Use closed in a sentence
Sentences ending with closed
- The hole in your back has closed. [13]
- He had lain with his eyes closed. [11]
- Having drunk the wine he lay back murmuring thanks and satisfaction, his eyes closed. [11]
- Presently a window was softly closed. [6]
- The Mississippi below was practically closed. [9]
- Then the window was closed. [9]
- And my eye was closed. [9]
- They started for ward, for his eyes were closed. [9]
- But I delayed until after the luncheon hour, when I called up the bank on the telephone, to discover that it was closed. [9]
- He did not turn round, but his head bent forward, as though he would take a blow from behind, and his eyes almost closed. [11]
Short sentences using closed
- Euphrasia's lips were tightly closed. [9]
- It closed on the Nile. [10]
- This had closed the interview. [10]
- They closed about the bottle. [11]
- Pierre's fingers closed the book. [11]
- Eliphalet closed with the bargain. [9]
- That closed him out. [5]
- They closed in on him. [11]
- It was closed, of course. [4]
- So that incident is closed. [5]
Sentences containing closed two or more times
- His long, long sojourning had brought him to Shilah where a new chapter of his life was closed, and at last to Askatoon, where another chapter still closed an epoch in his life, and gave finality to all. [11]
- Then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, closed his eyes, silently let Mack enter his room before him, and closed the door himself behind him. [2]
- She had not closed her eyes all night, or, if she closed them, they still saw beautiful things flashing by, to be succeeded by other beautiful things. [11]
- Her body swayed as though she would faint, and her eyes closed, and stayed closed for so long a time, that Corporal Shorter, who drove the rough little pair of Argentines, said to her sympathetically: "It's all right, ma'am. [11]
- He closed the after door; then moved slowly to the forward one and closed that. [5]
More example sentences with the word closed in them
- But when the young count held out his closed hands, saying: "If you choose the red stone, you shall throw first," he pointed to his companion's right hand, and, as it concealed the red pebble, began the contest. [10]
- Later, perhaps, they would relent and see something of their friends, and throw open again the gates of a beautiful place long closed to the world. [9]
- Besides, no one would have found admittance to the royal port, which was closed on all sides. [10]
- But Mr. Crewe would have been interested if he could have heard Mr. Flint's first remark to the senator after the door was closed on his back. [9]
- When the old woman uses the litter the cover will be removed and people will see her; when it is closed, the most sharp-sighted can not discover who is within. [10]
- Every morning we woke to fresh pleasures, and every evening closed a spring festal day, radiant with the sunlight of liberty and the magic of friendship. [10]
- A doorway, closed with light curtains, opened on to a long balcony with a finely-worked balustrade of copper-gilt, to which clung a climbing rose with pink flowers. [10]
- She followed him with her eyes as he passed from her sight through the door, and when it closed after him sobbed tremulously once or twice, but stilled herself, and met Helen, as she entered, with a composed countenance. [6]
- The count listened with closed eyes, heaving abrupt sighs at certain passages. [2]
- It was closed with a silken thread, and the seal with which Epagathos had replaced the one they had broken. [10]
- The gates closed with a bang, and a patter of bullets beat against them like rain. [9]
- He felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his eyes. [2]
- The door and windows were closed, and a green myrtle-berry candle was burning on the table. [9]
- She closed the window again, and sitting down upon the bed, thought of the life that was before them. [12]
- I nursed his wife, you know--and he started in to tell me how he was coming up to Foxon Falls to shoot Mr. Pindar because he'd closed down the works rather than recognize the union. [9]
- Petrus received his wife with no less gravity than was usual with him, but there was an arch sparkle in his half closed eyes as he asked: "You scarcely know what is going on, I suppose? [10]
- To him for whom Apollo, the pure among the gods, and the Muses, friends of beauty, do not open it at the same time with truth, its gates will remain closed, no matter how strongly and persistently he shakes them. [10]
- The four monks, who had leaned their heads against the cornice of the wide, closed fireplace and, in spite of the flies which buzzed around them, had fallen asleep, awoke. [10]
- Erasmus listened silently while Wolf eagerly made these statements; but when the latter closed with the declaration that the evangelical faith would never attain the same power of elevating hearts, he interrupted the knight with the exclamation, "We shall have to wait for that! [10]
- After the attack--of which she saw little, because, overpowered by fear and horror, she closed her eyes--she had driven home with her lover, where the leech had bandaged his injuries, and Berenike had quickly and carefully transformed her own sleeping chamber into a sick-room. [10]
- No one knew whether this was the real cloudy sky, or whether another, colorless awning closed them in. [10]
- His fine lips were tightly closed, as if in pain. [9]
