Use helped in a sentence
Sentences ending with helped
- For one thing, X always spoke with such confidence--perhaps that helped. [5]
- I was not willing to expose the brave fellows to the perils, fatigues, and hardships of that fearful route again if it could be helped. [5]
- Like every knight whose own home was not pleasant, he sometimes gambled; and when, yesterday, ill luck pursued him and he lost the estate of Tannenreuth, he sincerely regretted the disaster, but it could not be helped. [10]
- I'm sorry Dunn went back yesterday, but it can't be helped. [9]
- And this premonition was disagreeable to him though he knew it could not be helped. [2]
- I am sorry to have to tell you this, but it is true, and cannot be helped. [7]
- The tree, where there had been no tree before--that helped. [5]
- You're going to stay to dinner, and Hastings, and all the people who have helped. [9]
- This was painful, of course, but it was fate, it was his profession, and it could not be helped. [11]
- But it could not be helped. [6]
Short sentences using helped
- It helped his self-esteem. [4]
- It had helped her. [11]
- And then, circumstances helped. [9]
- This cannot be helped. [5]
- It can't be helped. [13]
- He must be helped. [11]
- It can't be helped! [2]
- The prayers had helped him. [10]
- It can not be helped. [5]
- But it can't be helped. [11]
Sentences containing helped two or more times
- He had helped to make this land what it was, and in battle he had helped to save it from disaster. [11]
- I helped to hang my neighbors for that it were peril to my own life to show lack of zeal in the master's cause; the others helped for none other reason. [5]
- He had love, and he had success; and the one had helped to give him the other, helped in a way which was wonderful, and so brilliantly skilful and delicate. [11]
More example sentences with the word helped in them
- They have helped your excellency with the Indians a hundred times. [11]
- And I helped you, though Alo, half-caste Alo, was-- my sister! [11]
- Denzil belongs to you, because you helped to save him years ago; the Catholic Archbishop belongs to you, because he's got brains and a love of literature and art; Barode Barouche belongs to you, because he's almost a genius too. [11]
- I remember what you read in church the first Sunday you came, and it has always helped me; for I wanted to be good. [11]
- He will feed you bounteously--if--if there is any left after he shall have helped himself. [7]
- Mr. Dana understands you as believing that the Emancipation Proclamation has helped some in your military operations. [7]
- The spray of yellow wall-flowers on her breast had been cut from the blooming plant in the window of her room, and Barbara had helped arrange her thick hair. [10]
- He rode, as ye know, through peril to Pango Dooni, bearing the call for help, and he hath helped to save the whole land from the Red Plague. [11]
- These were the writers who helped to make the "North American Review" what it was during the period of Emerson's youth and early manhood. [6]
- Now--ah, how gladly!--she would have helped Ursel with the nursing, but she forbade her to enter the sick-room. [10]
- He swayed and would have fallen, but Madelinette caught him, helped him to the sofa, and, forcing him gently down on his side, adjusted a pillow for him, and turned to the wounded man again. [11]
- How in the world does it happen that you, who so often have helped us with your father's coin, have come down to be the chief of a band of travelling musicians? [10]
- I have camped with the Indians; I have been on the warpath with them, taken part in the chase with them--for grasshoppers; helped them steal cattle; I have roamed with them, scalped them, had them for breakfast. [5]
- Her duties connected with the household linen and the poultry yard, its owner's pride, were so easily performed, that in her leisure hours she often voluntarily helped the housekeeper. [10]
- You've helped him with the best of advice. [6]
- Mr. Burlingame went with me all the time, and helped me question the men--throwing away invitations to dinner with the princes and foreign dignitaries, and neglecting all sorts of things to accommodate me. [5]
- So he walked with his head high and his heart full of pride, and it confirmed his courage when one of Zminis's men, whom they passed in the brightly illuminated Kanopic street, and who had helped to secure Philip, looked at him without recognizing him. [10]
- They will remember with gratitude every earnest effort, every encouraging word, which has helped them in their difficult and laborious career of study. [3]
- Yes, your nimble wit has helped you out of many a tight corner. [9]
- The letters the winged messengers had brought were read aloud from the windows of the town-hall, and the courage of the populace, pressed to the extremest limits of endurance, flickered up anew and helped them bear their misery. [10]
- The woman, Kate Wimper, who had helped to send two people to their graves, would now drink the dregs of shame, if she was capable of shame--would be robbed of her happiness, if so be she loved Rube Haman. [11]
- When she was widowed, and he found her in dire poverty, he helped her with a large share of his savings, and performed this kind service again, when the second worthless fellow she married had squandered her last penny. [10]
- Finally a passenger whom I had helped through asked me to come out and take something. [5]
- Her oldest son, who on account of hip disease was not fit for hard work, helped her, and the youngest was Ortel, who had carried Eva's basket on the day of her dead mother's consecration. [10]
