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Example sentences for "wagons"

Lexicographically close words:
wagonette; wagonettes; wagoning; wagonload; wagonmaster; wags; wagtail; wagtails; waha; wahi
  1. The goats were decorated with the Fourth of July buntings and the wagons had the tailboards out and were tipped up like circus chariots.

  2. In the next the wagons kept almost even until just within a few feet of the line, then Jack crossed first.

  3. And by the shades of my forefathers, purified by pie, how shall we best help our sons and daughters to hitch their wagons to stars?

  4. He did not propose to arouse his father until about time to start with the milk wagons for Riverdale.

  5. I wish we had motor-wagons to use in distributing the milk, anyway.

  6. Before it was time to do the usual chores they had put the car in fine shape again, got an hour’s nap which did them a world of good, and they were loading up the wagons when their father came out of the house.

  7. They got off with the milk wagons in good season, and were back betimes, also, and without mishap.

  8. Big wagons told how the bags of wool were transported out of the wilds and how supplies were brought in.

  9. The trader had brought out two light wagons for the trip, and, after the manner of desert men, desired to start at sunrise.

  10. Farmers in sleighs and wagons on runners drew aside in alarm, to stare with open mouths at the panting demon--which passed them by before their horses had time to be frightened.

  11. The two station wagons drew up at the terrace, and the guests dismounted.

  12. Mr. Janney by this time had taken up the telephone and was ordering the wagons to the station.

  13. So all the folks came To see the good dame, And they all spent a jolly good day; And said their good-byes, With tears in their eyes, When the wagons were rolling away.

  14. Sounding his defy in many cackles and muffled crows the black hero raced up and down the yard, dodging, whenever possible, under some of the unused wagons and trucks standing about.

  15. His graft consisted in walking miles and miles looking for trucks and wagons left temporarily without the driver's protection.

  16. It was a rainy morning, and there were but few wagons on the road.

  17. The camp-wagons are drawn up on a low pebbly shelf at the foot of the hills, and the kindled fire has set a great carbuncle in the standing pool.

  18. The Gipsy girl who had emerged from one of the wagons was indeed pretty.

  19. They were transported in the tunnel on flat cars, and in the street on wagons, both cars and wagons being provided with cradles shaped to receive the bottom of the bucket.

  20. The use of the bucket and telpher also eliminated most of the objectionable noise incident to the transfer of spoil from tunnel cars to ordinary wagons at the shaft sites.

  21. Here, however, the buckets were placed on wagons standing at the curb, as shown by Fig.

  22. Two were used in lifting the muck buckets from the wagons and dumping their contents on the scows for final disposal (Fig.

  23. Sand and stone were delivered into them from dump-wagons on the loading platform.

  24. The wagons were empty and the horses fresh, so that he reached the railroad station by mid-afternoon and had the wagons loaded by dark ready for the return trip.

  25. We'll unhitch and leave both wagons here to unload in the morning," said Ernest.

  26. She'll have all the small items in those wagons in a hard knot," exclaimed Roger.

  27. At five o'clock the next morning the two heavily laden wagons crawled out on the desert trail, campwards.

  28. The enormous ears of the African elephant are not without their use to the hunter, who finds in them an invaluable aid in repairing damages to his wagons and guns.

  29. There are carts and wagons on the roads bearing the products of field and garden to the marts of trade.

  30. Here the wagons were left, and two horses were packed with blankets and provisions, and our journey was resumed as soon as possible.

  31. Seventeen in all," said Aunt Faith; "the two wagons will be well loaded.

  32. Now we are all here," said Aunt Faith; "I will tell Hugh to have the wagons brought round.

  33. Aunt Faith supposed they were to go in two wagons drawn by their own bays, and Mr. Marr's blacks.

  34. Cattle are there, sheep are there, horses and wagons are there, wealth and prosperity are there, above all happiness is there, because there also dwells the love of God.

  35. Well, yes, only we call them wagons here.

  36. The bridges and wagons had all been destroyed, yet they found means to keep one another informed of all that went on, and to send timely warning.

  37. The entanglement of the baggage-wagons and cannon-carriages was added to the general confusion.

  38. The whole country behind this vast front was teeming with men and horses, with wagons and motor lorries.

  39. Not only do the billets of troops not actually employed in the front line go back a long way in successive stages, but the wagons and lorries of the Royal Army Service Corps work back many miles.

  40. Horses were used as much as possible--a horse can drag a cart through places which would be impossible for a motor lorry--and civilian wagons were pressed into service, being used in conjunction with spare army horses.

  41. The men, by and by, went to the wagons or, wrapping themselves in blankets, slept before the flames.

  42. About noon he and Ross went back to the wagons and that night they encamped on the crest of a range of low and grassy hills.

  43. Now and then, when the smaller children were asleep in the wagons and the larger ones were nodding before the fires, the men would sink their voices and speak of a subject which made them all look very grave indeed.

  44. The two wagons came to rest at about the same place where the ambulance stood, and exactly the same wind and sand-storm blew up before we had been there half an hour.

  45. The wagons may be driven to the village (as mine were), but it is a long way around.

  46. It was the favorite camping-place of the wagons travelling between Fort Mohave and Fort Whipple, near Phoenix.

  47. Some one owned a big brass kettle, that would hold about half a barrel, which the wagons hauled, and it was soon on the fire, filled with the sliced pumpkins, to be stewed down.

  48. When night came we continued in a slow retreat, the road being blocked with wagons and artillery and in terrible condition with mud and ruts.

  49. From Tuka, the command with its wagons marched to Columbus, Mississippi, where it went into camp near the outskirts of the town.

  50. Missionary Ridge, when camp was broken and wagons sent to rear with all camp equipage.

  51. Captain orders to rush his guns forward, infantry and wagons giving space and away we went, the cannoneers mounting on our gun carriages and caissons.

  52. In Chicago a system of routes has been established by the newspapers which send wagons out with the different editions published each day to supply the men who control the delivery and sale of newspapers in the various districts.

  53. In each peddling company there are usually three or four wagons and from four to eight boys.

  54. The hay was unloaded and the wagons driven away.

  55. The door at the side of the house had a long platform before it, and on it Fincher, the proprietor, was weighing bales of hay which were being unloaded from several wagons by the countrymen who were disposing of it.


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