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Example sentences for "transpired"

Lexicographically close words:
transparent; transparently; transpierced; transpiration; transpire; transpires; transpiring; transplant; transplantation; transplanted
  1. I seemed to know intuitively what each building was for, and even imagined most vividly scenes which had transpired there.

  2. If this were true, and it seemed plausible enough in view of all that had transpired here, I was indeed confronted by a new and serious danger.

  3. Therein I explained that a most important matter had transpired to detain me until another vessel sailed, some few days at most.

  4. This, perhaps, is not the only reason why I should stumble and shy along like a balky palfrey when I approach one of the trifling accidents which transpired immediately after our arrival at Sceaux.

  5. You understand perfectly what has transpired on board of the Scotian as you choose still to call her; in a word, that she is a prize to the United States steamer Bronx?

  6. But he did a great deal of thinking in his cabin, though most of it was in relation to the events which had transpired on board of the Bronx.

  7. In all the stirring events which have transpired in the division and corps, the Seventy-seventh has acted an important and honorable part.

  8. Events of importance had transpired on the north of the James, and the Dutch Gap canal was in progress.

  9. All this had transpired in far less time than we have occupied in the relation, and once more now having him greatly at disadvantage, the Bedouins rushed upon him.

  10. While the above conversation was going on, a colloquy of a different nature transpired within the house.

  11. Mary, being so requested by her father, began to relate every thing that transpired up to her rescue, while she was in the possession of the savages.

  12. The historian of another generation will be able to pass right judgment upon all that has transpired during these dark years of anarchy and revolution, sorrow, tears, and anguish.

  13. A brief review of Sherman's campaign is necessary to a clear understanding of what afterward transpired in his department.

  14. What had transpired to produce this white heat of passion?

  15. After his father had given the parcel into his care, Frank went on to say, events transpired exactly as he had anticipated.

  16. So much of them, however, transpired that it was known that all her partizans had agreed to send for the earl of Anjou, who was most interested in the defence of the inheritance of his wife and children in England.

  17. Of his intention nothing transpired publicly, though what was to be done engrossed the minds and conversation of all.

  18. After much ado with the police, and searching and wrangling at relatives' houses, it transpired that, owing to her own peccadilloes, the poor creature could not claim the custody of her child.

  19. The day after these events had transpired the archduke, dressed always in his uniform, for he carried military etiquette to its most extreme limit, was in his study about two o'clock in the afternoon.

  20. The youth narrated every particular that had transpired in connexion with Brady at Paris, and at the close of his examination he was requested to withdraw.

  21. When gentlemen tell me that the people of the whole North, by any thing that transpired in the late election, have decided in favor of universal, unqualified negro suffrage, they assume that for which there is no foundation whatever.

  22. Mr. Sherman said: "In my judgment, the events that transpired yesterday are too fresh in the mind of every Senator not to have had some influence upon him, and I think it as well to allow the influence of those events to pass away.

  23. The participants were Penny Durkin, Harmon Dreer and a smaller boy whose name afterwards transpired to be Melville.

  24. Lem and Ruth, knowing nothing of what had transpired before they entered the room, and not half understanding the judge's rapid and somewhat figurative language, looked very much puzzled and even a little alarmed.

  25. There were three windows--one opposite the door and one in each end--of such a good convenient height from the ground that a man standing outside could rest his elbows on either of the sills, and witness comfortably all that transpired within.

  26. It transpired that though they envied Poppy the journey to Boshof in the post-cart, they did not envy her subsequent career under the protection of their mother's sister, Aunt Clara Smit.

  27. It transpired that she had a cousin who was young and pretty and rich, but with a broken back.

  28. Will you tell us what transpired at that interview?

  29. He had found nothing, nothing had transpired to compensate in any way for the risk which he had run.

  30. I then returned to my boarding-house, where I told what had transpired to my messmates, Mr. Summers, and others.

  31. The fact has, however, transpired that she is not a Greek, as we supposed, but a German of the highest descent.

  32. Their "salaams" the next morning after the retreat, were given as if nothing had transpired to mar the good feeling that had existed between us.

  33. Nothing of importance transpired in camp for the next three days.

  34. Do you suppose after what has transpired that I could entertain any other feeling toward you than detestation?

  35. Paul proceeded to give a more detailed account of the events which had transpired on board of the Flyaway since her departure from Portsmouth harbor.

  36. Thomas Nettle's father was a wealthy merchant, who had retired from active business, and lived upon his beautiful estate in Bayville, in which transpired the events of my story.

  37. Putting by moralising for the present, let us glance at the incidents which transpired on the news of the desertion of the Arab camp becoming generally known.

  38. The fact transpired from the sketch of the age of the mother-right, given on previous pages.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transpired" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.