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Example sentences for "then went"

  • He then went off; M'Neal being released came down, and having found his horse, which had strayed off to the distance of two miles, returned to camp.

  • He then went on the head of a small island, where he found some driftwood, which enabled him to cook his duck for supper, and laid down to sleep on some willow-brush.

  • He then went to Newark and sat up all night with the money for fear it might be stolen.

  • He then went to the battery-room and knocked all the batteries off on the floor.

  • This didn't pay, and he became the editor of a newspaper; then went to England to raise money for a railroad in Cape Colony.

  • He then went back to the General, who, with his secretary, had a good laugh over the matter, told him the check must be endorsed, and sent with him a young man to identify him.

  • I then went secretly to work and made thirty of the machines.

  • I then went to call on the President at the White House.

  • The Governor, his brother William, Garrison, and I, then went up to the jail, where we found the sheriff and his posse comitatus of police and citizens.

  • I then went on to St. Louis, where all was seeming activity, bustle, and preparation.

  • He then went on to cite the depreciation of our revolutionary currency, and, at great length pictured the repudiation of the assignats during the French Revolution.

  • I then went to a student in the class above my own, a natural and forcible speaker, and made an arrangement with him to hear me pronounce my oration, from time to time, and to criticize it in a common-sense way.

  • I then went on with this series of biographies, beginning with that of Judge Folger himself, and paying him most heartily and cordially every tribute possible, including some of a humorous nature.

  • The jeweller passed that evening with him, then went to his own house.

  • So he took it up and gave it to one of the Captain's servants, then went back to Abu Kir and slept till the morning.

  • He then went in to his wife and said to her, "What hath that accursed girl done, that thou hast beaten her?

  • He then went with me to the gate of the inn, where he began to give me directions, pointing to the south, and mentioning some names of places through which I must pass, amongst which were Waen y Bwlch and Long Bones.

  • He then went to a drawer, and taking out a book, put it into my hand, and seated himself in a blunt, careless manner.

  • I then went on for a mile or two, and saw a red light at some distance.

  • I then went to the Wye and drank of the waters at its mouth, even as some time before I had drunk of the waters at its source.

  • Think they eat the Arabs and like them very much," he said with a yawn, then went to sleep again.

  • That's a lie any way," I said in English, then went on.

  • Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.

  • Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

  • Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.

  • Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

  • He then went to his mother, desiring that she would go and spend the night at a neighbour's, shewing her the gold which his broken copper had procured, as a proof of the sincerity of his new friend.

  • I then went to the rear of the tent, and exclaimed, "Health to you, O inhabitants of this tent, and may the Almighty to you be merciful!

  • Dad spent an hour mending it; then went to the verandah and savagely asked Mother if she had lost her ears.

  • Then went away, forgetting to throw the rails down.

  • He then went back to Mr. Seagrave and William, who were with Juno.

  • He then went up, lashed the small pole to the head of the tree, made the end of the copper wire fast to the pointed wire, and then he descended.

  • We then went to the stables, and took the three best horses which the Dutchman had, put some corn in a sack for each of them, took some cord for halters, mounted, and rode away as fast as we could.

  • I then went to the starboard side, thinking that father and mother must have gotten off in a boat.

  • We then went down to our rooms on C deck, all of us dressing quickly, putting on all our clothes.

  • I then went down to our room and my father and mother came on deck with me, to the starboard side of A deck.

  • I then went forward to the bow to see if I could see any signs of ice.

  • I then went to St. James's, where the queen gave a very gracious approbation of my gewgaws, and called upon the king to bestow the same; which his constant goodhumour makes a matter of great ease to him.

  • We then went to work with all our might, reading and copying.

  • I then went to my little drawer and took out Akenside.

  • He then went on speaking of his late confinement, and its comfortless circumstances, in very strong terms, dwelling on its solitude and its uselessness, as if those only formed its disagreeability, and the pain went for nothing.

  • Some one came hurriedly down, then went up again.

  • We sat side by side, then went to the foyer.

  • I stood still for a little while, then went upstairs.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then went" 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:
    crime has been committed; free discussion; generic character; then another; then answered; then applied; then both; then fill; then have; then knit; then know; then laid; then lift; then moved; then once; then pack; then pour off the; then remove; then replied; then stood; then walked; then was; then would; thence south; thence will; two feet