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Example sentences for "when all"

  • These suckling-pigs were really delicious, and Pencroft was devouring his share with great gusto, when all at once a cry and an oath escaped him.

  • When all is ended, we then for the first time realise that we know these people and their ways as if we too had dwelt among them.

  • Dare you hope on, when all is lost forever?

  • Oft he has cheered her With promise of a happier time, when all Shall be revealed.

  • There are better things than gaming and kissing, when all is said.

  • I would rather be a freight-hand myself, I think, when all is said.

  • What merit do I in my self respect, That is so proud thy service to despise, When all my best doth worship thy defect, Commanded by the motion of thine eyes?

  • I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.

  • Who then shall blame His pester'd senses to recoil and start, When all that is within him does condemn Itself for being there?

  • Well, a horn for my money, when all's done.

  • When all's done, You look but on a stool.

  • I had been in my bedroom for a quarter of an hour, expecting to see my sweetheart in some pretty kind of undress, when all of a sudden I saw her come in with all her clothes on.

  • I, of course, rose to greet her, when all at once she fell fainting on the sofa, though whether the fainting fit was real or assumed I cannot say.

  • My friend, says she, that you have seen with me so often lately, was hunting among his old Record books, when all at once he come across an old deed that was made by somebody that had my family name.

  • Gifted was walking home, deeply immersed in thoughts excited by the hints which hail been thus wantonly thrown out to inflame his imagination, when all at once, on lifting his eyes, he saw Clement Lindsay coming straight towards him.

  • But as I was saying, I was riding on the outside of a stage-coach from London to Windsor, when all at once a picture familiar to me from my New England village childhood came upon me like a reminiscence rather than a revelation.

  • When all is finished and to rights, we shall have the boy coming up, grumbling for his meal, and hungry as a bear after his winter's nap.

  • When all of Middleton's party had embarked, the trapper lifted a small bundle, which had lain at his feet during the previous proceedings, and whistling Hector to his side, he was the last to take his seat.

  • When all were in order, the whole moved with great steadiness and silence towards the margin of the river.

  • By knowing of this a child of God has in reserve for himself, at a day, when all that he otherwise knows, may be taken from him through the power of temptation.

  • Consdier man what I have said, And judge of things aright; When all men's cards are fully played, Whose will abide the light?

  • How now, thought I, is this the sign of an upright soul, to desire to serve God, when all is taken from him?

  • It's getting stupid, when all's said, for her to be risking her life like that!

  • Besides, when all's said and done, it's annoying, for I can quite see they seem to think me uneducated.

  • When all is said and done," explained Mme Gabin, "the dear departed did not come up to Monsieur Simoneau.

  • I should have seen Rome in my youth, when all my mind was open To new impressions.

  • When all is used up, there is more to come.

  • When all is said, the scientific term is composed of a misconception and a worthless epithet.

  • If the Spider were to stay alone, the reduction of space, when all is said, would hardly matter to her: she wants so little room, merely enough to move in!

  • Now this palace of silk, when all is said, is nothing more than a guard- house.

  • The aim of the singers is to keep exact time, counting a beat for each omitted syllable, and any one whose voice breaks in when all should be silent, pays a forfeit.

  • When all are in line, the train starts, after the signal, which is a bell.

  • When all is brightest, then farewell must come!

  • Neath shadow of o'er arching trees, When all sweet, summer music seems To float around us on the breeze.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when all" 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:
    arable land; exciting cause; iron bridge; when anyone; when cooked; when either; when employed; when exposed; when finished; when found; when given; when here; when life; when standing; when that; when the; when the time comes; when they came out; when they saw the; when they were alone; when they were come; when thoroughly; when thou; when thus; when twenty; when viewed