Use offered in a sentence
Sentences starting with offered
- Offered to sing "The sky is bright," accompanying himself on the front-door, if I would go down and help in the chorus. [6]
Sentences ending with offered
- No clever man with the instinct of a highway robber could fail to notice what a chance for business was here offered. [5]
- And he resolved with democratic spirit that he would teach Stephen a lesson, if opportunity offered. [9]
- But a giant weak in the legs and not standing upright!--keep him in the carawan, but never show him, never show him, for any persuasion that can be offered. [12]
- When we give, we will, in remembrance of you, give in all love and willingness, and when we receive, even the smallest gift, we will only ask in what spirit it was offered. [10]
- Liverpool, where he was compelled to pass most of his time, had few attractions for him, and his low spirits did not permit him to avail himself of such social advantages as were offered. [4]
- I was able to avail myself of but few of the many opportunities offered. [9]
- I bided my time, and went on telling fortunes, as opportunity offered. [5]
- But none of these outcasts offered! [5]
- But I know that, however your jesting tongue sins against me, it has nothing to do with your disposition, whose kindness has ever been proved when the occasion offered. [10]
- And I reflected that the world was for the strong, for him who dared reach out his hand and take what it offered. [9]
Short sentences using offered
- I offered prizes, too--apples. [5]
- The King offered thee knighthood? [11]
- He was offered snuff. [9]
- Various suggestions were offered. [7]
- I offered him my car. [9]
- She offered no explanation. [9]
Sentences containing offered two or more times
- The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of a Roman general, while Vulcan and Bacchus, Minerva and Poinona, offered him gifts. [10]
- The father of Mahommed Selim again offered the Mamour a feddan of land if the young man might go free, and to the sergeant he offered a she-camel and a buffalo. [11]
- Europe has offered few opportunities for poor Tom, Dick, and Harry; but when she has offered one, there has been no noticeable difference between European eagerness and American. [5]
More example sentences with the word offered in them
- A very handsome young lady in the store offered me a pair of blue gloves. [5]
- How pleasant do you think it is to have an arm offered to you when you are walking on a level surface, where there is no chance to trip? [6]
- The last time you saw me you offered me your hand and heart. [11]
- 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]
- I know what you have done for me--" "I pleaded with Monsieur Fournel, knowing how you loved the Seigneury-- pleaded and offered to pay three times the price--" "Yourself would have been a hundred million times the price. [11]
- And yet if you are to understand me I must own that so long as I was young I longed bitterly for the love which no one offered me. [10]
- However, he has written to a New York publisher, and if we are offered a bargain that will pay for a month's labor we will go to work and prepare the volume for the press. [5]
- For you I would take from his Majesty a dukedom which he has offered me more than once. [11]
- So large a work as the "History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic," offered for the press by an author as yet unknown to the British public, could hardly expect a warm welcome from the great dealers in literature as merchandise. [6]
- Van Blaricom, who wore a long gold watch-chain, now took it off and offered it to the chief, motioning him to put it round his neck. [11]
- I offered the woman food and liquor, but she refused both. [5]
- Princess Mary listened without understanding him; she led him to the house, offered him lunch, and sat down with him. [2]
- The King conversed with these --he had made it a point, from the beginning, to instruct himself for the kingly office by questioning prisoners whenever the opportunity offered --and the tale of their woes wrung his heart. [5]
- A pleasant dinner with the Dean, a stroll through the grounds of the episcopal palace, with that perpetual feast of the eyes which the cathedral offered us, made our residence delightful at the time, and keeps it so in remembrance. [6]
- He had intruded with no advice, he had offered no comment that she had come downstairs alone, without Lise. [9]
- Soon after graduating with honours as a physician, I was offered a professional post in a college of medicine in Canada. [11]
- Luck would be with him that offered first succour in that dark hour. [11]
- An aide-de-camp approached with gliding steps and offered him a gold snuffbox, which he took. [2]
- The physician noted with anxiety how his master's breast heaved and his eyelids quivered; but when he offered Caesar a soothing potion, he waved him away, and commanded him to cease from troubling him. [10]
- But a woman with a musical, appealing voice, in great danger, offered a rare opportunity to a knight. [10]
- He inquired also with a merry countenance after the piece of ordnance that Smith had promised to send him, and Smith, with equal jocularity, replied that he had offered the men four demi-culverins, which they found too heavy to carry. [4]
- The clown who, with a comical show of respect, offered her what she needed for her next feat, told her this. [10]
- Philip did not wish to quarrel with the artist now, but he would remember the incident, and woe betide him, if in some gloomy hour the sovereign should recall the insult offered him here. [10]
