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Example sentences for "this spot"

  • The latitude of this spot was 21 degrees 23 minutes S.

  • At this spot I was eighty miles from a sufficient supply of water; that at the camp, forty-five miles away, may be gone by the time I return.

  • It was a long distance to the top of the first ridge, but the incline was easy, and I was in great hopes, if it continued so, to be able to get the horses over the mountains at this spot.

  • This spot is one of the most charming that even imagination could paint.

  • I rode over to this spot, and to my great delight found a most excellent little rock tarn, of nearly an oblong shape, containing a most welcome and opportune supply of the fluid I was so anxious to discover.

  • I was much pleased with Gibson's discovery, and we moved the camp down to this spot, which we always after called the Turtle Back.

  • On this spot will I remain, and here my bones shall bleach with yours!

  • On the second day after their arrival at this spot, the father and his two sons set out on their buffalo hunt with the expectation of returning before nightfall.

  • On this spot," she said, "I must remain till some one comes to my help.

  • The flowers are ready here in this retired spot, this spot of fragrant flowers, many sorts of flowers are poured down and scattered about; let the drum be ready for the dance.

  • In this spot, where the herbage is like sweet ointment and green as the turquoise and emerald, I think upon my song, holding the beauteous flowers in my hand, etc.

  • In this spot of turquoise and emerald, I think upon beauteous songs, beauteous flowers; let us rejoice now, dear friends and children, for life is not long upon earth.

  • This spot is not distant from my confines.

  • Gentlemen," Chia Cheng observed, as he turned his head round and smiled, "please look at this spot.

  • I'm nearly dead from impatience, and if you don't again to-day accept my advances, I shall this very moment die on this spot.

  • This spot," observed Chia Cheng full of smiles, "is indeed pleasant!

  • An abbey for Cistercian monks was established on this spot in 1131 by Walter Fitz-Richard de Clare and dedicated to St. Mary.

  • At high tide, however, the sea enters the chasm through a number of small apertures, and is probably carving out at this spot a circular basin after the manner of Lulworth Cove.

  • On an autumn afternoon, when the forest is a blaze of crimson and yellow, this spot is seen at its loveliest--the long shadows and the golden sunlight giving the scene a painted, almost too brilliant effect.

  • Hamilcar had suddenly emerged from the bottom of the gorge, and again descended the western slope that looked towards Hippo-Zarytus, and the space being broader at this spot he had taken care to draw the Barbarians into it.

  • Several even made their way to the bottom of the ravine; they were drawn up with cables, for the ground at this spot was of moving sand, and so much inclined that it was impossible to climb it even on the knees.

  • The wall was discontinued at this spot, so inaccessible was the cliff.

  • Having taken my bath at this spot in a proper form, I seem to touch no more the region inhabited by mortal men!

  • Whosoever performs his ablutions at this spot, while reciting this ancient story, beholds with his mortal eyes the path that leads to the region of the gods.

  • This spot (in holiness) rivals the path whereby a virtuous man, fit for going to heaven, repairs to the region inhabited by gods.

  • And verily at this spot in former times, other saints likewise worshipped the immortals by the performance of religious rites.

  • To the southern half of this spot of the Goddess, there is, O king, a tirtha called Rathavarta.

  • It was on this spot, after stupendous labor, that the Columbiad was cast with full success.

  • The satellite seemed to have burst at this spot.

  • In this spot there is a submarine valley worn by Humboldt's current, which skirts the coast of America as far as the Straits of Magellan.

  • After the 23rd of September the enclosure of Stones hill was thrown open to the public; and it will be easily imagined what was the concourse of visitors to this spot!

  • I therefore arranged that I would leave Abd-el-Kader with sixty-five men in a powerful stockade that I had constructed on the edge of the river in this spot, N.

  • On this spot I found him, his head reclined on the rock, and his eyes fixed upon the ground.

  • Paul, observing that Virginia was fond of this spot, brought thither, from the neighbouring forest, a great variety of bird's nests.

  • Madame de la Tour, followed by her negro woman, came to this spot, where she found Margaret engaged in suckling her child.

  • Waiting for the horses at this spot, I took the opportunity of ascending a very lofty conical hill, forming part of the range bounding the north-east side of the valley.

  • Thus the magnetic fluid seemed on this spot to have less influence on the needle, than on the spot where its power was first observed; and at a short distance from the base of the hill the needle regained its natural position.

  • On this spot is water for a vessel of eight hundred tons burden, sufficiently fresh to exclude the worms, and at the same time a current strong enough to prevent stagnation.

  • The feed was so scanty, and the cover so dense, at this spot that I thought we would have great difficulty in gathering the mules next morning.

  • On one of these rounded hills a number of buildings were ranged in a quadrangle, for the pasturage at this spot is so good that it is permanently occupied.

  • We spent a day at this spot, determining our exact position by the sun, and afterward by the stars, and sending on two men to explore the rapids in advance.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this spot" 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:
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