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Example sentences for "then the"

  • Then the rice is heated over a fire-place, and emptied into the hole while it is hot.

  • Then the persons to be initiated were brought in and seated, with much ceremony, upon a blanket or buffalo robe.

  • Then the assailant of my camp--a panther--leaped back into the thick underbrush, but not before my arrow had penetrated his side.

  • Then the bird--having taken the vessel on her back, with the Prince sitting in the middle of it--began to fly.

  • Then the Princess at once rose up from the table, and said, 'Who is most worthy to have one of us--he who has delivered us from the Trolls or he who is sitting here as bridegroom?

  • Then the queen of the chosen king, or the king of the chosen queen, stands for a husband or wife, mistress or lover, of the party whose fortune is to be told.

  • Then the medium, beginning with the upper line, that of the days, will at once be able to say that the card touched is the eighth of the first horizontal line, or the first of the eighth vertical line.

  • Thus, if an event has 3 chances to happen, and 2 to fail, then the fraction 3/5 will fairly represent the probability of its happening, and may be taken to be the measure of it.

  • Take up the six in the top or bottom row, then the two in the next row, the ten in the third, and the nine in the fourth, placing them one upon the other in the left hand.

  • Then the victory of the producer is certain.

  • Then the proprietor's business is to reconcile farmers by robbing them.

  • Then the authority of kings is immense, no knowledge having been acquired with which to contradict it.

  • Free activity is then the principle of the right of property.

  • And when men arm themselves for the battle that destroys men, then the goddess is at hand to give victory and grant glory readily to whom she will.

  • Another time for men to go sailing is in spring when a man first sees leaves on the topmost shoot of a fig-tree as large as the foot-print that a cow makes; then the sea is passable, and this is the spring sailing time.

  • Then the life-giving earth was moved: and when Hera saw it she was glad in heart, for she thought her prayer would be fulfilled.

  • Then the father of men and of gods said to him: (ll.

  • Then the woman, lifting her head, began to sing.

  • Then the priest's wandering eye suddenly lighted upon the figure on the sofa.

  • Then the wife's face clouded over, and she thrust her under-lip a trifle forward out of its place in the straight and gently firm profile.

  • Then the roll-call proceeded amid steadily rising excitement which abruptly died into silence as the clerk shouted, with impressive emphasis, "Wayne!

  • You'll split the party; then the party'll turn and split you.

  • Always the medicine first, then the candy.

  • First one of them, then the other, awkwardly unclosed and as awkwardly closed upon it.

  • The heat began to be felt even through the soles of our heavy boots; involuntarily I lifted one foot, then the other.

  • For a moment I was at a complete loss; then the croupier's voice sounded suddenly in my ear: "You are interrupting us, sir.

  • Then the end, and we stumbled out into a blaze of light and surveyed the surrounding scene with stupefaction and wonder.

  • Then a few minutes later, she heard the Jew's husky voice again, evidently shouting to his nag, then the rumble of wheels, and noise of a rickety cart bumping over the rough road.

  • Farther down he saw something stir; then the head of his comrade rose to the surface of the river and sank immediately.

  • Then the inhabitants of the district were terrorized, the houses were turned topsy-turvy, the country was scoured and beaten up, over and over again, but the Jewess did not seem to have left a single trace of her passage behind her.

  • Then the sick-nurse began to talk and to tell her tales likely to terrify her weak and dying mind.

  • Then the cure, Marchas and I took a mattress into the room to put the wounded man on; the Sister tore up a table napkin in order to make lint, while the three frightened women remained huddled up in a corner.

  • Then the mother, Jeanne Hauser, and her daughter Louise mounted a fourth mule, and set off in their turn.

  • Joe; adding under his breath, with a very unfilial apostrophe, 'Will he never think me man enough to take care of myself!

  • The coarsest stuffs and finest silks, are--apart from the sense of touch--alike to me.

  • Then the nerves of the blacks could stand no more.

  • Then the ape-man fitted an arrow to his bow, and drawing the shaft far back, aimed its point at the heart of Numa where he lay in the heavens devouring Goro.

  • Then the ape-boy turned and swung rapidly off in search of the tribe, and Teeka.

  • Then the thin-featured, many-wrinkled, weary-eyed face relaxed in an almost honest and unequivocal smile.

  • Then the article, having attained a satisfactory form (it was on Fraternal Insurance), was sent round among the experts.

  • First the singles, then the pair; then, late in the afternoon, Fred and his two henchmen.

  • The strong weak man sat on the ground in the steady rain, smoking pipe after pipe; watching first the preparations, then the departures, one after the other, at intervals of an hour or so.

  • Then the image of Isopel Berners came into my mind, and when I thought how I had lost her for ever, and how happy I might have been with her in the New World had she not deserted me, I became yet more miserable.

  • Then the love of what is foreign is a great friend to us; this love is chiefly confined to the middle and upper classes.

  • Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the angels.

  • The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest.

  • Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then the" 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:
    many battles; plainly seen; study hours; that now; then allowed; then brought; then dried; then drop; then expanded; then heated; then known; then moved; then nodded; then occupied; then ordered; then paused; then pour off the; then sprinkle; then stir; then stopped; then throw; then transferred; then turned; then turns; then went; then will