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Sentences starting with used

Used to like to look at her. [6]
Used to remember some lines about a portrait Written by Mr. Cowper, beginning, "Oh that those lips had language! [6]
Used to the sights of war as he was, the soldier ground his teeth with wrath at this scene. [10]
Used to bold moves, in this affair of love he was living up to his custom; and the encounter with Detricand here added the last touch to his resolution, nerved him to follow his strong impulse to set all upon one hazard. [11]
Used to be minister or consul or something at Rome. [4]
Used to clerk at the St. James, in New York. [5]
Used to be at Hawkeye during the war. [5]

Sentences ending with used

Even Ben noted with approval Miss Virginia's scorn for pecks and pints, and grunted with satisfaction over the accurate pinches of spices and flavors which she used. [9]
No time is wasted, no argument is used. [7]
That commonest of village sights was lacking here--the public pump, with its great stone tank or trough of limpid water, and its group of gossiping pitcher-bearers; for there is no well or fountain or spring on this tall hill; cisterns of rain-water are used. [5]
I'll leave it to any gentleman here if them warn't the very words I used. [5]
In the morning the pair carried fuse, drills, and the powder-can to the shaft; it was now eight feet deep, and to get into it and out of it a short ladder was used. [5]
It turned down the Moon-street, keeping to the middle of the road which was planted with elms, and had on each side of it a raised foot-way, which at this time of night no one used. [10]
There's no precaution that Mrs. March hasn't used. [8]
It is likely that it is not frequently used. [5]
And what queer talk they used! [5]
At the back stood the Emperor's throne, covered with purple damask, and beside it numerous velvet cushions lay piled one upon another, waiting to be used. [10]

Short sentences using used

Most of them used to. [4]
Or how I used them? [8]
How have you used it? [2]
He used no underhand means. [6]
I am used to this. [5]
I am used to suffering. [2]
I'm so used to it. [9]
I am used to it. [7]
I ain't used to it. [5]
Mebbe you're used to fording? [4]

Sentences containing used two or more times

We fancied that we were going on, as an English writer on "Down-Easters" used to say, as "slick as ile," when this miniature tempest suddenly burst out in a revival of the language and methods used in the redoubtable old English periodicals forty years ago. [4]
At that hour, we used to assemble in the dining-room--we used to talk. [14]
He, who was used to linen sheets and eider down, was without rough blanket or shelter; who was used to the best table in the state, was reduced to husks. [9]
We are getting used to all these things, but we are not getting used to carrying our own soap. [5]
Other people have used the means he used to get rich and haven't succeeded. [4]
Then again they used all kinds of indignity to the head, for which they were in turn repaid by the death of those who had used the feathers. [5]
They are used to us, and we are used to them. [6]
My father used to carry a chain for a surveyor sometimes, and there is a ten-foot pole in the house he used to measure land with. [6]
When I used to be at the Dales', in Mount Vernon Street, in thirty-seven, Mrs. Charles Atterbury Brice used to come there in her carriage, a-callin'. [9]
They found in themselves the same power that the Master found in Himself, and they used it as He had used His power. [5]

