Use met in a sentence
Sentences starting with met
- Met her walking with him. [6]
- Met our Beverly neighbor, Mrs. Vaughan, and adopted her as one of our party. [6]
- Met by this difficulty historians of that class devise some most obscure, impalpable, and general abstraction which can cover all conceivable occurrences, and declare this abstraction to be the aim of humanity's movement. [2]
Sentences ending with met
- Mr. Monroe was young, witty, lively, popular with people he met. [9]
- In addition, there were two New York attorneys of great prominence, whom I had met. [9]
- One of my very agreeable experiences was a call from a gentleman with whom I had corresponded, but whom I had never met. [6]
- I neither like to meet, nor to be met. [14]
- I came back to Foxon Falls this morning happy in the hope that I was to do something to encourage what was good in labour--and how have I been met? [9]
- When Beaton came to ask himself this question, he could only perceive that he and Dryfoos had failed to find any ground of sympathy, and had parted in the same dislike with which they had met. [8]
- The blood rushed through her veins in a hot tide at the thought; she could have laughed aloud and fallen on the neck of every one she met. [10]
- Try not to think of the number of times I've seen you, or when it was we first met. [9]
- She turned and their eyes met. [2]
- The eyes of the two men met. [11]
Short sentences using met
- We met several times. [5]
- I met Wetmore there. [8]
- He had met the rustler. [13]
- She met them resolutely. [11]
- Squalidity first met our eyes. [9]
- We met the news halfway. [9]
- They have met Mr. [5]
- Then their eyes met. [11]
- Then the ropedancer met her. [10]
- How they had met again! [10]
Sentences containing met two or more times
- Then, though they were yet far asunder, his eyes met hers, and hers met his, and they uplifted their arms, as though some invisible power had moved them both, and flew to meet each other. [10]
- These reports of Thug expeditions run along interminably in one monotonous tune: "Met a sepoy--killed him; met 5 pundits--killed them; met 4 Rajpoots and a woman--killed them"--and so on, till the statistics get to be pretty dry. [5]
- Where was his sneering, imperturbable manner, with which he could have met, and would have met, any woman he had wronged, if he had only been forewarned. [5]
- If seller met seller and buyer met buyer, trade would languish. [4]
- He met there his old friend Master Crampton, and he says: "I was more beholden to the Frenchmen that escaped drowning in the man-of-war, Madam Chanoyes of Rotchell, and the lawyers of Burdeaux, than all the rest of my countrymen I met in France. [4]
- I met but few men who had seen it thrown--at least I met but few who mentioned having seen it thrown. [5]
More example sentences with the word met in them
- The two pretty young Princesses Gorchakov met suitors there and were married and so further increased the fame of these dances. [2]
- And I told you, I believe, that I met him once at Mr. [9]
- Fraulein, I assure you that, though I'm an old woman, I never met so fine a young fellow in all my life. [10]
- When I met you that night there was something about you I couldn't account for. [9]
- I must tell you that life--has all changed since I met you--Irene, I--" "There! [4]
- But I assure you that it is my misfortune rather than my fault that I have not pleased you,--that I have met you only to anger you. [9]
- 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]
- Arriving in New York, after an adventurous voyage, he met a number of old Californians--men who believed in him--and urged him to lecture. [5]
- Again in later years the two men met, the stranger the aggressor--without due cause. [11]
- In that same year, having left home on one of his last lecturing trips, he met his son, Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, at the Brevoort House, in New York. [6]
- The skin was wrinkled, but shone, the hair spread white, the nose almost met the chin, the mouth was all malice. [11]
- Barbara had anticipated Wolf, but while going home she met him on his way to the Dubois house. [10]
- I have met with very few statements opposed to this conclusion. [1]
- When the boats with their chattering passengers had pushed out into the lake and accomplished a third of the voyage, they were met by a skiff containing the faithful chaperons Mrs. Simpkins and Mr. Meigs. [4]
- We met again, with the same ending, and I was wounded by the man Bucklaw. [11]
- Again Fate interfered with the course of this story; for on my way to school that sunny Saturday morning I met Clara's mother, and at sight of her the wish merged into a resolve. [10]
- His eyes, wet with tears of grateful joy, sought the young man's, and, though he had just warned him plainly enough against courting his daughter, his sparkling gaze now asked whether he had ever met an equally bewitching marvel. [10]
- Emerson undoubtedly met with some of them among his disciples. [6]
- This has met with professional recognition. [5]
- I met you with Mr. March at Maroni's one night. [8]
- The volume met with instantaneous success. [4]
- She had talked with him freely then, for it was only when he left her that he said what he instinctively knew she would remember till they met again. [11]
- She followed him with her eyes as he passed from her sight through the door, and when it closed after him sobbed tremulously once or twice, but stilled herself, and met Helen, as she entered, with a composed countenance. [6]
