Use departure in a sentence
Sentences starting with departure
- Departure from Tenets. [5]
Sentences ending with departure
- Jack Brinsmade bowed with great ceremony, and took his departure. [9]
- After dinner the whole Rostov household set to work with enthusiastic haste packing their belongings and preparing for their departure. [2]
- Besides, the buildings which surrounded the golden coffin were nearly completed at the time of our departure. [10]
- Many times she went over again her talk with Howard, and she surprised herself by wondering what he had thought and felt since her departure. [9]
- What wailing and weeping filled the air before their departure! [10]
- The young wife was tired after her long journey and went early to bed, and when the housekeeper was finally left alone with Melchior, he begged her to tell him how things had gone with his father, after his departure. [10]
- The whole fleet was awaiting the signal for departure. [10]
- They were to wait in front of the Town Hall, because it was doubtful whether the daughter of the house, who had been very reluctant to go to the entertainment, might not urge an early departure. [10]
- A maid came to the door to say that Alpatych was asking for orders about their departure. [2]
- Would you like to see the lady Berenike and the others before your departure? [10]
Short sentences using departure
- She died before my departure. [10]
- Every one prepared for departure. [10]
Sentences containing departure two or more times
- It was a rule of Jethro's code either to make an effective departure or else to remain and compel the other man to make an ineffective departure. [9]
- True, it was merely a technical departure, not a real one; still, it was a departure, and therefore a mistake, in my opinion. [5]
More example sentences with the word departure in them
- Lise, feverishly occupied with her toilet, on her departure broke the silence there by inquiring:--"Say, if I had your easy money, I might buy a stove, too. [9]
- The gracious young wife was overwhelmed with horror, which had doubtless prevented her return, unless her absence was due to departure from the city. [10]
- It had been wickedly said of him, when the news of his coming departure got around, that he feared Dorothy would fall in love with some provincial beau before he could get her within reach of a title. [9]
- If his mistress, who had left him full of anxiety from the fear that her departure would deeply agitate the blind man, should learn how indifferently he had received it! [10]
- During the years which immediately followed his departure from college, Warner led the somewhat desultory and apparently aimless life of many American graduates whose future depends upon their own exertions and whose choice of a career is mainly determined by circumstances. [4]
- During the week which had passed since Austen's departure the house in Hanover Street had been haunted for Hilary. [9]
- On Monday morning, when your friends are at breakfast, they will not suspect your departure, or even mistrust me being in town, as it has been reported advantageously that I have left for the west. [5]
- The admiral related what had occurred in the capital since his departure from Pithom. [10]
- Some of them were speciously unfavorable in tone; they criticised and even ridiculed the principles on which the new departure in literary journalism was based. [8]
- Preparations for departure were secretly made in the painter's rooms in the Alcazar during the afternoon. [10]
- The yellow leaves were fluttering about the school play-ground, the starlings were gathering in flocks on the church roof to take their departure, and Ulrich would fain have gone with them, no matter where. [10]
- His eyes, too, were dim, and he repeated to me what I had already heard him say in the conference, and wrote the same thing to my mother in a letter explaining my departure from the school. [10]
- One evening, as we went home in an open street-car together, after such a departure, Tom blurted out:--"Hugh, I believe I care for your family as much as for my own. [9]
- Did not its waters lead, after long wanderings, to the great highway of the world, and open to her the gates of those cities from which she could take her departure unchallenged towards the lands of the morning or of the sunset? [6]
- At noon everything was ready for her departure, and she would not be withheld from eating in the dining-room with the family. [10]
- Garnham says: "It was on the evening before his departure, as he wished still once to visit the Lei and offer to the Nymph of the Rhine his Sighs, the tones of his Zither, and his Songs. [5]
- Gratiot, if it was my boat, I'd delay the departure till morning. [9]
- And when it was finished they took their departure, a trifle awkwardly, led by Mr. Painter. [9]
- So the departure was delayed, and only the brave defence of young Philotas, Didymus's assistant, and some of the Ephebi, who joined him, enabled them to escape unharmed. [10]
- That they must wait until after the departure of the Alexandrian with her numerous train, and for the first dark night, was a matter of course. [10]
- In it short voyages were made during the summer all along the coast from New York to Maine, and the arrival and departure of the Henderson yacht was one of the telegraphic items we always looked for. [4]
- Anticipating, too, the very arrangements I was going to propose to him about providing for your departure, etc. [14]
- It was not until the second morning after her departure that I received a telegram giving the name of her Boston hotel, and saying that there was to be a consultation that day, and as soon as it had taken place she would write. [9]
- The instinct of tradition which had been the cause of Mrs. Forsythe's departure was in him, too. [9]