- It was Stephen who lifted her, and helped her to the coping, where she sat with her bandanna awry. [9]
- It was Janet who found it and helped him on with it. [9]
- It was only when the indignant orator "thundered and lightened" and was carried away by the heat of passion that he forgot his dignified moderation, and then how grandly voice, eye, and action helped each other! [10]
- It is only when a moment, a moment like this comes that the quality of what we have lived seems so tarnished, that the atmosphere which we ourselves have helped to make is so sordid. [9]
- Even the calmest were still in some excitement over the massacre they had helped in; the plunder was discussed, and barter and exchange were eagerly carried on. [10]
- He could not well have helped it, I hung with such homage on his words and so plainly showed that I felt honored by his notice. [5]
- Little hands, and weak--but they've helped Muff Potter a power, and they'd help him more if they could. [5]
- But the man was perfectly healthy, and this helped to resist the danger of a fatal result. [11]
- Fate, she said, was just, and if it were true that confidence of recovery helped the physician, Doctor Bontius would have an easy task with her. [10]
- Indeed his credit was injured instead of helped by the prudent step be had taken. [5]
- When Arnold, the warder from Berne, helped Eva from the saddle, a blaze of light greeted her from the imperial residence. [10]
- Passion has helped us, but can do so no more. [7]
- He was called upon, in this hour and in the church his father had helped to found, to make the supreme payment for the years of financial prosperity. [9]
- The judge insisted upon their answering, and proposed to compel them, but even the prosecution took fright and came to the rescue then, and helped stay the sturdy jurist's revolutionary hand. [5]
- Presently he got up, went over to a table, and helped himself to brandy and soda, motioning to Barry to do the same. [11]
- I studied them up very carefully, and as there were a good many of them I helped myself freely. [6]
- For, in his trouble, a woman came, and said kind words, and would have helped him if she could. [11]
- There were quarrels, too, the men striving to push one another from the easier paths; and deeds sublime when some straggler clutched at the bole of a tree for support, and was helped onward through excruciating ways. [9]
- Philippus was indeed too much overburdened to chatter, but his professional advice was good and helped her to endure the fires of this pitiless sky. [10]
- Gentlemen, I stand to-day a discredited man because the honest debts I incurred in the service of that government are repudiated, because my friends who helped it, Father Gibault, Vigo, and Gratiot, and others have never been repaid. [9]
- I have helped to wear these stairs into hollows,--stairs which I trod when they were smooth and level, fresh from the plane. [6]
- He feels grateful to the person who advised it, he loves to praise the pill or potion which helped him, and he has a kind of monumental pride in himself as a living testimony to its efficacy. [3]
- The carriage drove to the Benson cottage; King helped Irene to alight, coolly bade her good-night, and went to his barracks. [4]
- And sending her to that silly college hasn't helped the matter any--just the other way. [5]
- I myself helped to smash the other, which stood in the workroom that looks out upon the water. [10]
- I persuaded him to rob you; and I and a woman helped him to desert, and got him away in safety. [5]
- He helped me to rise, and I rested an arm on his shoulder. [11]
- Injun Joe helped to raise the body of the murdered man and put it in a wagon for removal; and it was whispered through the shuddering crowd that the wound bled a little! [5]
- He even helped to push the boat towards the water. [9]
- As he knelt to pray before he entered the pulpit, he heard the tinkling of the little bell of honour at the knee of Luc, as Junie and Parpon helped him from the church. [11]
- This had helped to make her so like the Roxana on the gem, and the change in her roused his pity. [10]
- What most helped to keep the place alive all through the year was the frequent coming together of the members of a certain literary association. [6]
- Angele's heart fluttered to her mouth, but the soft, simple music helped her, and she began with eyes bent upon the ground, her linked fingers clasping and unclasping slowly. [11]
- She helped Orion to fold her veil twice over her face, and did not thrust him aside when he whispered in her ear: "Let us see if a kiss cannot be sweet even through all that wrapping!--Now, come. [10]
- But I helped to fish them out of the river, down below the bridge, and then described it to them as well as I could. [5]
- But I helped to fill up the quota at every call, and when the volunteering stopped I went round with the subscription paper myself; and we offered as good bounties as any in the State. [8]
- It was difficult to elude their attention; yet close by Ephraim's couch, which his uncle, for greater comfort, had helped him make on the side of a gently sloping hill, a narrow ravine ran down to the valley. [10]
- That letter helped to change me, and the fact that it was Gertrude who had been through this. [9]
- You helped Clark to capture that country," and he waved his hand towards the northern shore; "why the devil don't you tell me about it? [9]
- He had helped to break her, and had sent her home from the improvised corral by one of his men. [11]
