Use detected in a sentence
Sentences ending with detected
- Had I been watched, detected? [11]
- He did not like this, nor various other unobtrusive signs of danger which his practised eye detected. [6]
- They will be detected. [5]
- Lately evidences of bituminous coal have been detected. [5]
Short sentences using detected
- Mr. Doubleday has detected ('Proc. [1]
More example sentences with the word detected in them
- I had simply written her that after the campaign I had gone for a rest to California; yet in her letters to me, after this information had reached her, I detected a restrained anxiety and affection that troubled me. [9]
- A flock of wild mountain goats, accustomed to come at this hour to quench their thirst at the spring, came nearer and nearer, but drew back as they detected the presence of a human being. [10]
- Then this man, whom nothing escaped which could by any possibility be made to serve as a clue, said: "There are cases in detective history to show that criminals have been detected through peculiarities, in their appetites. [5]
- It was Ralph who detected the true cause of my discontent. [9]
- The glamour to which Janet had yielded herself was on occasions slightly troubled by some new and enigmatic element to be detected in his voice and glances suggestive of intentions vaguely disquieting. [9]
- I had to watch a long time before I detected the telegraphic communication between the two conspirators. [6]
- But his eye was not resting on the work before him, but on the marriage-scene at his feet, in which he detected each moment some fresh and unique beauty. [10]
- Another man started up; the bridging bough was detected, and a volunteer started up the tree that furnished the bridge. [5]
- He had hired two venial wretches to set fire to the prison while the festival was proceeding, with a view to suffocating Orion in his cell; but the gang were detected and all the prisoners were released in time. [10]
- But she detected, too, an occasional painful movement of Mrs. Falchion's lips, a kind of trouble in the face. [11]
- He was nowhere to be seen in the groups which sang and gestured in the light of the many coloured fires, though once or twice Fleda's quickened ear detected his voice, exulting, in the chorus of song. [11]
- In the brief time in which he had seen her and this other man, Austen's quickened perceptions had detected tacit understanding, community of interest, a habit of thought and manner,--in short, a common language, unknown to him, between the two. [9]
- Two weeks after this, while talking in a company, I looked up and detected this same man boring through and through me with his intense eye, and noted again his twitching muscles and his feverish anxiety to speak. [5]
- She had detected the undue accent on her cousin's last words, and she glanced apprehensively at Stephen. [9]
- Presently he detected the sound of hoofs at some distance, and, looking forward, saw a horseman coming in his direction. [6]
- He had detected the note in her speech: though lightly uttered, it was unmistakably a command. [9]
- He has detected the moral of the Stout Gentleman with that air of whimsical significance so natural to him. [4]
- I had seen the heads and faces of ten youths gashed in every direction by the keen two-edged blades, and yet had not seen a victim wince, nor heard a moan, or detected any fleeting expression which confessed the sharp pain the hurts were inflicting. [5]
- Pollux will be the first among his fellow-artists, and it has been my privilege to discover this new star--the eighth artist whose merit I have detected while he was still unknown. [10]
- His appearance was the equal in roughness to theirs, his manner if anything was more democratic,--yet in spite of all this Stephen in them detected a deference which might almost be termed a homage. [9]
- We have detected the cell in the very act of forming itself from a nucleus, of transforming itself into various tissues, of selecting the elements of various secretions. [3]
- His aunt detected the act and made him let it go. [5]
- Perhaps it detected something unusual in the voice. [11]
- There was a silence in which Pierre first, and then all, detected the sound of horses' hoofs. [11]
- To her consternation she detected in herself in relation to little Nicholas some symptoms of her father's irritability. [2]
- He had no shame, no scruple in this, for he had been a pensioner upon others ever since a Syracusan amateur of the arts had detected his talent and given him the money to go and study abroad. [8]
- Every time a poor devil has been set upon his feet I have detected your hand in it--incorrigible ass! [5]
- We were just pleasantly in time, for five minutes afterward the driver sent the weird music of his bugle winding over the grassy solitudes, and presently we detected a low hut or two in the distance. [5]
