Use forward in a sentence
Sentences starting with forward
- Forward again, and twisting a corner, we beheld the indented edge of the stockade. [9]
- Forward it to Chateau Rochebrun in Normandy. [10]
Sentences ending with forward
- And, to add zest to the situation, I informed Singleton of what was going forward. [9]
- In truth, Paula, you have forgotten how to look around and forward. [10]
- He clasped the wounded arm with his left hand as the surgeon came forward. [11]
- This was done with the upper portion of her body bending very far forward. [10]
- As Iberville stood with Frontenac near the palace of the Intendant, watching, he saw the enemy suddenly hurry forward. [11]
- She screamed aloud,--so wildly that Myrtle lifted her head from the pillow against which she had rested it, and started forward. [6]
- Then a fine white-haired gentleman came forward. [11]
- Before I realized what he was doing, Nick, instead of retracing his steps towards the house, started forward. [9]
- And Cynthia's ears were pointing forward. [9]
- Next morning they were afoot again, and though jaded at first, and very tired, recovered before long and proceeded briskly forward. [12]
Short sentences using forward
- A good struggle was forward. [11]
- He came forward to Denzil. [11]
- I started forward, then faltered. [11]
- Pierre thrust forward the tobacco-bag. [11]
- A tall man stepped forward. [9]
- He took a step forward. [9]
- He took a step forward. [11]
- Come forward, Officer O'Flannigan. [5]
- At last they moved forward. [10]
- Step forward, George Jackson. [5]
Sentences containing forward two or more times
- If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: 'James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please;' but put the mate in his place and he would roar out: 'Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! [5]
- He brings forward part of a speech from Henry Clay,--the part of the speech of Henry Clay which I used to bring forward to prove precisely the contrary. [7]
- But I still look forward, Nell, I still look forward, and if I should be forced to leave thee, meanwhile, how have I fitted thee for struggles with the world? [12]
- From heaven a host of blue ants could be seen toiling in zigzags forward, ever forward, along the rude water-cuts and through the hills. [9]
- The candidate stepped forward and listened to one sentence, then made another move forward and listened to other words, and at last was welcomed to all the privileges conferred by the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, which was announced as being bestowed upon him. [6]
- His large blue eyes were somewhat prominent; and his rather narrow face was drawn forward in a nose a little too long perhaps, if it had not been for the full chin deeply cut below the lip, and jutting firmly forward. [8]
- Her eye seemed continually on the alert for those of Mr. Crewe's guests who were too bashful to come forward, and discerning them she would send one of her lieutenants forward with supplies. [9]
- Each time the commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward in exactly the same manner. [2]
More example sentences with the word forward in them
- A shot from your pistol brought him down as he rushed forward to enter the ruins. [11]
- Now, I ask you, what joys can I look forward to, and what certain happiness am I justified in hoping for? [10]
- Then come forward, you, the youngest of us all, who are so highly trusted by this holy assembly. [10]
- At any rate, you think you move them backward and forward at such a rate as your will determines, don't you?--On the contrary, they swing just as any other pendulums swing, at a fixed rate, determined by their length. [6]
- For instance, do you suppose that I should ever have got into notice if I had waited to be hunted up and pushed forward by older men? [7]
- What else have you or I to look forward to? [11]
- I can remember you coming to our house in Ransome Street, and how I looked forward to your visits. [9]
- Contradict me if you can, proud prefect's daughter; but I warn you beforehand, that in that case, I shall be compelled to bring forward fresh charges. [10]
- As old as you are and as wise, can you take pleasure in a love-match and even speed it forward as you have done, and yet purpose in your soul to hinder it at last? [10]
- For five hard years had I toiled and struggled, often turning night into day, and not for myself, but for him and his, ever upheld and sped forward by the sight of his high soul and great happiness. [10]
- And yet I yearned to go back, and looked forward eagerly to the time when I should have stored enough in my head to gain admission to the bar. [9]
- Day by day, year by year, new readers are coming forward with curiosity and intellectual wants. [4]
- At length Philip wounded his opponent slightly in the left breast, and the seconds came forward to declare that honour was satisfied. [11]
- Very often a wounded animal, hearing a rustle, rushes straight at the hunter's gun, runs forward and back again, and hastens its own end. [2]
- Probably, therefore, it would not suit the American, whose imagination does not work so easily backward as forward, and who prefers to build his own nest rather than settle in anybody else's rookery. [4]
- Even now he would be quite incapable of walking forward in a given straight line. [10]
- The young ladies wondered if it would be proper to go forward and talk with her. [4]
- It was a wonder that it had not choked him, but he had fallen forward so as to slacken it. [6]
- Jen started forward, woman-like, to check the action, but drew back, for she saw heroic measures might be necessary to bring him to consciousness. [11]