More example sentences with the word used in them

And even if your secret should eventually be discovered--which is not probable--you will have earned respect, and society is not as stern as it used to be. [9]
If I comprehend your art aright, its essence is opposed to the addition of superhuman dignity and beauty, with which you, or the model you used, strove to ennoble and deify your Demeter. [10]
All right,--said the young fellow.--I would n't be hard on the poor little-- The word he used was objectionable in point of significance and of grammar. [6]
I'm not as young as I was I shall be sixty-four in October--and I can't work right along as I used to. [4]
I ain't so young as I used to be, and, anyhow, what's the good! [11]
I'd think of you; of our people that have been here for two hundred years; of the rooms in the old house where mother used to be. [11]
He looked like you, he spoke like you, he called the men as you do, nay he sat as you do when the road was too bad for his chariot, [The Mohars used chariots in their journeys. [10]
No; I like you, and I like your calm unruffled way of explaining things to the customers, but you see I am not used to it. [5]
I remember how you used to starve. [13]
I said-- 'But you used to look sad and oldish; you don't now. [5]
It seems to you that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you're so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. [5]
But I've known you since you were so high, and I knew your father; he used to stay weeks on my plantation when we were both younger. [4]
By this time, you see, I had gotten used to expecting everything Joan said to come true. [5]
If any but you had dictated the Reply, M. Bourget, I would know that that anecdote was twisted around and its intention magnified some hundreds of times, in order that it might be used as a pretext to creep in the back way. [5]
You--you don't know, you can't know what it is to be driven and used and flung away! [9]
For a time you can see he's hurt, his pride's wounded, because he shrinks away from that thing and don't want to talk about it--and so I used to think now he's learned something and he'll be more careful hereafter--but laws! [5]
He will throw you aside like an empty wine bottle when he has used you for a model. [10]
It doesn't thrill you as it used to do. [5]
I told him you and I used the Autocrat as a courting book and marked it all through, and that you keep it in the sacred green box with the love letters, and it pleased him. [5]
He had never yet visited the northern part of the lake, there where it was so dark, and mysterious, and where--as old Nonna used to relate--evil spirits dwelt, and a giant covered with pumice-stone was compelled by a curse to live. [10]
They were not yet under control, but she felt them, and in so far as she had power to think, she used them. [11]
But after many years, as I looked on the little front-yard again, it occurred to me that there used to be some Star-of-Bethlehems in the southwest corner. [6]
Most of the yearly ads were patent-medicine stereotypes, and we used to fence with them. [5]
In the first year of their marriage he used to consult her about all his schemes, and value her keen understanding. [4]
A half a year ago I used to always be the last one; but I've been promoted. [5]
My house my yard, everything around me, in fact, shows' that I am becoming one of these cattle--and I used to be thrifty in other times. [5]
For I have written about the Coliseum, and the gladiators, the martyrs, and the lions, and yet have never once used the phrase "butchered to make a Roman holiday. [5]
He used to write out what he called "short-faced descriptions" of his comrades in the woods, which were never so flattering as true. [4]
I used to write it "Hartford, 1871. [5]
She did n't write half so well as she used to write herself. [6]
He used to write communications to the weekly newspaper in Moffitt--they've got three dailies there now--and throw cold water on the boom. [8]
The river-banks are woven with osiers to keep them from washing; and at intervals on the banks are piles of the long withes to be used in emergencies when the swollen streams threaten to break through. [4]
The professor's pipe wouldn't answer; it warn't anything but a mershum, and a person that's got used to a cob pipe knows it lays a long ways over all the other pipes in this world, and you can't git him to smoke any other. [5]
Yet Duke Maurice would have been well worthy of her whole attention, for with what a free, proud step he advanced, while his imperial master used his arm as a support! [10]
At first he would draw with his stick a square upon the ground to show them where it used to stand. [12]
I used to worship the mighty genius of Michael Angelo--that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture--great in every thing he undertook. [5]
Must have something worrying him: he used to look as fresh as a clove pink. [6]
He used to worry himself ill over that. [9]
This very valuable work of art had for many years been used as a drinking-trough for horses. [6]
She recalled the words Lacey had used regarding a service which David had once done her. [11]
I used the word "aromatic" in relation to the New England soil. [4]
It is accomplishing wonders before us every day, such as Arabian story-tellers used to string together in their fables. [3]
I used to wonder whether Margaret was satisfied with her husband's reputation. [4]
I used to wonder what this might be. [6]
I used to wonder if, in the Brandon attitude of mind at this period, there were not just a little envy of such unclouded prosperity. [4]
She was a woman, she was beautiful, she was a siren who had lured him and used him and tossed him by. [11]
There is no woman who can say I used her ill or took from her what I did not--" "Atone for, Lord Mallow? [11]
It is different with the reputation of an equally great financier who has used his ability for the service of his country. [4]
He warned her, with special earnestness, not to allow herself to be used by others to win favour or pardon for themselves or their kindred. [10]
During the interviews with Sappho, Zopyrus and the attendants used all their endeavors to kill a few snipes, jackals or jerboas. [10]
Before he meddled with it, it used to talk back like a mother-in-law, but now it was only fit for the deaf-and-dumb asylum. [5]
