Use was in a sentence
Sentences starting with was
- Was that what you wanted to see me about? [5]
- Was it something you wanted to forget there, some one you wanted to help here? [11]
- Was it because you thought she deserved it, and that you had given her reason to expect it? [7]
- Was that how you ruined the Rev. [11]
- Was this New York, or Jerusalem? [9]
- Was it the yacht? [9]
- Was this all wrong? [7]
- Was she indeed writing to this unknown gentleman? [6]
- Was she not worthy to be loved, and is she not so still? [10]
- Was any cause worth it? [9]
Sentences ending with was
- If ever a youth was cordially admired and hated by his comrades, this one was. [5]
- Money gave you yours,--to go to school and college until you were twenty four, and get an education,--such as it was. [9]
- And even then you wouldn't wish me, now, as I was. [9]
- An' may be you won't believe it, but after that you never see a cat so prejudiced agin quartz mining as what he was. [5]
- Shall I tell you what that experience was? [6]
- And what do you think it was? [5]
- How old did you say this was? [9]
- Aw, then, don't you know who he was? [11]
- Nobody could tell you how to find any place in the kingdom, for nobody ever went intentionally to any place, but only struck it by accident in his wanderings, and then generally left it without thinking to inquire what its name was. [5]
- I will tell you how it was. [11]
Short sentences using was
- But who was Zoug-Zoug? [11]
- Zoe--ah, where was Zoe? [11]
- And she was your protegee. [9]
- I was the youngest. [11]
- I was the younger. [11]
- She was still young. [4]
- And I was young. [10]
- It was a young person. [10]
- What was Stockton's young dream? [5]
- What was Cable's young dream? [5]
Sentences containing was two or more times
- It gives a zest to pleasure to have even an indefinite object, and though the prospect of meeting Irene again was not definite, it was nevertheless alluring. [4]
- His name was Zeb Meader, and he was still insensible. [9]
- With what fiery zeal Wolf persuaded him, how convincing was his assurance that a substitute for Johann of Cologne, and a most admirable one, was actually to be found here in Ratisbon! [10]
- But while the youth was embracing his great-grandfather, who hugged and caressed him, Nun, with youthful vivacity, was issuing orders to the shepherds and servants: "Let the tent fall, men! [10]
- There was that youth in Pennsylvania, whose curious confession was published some years ago. [5]
- Every officer of your ship was the Church's picked servant, and so was every man of the crew. [5]
- That it was your brother was an accident, and--" "It was an accident that the penalty must fall on Claridge Pasha, and on you, madame. [11]
- The captain of your brother Philometor's Philobasilistes is bought over, and will stand by us; but his price was high--Komanus was forced to offer him twenty talents before he would bite. [10]
- It was so young, so pathetic, so pale, yet so strangely beautiful, and her forehead was serene. [11]
- But I was young, I was but seven years of age, and vain, foolish, and anxious to attract attention. [5]
More example sentences with the word was in them
- It had no Zulu clicks in it; and it seemed to have no angles or corners, no roughness, no vile s's or other hissing sounds, but was very, very mellow and rounded and flowing. [5]
- And, to add zest to the situation, I informed Singleton of what was going forward. [9]
- My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
- He devoted himself zealously to the task, and soon was so successful that the plays at Tauromenium, and the musical performances in its Odeum, attracted the citizens in crowds, and were talked of far and wide. [10]
- In industry and zeal he was said to resemble the celebrated and lamented Mr. Rand, of the Peach Nectar. [9]
- The voice was youthful, but full of character.--I suppose some persons have a peculiar susceptibility in the matter of voice.--Hear this. [6]
- There was a youthful member of one of your patrician families--an Ebner, I believe, or a Stromer or Tucher. [10]
- Those verses were youth, and youth was gone, with all its flushed and spirited dalliance and reckless expenditure of feeling. [11]
- But a brave youth who was driving a grocery-wagon threw himself before the plunging animals, and succeeded in arresting their flight at the peril of his own.--[This is probably a misprint.--M. [5]
- Such was the youth who first sprang on shore. [10]
- This weak, cowardly youth was her brother! [11]
- He hoped this youth to whom she was attached would make her life happy. [6]
- Coello called the youth to the easel, and pointing to the sketches in color, containing numerous figures, on which he was painting, said: "Look here, my son. [10]
- Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
- To my mad youth her gentle surveillance Was like a watch-fire on a rock-bound coast. [11]
- Here the persecuted youth changed his name, Horus, to its Greek equivalent, and henceforth he was known at home and in the schools as Apollo. [10]
