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Example sentences for "went south"

  • I lived in Texas, Baltimore County, for five years before I went South; my father and mother live there.

  • Went South in the year 1859; went to Mobile.

  • I went South on the tenth of last July, that is, I joined Gilmor's command at Texas.

  • It went south on the water and became mempak; from that come all mempak (water bone).

  • From the spring he turned back and went west, then back; went north, then back; went south, then back to the spring.

  • Then I went south a great way till I came to a hill which runs east and west.

  • When I went South I expected to find a good deal of aloofness between the mulatto and the black man.

  • So he went south, alone, until he reached Halyuilyve.

  • From there he went south a little distance to where the aht{sh}ye grass was high.

  • This small company remained in their old home one year longer, and then they, too, went south to their present reservation.

  • Some time after reaching the village he went south again, accompanied by some young Pawnees, but leaving most of the Comanches behind.

  • From the camp we went south to the Arkansas River.

  • He went south to Stavanger, and prepared a feast there for his marriage with Cecilia.

  • From thence he went south to More, past the mouth of the Throndhjem fjord, where they took Hedin Hirdmage and Kalf Kringluauge.

  • Kalf went to Eggja, and Fin to the king; and Thorberg, with the other men, went south to their homes.

  • When summer was past King Harald went south to Konungahella.

  • We went south on the west side of the Sierra Madre Mountains for five days; then in the night crossed over to the southern part of the Sierra de Sahuaripa range.

  • After this battle we went south of Casa Grande and made a camp, but within a few days this camp was attacked by Mexican soldiers.

  • Troops did not follow us any longer, so we went south almost to Casa Grande and camped in the Sierra de Sahuaripa Mountains.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brave little; clever enough; know something; more elevated; presented myself; situated between; went abroad; went across; went afterwards; went and; went around; went ashore; went before; went forth; went from; went home; went north; went over; went past; went round; went south; went together; went towards; went upstairs; went with; you now