- His face was perfectly still, and he waited to be spoken to; but the Doctor's eye detected a certain meaning in his expression, which looked as if he had something to communicate. [6]
- I detected no particular result, however, except that I had acquired a breath like a buzzard's. [5]
- His eye fell on Pierre's large and striking figure, and in the expression with which he frowned and looked away Pierre thought he detected sympathy and a desire to conceal that sympathy. [2]
- At the end of three months I had called six times, and each time got a new recipe, and detected no difference in the course of my "alopecia. [6]
- The aged eyes, of the Emperor's watchful companion, to whom up to the close of the repast he addressed only a few scattered words, also detected something else. [10]
- He was jealous of the dignity of the Church, and he seemed already to have detected in Mr. Parr's manner a subtle note of patronage. [9]
- The widow's fear of having her real motive detected spared the necessity of using force. [10]
- I think that not only I, the writer, but many of my readers, recognize in our own mental constitution an occasional obliquity of perception, not always detected at the time, but plain enough when looked back upon. [6]
- Nevertheless, I did not formerly consider sufficiently the existence of structures, which, as far as we can at present judge, are neither beneficial nor injurious; and this I believe to be one of the greatest oversights as yet detected in my work. [1]
- But he could not forget that his boarder had betrayed him into a breach of the fourth commandment, and that the strict eyes of his clergyman had detected him in the very commission of the offence. [6]
- And so I never did feel so happy as I did when my ninth downed its man and I detected the wavering in the crowd which is premonitory of panic. [5]
- When he met Mrs. Wilcox and noticed the placid ecstasy in her face, he said to himself, "Her cat has had kittens"--and went and asked the cook; it was not so, the cook had detected the happiness, but did not know the cause. [5]
- She loved her mistress, yet her inmost soul rejoiced whenever she detected in her the same changes which began to appear in herself, the woman of seven-and-twenty, so many years her sovereign's junior. [10]
- The movements I mention are less frequent, but I often hear the plaintive cry,--I observe that it is rarely laughing of late;--I never have detected one articulate word, but I never heard such tones from anything but a human voice. [6]
- He did not mean to be quizzical, but his voice sounded so, and she detected it. [11]
- It seemed to me that I detected a faltering in her voice. [9]
- He detected a look in his friend's face which excited his suspicion, and was about to slip a stiletto into him when Crioni saved himself by explaining that that look was only an expression of supreme and happy astonishment. [5]
- Gregory Thorne's blood leaped as he saw the noble quarry, with their wide-spread horns, sniffing the air, in which they had detected something unusual. [11]
- What he lacked in those days in literary delicacy she detected, and together they pruned it away. [5]
- There were footsteps in the corridor, the voices came nearer; one, loud and angered, she detected above the others. [9]
- Have you detected in her the germ which may possibly grow to a strong desire for salvation and to devotion to the Redeemer? [10]
- It seemed as if Time had not ventured to touch this masterpiece of feminine loveliness; yet the Greek's keen eye detected here and there some token of the vanishing spell of youth. [10]
- I fancied that I could feel a sneer in the woods at my detected conceit. [4]
- Mr. Forbes, with his fresh complexion, closely cropped hair, and London clothes, did not look at all like the traditional artist, although the sharp eyes of Mrs. Cortlandt detected a small sketch-book peeping out of his side pocket. [4]
- But, guarded as his action was, the first horse detected it. [13]
- Any temple-servant, hidden here behind the altar, can now light or extinguish the lamps without the illusion being detected by the sharpest. [10]
- What had withheld her, under such great provocation, from betraying that she had detected him in the theft of the emerald? [10]
- She saw that her plot was detected by the man whose esteem she most valued, and a loving woman is glad to recognize the superiority of her lover. [10]
- He nodded his head, and was about to close the doors and turn away, when his quick ear detected footsteps again in the garden. [11]
- Once he thought he had detected some warmth for himself in her eye, in the clasp of her hand; there was nothing of that sort now. [11]