- I offered him wine, but he refused. [9]
- Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money. [5]
- I and my wife think of retiring to my property by lake Larius, and there to try whether we may succeed, she and I, in becoming worthy of the salvation and capable of apprehending the truth that you have offered us. [10]
- It offered a wide gamut of intelligences, and the meetings were noteworthy occasions. [6]
- The tall lady, whose noble face and majestic figure were shrouded in a thick veil, was Juliane's mother--and she had offered the sick ropedancer a home in her wealthy household. [10]
- But the mass, whose meaning she did not understand, offered no solace to the soul which yearned for love alone. [10]
- We don't know who the friend was to whom he offered a quarter interest for the modest sum of two hundred thousand dollars. [5]
- Toying with her, who so quickly understood and so gratefully accepted the gifts of the intellect which he offered, was so sweet, but in these days it must not be permitted to impair mental repose, keen thought. [10]
- Many a man who has come into some property after he has sold all his little antiquities has offered me ten times the price I have paid him to get them back again, generally in vain, unfortunately. [10]
- To the objection which might be urged that these interest bonds could not be cashed, he replied that if our other bonds could, much more could these, which offered a perfect security, a fund being irrevocably set aside to provide for their redemption. [7]
- Meanwhile she inquired whether it might be possible to get four horses at the next change, and she offered five gold pieces to a man who would ride on ahead of them and secure the team. [11]
- I was present when my honorable and reverend patron, the Lord Bishop of London, Doctor King, entertained her with festival state and pomp beyond what I had seen in his great hospitality offered to other ladies. [4]
- One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first colored regiment, "If he accepts it I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot. [7]
- You know well what we have offered you and you know George's liberal hand. [10]
- Should she reject what the most powerful and wealthy sovereign in the world offered with contemptible parsimony? [10]
- And if this were oblique it offered, at least, a definite outlet for his energy. [9]
- Of what avail were all his ability and the most honest good-will if no opportunity offered for his executing his work in noble materials? [10]
- Only a few weeks since you swore on my hands to guard the mysteries, and this day you have offered the great secret of the Unnameable one, the most sacred possession of the initiated, like some cheap ware in the open market. [10]
- We were some weeks longer together, but he never offered to continue his reading. [6]
- He idled away weeks and months in indolent enjoyment in the country; he indulged his passion for the theater when opportunity offered; and he began to be weary of a society which offered little stimulus to his mind. [4]
- Ursula was growing weak herself, and showed it; and she ate of the food that was offered her like a starving person, but could not be persuaded to carry any home, for Marget would not eat charity food. [5]
- I repeat that we shall not wantonly offend any star; but at the same time we shall promptly resent any injury that may be done us, or any insolence offered us, by parties or governments residing in any star in the firmament. [5]
- To stay as we are, to refuse to take what is offered us, is to remain between wind and water. [9]
- Romance indeed it was; so remarkable that the master-musician might easily have found a theme for a comedy--or tragedy--and the philosopher would have shaken his head at the defiance it offered to the logic of things. [11]
- To her he was the man, not the Emperor, and that he did not express a desire to hear her again seemed like an insult which the man offered to the woman, the artist, who was ready to obey his sign. [10]
- To Boris, Julie was particularly gracious: she regretted his early disillusionment with life, offered him such consolation of friendship as she who had herself suffered so much could render, and showed him her album. [2]
- When our repast was over, and I had drunk a glass of wine with the proprietor, I offered to pay him, tendering what I knew was a fair price in this region. [4]
- When her prayer was over and the sacrifice offered, the youths fell asleep, and never woke again. [10]
- David Humphrey, who was outside, offered to put up the Sergeant's horse; but he said: "No, if you'll hold him just a moment, Mr. Humphrey, I'll ask for a drink of something warm, and move on. [11]
- He took what was offered, but it was with the air of one to whom the time for pellets was passed. [4]
- This higher education was offered to the mass that still lacked the rudiments of intellectual training, in the belief that education--the education of the moment, the education of superimposed information, can realize the theory of universal equality. [4]
- No such plea was offered in her defense. [5]
- This time it was not Quijada, but the Duke of Alba, who offered him the support of his mailed arm, and, leaning on it, he ascended the low stage. [10]
- Yet no man was known to have loved her, or even to have offered himself to her in marriage. [6]
- If ever there was an unpromising task, if ever there was a hopeless task in the world, surely it was offered here--the task of conquering Thuggee. [5]
