Use finished in a sentence
Sentences starting with finished
- Finished studies and sail Saturday in Minnehaha. [5]
- Finished in high relief. [6]
- Finished to-day, I may say, our whole stack of provisions. [5]
Sentences ending with finished
- In explanation I would say that 'The Lane that Had no Turning' was written after the present book was finished. [11]
- Finally he said, with a stately bow: "It is finished. [5]
- He trembled with weakness before he had finished. [11]
- So noble, indeed, was the picture which Mr. Billings' eloquence raised up that his voice shook with emotion as he finished. [9]
- The Ten-----" The voice died out in a whisper; the sentence was never finished. [5]
- Wolf's gift, the velvet robe with the marten border, would have been too heavy and oppressive for singing, and, besides, was not yet finished. [10]
- A regard for truth compels the statement that it was never finished. [9]
- She requires me to drop the lecture platform out of my mind and go straight ahead with Joan until the book is finished. [5]
- I'll allow you to cry, laugh and scream for joy as much as you will, but you're forbidden to ask a single question until I have finished. [10]
- They call her to breakfast with a salvo of artillery; and usually when it thunders she looks up expectantly and says "come in....." The monument to the author of "Gloverson and His Silent partners" is finished. [5]
Short sentences using finished
- Have you finished your novel? [4]
- Is it finished yet? [9]
- I finished finally today. [5]
- I'm finished with the stage. [11]
- They've just finished supper. [2]
- Pierre finished his story. [2]
- I have finished No. [5]
- His money was nearly finished. [11]
- That journal finished me. [5]
- I finished the loading. [9]
Sentences containing finished two or more times
- She was the most finished of finished products. [9]
- I finished Guy Mannering--that curious, curious book, with its mob of squalid shadows jabbering around a single flesh-and-blood being--Dinmont; a book crazily put together out of the very refuse of the romance-artist's stage properties--finished it and took up Quentin Durward, and finished that. [5]
- Sincerely, S. L. C. P. S. Just finished the above and finished raging at the eternal German tax-gatherer, and so all the jubilant things which I was going to say about the past year's business got knocked out of me. [5]
- It is really a finished town, and has been finished a very long time. [5]
More example sentences with the word finished in them
- Depart, and when your work is finished, take as much as you like out of the treasury. [10]
- You go to your sick wife, and I will take the key to the senator as soon as I have finished my devotions. [10]
- When you finished your breakfast at ten o'clock and went out, the sunshine was brilliant, the weather balmy and delicious, and the mud and slush deep and all-pervading. [5]
- Turning to the young reporter, Mr. Hill, who had finished his writing, he said: "Bob, a little air will do you good. [9]
- I have told you that I have just finished a long memoir, and that it has cost me no little labor to overcome some of its difficulties,--if I have overcome them, which others must decide. [6]
- I have met you on business three or four times; true, I never offered to corrupt your principles--never hinted such a thing; but always when I had finished sounding you, I manipulated you through an agent. [5]
- He was twenty-five years old, college bred, and had finished a post-college course in an Eastern law school a couple of years before. [5]
- Here I finished writing the second draft of the preliminary proclamation; came up on Saturday; called the Cabinet together to hear it, and it was published on the following Monday. [7]
- I hoped it would be finished before this came; but--there, good friend, go; I will sit here quietly. [11]
- But, still, the works which his great and untiring hand had already thoroughly finished will remain to attest his learning and genius, --a precious and perpetual possession for his country. [6]
- But would the work he had been doing all be finished then? [11]
- He seemed to wonder that I was goin' to Pipi Valley; and when I had finished my tale he said: 'Well, I must tell you that I am not good company for you. [11]
- I began to wonder how I might warn Krebs, and presently decided to send him a note when he should have finished speaking--but I couldn't make up my mind whether to put my name to the note or not. [9]
- Then I've finished with the West, I guess. [11]
- I finished off with reading some verses of my friend the Professor, of whom you may perhaps hear more by and by. [6]
- His packing finished, with one last glance at the room Austen went downstairs with his valises and laid them on the doorstep. [9]
- Go and flirt with Berg as much as you please," she finished quickly. [2]
- One of the wig-making villains lathered my face for ten terrible minutes and finished by plastering a mass of suds into my mouth. [5]
- When the doctor who had been sent to me had finished his task of sewing up the wound and left us, an elderly woman entered, whose rank in life was somewhat difficult to determine. [10]
- A mighty work which was in progress there in my day is finished now. [5]