- I will confess to you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for the army was a great grief to me. [2]
- Because I've come to the conclusion that you know something about Minnie's departure, Augusta. [9]
- She understood how to read the faces of courtiers, and the door-keeper's had taught her that since her departure something momentous had occurred. [10]
- After her visit to Manchester, she had to return to a re-opening of the painful circumstances of the previous winter, as the time drew near for Mr. Nicholl's departure from Haworth. [14]
- She advised him to keep everything in readiness for departure, and she undertook to watch and give him timely warning. [10]
- Three hundred men to be kept ready for departure from on board the receiving-ships at New York. [7]
- How long a time his absence would extend could not be estimated, and the many poor people whom he had fed and supported must not suffer through his departure. [10]
- The effect of this new departure in journalism is beginning to attract attention. [4]
- In Laura's room there were the marks of a confused and hasty departure, drawers half open, little articles strewn on the floor. [5]
- The time for their departure drew near. [5]
- Two days after their departure Antinous once more stole into Paulina's garden. [10]
- I am glad the weather is changed; the return of the south-west wind suits me; but I hope you have no cause to regret the departure of your favourite east wind. [14]
- He thought that the time for departure had now arrived, and an irresistible longing urged him back to the world and Daphne. [10]
- Three days before the time fixed for the departure of Nitetis, Rhodopis had invited a large number of guests to her house at Naukratis, amongst whom Croesus and Gyges were included. [10]
- You will avoid the reality, and as far as possible the appearance, of using any neutral port to watch neutral vessels and then to dart out and seize them on their departure. [7]
- Kit stood in the middle of the road, and looked after them with tears in his eyes--not brought there by the departure he witnessed, but by the return to which he looked forward. [12]
- The head of the family, Count Ilya Rostov, continually drove about the city collecting the current rumors from all sides and gave superficial and hasty orders at home about the preparations for their departure. [2]
- In due time the doctor arrived, and while he prepared me for my departure, the little man sought, with misplaced kindness, to raise my spirits. [9]
- On his departure the district attorney's countenance changed. [9]
- Dion, too, witnessed the departure of the troops. [10]
- But why had the departure of the Irish, the coming of the Syrians made Dey Street dark, narrow, mysterious, oriental? [9]
- Nothing could palliate the departure from the path of truth, but her disobedience might perhaps appear to him in a milder light if he learned what had induced her to commit it. [10]
- Pleasant companionship during the day produced, for the time, the unusual blessing of calm repose at night; and after her friend's departure she was well enough to "fall to business," and write away, almost incessantly, at her story of Villette, now drawing to a conclusion. [14]
- At night, in the darkness, he took his departure, no servant of the household in attendance. [11]
- In spite of the cries of protest that followed her and drew--she thought--an unnecessary and disagreeable attention to her departure, she threaded her way among groups of people who stared after her. [9]
- The other, from the countess, described their last days in Moscow, their departure, the fire, and the destruction of all their property. [2]
- The blood of the contending spirits of light and darkness, which usually dyed the west of Egypt crimson at the departure of the great sun god, to-day vanished from sight. [10]
- When White left the colony three years before, the men had talked of going fifty miles into the mainland, and had agreed to leave some sign of their departure. [4]
- Already rumors of the cause of Mr. Allen's departure were in active circulation, and I was astonished to learn that he had been seen that day seated upon Indian rock with Miss Thorn herself. [9]
- And shortly after that, amidst a shower of miscellaneous articles and rice, Mr. and Mrs. Vane took their departure. [9]
- Also, she commanded that we should keep the date of our departure a secret, since she meant to get away unobserved. [5]
- He was glad that she attracted him so little, for at least she would scarcely make the early departure to the Biamite, which he considered his duty, a difficult task. [10]
- It is said that it contains a departure from his published views on the Trinity and a modification of the view of original sin. [6]
- He now protested that he could approach her mother and grandparents as a suitor with a clear conscience; for on the third day after Helena's departure the relation between him and the Queen had changed. [10]
- The news of that battle of Tarutino, unexpectedly received by Napoleon at a review, evoked in him a desire to punish the Russians (Thiers says), and he issued the order for departure which the whole army was demanding. [2]
- Jean Paul has termed melancholy the blending of joy and pain, and it was doubtless a kindred feeling which filled my heart in the days before my departure, and induced me to be particularly good and obliging to every body in the house. [10]
- He might have taken possession of the shop on the market-place directly after his father's death, but could not arrange his departure so quickly, and it was fully eight months before he left Nuremberg. [10]
- It is not surprising, then, that they looked upon his departure as a sore affliction. [4]
- He was so sure that he really was the King of Naples that when, on the eve of his departure from that city, while walking through the streets with his wife, some Italians called out to him: "Viva il re! [2]