- Bent-Anat went forward without speaking, for she did not wish to make herself known again for the sake of the people, and for Nefert's; but Paaker put himself in her way. [10]
- He started forward without a word, but came back again and caught her hand. [11]
- She stepped forward without a word, and snatched at the covering. [11]
- They ran forward with woe and dismay in their faces, exclaiming-- "Oh, poor Tom, poor lad! [5]
- An instant, then, with the instinct of the woods and the plains, and the courage that has habitation everywhere, dropping her basket she sprang forward noiselessly. [11]
- I looked forward with the greatest interest to revisiting the Gallery of the Louvre, accompanied by my long-treasured recollections. [6]
- Washington sprang forward, with the eager question on his lips, and the Senator said: "We may rejoice freely, now, my son--Providence has crowned our efforts with success. [5]
- Her eyes filled with tears again, as she thought of her friend--her sister-sitting in that palace alone, forsaken, banished, and looking forward to an ignominious death. [10]
- Then, as though with sudden impulse, Kitty came forward to Crozier and leaned over him. [11]
- He looked forward with some uncertainty as to how it would be received. [6]
- I look forward with pleasure to the fulfillment of the promise made in the former to visit Washington the following winter and to "call. [7]
- And I promised, with my hand on my heart, that if all who felt no enmity toward me would come forward and pass before me they should see that only those who remained behind would be struck dead. [5]
- I look forward with longing to the time when I can lay aside the cares of office--" ["dam sight," shouted a tipsy fellow near the door. [5]
- His pipe lay with its scattered ashes on the boards, and his head was bent forward, as though listening. [9]
- Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second squadron, that in which Rostov was serving under Denisov, to return to the bridge. [2]
- He remained there, with his head unconsciously bent forward, drinking in the melody, stirring neither hand nor foot, hardly breathing. [5]
- Marie started forward with her hands on her temples and a sharp cry. [11]
- They sprang forward with dismay in their faces, and begged to know his trouble. [5]
- He looked forward with delight to the time when he could again have his private garden, grow his own lettuce and tomatoes, and not have to get so much "sarce" from Congress. [4]
- Perturbed and charged with anger as he was, however, the combat now forward soon chained his attention. [11]
- Chartersea came forward with an indifferent swagger, as if to say as much: and, in truth, no one looked for more sport, and some were even turning away. [9]
- He stepped forward with all of his old confidence, and did not regard a farthing my cold stare. [9]
- I leaned forward with a sharp curiosity to see this great friend of America. [9]
- Miles sprang forward, with a happy confidence, to meet her, but she checked him with a hardly perceptible gesture, and he stopped where he was. [5]
- Ermolov came forward with a frown on his face and, hearing what the officer had to say, took the papers from him without a word. [2]
- He ran forward with a cry, and knelt beside the wounded man. [11]
- Longueil sprang forward with a cry of rage, but a spent ball struck him. [11]
- He went forward with a cheerful, if ponderous bonhomie. [9]
- In considering the wing of a bat, he brings forward (p. 218) what appears to me (to use Auguste Comte's words) a mere metaphysical principle, namely, the preservation "in its integrity of the mammalian nature of the animal. [1]
- I was quite willing to do so, and, as there was no sort of need of an introduction, anyway, it could be necessary only that some person come forward for a moment and do an unnecessary thing, and this is quite in my line. [5]
- I suppose [sic] will remember who he is, and I will thank you to forward him the letter. [7]
- The coming woman will not smoke, to be sure; neither will she, in coming forward to take charge of the government, plead the Baby Act. [4]
- I suppose the whole force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time; and if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. [7]
- It was Evelyn who rose first and came forward, without, so far as Philip could see, the least embarrassment of recognition. [4]
- Is it those who resist the measure, or those who causelessly brought it forward, and pressed it through, having reason to know, and in fact knowing, it must and would be so resisted? [7]
- The five men who had ridden forward would have to force their way through the mass of scorched and dried up vegetation. [10]
- The high priest who came forward upheld his subordinates and, after a short dispute, Hermon left the sanctuary with his wish unfulfilled. [10]
- His face was white and set; his head was thrust forward, as though looking at something far ahead of him; the pony stallions he was driving were white with sweat, and he had an air of tragic helplessness and panic. [11]
- Mena lashed his whip, the horses started forward and rushed with frantic plunges towards the fugitives, who however could not be brought to a standstill, or rallied by the king's voice--the enemy were close upon them, cutting them down. [10]
- If the true Whigs come forward and join these new friends, they need not have a doubt. [7]
- The generation to which you, who are just entering the profession, belong, will make a vast stride forward, as I believe, in the direction of treatment by natural rather than violent agencies. [3]
- The room in which they were lay on one side of the hypostyle and behind the right-hand--or western--colonnade; more forward, therefore, than the veiled statue and to its left hand. [10]