- I have met with friends, and combated with foes; but none of these gratify my ambition, or decide what is to be my destiny. [5]
- They are met with everywhere,--in one's daily walk, at the thresholds of the doors one enters, in the gentleman's library, on the rug of my lady's sitting-room and on the cushion of her carriage. [6]
- He met me with an expression I failed to fathom, and then my eye was held by a letter in his hand. [9]
- I was received with a deference which was entirely foreign to my experience by everybody whom I met, so that before I got home I had a much higher opinion of myself than I have ever had before or since. [5]
- Clemens also, that winter, met William Dean Howells, then in the early days of his association with the Atlantic Monthly. [5]
- Doubtless local uprisings will for a time continue to occur, but these can be met by detachments and local forces of our own, and will ere long tire out of themselves. [7]
- The Little Chemist's wife met him in the doorway. [11]
- The husband and wife met at breakfast. [11]
- He is meek, whose soul is open, clear and pure as a mirror, and the greatest philosophers, the noblest minds I have met in life and history were also meek. [10]
- And from Arsinoe, whose residence she discovered from the deaconess, she met with even a worse reception. [10]
- The other citizens whom she met made up for Mr. Worthington's coldness, and gave her a hearty greeting, and some stopped to offer their congratulations. [9]
- Among the guests whom I met in the grounds was a gentleman of the medical profession, whose name I had often heard, and whom I was very glad to see and talk with. [6]
- As men meet who parted yesterday, Kaid, Nahoum, and David met, but Kaid's first quiet words to David had behind them a world of meaning: "I also have come back, Saadat, to whom be the bread that never moulds and the water that never stales! [11]
- It was Ned who had met his master, the Colonel, at the levee, and had fallen sobbing at his feet. [9]
- Mr. Job Braden, who had come down with the idea that he might be of use in introducing the new member from Leith to the notables, was met by this remark:--"You can't introduce me to any of 'em--they all know who I am. [9]
- They met many who greeted them cordially, and numbers of Frank's old club friends summoned him to the sacred fires at his earliest opportunity. [11]
- But this Pontius, who carried out such fine works for Herodes Atticus, the rich Sophist, met me at his house, and will certainly recognize me. [10]
- The dissenting minister who argued some theological point with one of the established church was always met with the reply, "I can't see it so. [7]
- We have gone whithersoever we chose, to-day, and have met with nothing but the kindest attentions. [5]
- She saw the whispering, she noted the well-bred disguise of interest, and she met the visitor's gaze with cold courtesy. [11]
- In a little while the two met at the bottom of the lane, and when they reached the school they had it all to themselves. [5]
- I don't know which tickled me the most--the actions of many fellers we met, or Venters's nerve. [13]
- The cheerfulness, with which she had met the dwarf, was insincere, and had resembled the brilliant colors of the rainbow, which gleam over the stagnant waters of a bog. [10]
- Whereupon his eyebrows, which met above his nose, were darkly knit, and he gave me to wit, shortly and well-nigh harshly, that he would abide by his own. [10]
- The fullest account which I have met with is by Dr. Gerland, in his 'Ueber den Aussterben der Naturvolker,' 1868; but I shall have to recur to the subject of infanticide in a future chapter. [1]
- Behind the rocks which hemmed in the plateau on which Paulus met her, at last, when she was quite exhausted, she found a shady resting-place. [10]
- The old antagonism, which had had its sharpest expression the last time they had met on the platform at Heddington, came back. [11]
- Nearer the stockade, where the keepers of the fort might venture out at times, a more orderly growth met the eye. [9]
- They gathered most where met the Rue d'Driere and the Rue d'Egypte. [11]
- I told you, when we met up there by the mill this summer, that if Mr. Flint had consulted me about your candidacy, before seeing you in New York, I shouldn't have advised it--this time. [9]
- It left me when we met here, when I heard your voice again; and for a moment I was happy. [11]
- At any rate, when they met, an hour or two after these occurrences, he could not help noticing how easily she seemed to have got over her excitement. [6]
- More than once, when they had met, he had urged the General to prepare his memoirs for publication. [5]
- At the Fete when she and Ingolby met face to face, people had immediately drawn round them curious and excited. [11]
- Day by day, when I, saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked on her with an anguish of wonder and love: I have seen nothing like it; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything. [14]
- In the morning, when he went to call at Rostopchin's he met there a courier fresh from the army, an acquaintance of his own, who often danced at Moscow balls. [2]
- Since the moment when he had left the laboratory and made his way to the Red Mansion, he and Eglington had never met face to face; and he avoided a meeting. [11]
- On the evening when Charley Steele met with his mishap he was a river-driver--or so it seemed. [11]
