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Sentences starting with sent

Sent back and warped up the other yawl, and then George (the first mentioned pilot,) and myself, took a double crew of fresh men and tried it again. [5]
Sent post free, on application, to voters and others. [9]
Sent that back, if I recall the matter correctly. [9]

Sentences ending with sent

Didn't something tell you?--didn't you feel that you were sent? [5]
We both thank you greatly for the Edinburgh papers which you sent. [5]
In the comment which he made, when it was shown to him twenty-two years later, he tells us why he thinks this letter was not sent. [5]
The Quarterly Review was accordingly sent. [14]
I had not seen Mrs. Falchion during Roscoe's illness; but every day Justine came and inquired, or a messenger was sent. [11]
I wish to say that I think it all-important that a delegate should be sent. [7]
He is as rich as the Alabarch, and riding in his coach is Galenus, for whom Caesar sent. [10]
You will immediately report what line you adopt, and when you intend to cross the river; also to what point the reinforcements are to be sent. [7]
With him, winged poesy doth droop and die; While our dull age, left voiceless, must lament The bard high heaven had for its service sent. [6]
This letter was not sent. [5]

Short sentences using sent

Say I sent you. [11]
I was sent to Labrador. [11]
She was sent to jail. [11]
Who sent you to Hosea? [10]
I sent them to him. [5]
He sent her to hell. [9]
I sent you to Egypt. [11]
I wonder who sent it? [9]
Why had Patty sent him? [9]
So she was sent for. [5]

Sentences containing sent two or more times

Mr. Bixby, unknown to me, of course, sent somebody down to the forecastle with some mysterious instructions to the leadsmen, another messenger was sent to whisper among the officers, and then Mr. Bixby went into hiding behind a smoke-stack where he could observe results. [5]
The governor sent them flowers and--" "Flowers--Lord Mallow sent them flowers! [11]
Lygon was conscious that the fifty dollars sent him every New Year for five years by Dupont had been sent with a purpose, and that he was now Dupont's tool. [11]
Sluggards have been sent to the ant for wisdom; but writers might better be sent to the spider, not because he works all night, and watches all day, but because he works unconsciously. [4]
The Second Auditor sent me to the Third, and the Third sent me to the First Comptroller of the Corn-Beef Division. [5]
The Earl of Rosworme was sent to assist the Archduke Ferdinand, who was besieging Caniza; the Earl of Meldritch, with six thousand men, was sent to assist Georgio Busca against the Transylvanians; and the Duc de Mercoeur set out for France to raise new forces. [4]
She said you'd ought to be sent for, and I said you oughtn't to set foot in this house until Hilary sent for you. [9]
Then he sent one more telegram, gave the clerk a pound, asked that the reply be sent to him as soon as it came, and went away, calmly smoking his cigar. [11]
I've kept tab on you a little the last five years, and when I heard Sherman had sent a Major Brice up here, I sent for you. [9]
All from Ohio needed in western Virginia be sent there, and any remainder be sent to Mitchell at Cincinnati, for Anderson. [7]