- Then the count suggested that Zorrillo should be entrusted with the mission, and the Eletto ordered the quartermaster to prepare for departure at once. [10]
- Guided by the steward, he left them cheered and with fresh confidence in the future, and the faithful servant's account of the energy with which Daphne had aided the preparations for departure benefited him like a refreshing bath. [10]
- He had never spoken with her, but one evening before his departure he picked up from the floor her handkerchief which she had dropped, and with more gallantry than honesty carried it off to Sicily. [4]
- And while my solicitude for the workmen was not so great as his and Mr. Durrett's, I was concerned as to what would happen to us if those twin gods, the Tariff and Prosperity, should take their departure from the land. [9]
- When he did so, he hastily discussed with the two ladies the date of their departure. [10]
- Margaret was still sitting, with no recognition of his departure. [4]
- Sometimes he would sit there by the hour while Wetherell wrote or read, and take his departure when he was so moved without saying good night. [9]
- An interval of silence followed his departure. [9]
- When the first shock of her futile appeal to Lassiter had passed, Jane took his cold, silent condemnation and abrupt departure not so much as a refusal to her entreaty as a hurt and stunned bitterness for her attempt at his betrayal. [13]
- Then light will shine once more on the world, then life will once more mean joy, and death a departure from a scene of bliss. [10]
- Her feelings as she watched his departure were of very mingled character. [10]
- Yet, even thus she had succeeded in making the dying mother's departure easier, and what she had commenced she intended to complete at once. [10]
- After Siebenburg's departure she had confessed with tears to him, his master, and the monk, what had befallen her, and how she had finally reached the Bindergasse and Sir Heinz Schorlin's lodgings. [10]
- And then the senator, with renewed invitations for Mr. Crewe to call on him when he came to Newcastle, took his departure. [9]
- She had not seen him during the brief interval between her departure from the mansion-house and her return to Old Sophy's funeral. [6]
- After his departure scarcity and severity developed a mutiny, and six of the settlers were executed. [4]
- But we, I say, who loved her, and knew so well the noble possibilities of her royal nature under circumstances favorable to its development, felt more and more her departure from her own ideals. [4]
- The old baron sat silent for many minutes after his daughter's departure, and then he turned to his sad wife and said: "Dame, our matters seem speeding fairly. [5]
- For my mother's sake and my own I desired to live, but the rules he prescribed before my departure were so contradictory to my nature that they seemed unbearably cruel. [10]
- I have already said I am satisfied with the old system under which such good men have triumphed and that I desire no departure from its principles. [7]
- I will call round in case you have any commissions for me," said he, standing before Princess Mary and turning red, but not taking his departure. [2]
- She did not resort to the camp after the departure of Smith in September, 1609, until she was kidnapped by Governor Dale in April, 1613. [4]
- I think the remark had an intention; also that this intention was booked for the trip; but that either in the hurry of the remark's departure it got left, or in the confusion of changing cars at the translator's frontier it got side-tracked. [5]
- But while himself remaining, he gave instructions for the departure of the princess and Dessalles with the little prince to Bogucharovo and thence to Moscow. [2]
- She could not remain long with her lover, because the servants were obliged to be up early in the morning on account of the regent's departure. [10]
- She had not received him, but the unfortunate youth's conduct induced her to hasten the preparations for her departure. [10]
- And she was ready for departure the instant the despatch came from Henderson--"Margaret wants you to come at once. [4]
- He was gazing, radiant with joy, at the monks, who were to give him the benediction at his departure. [10]
- Alpatych, understanding the question to refer to their departure for Bogucharovo, replied that they had left on the seventh and again went into details concerning the estate management, asking for instructions. [2]
- He wished to present a gallant appearance in the saddle on his departure, and a more daintily, carefully clad cavalier could scarcely be imagined. [10]
- Because the astrologers predicted that it would shine in full splendor from evening till morning, I myself advised the late departure, turning night into day. [10]
- He could still play as merrily with little Mary, still take as much pleasure in a rare flower or a fine horse, as before his departure. [10]
- And when after Pierre's departure Helene returned to Petersburg, she was received by all her acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference due to her misfortune. [2]
- His news of Philip's departure was regretted by all, and he was delighted to perceive that Pulcheria seemed startled and presently shrank into the background. [10]
- At his departure Philipp tried to induce the Eletto to change his course betimes, for he was following a dangerous path; but Ulrich laughed in his face, exclaiming: "You know I have found the right word, and shall use it to the end. [10]
- Two months had past since Bent-Anat's departure from Thebes, and the imprisonment of Pentaur. [10]
- Three days had passed since the pioneer's departure, and although it was still early, busy occupation was astir in Bent-Anat's work-rooms. [10]
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