- This Alexandria--in her youth as dissolute as she was fair--what is she now but an old hag? [10]
- I think you yourself realized that my wish to wait a year before giving a final answer was proof that I really had not that in my heart which would justify me in saying what you wished me to say. [11]
- But don't expose yourself in any outbreak of eloquence; for, by the mortar in which Anaxarchus was pounded! [6]
- Instead of burying yourself in a convent, you, whom so many desire, would do better to beckon to one of your admirers and bestow on him the happiness of which the other was not worthy. [10]
- Trying to play yourself for a stranger and an innocent!--why, I knew you before you had spoken seven words; and I made up my mind to find out what was your little game. [5]
- Then she was yours for less than one moon, and you sent her far away, and you stayed. [11]
- I passed through your village that very night, and was his guest till the midnight train came along. [5]
- But what was your steward seeking among the soldiers? [10]
- Oh, where was your spoken eloquence now! [5]
- The practicability of your plan was not, in fact, brought to a test. [7]
- Where was all your kindness of heart? [13]
- And it was your invention and your gift. [5]
- I know that your husband--that Mr. March was there; I read his testimony; and I wished to ask him--to ask him--" She stopped and looked distractedly about. [8]
- As I believe, your husband is willing to let bygones be bygones, and to begin to-morrow as though there was no to-day. [11]
- It was not your going over to the other side that pained me so, for all your people are Tories. [9]
- The safety of your fortune would be less difficult to provide for if, as was formerly the case here, we could entrust it to the merchants of Alexandria. [10]
- To gaze in your face at the same time was, perhaps, even better physic. [10]
- True, it was your duty; for ever since Isabella became my wife you have taken advantage of my poverty and impaired my right to command her. [10]
- He places at your disposal--this time, at least, he was not economical--a sum which will take you to the healing springs four or five times, nay, oftener still. [10]
- You said that your course was set. [11]
- When you finished your breakfast at ten o'clock and went out, the sunshine was brilliant, the weather balmy and delicious, and the mud and slush deep and all-pervading. [5]
- I don't want your book; my shelves are full of books now," though the reader may remember that it was Carlton himself who had given the frog story to the Saturday Press and had seen it become famous. [5]
- She rejoiced over your blindness, and she will gnash her teeth with rage and grief when she hears that it was Tabus who brought light into the darkness that surrounds you. [10]
- I have called your attention to this movement in order to say that it was neither accidental nor isolated. [4]
- She was the youngest of five maiden sisters, and had arrived at the mature age of eighteen. [4]
- He was much younger then than he is now, and he showed 'it. [5]
- Jonathan Edwards the younger tells the story of a brutal wretch in New Haven who was abusing his father, when the old man cried out, "Don't drag me any further, for I did n't drag my father beyond this tree. [6]
- He was a younger son, and poor. [9]
- He was a younger son of an impoverished earl. [9]
- Charles Emerson, the younger brother, who was of the same type, expresses the feeling in his college essay on Friendship, where it is all summed up in the line he quotes:-- "The hand of Douglas is his own. [6]
- I was so young; I did not know life, or men--or Egyptians. [11]
- Mr. Monroe was young, witty, lively, popular with people he met. [9]
- I was too young, they too ignorant. [9]
- What did the young, joyous-hearted fellow who was wooing Eva know of such cares? [10]
- Although I was young, I was brought up to responsibility. [9]
- When I was young, husbands and wives usually went to parties together. [9]
- The woman was young, good looking, she seemed intelligent. [11]
- Such was Amasis' young, fading daughter, who was now being carried past them, and many an eye grew dim as the beautiful invalid came in sight. [10]
- He also was young, but nothing about him suggested power, only self-indulgence. [11]
- She was still young, but her slightly pockmarked countenance showed the wear and tear of sorrow of some kind. [11]
- My wife was young, beautiful, loving, and oh, so divinely good and blameless and gentle! [5]
- In one so young, and so unused to the scenes in which she had lately moved, this sinking of the spirit was not surprising. [12]
- She was so young, and so exquisite, that Fate seemed harsh and cruel in darkening her vision, making pitfalls for her feet. [11]
- She was so young, and she had shown kindness to a Hebrew surely they might listen to her. [10]
- When you were young you were not taught the truth--neither was I. [9]
- It was a young woman--a young woman where properly no young woman belonged; for she was in Judge Driscoll's house, and in the bedroom over the judge's private study or sitting room. [5]