More example sentences with the word sent in them

Bagration had sent Zherkov to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat immediately. [2]
Then she was yours for less than one moon, and you sent her far away, and you stayed. [11]
I have sent your letter and the rules to Hay, but I doubt his modesty. [5]
For a year your husband has sent nothing of importance. [10]
I have cut your articles about San Marco out of a New York paper (Joe Twichell saw it and brought it home to me with loud admiration,) and sent it to Howells. [5]
And for the young bloods, whose greatest regret was that they could not send forth a daughter of joy into the Champs Elysee in her carriage, she had ever sent them about their business. [11]
Take care, or you will have to drink that bitter brown stuff you sent yesterday; then you will know for once how nasty it can be. [10]
And then, sir, you will be sent to the Tower, and I shan't move a finger to get you out. [9]
I sent for you to impose conditions on you, not to have them dictated to me. [10]
I'd willingly spare you the climb, but he's watching for the carrier-pigeons that have been sent out, and won't even come down to his meals. [10]
If such as you take an interest in such as he, know, then, that I have sent him of an errand. [5]
The newspaper report you sent me is incorrect. [5]
I understand why you sent it, and you must try to understand why it cannot be kept. [4]
I suppose that you sent for me to know whether Mr. Gaylord has employed me to lobby for his bill. [9]
This I sent you in pamphlet as well as in the Globe. [7]
I have sent you him home least the Company should cut his throat. [4]
For every master you have yet sent can find the way as well as he, so that an hundred pounds might be spared, which is more than we have all, that helps to pay him wages. [4]
I can't thank you enough for having sent me to Mr. Wetmore, Mr. Beaton. [8]
I know that you can help me, or Count Frontenac would not have sent me to you. [11]
I come to you because I know that you could circumvent the Effendina, even if he sent ten thousand men. [11]
By the Ghost, you are worth seven of that Roger Spratt whom you sent to hell in his boots. [9]
On every New Year's day I have always sent a present of coffee and perique to my cousin the Marquis, and it is Mademoiselle who writes to thank us. [9]
At length a yearly honorarium was sent to him, and then again, after a dignified delay, there was forwarded to him a suggestion from the Cabinet that he should come to Brisbane and take a more important position. [11]
Charley examined his wounds, and, finding them severe, advised that the Cure be sent for, while he and Jo Portugais set about restoring him to consciousness. [11]
He said he would not have been taken, it was not his fault but the corporal's who had sent him to seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there. [2]
He said he would lose his place if this deadly telegram was sent, and he might never get another. [5]
I suppose he would have called up his family, waked the drum-corps, sent for the Prefect of Police, put on the alert the 'sergents de ville,' ordered under arms a regiment of the Imperial Guards, and made it unpleasant for the Man. [4]
A few days would end it, for good or ill. Madame Chalice heard the news with consternation, and pity would have sent her to Valmond's bedside, but that she found Elise was his faithful nurse and servitor. [11]
The casual reader would certainly conclude that the Somers Isles were somehow due to the providence of John Smith, when in fact he never even heard that Gates and Smith were shipwrecked there till he had returned to England, sent home from Virginia. [4]
Trees won't grow worth chucks in a Cincinnati graveyard, but in a Sent Louis graveyard they grow upwards of eight hundred foot high. [5]
Things had grown worse, until the day of catastrophe, when Byng had been sent for by the leaders of both parties to the quarrel. [11]
Since those harsh words with which Cambyses had sent her from the hall, not the smallest fragment of news had reached her concerning either her angry lover, or his mother and sister. [10]
At three o'clock word was sent in that Mr. Austen Vane was outside, and wished to speak with his father as soon as the latter was at leisure. [9]
So he sent word to the sick man, that he should be pleased to visit him and have some conversation with him; and received for answer that he would be welcome. [6]
And he sent word to the lawyer a month ago that he wanted it to get here as usual. [11]
Marmette had sent word to M. Barouche by messenger, but the messenger had missed him. [11]
Sherman sent back word to keep the man until he could see him in person. [9]
Mr. Veneer sent word that the messenger should wait below, and presently appeared in the study, where Abel was making himself at home, as is the wont of the republican citizen, when he hides the purple of empire beneath the apron of domestic service. [6]
Granvelle sent Barbara word that the doorkeeper Mangin would show her a good seat. [10]
These had sent word that De la Foret was now attached to the meagre suite of the widow of the great Camisard Montgomery, near the Castle of Mont Orgueil. [11]
Clemens sent him word of welcome, with glowing reports of his own undertakings. [5]
He fell asleep wondering why Judge Whipple had sent him. [9]
You've done a wonder, Joe: you've written a letter that can be sent in to Livy--that doesn't often happen, when either a friend or a stranger writes. [5]
The stupid old woman gives him every thing he asks for, and she let him have half of the currant cake, which we sent her to fetch before we went out. [10]
When they were within fifteen yards, I sent that bomb with a sure aim, and it struck the ground just under the horses' noses. [5]
While the minister withdrew to the writing table, the Emperor asked whether a trustworthy horseman could be had, since the Spaniard was disabled; and Reitzenstein, Beust, and Van der Kapellen, in whom implicit confidence could be placed, had been sent off that morning. [10]
Indeed, it was with this plain statement of the facts that the second military officer of the duchy had some days before been sent to the Court of St. James to secure its intervention for Philip's freedom by exchange of prisoners. [11]
Buckstone was training with the rum party, and he had been sent to hunt up the twins and invite them to attend a mass meeting of that faction. [5]
Nicholas was somewhere with the army and had not sent a word since his last letter, in which he had given a detailed account of his meeting with Princess Mary. [2]
So the battles with the "Knoten" were continued until the Berlin revolution called forth more serious struggles, and our mother sent us away to Keilhau. [10]
Having been sent with papers from Kutuzov to the Tsarevich, he looked in on Boris, hoping to find him alone. [2]
I sent them with Griffin to help Sheridan at Five Forks. [9]
Paulus soothed him with gentle words, and told him of the errand on which he had sent the lad to the farther coast of the sea. [10]
