Use crushed in a sentence
Sentences starting with crushed
- Crushed and trembling she drew back into the inmost depth of her rocky chamber, starting at each flash that illumined the darkness. [10]
- Crushed now, he could never rise again. [11]
Sentences ending with crushed
- All that is young and honest is crushed! [2]
- You yourself took them into your confidence, and we will consult together how the serpent's head is to be crushed. [10]
- You will probably tell me, as others have done, that no one has ever opposed Eldon Parr who has not been crushed. [9]
- After the death of the poet on the 26th of August, 1813, he moved silently about as though completely crushed. [10]
- He is with me, uninjured, but apparently exhausted; like a different being, bereft of courage, listless as if utterly crushed. [10]
- It wasn't that I loved him any longer,--all had been crushed. [9]
- First, he laid his hand on my shoulder, as my father used to do; but his was so heavy, that the weight pressed me down till I fell on my knees, crushed. [10]
- He replied that he would never be satisfied until the "man at the top" and the "system" which permitted evils in the Police Department were crushed. [5]
- The unfortunate man had given up all attempt at resistance and submitted to everything as if utterly crushed. [10]
- Laura was crushed. [5]
Short sentences using crushed
- The blow crushed her. [4]
- They've crushed him, crushed him! [2]
Sentences containing crushed two or more times
- Speech was beyond him, and he crushed the paper as fiercely as he would have liked to have crushed Cynthia, had she been in his hands. [9]
- Was the Scarabee crushed, as so many of his namesakes are crushed, under the heel of this trampling omniscient? [6]
More example sentences with the word crushed in them
- He would never yield until he had crushed them, until he had reconquered her. [9]
- This caused fresh wrath, and he furiously crushed the topmost sheet, already half covered with writing, and hurled it on the floor. [10]
- Ay, and he would have come if he had not still felt some love for me, if he had not misdoubted himself, and feared that the dying woman might once more light up the fire he had so carefully smothered and crushed out. [10]
- Besides, the wild wood was a second home to me, and now I was shut up in a convent where the silence about me crushed me like a too tight bodice. [10]
- I go in with my eyes open, I am willing to be crushed, if necessary. [9]
- The old woman was quite herself again over the work, and as she looked at Euphorion, who sat quite crushed on his couch with his eyes fixed on the ground, she cried out to him: "After bad times, come good ones! [10]
- Jethro Bass, who was engaged in pushing hemlock bark under the stone to be crushed, straightened. [9]
- In her fingers was crushed a bunch of orange blossoms. [11]
- But they have wantonly destroyed their own masterpiece, have crushed the scarce-opened bud, have darkened the star ere it has risen! [10]
- He gathered himself up and sneaked off, crushed and crestfallen. [5]
- Mr. Bryant said, 'Truth crushed to earth will rise again. [5]
- Yes--on; still on towards the goal; away over ruins and stones, through blood and dust, till she bowed her proud neck, crushed and beaten, and sued for mercy. [10]
- The Magian then took a mortar, laid some leaves and stalks of the sacred herb Haomas within it, crushed them and poured the ruddy juice, the food of the gods, into the flames. [10]
- He had forgotten to strengthen himself with food and drink, and the terrible blows of fate which had fallen upon him during these last hours of trial crushed, though but for a short time, his still vigorous strength. [10]
- After introducing Paula to her worthy host and his family, he quitted the house of Rufinus with a very crushed aspect. [10]
- Her heart seemed to contract; it hurt her as though it was being crushed in a vise. [11]
- A stone crushed through a blind, wounding Laura's forehead, and so stunning her that she hardly knew what further transpired during her flight. [5]
- So believing, I thought the public mind will never rest till the power of Congress to restrict the spread of it shall again be acknowledged and exercised on the one hand or, on the other, all resistance be entirely crushed out. [7]
- Sometimes Augusta Maturin thought of Janet as a wildflower--one of the rare, shy ones, hiding under its leaves; sprung up in Hampton, of all places, crushed by a heedless foot, yet miraculously not destroyed, and already pushing forth new and eager tendrils. [9]
- We generally made them feel rather small, too, before we got done with them, because we bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them. [5]
- Ruth wept for the poor little horse, and Marx sat as if utterly crushed beside his old friend's stiffening body, heeding nothing, least of all the snow, which was making him whiter than the miller, with whom he had expected to rest that evening. [10]
- The beginning of the new year found him really poorer in purse than he had ever been in his life, but certainly not crushed, or even discouraged--at least, not permanently--and never more industrious or capable. [5]
- As he approached the Kremlin he even began to avoid being crushed and resolutely stuck out his elbows in a menacing way. [2]
- Fifty yards down the gulch they had found him--that is, they had found a crushed and lifeless mass which represented him. [5]
- It might be that the Opposition was crushed, and profitably for the country, too; but the manner of it--the manner of it! [5]