- It was a young woman, with as many white muslin flounces round her as the planet Saturn has rings, that did it. [6]
- But being a young woman, and a pretty one, Stephen was angry. [9]
- What manner of young woman was this who fell off horses? [9]
- She was a young woman of thirty, slim to spareness, simply dressed in a shirtwaist and a dark blue skirt; alert, so distinctly American in type as to give a suggestion of the Indian. [9]
- The most conspicuous young woman in the group, in riding clothes, was seated on the railing, with the toe of one boot on the ground. [9]
- I was not young when you were born. [9]
- He was a young undertaker, who had just succeeded to a thriving business. [6]
- He was too young to die, but he had gold, and the captain of the citadel needed money. [11]
- Go to the young surgeon who had accompanied them, ask him who she was, and so learn the clue to the mystery concerning her lover? [11]
- In 1870 a young stranger arrived in Sydney, and set about finding something to do; but he knew no one, and brought no recommendations, and the result was that he got no employment. [5]
- He was the young son of an Ohio nabob and was out there for recreation. [5]
- Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
- At last the young soldier departed, and the very same day Adam was summoned to the monastery, to mend something in the grating before the treasury. [10]
- He had a young sister with a remarkable voice--he was giving her a musical education, so that her longing to be self-supporting might be gratified. [5]
- When she was young she was beautiful--like a Madonna by an old master. [9]
- He would make young Schopper pay some penalty yet more than a mere fine, to that he pledged his royal word, and as for young Welemisl, he was minded to devise some punishment that should hinder many an over-bold knight from drawing his sword! [10]
- The other day young Princess Irina Vasilevna came to see me; she was an awful sight--looked as if she had put two barrels on her arms. [2]
- He was a young Polander, named Joseph N. Verey. [5]
- And all the young people I ever saw in my life was when I rode fast through the villages. [13]
- Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
- There was a young novelist present whose first story, "The Girl I Left Behind Me," had made a hit the last season. [4]
- Myra was too young not to look wistful at my news, but the others pretended indifference, seeking to lessen my triumph. [9]
- Meanwhile downstairs in young Nicholas Bolkonski's bedroom a little lamp was burning as usual. [2]
- There was a young naval officer in full dress, gold-buckled shoes, white trousers, short jacket with gold swab on shoulders, dress-sword and smart gait making for supper at King's House. [11]
- Among the many young men who frequented her house every day, Boris Drubetskoy, who had already achieved great success in the service, was the most intimate friend of the Bezukhov household since Helene's return from Erfurt. [2]
- Of the other young men of the village Gifted Hopkins was perhaps the most fervent of her admirers, as he had repeatedly shown by effusions in verse, of which, under the thinnest of disguises, she was the object. [6]
- Most of the young men knew a portion of it, and it was not customary to venture much beyond this known portion. [5]
- One of their young men had stayed away, and, in endeavoring to overtake them, came to the place where the head was hung up. [5]
- How many other young men from the East have travelled across the mountains and floated down the rivers to enter those strange cities of the West, the growth of which was like Jonah's gourd. [9]
- A very interesting young married woman, detained at home at the time by the state of her health, was bitten in the entry of her own house by a rattlesnake which had found its way down from The Mountain. [6]
- He was a young man,--perhaps five and twenty as I now know age,--woodsman-clad, square-built, sun-reddened. [9]
- He was a young man, very spare and very burned, with bright red hair and blue eyes that had a kind of laughter in them, and yet were sober. [9]
- As for the young man, he felt as though wings were growing from his shoulders, and this fateful evening was one of the happiest of his life. [10]
- He was a young man with a smooth face, and a frank brown eye which paid its tribute to Virginia. [9]
- He was a young man with a praiseworthy ambition to get on in the world, and during his apprenticeship in the office of the Honourable Hilary Vane many letters and documents had passed through his hands. [9]
- Here was the young man whose life she had saved, at least for the moment, and who was yet in danger from the disease which had almost worn out his powers of resistance. [6]
- This was the young man who had made the faux pas which had caused Mrs. Ferguson so much consternation, and who had so manfully apologized afterwards. [9]
- Such as the young man was now the old man must have been, and what the son should one day be might be seen--and I rejoiced to think it--in his father's figure and face. [10]
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