- The long hall, which ran from street to street, was packed, the people surging backward and forward, and falling roughly against the mahogany pieces; and apologizing, and scolding, and swearing all in a breath. [9]
- A golden dolphin, which had been suspended from a beam, and on which the eye of every charioteer was fixed, dropped to the ground, a blast on the 'salpinx', or war-trumpet, was sounded, and forty-eight horses flew forth as though thrown forward by one impulsion. [10]
- I scarcely knew what I did as I sprang forward and took the Vicomtesse by the arm. [9]
- A series of what are called facts is brought forward to prove some very improbable doctrine. [3]
- While the soldiers were shouting Kutuzov leaned forward in his saddle and bowed his head, and his eye lit up with a mild and apparently ironic gleam. [2]
- A few Thugs were privately detached and sent forward in the dark to select a good killing-place and dig the graves. [5]
- Others, whose relations were more intimate, pressed forward to enjoy the mournful satisfaction of being the first messengers of evil tidings. [10]
- But many things were going forward which gave me matter for thought, and increased the distress I already felt. [10]
- Jeff Thatcher immediately went forward, to be familiar with the great man and be envied by the school. [5]
- But Anna Mikhaylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the portfolio, and changed her grip. [2]
- Here I am, well on the way to fifty, after twenty-five years of hard work, looking forward to the potential poor-house as confidently as I did in youth. [8]
- The night was well forward, and an air of recklessness and dissipation pervaded this splendid room in De Lancy Scovel's house. [11]
- The evening was well forward when Doltaire, rising from his seat in the drawing-room, bowed to me, and said, "If it pleases you, monsieur? [11]
- No sooner have we set forward over the brow of a hill than it grows lighter on the sea horizon in the southwest, the ruins on the peak become visible, Capri is in full sunlight. [4]
- In the piazza we pick up a donkey and his driver for use in case of accident; and, mounting the driver on the donkey,--an arrangement that seems entirely satisfactory to him,--we set forward. [4]
- From here forward we moved through a storm-swept and smileless desolation. [5]
- I am sure we have acted in a perfectly straight forward business way.--Now let us look at the thing a moment. [5]
- But scarcely had we begun to move, when the expected troops from Leyderdorp pressed forward, their loud San Jago resounding far and wide, while at the same time the old enemy rose from the ditch and attacked us. [10]
- Not only, but we are ready to begin moving forward. [7]
- But the chief waved aggression down, and came forward to the dead man. [11]
- He simply stopped washing, leaned forward and surveyed the clean, blank ground a moment, and then remarked: "Mph! [5]
- So then they washed their faces in the river; and just then there was a loud order to stand by for a crossing, and some of them went forward to man the sweeps there, and the rest went aft to handle the after-sweeps. [5]
- The now-and-then schooner was to sail for San Francisco about nine; when I reached the dock she was free forward and was just casting off her stern-line. [5]
- My first impulse was to dash forward and destroy the Bedouins. [5]
- Presently a match was struck, and Elise came forward with a candle raised level with her dusky head. [11]
- I suppose he was still carrying forward his plan of reparation in his mind--to the dead for the dead. [8]
- The French cause was standing still, our King was standing still, there was no hint that by and by the Constable Richemont would come forward and take up the great work of Joan of Arc and finish it. [5]
- When that door was opened and the prisoners, crowding against one another like a flock of sheep, squeezed into the exit, Pierre pushed his way forward and approached that very captain who as the corporal had assured him was ready to do anything for him. [2]
- Something for nothing was not the motto of Sebastian Dolores; and he confidently looked forward to having a home at "The Red Eagle" and a banker in its landlord. [11]
- And not only was Napoleon not afraid to extend his line, but he welcomed every step forward as a triumph and did not seek battle as eagerly as in former campaigns, but very lazily. [2]
- While the lady was making polite speeches to them, Myrtle Hazard came forward. [6]
- But as Edward was leaving, the Admiral came forward again, and said: 'Where are you going, Debney? [11]
- And Dorothy, too, was leaning forward, her lips parted and her eyes riveted upon his face. [9]
- If the boat was known to make her best speed when drawing five and a half feet forward and five feet aft, she was carefully loaded to that exact figure--she wouldn't enter a dose of homoeopathic pills on her manifest after that. [5]
- But Miss Thorn was his trump card, and she now came forward. [9]
- Though the body was held erect, yet the head was thrust slightly forward, and the heavy eyebrows were like a pent-house. [11]
- Such a tumult was generally odious to her retiring nature; but to-night she felt herself merely one drop in the great, flowing river, of which every other drop felt the same impulse which was carrying her forward to her destination. [10]
- And so it was decided to send the letters and money by the Grand Duke's courier to Boris and Boris was to forward them to Nicholas. [2]
- And if it was dark and rather dull, we used to say, what did it matter to us, for it only made us remember our last walk with greater pleasure, and look forward to our next one. [12]
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