- Five of them were of old dates, the others of various later crops; the list closed with a picture taken by Falk in Sydney a month before. [5]
- But her lips were now tight closed, her glance now and anon seeking mine, and then falling with an exquisite droop to the coverlet. [9]
- His friends who were not "saved," closed in on him to find the meaning of his words, but he pulled himself together, looked blankly at them, and asked them questions. [11]
- But the lips were firmly closed, bidding defiance, as ever, to the world. [9]
- Good patriots' shops were closed, their owners parading as on Sunday in their best, pausing in knots at every corner to discuss the affair with which the town simmered. [9]
- The companion mansions were closed, their blinds tightly drawn; the neighbourhood was as quiet as the country, save for a slight but persistent noise that impressed itself on my consciousness. [9]
- Prince Andrew's eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he seem. [2]
- The blind eyes were closed, but those who gazed on her felt that, if open, they would shine with the gentle light of stars. [10]
- The window spaces were closed by wooden shutters, and whenever they moved with a low creaking or louder banging Hermon started and forgot everything else in anxiety about his invalid friend, whose suffering every strong wind brought on again, and often seriously increased. [10]
- The great houses were closed and blinded, and in the evening the servants who had been left behind chattered on the front steps. [9]
- The prince again went to his bureau, glanced into it, fingered his papers, closed the bureau again, and sat down at the table to write to the governor. [2]
- The work which we had given the instrument to do during the day which had just closed had not fatigued it perceptibly. [5]
- I inquired the way to the office of the conductor: it was closed, but would soon be open, and I waited; and at length the official, a stout Frenchman, appeared, and I secured places in the interior, the only ones to be had to Visp. [4]
- She had the way of one in authority, and Mr. Sherman himself ran to open the door of his only closed carriage, and the driver galloped off with her all the way to the Brampton House. [9]
- Miss Thorn was watching him, too, her eyes half closed, as though in thought. [9]
- I sat and watched him, his eyes closed, his body was motionless. [11]
- My greatest apprehension was that we might be derailed and the despatches captured; for as fast as our army had advanced, the track of it had closed again, like the wake of a ship at sea. [9]
- The April sun was shining brightly when the convent gates closed behind Kuni. [10]
- The moment Joan was seated on the platform she closed her eyes and allowed her chin to fall; and so sat, with her hands nestling in her lap, indifferent to everything, caring for nothing but rest. [5]
- And the door was scarce closed and locked again, before they began stripping off their clothes. [9]
- However, the rebuilding was put in hand, and, of course, the business had to be wound up and the shop closed before the old front was torn down. [10]
- And while Wetherell was pondering over the possible meaning of these words the Honorable Alva Hopkins entered, wreathed in smiles, and closed the door behind him. [9]
- One of these was open now--both had been closed that other evening against the storm of sleet--and she caught a glimpse of him standing on the floor of chips and bark--tan-bark no more. [9]
- Now when all was made ready Aunt Jacoba begged of Ann that she should hold the sore closed while Master Ulsenius made the linen bands wet. [10]
- The lower half was closed, the upper open, and the winter sun was shining full into the room, where a bright fire burned. [11]
- The Durrett house was closed, the blinds of its many windows drawn, but Nancy was watching for me and opened the door. [9]
- When the door was closed, he turned round on Louise slowly, and then he held out his hands to her, for she was shrinking away, as though he had repulsed her. [11]
- Besides, the bridge was closed, and there was only a small opening at the piers. [11]
- Albeit the Convent was closed to all other men, it was ever open to its lord protector. [10]
- When the key was closed the new-comer said: "Can you send a message to Brisbane for me? [11]
- When the door was closed she turned and looked Alloway in the eyes. [11]
- Entrance to it was closed in 1898. [5]
- His pale face was calm, his eyes closed, and they could see his regular breathing. [2]
- Adjoining the studio was a smaller apartment, separated from the former room by a corridor, that could be closed, and by a heavy curtain. [10]
- In short, he was a product of the period since the civil war closed, that great upheaval of patriotic feeling and sacrifice, which ended in so much expansion and so many opportunities. [4]
- Janet opened the wardrobe, looked at the new blue suit hanging so neatly on its wire holder, hesitated, and closed the door again. [9]
- So, when I walked into the room, and Bridget, turning back, closed the door and left me alone with its tenant, I do believe you could have grated a nutmeg on my skin, such a "goose-flesh" shiver ran over it. [6]
- After a brief waiting Krool entered the room with irritating deliberation and closed the door behind him. [11]
- A drone of voices was audible through the closed window. [2]
- They closed Villa Viviani in June and near the end of the month arrived in Munich in order that Mrs. Clemens might visit some of the German baths. [5]