- Soon after sunrise that morning she had carefully rebandaged his crushed thumb, which was not yet healed. [10]
- Was it possible that Jethro Bass lay crushed under the weight of the accusations which had been printed, and were still being printed, in the Newcastle Guardian? [9]
- Pierre felt that that fatal force which had crushed him during the executions, but which he had not felt during his imprisonment, now again controlled his existence. [2]
- How easy at that early period to have silenced her by indifference, to have wounded her by a careless epithet, perhaps even to have crushed her as one puts his heel on a weed! [6]
- You know the terrible sorrow which crushed him on the last day of 1874,--the grief which broke his heart and from which he never rallied. [6]
- He crushed the telegrams into a tighter ball, sought for a footing, and found a precarious one. [9]
- He crushed the telegrams again, and came down the room and stopped in front of her. [9]
- The great seas swept her in and crushed her to splinters and rubbish upon the rock tushes at the base of the precipice. [5]
- The draft was still crushed in her hand when she mounted the beloved horse, whose name now was Shiel. [11]
- Did a woman's soul rebound more quickly after being crushed beneath the burdens of the heaviest suffering, or was hers of a special character, and her slender body the casket of a hero's nature? [10]
- People were very solemn as yet, many of them being new to such splendid scenes, and crushed, as it were, in the presence of so much crockery and so many silver spoons, and such a variety of unusual viands and beverages. [6]
- He was so smiling and happy after that, that I could not refrain from asking him how he could possibly be so comfortable with a crushed foot. [5]
- Never before or since have I felt so crushed and destitute of support as during those days, and in this mood I left the city where the spring days of life had bloomed so richly for me, and returned home to my mother. [10]
- And here, too, shovelling the crushed rock, were East Indians oddly clad in European garb, careless of the cold. [9]
- Several of his shot crushed through the bulwarks in front of me, shattering a nine-pounder and killing half of its crew. [9]
- With sudden anger she crushed and crumpled up the draft for five hundred in her hand. [11]
- But she has seen men tied to their horses ride as that man is riding, when stricken with fever, bruised by falling timber, lacerated by a grizzly, wounded by a bullet, or crushed by a herd of buffaloes. [11]
- Barbara's impetuous nature seemed destroyed and crushed, and the bright gaiety which had pleased Frau Dubois so much the first day of their meeting had greatly diminished. [10]
- Mr. Marmaduke was scandalized and crushed, but Mr. Tyers, used to the vagaries of his fashionable patrons, was wholly convulsed. [9]
- All his trouble rushed back on him; the hand in his pocket crushed the venomous letter he had received, but he said: "No, you don't worship me! [11]
- Phanes had calculated rightly, and had the pleasure of seeing, that as he uttered the last words Nebenchari pressed his hand on a rose which lay on the table before him, and crushed it to pieces. [10]
- During this mute review of corpses it seemed to Langethal as if Death were singing a deep, heartrending choral, and he longed to pray for these young, crushed human blossoms; but his companion led the way into the guard's little room. [10]
- The crushed sage resembled the path of a monster snake. [13]
- He opened it, read it, crushed it in his hand and threw it down. [5]
- It was a question of taking care of this woman, who was worn out and crushed, until she should recover sufficiently to take care of herself. [9]
- The feeling of pain and fear he had experienced when he was being crushed, together with that of rapture, still further intensified his sense of the importance of the occasion. [2]
- Then he smoothed out the crushed trail in grass and sage. [13]
- She had landed on the island, sure of favourable predictions, but now her hopes lay as if crushed by hailstones. [10]
- There was blood on him all down his left side, and his right hand was red with the stains of the blood-soaked notes which he has crushed in it; but otherwise he was free from this sort of evidence. [5]
- At the close of this communication, to which Neforis listened with a vacant stare, horrified and at last almost crushed, the interpreter begged that she would grant the Vekeel an audience. [10]
- In the movement of the ponderous car, some honest folk must be crushed by the wicked wheels. [11]
- His own anguish of soul, and the pain inflicted by the cruel blow which crushed his dearest hopes, robbed him of fortitude and calmness. [10]
- With a look of pain and entreaty he desired Alexander to give him the tablets once more; but the artist assured him--and Caracalla seemed not sorry to believe--that he had crushed the wax in his convulsion. [10]
- That the flower of his life was crushed, and that he carried a death-wound in his heart was all that he felt or thought. [10]
- He could think of everything except her and her poor, crushed heart. [10]
- Those who stood nearest him attended to him, unbuttoned his coat, seated him on the raised platform of the cannon, and reproached those others (whoever they might be) who had crushed him. [2]
- It seemed a marvel that we escaped being crushed or burned alive in those huge steel buildings reverberating with sound. [9]
- For what right-minded man would not desire to preserve others from the misery which once crushed him to earth with its bitter burden?--But you are mistaken. [10]
