On the one side was written:-- "Doe de Haan begost te kraayen Toen begost Petrus te schraayen.
Zijt gij die Beowulf, die met Brecca aanbond Den wedstrijd op de wijde zee, in ’t zwemmen Met dezen streven dorst, toen boud gij beiden Navorschtet in den vloed en gij uit grootspraak Uw leven waagdet in het diepe water?
The toen complied, and sent a second, but much smaller boat.
It now appeared that the previous silence of these people had been deliberate: for the toen at once began to talk in a language fairly intelligible to Obed.
In his distraction then he tore off most of his clothes, and piling them in a heap besought the toen to take them for the ransom; and we too stripped and stood all but naked, adding our prayers to his.
We were met by a toen (the same that had cut up the pork) and a chief of taller stature and pleasanter features than we had hitherto happened on in the country.
I never saw Obed again: and the toen must have gone down like a stone.
It turned out afterwards that thetoen had planned this little reconnoitring expedition on his own account, and on the chance perhaps of filching a musket or two.
A second canoe put off, and from the bows of it the rascally toen (cause of all this misfortune, as we deemed) hailed Obed and offered to let us go in peace and even restore Margit if we would surrender our firearms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
