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Example sentences for "vented"

Lexicographically close words:
vent; venta; ventanas; ventas; vente; venter; venti; ventilate; ventilated; ventilating
  1. He went below to issue orders for the raising of the bridge, and finding the men singularly meek and tractable after the sharp lesson Francesco had read them, he vented upon them some of the vast ill-humour that possessed him.

  2. It was whilst Francesco, Fanfulla and Peppe waited in the ante-chamber for admittance to the Duke that the jester vented some of the bitterness he felt at their babbling.

  3. Bertha looked sorely disappointed and vexed, but vented her spleen upon the one whom she loved best, according to the invariable practice of women.

  4. His consternation vented itself in an irrepressible groan, which made Madeleine and the count look up.

  5. He abandoned the pursuit, and throwing himself upon the ground, vented his rage in a flood of tears.

  6. As soon as he was out of sight and hearing, Quin could contain himself no longer, and vented his satisfaction at the success of the enterprise in the most violent and extraordinary manner.

  7. In an old edition of Hudibras, there is a curious note of a mode of running at the devoted bears with wheelbarrows, on which they vented their fury, and the baiters thus had them at their mercy.

  8. This, however, only served to irritate him; and he vented his ill humour by giving his master a tremendous blow across the shoulders.

  9. When the cross was uplifted the leading Jews, for the first time, prominently noticed the deadly insult in which Pilate had vented his indignation.

  10. But as the former were too powerful to be assailed by the king, his wrath was vented on the Fathers of the Order of Jesus, whose lives, at this time, were not only innocent but meritorious.

  11. The sighs, however, which I vented in my brother's presence, might convince him that I attributed my sickness rather to his ill offices than to the prevailing contagion.

  12. Aikin's political morality often vented its indignation at the successful injustice of great power!

  13. Warburton ill concealed his vexation in the contempt he vented in a letter to Hurd on this occasion.

  14. Such expressions as have been vented on this occasion, become not an assembly intrusted with the liberty and welfare of their country.

  15. He has vented his insinuations hitherto, as without punishment, so, as it appears, without fear.

  16. Jimmy vented his feelings in his favorite expression.

  17. Stopping to glance at the newspaper he had just purchased, he vented a wild whoop, waved it over his head and raced for barracks.

  18. After a few mouthfuls he could contain himself no longer, and vented his spleen in a grumbling tirade.

  19. This time her anger found a crisis of relief, and vented its whole force upon the head of him who was sitting under the goat-headed vases on the bergere--the Captain.

  20. Doctor Fenk diverted and dissipated by whimsical consolation the solitary curses which his friend the Captain vented instead of sighs.

  21. He, too, like many other men vented his vexation with the mother-in-law wholly upon his wife.

  22. The more fiercely he vented his exasperation, the colder she became.

  23. He vented a sigh of relief for having managed to stay quiet and thought how close the words were to his lips before dissipating like everything else, and in this case leaving him defenseless against his good looks.

  24. Visiting a cemetery for a man was supposed to engender lachrymose thought rather than tears and vented memories tenderly spoken; but for him whose life was an aberration, it had merely evoked minced silence.

  25. Here Mr. Desmond vented the remnant of his spleen against the Webberlys, by calling to the piper, "Play up the humours of Ludgate Hill there!

  26. And thereupon he vented all the spite of a tradesman in presence of what he considered to be disloyal competition.

  27. For his part he gaily climbed into the landau and drove off lounging on the cushions, while the Baron, in the jolting old cab, vented his rage without a word of interruption from Gerard, whose face was hidden by the darkness.

  28. Letting her head fall upon her friend's shoulder, she vented all her rebellion in a low, terrible voice, amidst the vague shadows of that awful room.

  29. With radiant visage and outstretched hands, she at once vented the cry he had expected: "Ah!

  30. Victorine vented her satisfaction in a light laugh.

  31. For the angry Beaubien, striving to shield the innocent girl, had vented her abundant wrath upon the affable Ames, and had concluded her denunciation with a hint of possible exposure of certain dark facts of which she was sole custodian.

  32. Summoning Hood, he vented his great wrath upon that individual's bald pate.


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