- Sixty years ago verses made a local reputation, which verses, if offered today to any of our first-class magazines, would go straight into the waste-basket. [6]
- Pierre offered the use of his carriage, which had overtaken him, to a wounded general he knew, and drove with him to Moscow. [2]
- He had offered up his life to this land to atone for a life taken when she--when she first looked up with eyes of gratitude, eyes that haunted him. [11]
- The prayer offered up by the Magian was a model for those of the Persian people. [10]
- His daughter sprang up and offered him the cup full of wine and water which was standing on the table; but Keraunus pushed it aside with his hands, and panted out, while he struggled for breath: "Supersede me--in my place--turn me out of this palace! [10]
- Two brothers of unusual height, who, nude like all their comrades in death, offered their broad, beautifully arched chests to the arrows, would not leave his memory. [10]
- This was joy unspeakable to me, but it made my wife as mad as if he had offered her a personal affront. [5]
- It seems quite unlikely that that problem could have offered difficulties to any but a trained philosopher. [5]
- The boom gybed twenty times that morning, and the Celebrity offered an equal number of apologies. [9]
- Victoria would not trust to the telephone, whereupon Mr. Crewe offered to drive down with her. [9]
- Now, what is true of others is true of you, and if you had not been in immediate need of money you would hardly have offered me these things. [10]
- He had hoped to win the reward which was offered for the recovery of the fugitive, and had promised his colleague half the money if he would help him to capture the maiden. [10]
- The great men, to whom he offered himself as a pupil, required years of persevering study. [10]
- Yet the wish to try his powers as a pedagogue never deserted him; and when, in 1812, the position of teacher in the Plamann Institute in Berlin was offered him, he accepted it. [10]
- If, from time to time, he finds a slight refection awaiting him on the sideboard, I hope he may welcome it as pleasantly as he has accepted what I have offered him from the board now just being cleared. [6]
- Now he bowed to the gentlemen, offered her his arm, and as they descended the staircase, whispered: "The mask who escorted you just now detained me;--and there . [10]
- Hugh Chiltern offered to take me. [9]
- He never offered to take me to see the lady, and I did not suggest it, did not even know where she lived. [11]
- Others had offered to sing without pay. [9]
- Finally he offered to rewrite the chapter. [5]
- No tears came to relieve his grief, for the insult offered him that day aroused his wrath, and he cherished it as if it were a consolation. [10]
- But Maria longed to reach home, and when she said she must go, Aquanus offered his company. [10]
- The exploit seemed to please the Colonel, who, after he likewise had done the liquor justice, screwed on the lid with ceremony, offered Stephen his arm with still greater ceremony, and they walked off down the street together. [9]
- Every honor paid to me shall be offered to you likewise. [10]
- The fisherman offered to make his quarter fifty cents. [6]
- I would like to know, then, if they wanted Chase's amendment fixed over, why somebody else could not have offered to do it? [7]
- Nay, it seemed to Honora that the very animals knew him, and offered themselves ingratiatingly to be stroked by one whom they recognized as friend. [9]
- As Neforis went to her place, she shook her bowed head: she was meditating on the choice offered her by Orion, of yielding to the patriarch's commands or to her son's wishes. [10]
- When I offered to help divide it, they kicked me and desired me to look out. [5]
- Wasn't it enough to have offered the lady his seat, to have rescued her from an accident, perhaps from death? [5]
- I hain't offered to give you a retainer--have I? [9]
- Vanderbilt finally offered to give the young man, if he would work for him, just what he got himself. [4]
- I have tried to get in anything that offered temptation to sin. [4]
- I have offered to get her a kangaroo if she would let this one go, but it did no good--she is determined to run us into all sorts of foolish risks, I think. [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]
- He politely offered to fill it, but although I wanted it, I politely declined. [5]
- Publishers were ready to examine what he offered, and were just as ready to declare that these new wares were of a nature in which they were not inclined to deal. [4]
- Clemens even offered to engage Goodman on a salary, to remain until he had finished his book. [5]
- To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, and with this object offered a three days' truce on condition that both armies should remain in position without moving. [2]
- They were offered to any poor person who would shoulder them and carry them away. [5]
- He assisted her to alight at her own door, sent the horses home, and offered to come in and give her a lesson in a delightful game that was to do its share in the disintegration of the old and tiresome order of things--bridge. [9]
- It was impossible to advance much in love-making with one who offered no obstacles, had no concealments and no embarrassments, and whom any approach to sentimentality would be quite likely to set into a fit of laughter. [5]
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