- The wide opening, which extended downwards to within a few spans of the floor, was finished at either side by a tall pillar of fine reddish-brown porphyry, flecked with white, and crowned with gilt Corinthian capitals. [10]
- He was wondering whether he would go at once to Jasmine or wait until he had finished breakfast. [11]
- They say that when we've finished hammering them, we're to receive double kits! [2]
- It was finished when Washington got back. [5]
- Fran Lerch perceived what was passing in her mind, and instilled courage until she had finished her work and held up the mirror before Barbara. [10]
- I haven't finished what I was going to say. [4]
- And if I were the Queen," she finished in a flash, "I would teach you surly gentlemen not to meddle. [9]
- As the cases were standing finished at the cabinetmaker's, the statue had been packed immediately, under his own direction, and carried on board his ship, which would convey it with him to the capital the next day. [10]
- Under Necho they were recommenced, and possibly finished by Darius. [10]
- When the verses were finished Prince Andrew went up to Speranski and took his leave. [2]
- Yet when I went to Lepsius, the most earnest of my teachers, to show him the finished manuscript, I felt very anxious. [10]
- As the song went on, however, she felt the inherent suggestion in it, so that when she had finished it required all her strength to get up calmly, come among them again, and listen to their praises and thanks. [11]
- By and by we all retired to our narrow German beds; and when Livy and I finished talking across the room, it was all decided that we would rest 24 hours then pay whatever damages were required, and straightway fly to the south of France. [5]
- Meanwhile the Emperor was standing in a room just behind the antechamber that had only been finished a few hours since. [10]
- Only by degrees was she able to get sufficient control of herself to begin her copying, when she found a certain relief in action--her hands flying over the keys, tearing off the finished sheets, and replacing them with others. [9]
- Some such query was running in their minds as they talked, while Jethro, having finished his milk and crackers, sat silent at the end of the table with his eyes upon her. [9]
- Before the sun was quite down, Joan's forever memorable day's work was finished, her banner floated from the fortress of the Tourelles, her promise was fulfilled, she had raised the siege of Orleans! [5]
- The water way was not finished at that period, because an oracle had asserted that it would benefit only the foreigners, the Phoenicians. [10]
- Before the book was half finished those three were taking things almost entirely into their own hands and working the whole tale as a private venture of their own--a tale which they had nothing at all to do with, by rights. [5]
- After the toast was finished, with an emphasised assumption of weariness, and a hint of a long yarn on the morrow, he picked up his blanket and started for the room where all were to sleep. [11]
- When the biography was finished, other engagements were pressing upon his attention. [4]
- When the sermon was finished, Judge Thatcher's wife dropped alongside of Mrs. Harper as she moved down the aisle with the crowd and said: "Is my Becky going to sleep all day? [5]
- When the reading was finished, he gave a dry little laugh, and came down to the Governor, apologizing for his lateness, and bowing to the rest of us. [11]
- When the serenade was finished, he eagerly cried: "Again! [10]
- And when it was finished they took their departure, a trifle awkwardly, led by Mr. Painter. [9]
- When the meal was finished they sat smoking till night fell. [11]
- When the tale was finished the Milesian did not attempt to conceal his strong disapprobation, and told Zopyrus that his most unseasonable love of fighting might be followed by the saddest consequences. [10]
- When her schooling was finished she let her school friends drop, and came back to Bonaventure, rather stately, given to reading, and little inclined to bother her head about anybody. [11]
- After the book was finished it was discovered that Susy had a dim model of Soldier Boy in her arms; I had forgotten all about that toy. [5]
- His western trip was finished a day earlier than he expected. [9]
- To Honora there was an irresistible and mysterious fascination in all these trophies, each suggesting a finished --and some perhaps a cruel--performance of the man himself. [9]
- And when it was all finished and revised, it was put into a long envelope which bore this printed address: Augustus P. Flint, Pres't United Northeastern Railroads, New York. [9]
- Here and there was a house that had been half finished and then abandoned, or a shanty in which a couple of young married people were just beginning life. [4]
- The whole congregation waited, under one pretext or another, till she finished her dinner and went out; they wanted to see her at full altitude, and they found it worth tarrying for. [5]
- It is a very wonderful town indeed, and is not finished yet. [5]
- There was something very like a sneer on his face when he finished reading. [11]
- But I fear--" Venters finished, with a shake of his head. [13]
- We took up various claims, and commenced shafts and tunnels on them, but never finished any of them. [5]
