife between your teeth and another in each hand.

  • After several trials, we succeeded in setting up the tent on the leeward side of the ledge.

  • It won't be much of a blow, and we'll be as snug as a bug in a rug, here in the tent, particularly if we have that lemonade which some of you fellows were going to make.

  • While we were dressing, a few hurried drops of rain came lisping down, and we adjourned to the tent to wait the passing of the squall.

  • We were obliged to hold on to the ropes of the tent to prevent it blowing away.

  • The wind rose higher and higher, cutting long slits in the tent, through which the rain poured incessantly.

  • He caught up his camera tripod which was near his cot, and made a swing with it at the creature that had flown into the tent through an opening it had made for itself.

  • Tom, as he struck the creature, knocking it into the corner of the tent with a thud that told it must be completely stunned, if not killed.

  • Notwithstanding this warning Ned stuck his head out of the tent.

  • Tom springing from his cot and hastening to the side of his chum in the tent.

  • Glinda ordered her own royal couch to be placed in the center of the tent.

  • The tent of the Sorceress was larger than the others, and was composed of pure white silk, with scarlet banners flying above it.

  • While we were dressing, a few hurried drops of rain came lisping down, and we adjourned to the tent to await the passing of the squall.

  • He stood irresolute at the entrance to the tent.

  • A placard pinned to the curtain of the doorway announced the presence within the tent of "Sesostris, the Sorceress of Ecbatana.

  • Through the crannies in the canvas he could see almost the whole of the interior of the tent.

  • Portentous, in the farther corner of the tent, Priscilla, in her royal toque, was encouraging the villagers.

  • Setting down the bench at the back of the booth, he climbed up, and with a great air of busy efficiency began to tie the Union Jack to the top of one of the tent-poles.

  • I said nothing, but fastened down the corner of the tent, and went back to where my friends were.

  • We stacked arms in the company streets, broke ranks, and each repaired to the tent assigned him, which had by this time been brought over and placed folded on the tent floors.

  • By four o'clock in the afternoon Margery had used her clever fingers to such purpose that a white silesia flag, worked with the camp name, floated from the tip top of the front entrance to the tent.

  • The boys often climbed the hillsides and brought home these splendid treasures, which were placed in pails of water at the tent doors, to shed their luxuriant beauty and sweetness in the air for days together.

  • If you think a moment, he was in the hammock and you were lying down in the tent when we started.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the tent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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