- It had the look of crushed vitality. [11]
- Suddenly a hand--a long, skinny hand-- reached softly out from behind a large press, and swallowed and crushed out the flame. [11]
- The thought came like an avalanche, stripping away the veneer of beauty from the face of the world, revealing the scarred rock and crushed soil beneath. [9]
- Not only did Lassiter turn white--not only did he grow tense, not only did he lose his coolness, but also he suddenly, violently, hungrily took her into his arms and crushed her to his breast. [13]
- For, when I laid before him the petition with which thou hadst entrusted me, he was exceeding wroth and nearly crushed me by his awful words. [10]
- The man born kind and compassionate can have that disposition crushed down out of sight by embittering experience; but if it were an organ the post-mortem would find it still in his corpse. [5]
- To-day the terrestrial Jupiter had again crushed into the earth with his thunderbolts, an overbold mortal, and this time the son of the worthy gate-keeper was his victim. [10]
- In every single instance the guide has crushed out my swelling enthusiasm with the remark: "It is nothing--it is of the Renaissance. [5]
- It grew up in New England out of the seed unconsciously planted by the first Pilgrims, was not crushed out by the weight of a thousand years of error spread over the whole continent, and the Revolution was proclaimed and recognized. [6]
- I, you see, in an hour of recklessness did a wrong thing; to hide it I had to do further wrong, till it grew to a mountain which fell on me and crushed me. [10]
- The smell of hundreds of thousands of logs in the river, the crushed bark, the slimy ooze were all suggestive of life in the making. [11]
- The wounds on his poor, crushed, mangled hands and feet still burned. [10]
- Castine drew out his knife, as the bear, raised on its hind legs, crushed him in its immense arms, and still calling, half crazily, "Michael! [11]
- But the deformed Hipponax of Ephesus, a poet crushed down by poverty, wrote far bitterer verses than Phocylides. [10]
- He appeared before her like a fine proud tree struck by lightning, whose riven trunk, trembling to its fall, must be crushed to the earth by the first storm, unless the gardener props it up. [10]
- The bewildered, the helpless--and there are many--are torn from the parent rock, crushed, rolled smooth, and left stranded in strange places. [9]
- The inexorable hand held her tighter and tighter, until she felt as if her own slender fingers would be crushed in its gripe. [6]
- So if he has published a little book or two, collected a few fossils, or coins, or vases, he is crushed by the vastness of the treasures in the library and the collections of this universe of knowledge. [6]
- Subdued to duty's hard control, I could have borne my wayward lot: The chains that bind this rained soul Had cankered then, but crushed it not. [5]
- Their immediate torment had so crushed them that, incapable of anticipating the future, they had ceased either to fear or to hope; but now they could rejoice in thinking of the start they had gained over their pursuers. [10]
- Some hundreds, indeed, had passed the night there in prayer, or in sheer terror of the catastrophe which could not fail to ensue, and they were kneeling in groups, groaning, weeping, and cursing, or squatting in stolid resignation, weary, crushed and hopeless. [10]
- After all, what had I to live for if the great primal instinct which strives to make whole the half life of lonely manhood is defeated, suppressed, crushed out of existence? [6]
- Many of these had allowed themselves to be won over or cowed by the oratory which had crushed Krebs. [9]
- However, had he had a glimpse of the Speaker's lists under the hopelessly crushed hat of Mr. Bascom, perhaps he might have been shocked, after all. [9]
- The plant which grows from the seed you place in the earth may be crushed, but no power in the world will compel the seed to develop differently or produce fruit unlike what Nature has assigned to it. [10]
- His friend Timon gazed anxiously into his handsome but pale, sad face, as Diodoros sat crushed and absorbed in thought. [10]
- His son's sad gaze, his crushed and broken aspect were still in his mind when at last he went to rest for the night; it was already late, but sleep avoided him even as it had avoided Dorothea. [10]
- Charles V, the fugitive from the world, the man crushed by sorrow and disappointment, did that! [10]
- Suddenly he rose from his chair, crossed the room, and before she could draw away seized and crushed her in his arms without a word. [9]
- Her teacher and friend seemed to have crushed her resistance. [10]
- Once the editor, forgetting the official notice in his paper that the Cretans were crushed out, printed a letter of a very different tenor, from the American Consul in Crete, and was fined two hundred and fifty dollars for it. [5]
- The gigantic man felt physically crushed by the terrible blows of fate which had fallen upon him during this last wakeful night. [10]
- How virtuous he felt himself when he had crushed and poisoned a passionate heart that had never ceased to love him! [10]
- Now, crushed and feeble, she presented a pitiable image of powerless yet offensively hollow splendour. [10]
- The magic spell exerted by the beaker has transformed the heroic son of Herakles, the more than mortal, into the whimpering coward, the crushed, broken nonentity I found upon the galley's deck. [10]
- Who knows what else it crushed in me? [10]
- Truth crushed to earth will rise again. [5]
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