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Example sentences for "what went"

  • And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to behold?

  • Then there was a second question: “What went ye out to see?

  • His expression as to the character of John is voiced by two questions, to each of which a negative answer of course must be given: first, “What went ye out into the wilderness to behold?

  • Pierre paid no more attention to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was in some way essential.

  • Princess Anna Mikhaylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in society.

  • Natasha looked at the fat actress, but neither saw nor heard nor understood anything of what went on before her.

  • He had begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same question--one so important that he took no notice of what went on around him.

  • I sat at a little distance off, and affecting--but I fear very ill--a total indifference to what went forward.

  • I knew nothing of what went forward in the Place; from what I gathered, however, I could learn that the artillery was in position, the matches burning, and everything in readiness for a cannonade.

  • He took no interest in what went on around him; he cared nothing about the strangeness of the surroundings, his master was lord and praefect of Rome, and could visit those whom he list.

  • He had questioned his slaves who swore that from the arcades of the tabernae, where they had been waiting, they had seen nothing of what went on around the rostra.

  • But no one could say whether the Anglicanus had seen or heard anything of what went on around him.

  • The epic keeps its hold upon what went before, and on what is to come.

  • What went on in Iceland was the progress in seclusion of the old Germanic life--a life that in the rest of the world had been blended and immersed in other floods and currents.

  • He seemed absolutely indifferent to what went on.

  • Concealed behind the half-closed jalousies he listened to what went on below.

  • What went ye out into the wilderness for to see?

  • There was a period of close attention to his papers, when he heard nothing at all of what went on in the rooms next his study.

  • When you really looked at what went on about you, how funny and silly lots of traditional ideas did seem.

  • She supposed people had a right to what went on in their own heads, so long as they kept it to themselves.

  • I saw nothing of my sister's murder; saw nothing of what went on in the rooms upstairs.

  • What went on in his heart, no man there could guess, and he did not enlighten them.

  • What Went Before: The Interplanetary Vessel Arcturus sets out for Mars, with Breckenridge as chief pilot, carrying on board, besides its regular crew and some passengers, the famous Dr.

  • What Went Before: The Interplanetary Vessel Arcturus sets out for Mars, with Breckenridge as chief pilot, carrying on board, besides its regular crew and some passengers, the famous Dr.

  • Read "what went before" and then continue the second instalment.

  • But Hawke never spoke; there he sat, turning his glazed, filmy look from one to the other, as though in vain trying to catch up something of what went forward.

  • He was too much out of temper with the town to interest himself in what went on beneath his windows, and only longed for night, that he might leave it never to return.

  • These gentlemen lived entirely in this layer, and never condescended to allude to what went on elsewhere.

  • Of these long months and of what went on at home I heard but little from him, and with my request to have the gazettes he had evidently no mind to comply; nor were the chances of letters frequent.

  • I found it almost impossible to gather them into consecutive clearness, and often since I have wondered to hear men profess to deliver a lucid history of what went on in some desperate struggle of war.

  • Of what went on within the hall we heard little.

  • I think it well that we know so little of what went on within the walls of Congress.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what went" 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:
    above ground; what authority; what can; what causes; what extent; what followed; what ground; what happened; what has brought thee; what hath; what have you got; what hope; what importance; what king; what love; what manner; what might; what pleaseth; what proportion; what remained; what respects; what signifies; what the traffic will; what thing; what value; what went