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Example sentences for "then presently"

  • Then presently, looking up through the trees, he saw the tower, pushing out of denser cloud like a lighthouse on a gray and unfamiliar coast.

  • Then presently he reached the branch and pushed up swiftly towards the tower.

  • Then presently scum of the thick head of the barm, but take not all away so scrupulously, but that there may remain a little white froth upon the face of the Liquor.

  • Then put to the water ten Gallons of Honey, which dissolve with much Laving it; then presently boil it gently, skimming it all the while, till it be free from scum.

  • Then presently, when he was surer these spider swarms could not drop into the ravine, he found a place where he could sit down, and sat and fell into deep thought and began, after his manner, to gnaw his knuckles and bite his nails.

  • Then presently he saw that more of these drifting globes--and then soon very many more--were hurrying towards him down the valley.

  • She put her hand again to her forehead, then presently withdrew it and looked over her shoulder at the paper lying upon the floor beside the table.

  • Then presently in that silence they had both feared to break, the court-house bell rang again.

  • Then presently as he shuffled forward, the other seven houses of the row of which his was the eighth, cloaked in utter darkness, took shadowy form against the sky.

  • As he strode forward he became aware that some one was ahead of him on the track, then presently at the bridge a match was struck, and his eyes, piercing the intervening darkness, saw that a man had paused there to light a pipe.

  • He threw his arms out again, and twisted one of his hands in the fringe of the rug on which he was lying; then presently he went on: "Do you know why I'm still lying here?

  • Then presently we were at the doorway where Joan and her king had entered--the portal which has been called the most beautiful this side of Paradise.

  • Then presently we were climbing a hill--climbing by a narrow road, one that did not permit of turning around.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then presently" 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:
    miles northwest; then add; then allowed; then another; then brought; then commanded; then drop; then expanded; then fold; then governor; then held; then home; then know; then plane; then pour; then proceed; then remember; then remove from the; then return; then should; then started; then stir; then was; then went; then will; thence north