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Example sentences for "went away"

  • When she had said this Minerva went away to Olympus, which they say is the everlasting home of the gods.

  • I received him hospitably, making him welcome to all the abundance of my house, and when he went away I gave him all customary presents.

  • I am myself the only son of Ulysses who left me behind him when he went away, so that I have never been of any use to him.

  • The ship-keeper, before he went away, told me you joined at one o'clock.

  • He went away brusquely to shut the door leading on deck and came back the whole length of the cabin repeating: "I must have the legal right.

  • It looked as though she had not moved her very head by as much as an inch since we went away.

  • Thus questioned Barlaam, and Ioasaph answered, telling him piece by piece all that had befallen him since he went away; and in how many ways the Lord had prospered him, until they were come together again.

  • So he went away, restlessly turning over all these things in his mind, pondering without end, and ever calling up remembrances of death.

  • At the last he went away to the third friend, whom he had never courted, nor invited to share his happiness.

  • Mr. Wharton, as he went away to Lincoln's Inn, bewailed himself because he knew that he was not hard-hearted.

  • But he did touch her brow with his lips before he went away.

  • The last meeting of the Improvement Circle before I went away was a kind of surprise party to me.

  • I parted with it only when I went away to the West, and then with regret, for it had been to me like a human little friend.

  • When I went away I saw her go again and sit down at the piano.

  • I think,' Dora said as I went away, 'that you had better go up to the studio and tell him what you have told me.

  • He was not permitted to come again; but he went away lightened, inasmuch as he had added his burden to hers.

  • After this he went away, to my great chagrin; why, I did not discover till the following morning.

  • But not finding wood and iron to its taste, it went away for a while, although I saw its fin from time to time for the space of some hours.

  • He could not see me, but I saw him, and the devilish smile that flickered on his face as he went away like a wolf, made me shiver with a presage of woes to come.

  • Affery, you were not married when I went away.

  • I am very much fresher than I was when I went away.

  • Whereupon he went away salaaming, and protesting his friendship and his master's goodwill.

  • He declared his willingness to do so, and I went away determined to entrust to him half of my stock.

  • We parted in kindness, and I went away, wondering by what strange chance this poor man had become prime minister of a country like Spain.

  • So I went away with a light heart, and forthwith made preparation for the execution of the object which had brought me to Spain.

  • But, you know, Stella and I went away on the same train together.

  • I meant to speak to you about what Stella said, Bertha remarked, "before I went away.

  • What would you do in this house alone if I went away?

  • The day after he went away, Timoleon came up before the city, in array for a battle.

  • But it went away on that track," says Crene.

  • But then we went away, and my reputation was saved.

  • After looking at him for a minute or so, we went away.

  • There are some of us that haven't smiled from the day The Other went away," remarked his comrade.

  • He went away to his little town firmly convinced that this could not last.

  • He reflected that from the time she was nineteen and he twenty-six, when he went away to garrison life in Strasbourg, he had had but two short glimpses of her.

  • My host being too respectable a man not to keep early country hours, I went away, as usual, about ten.

  • As long as my liquor lasted he stopped; when it was gone, he went away.

  • The servant told him we saw no visitors, and he went away, without leaving his name.

  • I went away speechless to my own room; and when I found myself alone there, burst out crying.

  • And he went away, leaving Kuvalda under the pleasant impression that the merchant was afraid of him.

  • In the daytime, like all the others, he went away to find something to eat, but at nights he always loitered around this friendly company till at last the Captain took notice of him.

  • He worked upon Vaviloff's greed, and urging upon him the importance of immediate action in the matter, went away in a very joyful and happy frame of mind.

  • He went away soon, promising to destroy the nest of vagabonds.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "went away" 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:
    close interbreeding; could mean; east window; gain the; mark time; military preparations; sinking fund; telling them; went along; went and; went around; went ashore; went away; went below; went directly; went forward; went off; went out; went over; went past; went round; went through; went towards; went under; went west; went yesterday