- When I went to Berlin in winter, harder work, many friends, and especially my Polish fellow-student, Mieczyslaw helped me bear my burden patiently. [10]
- Finally, Allen had to be helped up. [5]
- He helped her to a seat beside him on the bench. [13]
- At the various times when I have helped you a little you have said to me, "We can get along very well now"; but in a very short time I find you in the same difficulty again. [7]
- Of course--seized the time when the post was weakest, helped by ticket-of-leave-men and led by Henri Durien, Gaspard, and Gabrielle Rouget. [11]
- He helped her thus in a dozen unobtrusive ways, never once recognizing her ignorance; but he made her feel the more that that ignorance was a shameful thing not to be spoken of. [9]
- Heaven that has thus far helped you will guide you to the end. [11]
- General attention was thus drawn to the poor fellow, and a great many people came forward and helped him toward reform with their countenance and encouragement. [5]
- What I have thought was true love, and its true passion, helped me to forget the degradation and the secret shame--only the absolute honesty of that love could make me forget. [11]
- What man of those who, soberly, had put his hand to the Paper which declared the opportunities of generations to come, could measure the Force which he had helped to set in motion. [9]
- She realized that those noticing her liked her, and this observation helped to calm her. [2]
- But it was this extraneous matter that helped me to another link. [5]
- They helped me, they fed me with dialect, with local details, with memories, with old letters, with diaries of their forebears, until, if I had gone wrong, it would have been through lack of skill in handling my material. [11]
- I maintain that there is no necessity for apologizing for a man who helped in a small way to stop such mutilation. [5]
- They simply helped themselves to whatever they fancied, and were, of course, in a position to strip the son of the great Mukaukas of all he possessed and reduce him to beggary. [10]
- If I understand them, the civilization of the last century has not helped his position as a man. [4]
- Mary Hendrikhovna obliged them with the loan of a petticoat to be used as a curtain, and behind that screen Rostov and Ilyin, helped by Lavrushka who had brought their kits, changed their wet things for dry ones. [2]
- Have you helped them physically and morally? [2]
- He had foiled them as to men they wanted; he had defied them--but he had helped them too, when it seemed right to him; he had sided with them once or twice when to do so was perilous to himself. [11]
- There--no thanks, as the widow says"--and Tom cuffed Sid's ears and helped him to the door with several kicks. [5]
- The Pequots helped the whites build it. [4]
- Every man on the town list helped edit the thing--that is, he gave orders as to how it was to be edited; dictated its opinions, marked out its course for it, and every time the boss failed to connect he stopped his paper. [5]
- I am Keraunus the son of Ptolemy, whose father came into Egypt with Alexander the Great, and helped to found this city, and every one knows it. [10]
- They had helped the sisters to receive the first callers; but when Frau Barbara Behaim, a cousin of the late Frau Maria, had appeared, they gave up their post to her, and slipped quietly into the next room to escape the throng. [10]
- Ephraim hurried to the shore, called on the shepherds to follow him and, under his direction, they helped drive the herds forward. [10]
- And there, beyond the purple hills of Bozrah, and not so far as the stony pastures of Zoah, whither John had helped drive the colts and young stock in the spring, might be, perhaps, Jerusalem itself. [4]
- Joan had damaged the preacher's cause more with one sentence than he had helped it with a hundred; so he was much put out, and had trouble to get a good start again. [5]
- She flew into the next room, quite collected; fetched her handkerchief, snatched off the silken girdle that bound her waist, rushed back and helped the leech to tie the maniac's hands. [10]
- While Melissa helped the matron to change her dress--in the next room Alexander paced to and fro in great unrest. [10]
- He stirred up the living, and made us stand, jump, slap ourselves, to restore our circulation, and he helped as well as he could with his whip. [5]
- Alexander soon found the closed carruca intended for Melissa, and placed her in it as soon as he had helped Euryale into her harmamaxa. [10]
- Because she saw the awe in the other's face and a worshipping admiration of the great protectress of Protestantism, who had by large gifts of men and money in times past helped the Cause, she looked upon her here with kindness. [11]
- The Senate of the ancient capital naturally, approved his course, and had not merely suffered the heretic Sisterhood to remain, but had helped and encouraged it. [10]
- The only casualty that the day saw was the broken arm and badly bruised body of Felix Marchand, who was gloomily helped back to his home across the Sagalac. [11]
- He had said that she had helped him, and she believed him; he had proved the soundness of his aims and ambitions; his career was in the world's mouth. [11]
- Still she remembered that once she had loved him, those years ago, when he first won her heart from those so much better than he, who loved her so much more honestly; and this memory had helped her in a way. [11]
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