Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "when last"

  • Didst inquire the cost of geldings, when last in Holland?

  • You saw that the brigantine was opening his canvas, when last seen; and he that would move fast, must have recourse to his sails.

  • When last I was at Exeter, The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle And call'd it Rugemount, at which name I started, Because a bard of Ireland told me once I should not live long after I saw Richmond.

  • He was not so resolv'd when last we spake together.

  • My lord, when last I went to visit her, She pray'd me to excuse her keeping close; Whereto constrain'd by her infirmity She should that duty leave unpaid to you Which daily she was bound to proffer.

  • I recollect it well, and loved the time, When we were wont to meet: when last we met I parted from you for this western clime, With the deep feeling never to forget.

  • As yet I had scarcely had time to speak with Monsieur de Loris, but I now found the worthy old man as full of affection and regard for me as when last we met.

  • You were not feathered so, Sir Jodelle, when last we saw you.

  • When last he had time to look around, nothing had been seen but some two hundred Huns contending with himself and his small faithful band.

  • To his thinking, when last he interviewed her, Warden, the man to whom she was engaged, was undoubtedly dead.

  • When last I heard of him he was at Rabat.

  • Turn and twist as he would, there was no glimmer of light, and the most closely-woven fabric that ever left a loom could not altogether shut out the rays of the tropical sun rising over Morocco when last he saw its beams.

  • When last I heard of Captain Warden he was at Rabat," said the Under Secretary.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when last" 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:
    musical education; packet service; rapid pulse; when baked; when boiled; when cold; when cool; when elected; when exposed; when going; when half; when his; when informed; when last; when necessary; when once; when properly; when required; when rightly; when ripe; when seen; when served; when touched; when very; when viewed; whenever they