- You met her when Bias gave her the bridal dowry which was to purchase my release from my husband. [10]
- Heinz told her what he knew, and when he at last enquired whether she still regretted having met him whom she feared, she gazed frankly into his eyes and, smiling faintly, shook her head. [10]
- Ulrich now knew what death the doctor had met, and that his father had gone to Antwerp and lived there as an armorer for twelve years. [10]
- I met a western man at the club and asked him about western resorts, quiet ones. [9]
- Favor and good-will were poured forth upon me, and wherever I might go I was met with the highest respect. [10]
- Pieces of board were nailed over the defective spots in the floor, and the lines where the walls met rarely showed a right angle. [10]
- The new papers were more aggressive than the earlier ones, and for that reason found a heartier welcome in some quarters, and met with a sharper antagonism in others. [6]
- His gloomy anticipations were aggravated by the scene which met his eyes. [10]
- Presently, as he went to the hall to put on his coat and hat to go out, he met Barry Whalen. [11]
- When Princess Mary went to her father's room at the usual hour, Mademoiselle Bourienne and Anatole met in the conservatory. [2]
- The young wife went out on the balcony with him, and he showed her in the south, where usually nothing but a green plain met the eye, a wide expanse over which a light mist was hovering. [10]
- When Prince Andrew went in the two princesses, who had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in each other's arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they happened to touch. [2]
- Each day we went farther afield, and each night trooped merrily in through the gates with hopes of homes and clearings rising in our hearts--until the motionless figure of the young Virginian met our eye. [9]
- Clemens and Oliver Wendell Holmes had met and become friends soon after the publication of Innocents Abroad, in 1869. [5]
- I knew full well what had led her to quit her bed so early, and, as she met her lover at breakfast, her form and face meseemed had gained in beauty, so that I could not take my eyes off from her. [10]
- Alice liked society well enough, she thought, but there was nothing exciting in that of Fallkill, nor anything novel in the attentions of the well-bred young gentlemen one met in it. [5]
- During the first week the old noblewoman thought that she had never met a happier pair. [10]
- The fact that we still met no tourists was a circumstance that was but too significant. [5]
- Time and time we met people plodding along, some of them nodding uncertainly, others abruptly taking the far side of the pike, and every encounter drove the poison deeper into his soul. [9]
- An hour later we met General Harris on the road, with two or three people in his company--his staff, probably, but we could not tell; none of them was in uniform; uniforms had not come into vogue among us yet. [5]
- Before we stopped we met a troop of travelling journeymen, and our mother, in the gratitude of her heart, threw them a thaler, and said "Drink to my happiness; to-day is my birthday. [10]
- Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
- Well, sometimes when we have met since, I have told you the same story, and you've kept your promise and listened. [11]
- I explained how we had met him at Brooks's, and had gone to his house. [9]
- After leaving Hirsau, we again met the Gallaits in Wildbad and spent some delightful days with them. [10]
- He guessed the way to bring down the gusto and pride of this Goliath, but, for a purpose, he took his own time, nodding indolently to Macavoy when he met him, but avoiding talk with him. [11]
- He made his way to a far quarter of the Palace, thoughtfully weighing the circumstances, and was met by Mizraim. [11]
- And the private watchman whom Hodder sometimes met in the darkness, and who invariably scrutinized pedestrians on Park Street, seemed symbolic, of this attitude. [9]
- His letters from Washington are more occupied with the odd characters he met than with the measures of legislation. [4]
- Student as he was, he had met a man whose knowledge of the Napoleonic life was vastly more intricate, searching and vital than his own. [11]
- Pierre continued: "I was to have met Tom Liffey here--to-night. [11]
- To him she was the most original creature he had ever met, the most natural, the most humorous of temper, the most sincere. [11]
- Before Shiel Crozier was taken ill their romance began; but it grew in volume and intensity after the trial and the shooting, when they met by the bedside of the wounded man. [11]
- He said it was strange that we had not met years before, when we had both been in Washington. [5]
- When the corpse was removed from the house to the tomb, a distance of one chain, the procession was met by a certain man who was ardently attached to the deceased. [5]
- Mr. Bascom's attack was met valiantly, but unskillfully, from the back seats. [9]
- At Heliopolis he was met by deputations from the Greek inhabitants of Naukratis and the Libyans, praying for peace and his protection, and bringing a golden wreath and other rich presents. [10]
- But when I was learning how to use the bayonet from a British sergeant in Picardy I met an English manufacturer from Northumberland. [9]
- Twice again he was in prison because the societies met at his house. [9]
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