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Example sentences for "withdrawn"

Lexicographically close words:
withdrawals; withdrawe; withdrawen; withdraweth; withdrawing; withdrawne; withdraws; withdrew; withe; withed
  1. All support was withdrawn from the Dominicans, and the Bishop's salary was not paid.

  2. It took a whole regiment of Diaz's rurales to establish us here, and if they were withdrawn even now we wouldn't last long.

  3. Indeed, when, from sheer fatigue, it slowed he laid on with quirt and spur, and kept on at a gallop till violent exercise had withdrawn the blood from his swelling brain.

  4. Nor is the thing much mended when each portrait, or pair of portraits, has been withdrawn from the gaudy throng, and hung up for ever and for ever before the eyes of their family and friends.

  5. A voice whispered within him that there had been one, but he had deserted the cause and withdrawn himself into a monastery, and was more concerned with the doings of the Past, alack!

  6. His heart was overshadowed by the thought that God had surely withdrawn His love from him or He could not permit him to suffer so.

  7. Ely Minster had withdrawn itself entirely into the night, but to one so familiar with its contour as Annys, it was easy to carve it out from the surrounding darkness; to him it still dominated the landscape as at high noon.

  8. The Union army was withdrawn across the river under the cover of darkness, and the battle of Fredericksburg had passed into history.

  9. President Lincoln became convinced that the operations from the James River as a base were impracticable, and orders were issued for the army to be withdrawn from the peninsula.

  10. Before midnight Sumner had withdrawn his forces and was following after the wagon trains of McClellan.

  11. Leo and Wanda had withdrawn into the deep recess of the centre window, and were talking eagerly, but in a low voice, while the Princess was also carrying on a conversation in an undertone with her brother.

  12. In his anger and vexation of spirit he should let fall the reins which he had so forcibly withdrawn from her hands.

  13. After one sharp slighting look at the visitor, Madame Clemenceau had withdrawn her senses within herself, so to say, to come to a conclusion on the singular conduct of her husband.

  14. They had withdrawn into the window recess, and could see the gardens, as they conversed.

  15. Austria, in the name of the Diet, demanded that these Prussian troops should be withdrawn from the Electorate, upon which Prussia at once placed her whole army upon the war-footing.

  16. Disliking some of the criticisms of the latter, the directors posted placards announcing that they had withdrawn from sundry papers a specified number of free admissions worth a specified sum per annum.

  17. A large portion of the troops are withdrawn from the State, but sufficient are left to meet any emergency which may possibly arise.

  18. The order effecting this was withdrawn by Mr. Bryce.

  19. I want you two men to just stick around until I send for you again," said Judith, her eyes upon Carson alone, a little pink, naked foot suddenly withdrawn and tucked somewhere under her in her chair.

  20. From under their black brows they had the habit of appearing to be reluctantly withdrawn from some great distance to come to rest, steady and calm, upon the man with whom he chanced to be speaking.

  21. You have withdrawn yourself from my confidence, and from my affections; but remember, you cannot withdraw yourself from my authority.

  22. He remembered to raise his hat--she held out her hand--would have withdrawn it, but found it already clasped in his.

  23. He noticed too that her fingers were very shapely and their touch--she had withdrawn her gloves--a pleasant thing.

  24. She wanted to move, but she could not have withdrawn her arm without appearing impatient.

  25. He was still mysterious, withdrawn within himself extraordinarily uninterested in his physical surroundings.

  26. She had not withdrawn her hand at once, and so she could not withdraw it at all.

  27. The town was filled with the scandal, but by the personal influence of the King, it was withdrawn from the courts of law.

  28. He turned toward the group of men who, when he knelt, had withdrawn to a respectful distance.

  29. At all times those unemployed would be withdrawn into places not exposed to sudden enterprise, hauled up under sheds from the sun and weather, and kept in preservation with little expense for repairs or maintenance.

  30. Hindman, ignorant of or indifferent to the situation, no matter how serious it might be for others, had ordered the force to be scattered and most of it withdrawn from the Red River Valley.

  31. Postal orders, without poundage, were also made legal tender, but were soon withdrawn from circulation.

  32. The amendment was withdrawn and another was moved by Lord E.

  33. Many German spies were said to be among the refugees; and for this reason they were withdrawn from Dover and Grimsby.

  34. Caillaux, who at the outset had withdrawn from the contest, had altered his decision and, after a hard struggle, had beaten his adversary.

  35. At that time he was believed to be preparing for an attack on Burao, where, however, we had no garrison, the force having been withdrawn after the disaster to Captain Corfield and his camelry.

  36. And, from the point of view of British interests, suppose the French Fleet withdrawn from the Mediterranean and Italy involved in the war, Great Britain, if she now stood aside, might be exposed to appalling risks.

  37. He shot a glance at Madonna, who had withdrawn her hands from her face and was regarding me now with a strange expression of horror and incredulity--marvelling, no doubt, to find me such a craven as I must have seemed.

  38. With this he has returned to the hall, opened the lining and withdrawn a letter.

  39. And now Cesare's eye, travelling round, alighted on Madonna Paola, standing back in the shadows to which she had instinctively withdrawn at his coming.

  40. Nearer than the song, close between them some mighty enfolding presence seemed to have withdrawn them into itself.

  41. Janet had drawn up close behind the young couple, and when the cord was withdrawn went upstairs as if with them.

  42. One night, through treachery, it was said, the guards were withdrawn and the Indians entered the mission, slaughtered the lay brethren, and drove away the priests.

  43. It is true that if adopted private property upon the ocean would be withdrawn from one mode of plunder, but left exposed meanwhile to another mode, which could be used with increased effectiveness.

  44. Preponderance in the East was again made practicable to the atheism of authority, and the atheism of liberty took possession of Rome--Rome from whose walls, through a blunder or a crime, the French government had withdrawn its troops.

  45. They had taken place shortly after the prefect had withdrawn his prohibition and the grotto had been reopened.

  46. Though she had evidently prized science as the handmaid of religion, the time came when her verses upon the vanity of learning reflected a mind more and more withdrawn from the affairs of this world to the contemplation of the next.

  47. The greatest favor that the Catholics could obtain was a toleration of their worship in remote and secret places, and even this qualified boon was dependent on the whim of the viceroy, and was soon withdrawn at the command of parliament.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "withdrawn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alienated; alone; aloof; anonymous; antisocial; apart; apathetic; backward; bashful; benumbed; blah; blank; blase; bored; careless; casual; chill; chilly; closet; cold; colorless; comatose; constrained; cool; detached; discreet; disinterested; distant; dull; estranged; exclusive; expressionless; forbidding; friendless; frigid; frosty; glacial; guarded; heartless; heedless; homeless; hopeless; icy; impassive; impersonal; inaccessible; incognito; incurious; indifferent; inmost; innermost; insular; interior; intimate; introverted; inward; isolated; languid; lethargic; listless; lone; lonely; lonesome; mindless; modest; neutral; nonchalant; numb; offish; passive; pensive; personal; phlegmatic; private; privy; quarantined; quiet; regardless; remote; removed; repressed; reserved; resigned; restrained; reticent; retired; retiring; secluded; segregated; separate; separated; sequestered; sheepish; shrinking; slack; sluggish; solitary; solo; soporific; spiritless; stolid; stupefied; subdued; supine; suppressed; torpid; unaccompanied; unaided; unapproachable; unassisted; unattended; unbending; uncommunicative; unconcerned; uncongenial; uncurbed; undemonstrative; unescorted; unfrequented; uninterested; unmindful; unsocial; unsupported; withdrawn