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Example sentences for "when they"

  • She felt almost sure that if she kept on talking and could make him see the garden in his mind as she had seen it he would like it so much that he could not bear to think that everybody might tramp in to it when they chose.

  • They'll look like a bed o' blue an' white butterflies flutterin' when they're out.

  • The sun was beginning to set and sending deep gold-colored rays slanting under the trees when they parted.

  • When they have no leaves and look gray and brown and dry, how can you tell whether they are dead or alive?

  • He also knew the stations the Secret Two would arrive at and leave by when they entered a city, the streets they would walk through and the very uniforms they would see; but of these things he said nothing.

  • I have a latch-key," she said, when they stood on the low step.

  • When they heard of the unrest and dissatisfaction of the Samavians, they began to get restless themselves.

  • They formed it when they had no reason for hope, but they formed it because one of them discovered that an Ivor Fedorovitch was living.

  • When they went to the Barracks, the Squad greeted them with a tumultuous welcome which expressed a great sense of relief.

  • The people of Villa Seca are civil and courteous, your worship; when they address a foreigner they speak to him at the top of their voice and in Gallegan.

  • They had been to California in '49, and although they didn't come home with millions, or anything else except sick and tired, they thought they had learned enough about gold to know it when they saw it.

  • When they met us, Leon reached in his trousers pocket and drew out a big roll of money that he held toward father.

  • When they couldn't find another thing indoors to scour, they began on the yard, orchard, barn and road.

  • Or I had ridden on the wagon with Laddie and Leon when they went to bring wood for the cookstove, outoven, and big fireplace.

  • Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

  • Arab's, in proportion as we are morally and intellectually his superiors!

  • You see some innocent fair shoots preparing to burst from his gnarled rind and try another year's life, tender and fresh as the youngest plant.

  • Therefore we should receive the benefit of his light and heat with a corresponding trust and magnanimity.

  • He stayed all winter at the island; he lived there, and kept the place in order and got things ready for the summer visitors.

  • I am glad, chere amie, to know that you have finally overcome your dislike for him; truly he did not deserve it.

  • When they came to the steps, leading upwards from the beach, a gentleman, at the same moment preparing to come down, politely drew back, and stopped to give them way.

  • When they came to converse, she was soon sensible of some mental change.

  • Oh, what fun it'll be, when they see me through the glass in here, and can't get at me!

  • Because people don't fall off quite so often, when they've had much practice.

  • It'll never do to go down among them without a good long branch to brush them away--and what fun it'll be when they ask me how I like my walk.

  • And so on until morning--when they would go out to another day of toil, a little weaker, a little nearer to the time when it would be their turn to be shaken from the tree.

  • When they failed--if it were only by a single month--they would lose the house and all that they had paid on it, and then the company would sell it over again.

  • When they ventured to hint at this, the agent's reply was that the purchasers would be moving in shortly.

  • Mexican women are like the Spartans; when they are in trouble, in love, under stress of any kind, they comb and comb their hair.

  • When they rang at the parsonage door, a capable-looking Swedish servant girl answered the bell and told them that Mr. Larsen's study was in the church, and that he was waiting for them there.

  • When they like, they just-a give you the town.

  • The church people ought to give you credit for that, when they go for you.

  • The top of the ridge, when they reached it, was a great flat plain, strewn with white boulders, with the wind howling over it.

  • How foolish, when they are so rich, and might enjoy themselves perpetually!

  • When they go into battle they will see Houston in front of them, and hear him call back 'No surrender!

  • When they arrived at Calais and Philip saw the crowd of gesticulating porters his heart leaped.

  • When they arrived at the Louvre Philip led his friend down the Long Gallery.

  • When they arrived at the cafe Lawson told Philip that they would have to go in.

  • IV Philip parted from Emma with tears, but the journey to Blackstable amused him, and, when they arrived, he was resigned and cheerful.

  • When they have a fire the ashes are left to accumulate for days.

  • When they wash, which is rarely, for washing to them seems an unnecessary work, they do it in a quart or two of water, and sometimes boil the things in some old saucepan in which they cook their food.

  • When they knocked at the door she was terrified for fear it was the landlord.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when they" 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:
    when behold; when boiled; when calling; when completed; when cooked; when cool; when crossed; when death; when eaten; when engaged; when fully; when heated; when here; when his; when melted; when pure; when ratified; when reduced; when ripe; when subjected; when the water boils; when they were alone; when you; whence also; whence came; whence the