- But it soon vanished, for scarcely had he finished when stormy shouts of applause rose from the antechamber. [10]
- Well, they shut up their cats for a while, but you know how it is with people; they got careless, and sure enough one night the trap took Mrs. Jones's principal tomcat into camp and finished him up. [5]
- We laid it under ground, of course, and it was all finished in a couple of hours or so. [5]
- Then in about two seconds we heard a whack, and the dog he finished up with a most amazing howl or two, and then everything was dead still, and the parson begun his solemn talk where he left off. [5]
- They planned it together, laid the corner-stone and all that sort of thing, and before it was finished she had a divorce and had gone abroad with Rindge. [9]
- Ulrich must go to the monastery, so Benedictus curtly declared with the utmost positiveness, after the smith had finished his work. [10]
- Scherau would venture to sit down by the sculptor, and try to imitate his finished images. [10]
- Then I went to New York, and at the Lotus Club, where I had a room, I finished it--but not quite. [11]
- They listened eagerly to his tidings, and when he had finished his description of the prison, Darius exclaimed: "I believe a little courage will save him. [10]
- Having finished speaking to her, the Emperor looked inquiringly at Balashev and, evidently understanding that he only acted thus because there were important reasons for so doing, nodded slightly to the lady and turned to him. [2]
- But George meant to go to war again right away, which was inconvenient and inconsiderate, for Napoleon had not finished his game of chess. [9]
- Clemens even offered to engage Goodman on a salary, to remain until he had finished his book. [5]
- We shall go to Elmira ten days hence (if Livy can travel on a mattress then,) and stay there till I have finished the California book--say three months. [5]
- Then I went to bring the constables to his house to arrest her when he had finished with her. [11]
- Mark Twain, not to be outdone in cordiality, joined vigorously, and kept his hands going even after the others finished. [5]
- The Monument is to be finished, some day, and at that time our Washington will have risen still higher in the nation's veneration, and will be known as the Great-Great-Grandfather of his Country. [5]
- We watched the tinted pictures grow and brighten upon the water till every little detail of forest, precipice and pinnacle was wrought in and finished, and the miracle of the enchanter complete. [5]
- For a long time after I had finished she was silent. [9]
- Countess Mary listened till he had finished, made some remark, and in her turn began thinking aloud. [2]
- These two or three hours finished, we and the tired horses could have rest and sleep as long as we wanted it. [5]
- He was very thoughtful when I had finished, and then told me briefly that I had done well not to take the offer. [9]
- Possibly because he thought that he discovered in me a talent for poetic expression, he showed me unusual favor, even read his own verses aloud to me, and set me special tasks in verse-writing, which he criticised with me when I had finished. [10]
- As soon as this task was finished the dead and wounded were removed; among those who still breathed was Orpheus, the son of Karnis. [10]
- While I tell this story, I feel as happy as a sculptor when he puts down his hammer and gazes at his finished work. [10]
- We never felt this so deeply as when we finished the last chapter of the above-named extravagant work. [5]
- There was the thing that finished me. [11]
- You say the thing happened three days ago--now, when will the work be finished? [11]
- After Mass, when they had finished their coffee in the dining room where the loose covers had been removed from the furniture, a servant announced that the carriage was ready, and Marya Dmitrievna rose with a stern air. [2]
- I must get these socks finished for you to take with you, my dear. [9]
- While one of these men remains alive, our task is not finished, the war is not ended. [5]
- When I finished there was an awful calm. [5]
- When he finished there had been cheering, but in the quiet instant that followed the cheering, a habitant got up--a weird, wilful fellow who had a reputation for brag, yet who would not have hurt an enemy save in wild passion. [11]
- Tears were in the widow's eyes when Stephen finished. [9]
- In regard to the whole Poem of the World I will observe that, up to the time I finished the last line, I had never studied the kindred systems of the Neo-Platonics or the Gnostics. [10]
- And these, by the way, were not yet finished. [9]
- Their labour finished, the two came towards the front door, the Cure's lantern in his hand. [11]
- It was on the terrible Earthquake-day That the Deacon finished the one-hoss-shay. [6]
- If we finished the task before the time set, we had the remainder to ourselves. [4]
- You haven't finished the story of Prince Setnau. [10]
- He has finished the splendid palace I saw in the radiant moonlight the other night, and is doing many other things for the salvation of Greece, they say. [5]
- We had finished the soup before she entered. [11]
- Freddy Tarlton finished the sentence for him: "For an inner sorrow is a consuming fire. [11]
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