- Now Professor Field-Mouse having placed his sensitive ear to the tree, detected a rich, harmonious sound issuing from it. [5]
- Possibly I may have sometimes unconsciously stolen it, but I do not remember that I ever once detected any historical truth in these sudden convictions of the antiquity of my new thought or phrase. [6]
- He, Alonzo Cheyne, had detected in me the Promethean fire! [9]
- A more critical eye than Lise's, gazing upon this portrayal of the Valhalla of success, might have detected in the young men, immaculate in evening dress, a certain effort to feel at home, to converse naturally, which their square jaws and square shoulders belied. [9]
- I was negligible, even my pathetic subterfuge had been detected and cruelly ridiculed by these friends whom I had always loved and sought out, and who now were so absorbed in their own prospects and happiness that they cared nothing for mine. [9]
- Those who knew Edith well detected in her that strain of moral earnestness which made the old Fletchers such stanch and trusty citizens. [4]
- Prof. Turner, of Edinburgh, has occasionally detected, as he informs me, muscular fasciculi in five different situations, namely in the axillae, near the scapulae, etc., all of which must be referred to the system of the panniculus. [1]
- Through all the disguise of fiction a grave scientific doctrine may be detected lying beneath some of the delineations of character. [6]
- Now you are detected, now I perceive the meaning of your threat. [10]
- It no doubt detected that he had come to show no special friendliness to his owner. [10]
- Her quick ear detected in his voice a note of relief. [9]
- But her instinct detected in Euphrasia a hostility for which she could not account. [9]
- Any unusual attraction detected in a first glance is a sufficient apology for a second,--not a prolonged and impertinent stare, but an appreciating homage of the eyes, such as a stranger may inoffensively yield to a passing image. [6]
- I thought I detected an incense deliciously sweet; by no means overpowering, like the lily's, but more like the shy fragrance of the wood flower. [9]
- Hodder thought be detected a note of hopelessness in her voice, and the spirit in it ebbed a little. [9]
- Pretty soon we detected a muffled and heavy sound, and next moment we guessed what it was. [5]
- It cannot be denied that here and there may be detected slight vestiges of the way of writing of an earlier period of Motley's literary life, with which I have no reason to think the writer just mentioned was acquainted. [6]
- Still no one could complain that the king was ever guilty of injustice; indeed he insisted more eagerly now than before on the rigid execution of the law; and wherever he detected an abuse his punishments were cruel and inexorable. [10]
- Hodder, from his corner, detected the effort, though it were barely discernible, and would have passed a scrutiny less rigid,--the first outward and visible sign of the lesion within. [9]
- Alike unavailing to convince them is the fact that they have never detected a man of us in any attempt to disturb them. [7]
- I was asleep, but Luigi was awake, and he thought he detected a vague form nearing the bed. [5]
- A likeness has been detected between its profile, with its slightly aquiline nose, and that of Napoleon I. [10]
- If there had been any vulgar curiosity or coarseness of any kind lurking in his expression, she would have detected it. [6]
- He dropped gradually back into his old frivolous and easygoing ways and conditions of feeling and manner of speech, and no familiar of his could have detected anything in him that differentiated him from the weak and careless Tom of other days. [5]
- When he stood at table with his fly-brush, rigid, erect, his face set in a cast-iron gravity, he was a statue till he detected a dawning want in somebody's eye; then he pounced down, supplied it, and was instantly a statue again. [5]
- And so straight and handsome was he, his dark eye flashing with the self-confidence born in the man, that the look of uneasiness I had detected upon Mrs. [9]
- He detected it, and added: "But I dare say I shall come down with the Wagner fever in time. [8]
- Perhaps he detected an instinctive shrinking on the rector's part. [9]
- There was something almost gentle in his smile as he said good-bye, and she thought she detected warmth in the clasp of his hand. [11]
- Alchemists and star-readers alike soon detected the old man's superior knowledge, and in spite of his acrid and often offensively-repellent demeanor, took counsel of him on difficult questions. [10]
- And Peter detected a strain of admiration running even through the ridicule. [9]
- But there was a new tone in his letters; she detected an unusual reserve that was in itself suspicious. [4]
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