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Example sentences for "then fell"

  • His eyes flashed for a moment to Jerome Caryl’s steady presence, then fell to the letter he held.

  • Mr. Wedderburn drained his glass in a kind of fierce haste, then fell again to his pacing, the other watching intent and tense.

  • Then fell a little silence, broken by Argyll.

  • For one moment her dark eyes met his, then fell to her clasped hands.

  • He stared at the moon, and made pictures of her shadowy places; then fell to thinking of the morrow, and of the possibility that after all he might never find again the cabin in the valley.

  • Lewis Rand and Ludwell Cary exchanged a comment or two upon the weather, then fell silent.

  • They played one game, then fell idle, the young man staring straight before him at some invisible object, the elder watching him covertly but keenly.

  • The smith and the men at the mill thought it a great pity, shook their heads as they looked after him, then fell again to work, or to mere happy lounging in the first spring airs.

  • Suddenly the priest threw his arms wide, then fell backwards, and with a mighty rush dived into sheer space to crash lifeless on the stone floor below, where he lay, his head and hands hanging over the edge of the pool.

  • Losing his balance, his foe swayed slowly backwards like a falling tree, then fell with a thud that shook the ground.

  • Presently they were gone, and in the ecstasy of his recovered liberty the man leaped high into the air, then fell at Otter's feet as though he would embrace them.

  • If I could have understood you--" he began, under his breath, then fell silent.

  • Illustration: "Then fell prone, head buried in her tumbled hair.

  • I do but follow after," and thrice Groa shrieked aloud, throwing up her arms, then fell foaming on the sanded floor.

  • He threw wide his giant arms, then fell as a pine falls upon the mountain edge.

  • Sliver bit a chew off his plug, then fell to examining a fray in his riata.

  • If I thought--" His hand went to his gun, then fell again.

  • He aimed into the middle of it and, following the crack of his rifle, a man leaped up, then fell forward.

  • The uncouth strain of savage melody swelled fitfully upward in long, suffering cadence, then fell, dying away in shuddering murmurs, to ascend again more loudly, yet more bitterly.

  • Suddenly she flung both hands to her burning forehead, staggered on another couple of paces, then fell crushed to the floor, with a low, heart-breaking cry.

  • She timidly came to the extreme edge, then fell to her knees.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then fell" 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:
    instructions were; paste made; then back; then bishop; then called; then down; then fell; then going; then have; then lift; then look; then looked; then make; then more; then must; then pack; then press; then quickly; then said; then season; then stopped; then taken; then taking; then wash; thence west; thence will