- The city of Victoria was twinkling dim in the deep heart of her smoke-cloud, and getting ready to vanish and now we closed the field-glasses and sat down on our steamer chairs contented and at peace. [5]
- Are not the very pews in which they sit as closed to us as their houses? [9]
- The criticism was very gently worded, and the dispatch closed with a somewhat guarded paragraph repeating the government's approbation. [6]
- True, it was very evident that she had closed her account with life. [10]
- All the air-breathing Vertebrata necessarily possess an apparatus for inhaling and expelling air, with a pipe capable of being closed at one end. [1]
- Now she could venture to raise herself, and to look in at the open window; the door of communication between the two rooms was closed, but a streak of light showed her that in the farther room, which was the sitting-room, a lamp was burning. [10]
- The youth spoke vehemently in Caesar's defence, and closed with the exclamation, "If he should still keep you in suspense, he would be not only cool and circumspect--" "Then," Cleopatra interrupted, "be nobler, be less cruel, and release your father's friend from these tortures. [10]
- The latter was vehement in his gesticulations; I expected some violent termination to my drama; but an angle of a building interfered and closed the scene. [4]
- He closed by urging that Bliss "hurry out" 'Tom Sawyer. [5]
- The mob closed upon them in a body, and then a patrol-wagon whirled up from the other side, and a squad of policemen leaped out and began to club the rioters. [8]
- His hand closed upon the knife; he raised it, glanced at it, and let it fall, with a shudder. [5]
- Jean Jacques closed up, and did but smile when she adroitly set traps for him, and at last asked him outright where his daughter was. [11]
- The mainsail closed up several points, the Ninety-Nine slackened her pace and edged in closer to the land. [11]
- We stirred him up occasionally, but he only unclosed an eye and slowly closed it again, abating no jot of his stately piety of demeanor or his tremendous seriousness. [5]
- The theaters set up in the Kremlin and in Posnyakov's house were closed again at once because the actors and actresses were robbed. [2]
- As we climbed up and stepped out on this eminence, the Gold Hill lights dropped out of sight at our backs, and the night closed down gloomy and dismal. [5]
- I was pacing up and down, for it was a task to quiet the nerves in that dingy place with the gun-ports closed, when about three bells of the dog, Mr. Mease, the purser, appeared on the ladder. [9]
- Last, and absolutely unassailable proof, the sutures in my skull closed six months ahead of his. [5]
- He could see two little boats, but they lay in a narrow walled canal and this was closed by an iron railing. [10]
- A pair of turtle doves over their heads were less indifferent to the sun's rays than they, for the birds had closed their eyes, and the head of the mother bird was resting languidly against the dark collar round her mate's neck. [10]
- She closed her trunk with a pleased smile, for the motto round the star was, she felt, of good augury. [10]
- I had not touched either for a year, and now I could see that my fingers, as they closed on the food nervously, were thin and bloodless, and I realized that my clothes hung loose upon my person. [11]
- Miss Monflathers only tossed her head in reply, and the great gate closed upon a bursting heart. [12]
- Once or twice, too, his eyes opened with a dumb hunted look, then closed as with an irresistible weariness. [11]
- They went in together, and the doors closed behind them. [9]
- The hall, owing to the fact that the shutters of the windows by the stairs were always closed, was in semidarkness. [9]
- The Vicomtesse went to the doorway, looked at him, and closed the battened doors. [9]
- He went quietly to the door, opened it, looked out, and closed it softly. [9]
- Expressing his indignation to the almoner without reserve, he closed the interview with him. [10]
- The festivities, so to speak, closed with another of those miraculous balls on the promenade deck. [5]
- He was anxious to select the most suitable one; the master who had created this work of art had been his friend, and had closed his eyes in death shortly after its completion. [10]
- When he came to himself again, he found himself in a closed cave, amidst strange forms of grey-brown, dripping stalactites. [10]
- The Vicomtesse turned to her own frightened servants in the doorway, bade Andre in French to run for Dr. Perrin, and herself closed the battened doors. [9]
- She therefore explained to Caracalla, in a low whisper directly he began to speak again, that her desire to give him relief would be vain if he did not keep his eyes and lips closed. [10]
- The temple ought to be closed, bloody sacrifices to the god should be prohibited--but his image--the noblest work of Bryaxis--to mutilate, or even to touch that would be a rash, a fateful deed, treason to the city and an outrage on the world. [10]
- Since he failed to appear after lunch, she knew he must be investigating the suspicions Orcutt had voiced; but at six o'clock, when he had not returned, she closed up her desk and left the office. [9]
- Mr. Flint walked to a window at the far end of the room and flung apart the tightly closed curtains before it. [9]
- I finally came to a marsh, a thicket of alders, and around this the mountain closed in an amphitheatre of naked perpendicular rock a thousand feet high. [4]
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