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Example sentences for "what remained"

  • It was seen, also, what remained of the great army.

  • What remained now, what was left of any value to them?

  • What remained was a small company, indeed--and almost the whole field of American idiom and American grammar, so full of interest for the less austere explorer, was closed without even a peek into it.

  • What remained but to precipitate my flight?

  • What remained to convert tormenting doubt into ravishing certainty?

  • I had gained so much, and by means so unexpected, that I could more easily endure uncertainty with respect to what remained to be known.

  • And then--of what remained--they gathered up Twelve basketsful!

  • And yet, of what remained, they gathered up Twelve basketsful.

  • What remained to be done was to establish a permanent code of regulations, and to organise a regular corps of sea officers.

  • Then we took counsel as to how to make the best of our circumstances, and as a result set to work to tidy up the saloon and cabins, which was not difficult as what remained of the ship lay on an even keel.

  • They came to barbed wire defenses, or what remained of them, cut the wire with nippers and pulled up the posts.

  • What remained of their army retired on Veria, where it was reinforced by fourteen fresh battalions.

  • What remained of the army defeated at Zenta found its way to Belgrade, and thence returned to Adrianople, while Prince Eugene crossed the Danube into Bosnia and made himself master of the greater part of that province.

  • What remained of them, chiefly the city of Nicomedia, were left to their own resources, without further aid from Europe.

  • What remained of the Athenian fleet, in numbers still superior to that of their enemies, steered straight for the mouth of the harbour.

  • The long and breathless struggle ended in the capitulation at Chioggia of what remained of Doria's forty-eight galleys and fourteen thousand men.

  • Next he established himself in what remained of the palaces of his kindred, hanging the saloons with black, and arraying his retainers in the deepest mourning.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    around here; never seen; what applies; what avail; what did; what exists; what goes; what house; what looked; what made; what meanes; what means; what might; what name; what need; what period; what pertains; what prompted; what really; what relates; what was taking place; what will; whatever comes; whatever cost; whatever else; whatsoever things