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Example sentences for "there they"

  • There they stand, one straight continuous jagged wall, of which no one point seems higher than another.

  • There they fall, and leap, and fall again.

  • True: there they come; the great white horses, that 'champ and chafe, and toss in the spray.

  • There they lie, as close as rats in a bank, and work themselves the farther in the more they are splashed and poked by the poles of the beaters.

  • There they are," he said, as we saw Elaine and Mary rounding the corner of the hall.

  • There they came to sheer hand to hand struggle.

  • There they were, struggling in deadly combat, clinging to the gilded cross.

  • There they lay in wild confusion, with arms outstretched and twisted limbs; their stern, stalwart forms looking weird and unhuman in the moonlight.

  • There they were--going to certain death, about to quit the blessed light of day for ever, and yet able to contemplate their doom without a tremor.

  • There they stood, the hands twitching, the lips apart, the fierce features instinct with the hungry lust of battle, and in the eyes a look like the glare of a bloodhound when after long pursuit he sights his quarry.

  • There they are, and there they must wait, I s'pose,' she murmured to herself as she finished slicing the vegetables and went to remove the pan a little from the fire.

  • He chose to sing of humble life because there men's thoughts and feelings were more free from art and restraint, there they spoke a plainer, more forceful language, there they were in touch with all that was lasting and true in Nature.

  • There they set up the arms of England, and named the new possession Virginia in honor of the virgin Queen.

  • There they prison'd were, There they wept oft sort, Both for hunger and for cold, Ere they were three winters old.

  • There--there they are at it--Gad, the Phoca has the best of it!

  • No, no; there they are up yonder in the dingle; and there they may stay, for anything Charles Cap cares.

  • Cap; "there they are, sure enough, and eating their grub as quietly as if they were in the cabin of a three-decker.

  • Speaking of trouble, there they are--she said she'd stop for me.

  • There they remained like seeds in the earth, there they grew to bring forth fruit in their season.

  • Look without, Black One, there they lie in heaps with the dead.

  • There they were, running away into the night and the snow, seeking to find shelter from the cold.

  • In Paris, husband and wife could forget the chain that bound them together; there they were in the circle of their friends, and could avoid each other.

  • There they have a penchant for Genevese, parlor-politicians, etc.

  • There they are, as wet as myself, and as little poetic.

  • There he is, eating; there they are, ministering.

  • But when they came west across Lonsheath to Staffell, there they found a man dwelling named Thorkell.

  • There they found a crowd of guests, and the men took their seats on benches down the length of the hall, but the women were seated on the cross-benches on the dais, and the bride was rather downcast.

  • There they saw a man coming down from the ness above them; Gunnar went on shore to meet the man, and they had a talk.

  • There they found a ship, and knew that there was come Kari Solmund's son.

  • There they waited, some on the leaves and some on the dry clods heated by the sun, in ambush till a dark lady should come.

  • So there they was a-clacking at that door all day long.

  • I be afeared if I goes in there they'll put me with the rough uns, and very likely I should get some of my clothes stole.

  • At all events, there they were, face to face once more on the old spot.

  • There they lie at our doors, and they are ours for the taking.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "there they" 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:
    acute inflammation; cook until; heart good; hurt them; jest then; last held; public business; sell again; special administrative; there ain; there any; there appeared; there being; there had; there has; there isn; there may; there might; there seemed; there shall; there the; there they; there were; there were; there would; there would have been