A ship wreathed with flowers was sent to fetch the honored old man, and at the head of the deputation was his own brave, strong son, now crowned with glory and fame. [10]
When Kendricks came with Beaton to call after her father's dinner, she used all her cunning to ensnare him, and she had him to herself as long as Beaton stayed; Dryfoos sent down word that he was not very well and had gone to bed. [8]
Forty eight guns with ammunition have been sent him from here, and his Serene Highness says he will defend Moscow to the last drop of blood and is even ready to fight in the streets. [2]
He waltzed in with a spanner in one hand and a trumpet in the other, and sent fourteen men home on a shutter in less than three minutes. [5]
She said: "I will submit them to Our Lord who sent me. [5]
Then what a wild shout the others sent up! [10]
At last the widow paused, saying: "Perhaps the Prince has sent a messenger for Peter. [10]
I can't see why you ever sent him to Congress. [9]
Questioning all things: Why her Lord had sent her? [6]
Whether our citizens, whose blood was shed, as in his message declared, were or were not, at that time, armed officers and soldiers, sent into that settlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. [7]
But your brother, whom we sent to his grave as a bridegroom--he cursed us with his dying breath. [10]
My grand-uncle, to whom he had sent word of his coming, had gone forth to meet him on the way, and, with him Jost Tetzel and his daughter Ursula. [10]
The Minorite Ignatius, whom Father Benedictus had sent after him that he might finish the work which the latter had begun, was a man who lacked neither intellect nor eloquence; but he did not possess the fiery enthusiasm and aristocratic confidence of the dead man. [10]
She doesn't know who sent them, but I intend to tell her, and she will thank you herself. [9]
The infamous scoundrel, who possessed so much influence over the Emperor, had first sent old Blomberg away; now he, Wolf, was to follow, that no one might stand between the game and the pursuer. [10]
At last Richambeau, who had watched the whole business from the deck of the Victoire, burst out laughing, and sent for Elie Mattingley. [11]
It was she who had sent the horses and sleigh for "Gassy," when the old man, having read the letter that Cassy had written him, said that she could "freeze at the station" for all of him. [11]
It was he who had sent Fouche word concerning Philip's adoption; it was also he who had at last, through his spies, discovered Detricand's presence in the town, and had taken action thereupon. [11]
It was Paul who had liberated that message of rebirth, which the world has been so long in grasping, from the narrow bounds of Palestine and sent it ringing down the ages to the democracies of the twentieth century. [9]
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]
They expected other whites to join them, and those not coming, they sent Francis, their companion, disguised as an Indian, to find out the cause. [4]
And after a while Honora was thankful that chance had sent her in this hour to him rather than to Mrs. Kame. [9]
The costly urn, which thou wilt receive herewith, is sent by Sappho to preserve the ashes of the deceased. [10]
The comfortable couch which the prefect had sent to Lochias for Pontius was carried into the Emperor's sleeping-room, and the camp-beds for Antinous and the suite were soon set up in the other rooms. [10]
On Morgan's command, where it is now sent, as I understand, depends the question whether the enemy will get to the Ohio River in another place. [7]
La Hire halted where he was, and sent back the tidings. [5]
One year since, when you did me the honor to choose me Commander-in-chief of your militia in Kentucky, I sent two scouts to Kaskaskia. [9]
More than once, when the President could not hear him because of the general tumult, he sent persons to listen and report as to whether the orator was speaking to the subject or not. [5]
The night before, when I had sat with Miss Thorn beside the fire, they went up; this morning her anxious solicitude for the Celebrity had sent them down again. [9]
But just then, when I had hardly any hope of succeeding, the gracious Amescha cpenta sent a youth across my path, who seemed created by Angramainjus himself to suit my plan. [10]
And that morning, when Hugh had gone out, she sent for Starling and startled him by commanding that the famous Lowestoft set be used at dinner. [9]
He had said when he sent her word of his victory, that he feared he would not be able to see her the next day at all, as he had so much to do. [11]
To speak of what would have happened had Napoleon sent his Guards is like talking of what would happen if autumn became spring. [2]
Seems to know what is going on, --reads books, old and new,--has many recent publications sent him, they tell me, but, what is more curious, keeps up with the everyday affairs of the world, too. [6]
You ask him what he said to me when he sent for me to go to New York. [9]
In the company were two Indians, Machumps and Namontack, whose acquaintance we have before made, returning from England, whither they had been sent by Captain Smith. [4]
But the Dutchmen were too shrewd to be caught, and Powhatan sent a conciliatory message that he did not detain the Dutchmen, nor hinder the slaying of them. [4]
All the indications were that way, and a rumour flew from table to table-leaping space, as rumours will--that the Gaylords had sent to Ripton for Austen. [9]
The two brothers were taken on board ship, and Master John Rolfe and Master Sparkes were sent to negotiate with the King. [4]
So fresh instructions were sent for the solution of difficulties that might be encountered, as well as fresh people who were to watch Kutuzov's actions and report upon them. [2]
All the flags were sent aloft except half a dozen that were needed to decorate portions of the ship below, and in a short time the vessel assumed a holiday appearance. [5]
Three other couples were selected, at first with some laughter, but finally with serious consideration, and Uarda's father was sent with the drivers as an escort. [10]
At last all were seated, the carriage steps were folded and pulled up, the door was shut, somebody was sent for a traveling case, and the countess leaned out and said what she had to say. [2]
A few Thugs were privately detached and sent forward in the dark to select a good killing-place and dig the graves. [5]
Among the witnesses were Paula and the new bishop, as well as Gamaliel, who had been sent for soon after Mary had left him. [10]
The final chapters were not sent to the printer until the middle of May, and in a letter to Mr. Rogers he commented: "A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. [5]
This morning we were informed that he had been sent from the temple, who knows where--and had left us a message of farewell. [10]

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