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]
I became familiar with all the intrigues, the designs of the Bonapartes; and what I did not know was told me by Prince Pierre, who was near my own age, and who used me always more like a friend than a servant. [11]
It was used, with a vengeance. [9]
He was armed with a musketoon (which he carried rather as a joke), a pike and an ax, which latter he used as a wolf uses its teeth, with equal case picking fleas out of its fur or crunching thick bones. [2]
Then Crozier called with a great, cheery voice--what Mona used to call his tally-ho voice. [11]
I used to wish sometimes that I could turn fast enough to make the stone fly into a dozen pieces. [4]
We used to wince and cringe under English criticism, and try to strike back in a blind fury. [4]
I used the Wildbad springs in all seventeen times. [10]
An old man, whose studies had been of the severest scholastic kind, used to love to hear little nursery-stories read over and over to him. [6]
Which of you who owns a garden can say in future, 'It is mine,' if, during the absence of the Queen, it is allowable to take it away to be used for any other purpose? [10]
There were many who overheard, and who used their fans and their napkins to hide their laughter at the very just snub Mrs. Grafton had received. [9]
He, Eldon Parr, who had been used to settle the destinies of men! [9]
You will not whistle and hum over that, but sing out with all your might, as you used when my mother was alive, when you and your apprentices joined Dionysus's drunken rout. [10]
That opening morn, which used to salute him with the whispers of zephyrs, the carol of skylarks, may breathe, as its first accents, from the dear lips which colour and heat have quitted,--'Oh! [14]
Her fingers, however, which used to be so skilful, either broke the threads they tried to spin, or lay for hours idle in her lap, while she was lost in dreams. [10]
The wing in which the Regent resided, and which we have already visited, lay away from the river; while the part of the building which was used by the royal family commanded the Nile. [10]
Not her clothes, which she wore as if she had been used to them all her life. [9]
They overdid flattery, which she was used to and tolerated, but which cheapened the admirer in her estimation, and now and then betrayed her into an expression which made him aware of the fact, and was a discouragement to aggressive amiability. [6]
The proverbs, of which his talk was full, were for the most part not the coarse and indecent saws soldiers employ, but those folk sayings which taken without a context seem so insignificant, but when used appositely suddenly acquire a significance of profound wisdom. [2]
They possess organs which are used during the breeding-season for producing vocal and instrumental music. [1]
These fearful fields, where such tempests of death used to rage, are peaceful enough now; no sound is heard, hardly a living thing moves about them, they are lonely and silent--their desolation is complete. [5]
I'm very comfortable where I am; that is, I know just where the pinch comes, and if it comes harder, why, I've got used to bearing that kind of pinch. [8]
She sought every where for him whose eyes had used to look tenderly into hers out of this poor skull, but she could not find him. [5]
To Mr. Brinsmade's, when the day's duty was done, the young Union officers used to ride, and often there would be half a dozen of them to tea. [9]
I said that when Judge Douglas was speaking at place--where I spoke on the succeeding day he used very harsh language about this charge. [7]
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]
I guess it's what the minister in Dolton used to call a visitation. [9]
Do you remember what I used to say in my lectures?--or were you asleep just then, or cutting your initials on the rail? [6]
He is not what he used to be. [5]
I realized, then, what a creepy, dull, inanimate horror this land had been to me all these years, and how I had been in such a stifled condition of mind as to have grown used to it almost beyond the power to notice it. [5]
Now an ancient whale-ship master fell to talking about the sort of crews they used to have in his early days. [5]
Then with the wet scarf he had used to bathe her face he wiped the blood from the stone flags and, picking up the gun, he threw it upon a couch. [13]
Around our hats were wound many folds of soft white muslin, with the ends hanging and flapping down our backs--an idea brought from the Orient and used by tourists all over Europe. [5]
The precious metals were weighed out and used as money in the shape of rings, animals, etc. [10]
So we dodged--we were used to that by this time--and when the scouts reached the spot we had so lately occupied, we were absent. [5]
The Lahore horses were used to elephants, but they were rapturously afraid of them just the same. [5]
I wish they were used more. [5]
By mistake we were taken to see the new palace instead, and we used up the last remnant of our spare time there. [5]
Those standing by were struck with a kind of awe; they were used mostly to the daughters of habitants and fifty-acre farmers. [11]
The Magi, however, were not deceived; they shut themselves up in their palace, assembled an army in the Nisaean plain, promised the soldiers high pay, and used every effort to strengthen the belief of the people in Gaumata's disguise. [10]
The municipal geese were gone, but it was impossible to prove that this particular fox had used his enlightened reason in their procurement. [9]
The way she went gave no shelter save the trees and caves which had been used to cache buffalo meat and hides in old days. [11]
He knew so well what powers of intrigue had been used against him, by the embassy of Slavonia and those of other countries. [11]
You have been well used, monsieur? [11]
He was so well known, and he used to go to St. [9]
When she is well again, she will rise early, as she used to do, and ramble abroad in the healthy morning time. [12]
I saw him weeping one day--it was where she used to sing to the flax-beaters by the Beau Cheval. [11]
I used to wear this dress at Pratt's, with white collars and cuffs and--well, I just put it on again. [9]
She used to wear a red dress, I remember, and her hair was brown. [11]

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