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Example sentences for "being placed"

  • If one of the assailing party enters the enemy's trench, he may be tagged, and so become a prisoner, being placed in the prison and therefore out of the play.

  • The ball is put in play by being placed on the ground at the center of the dividing line between the two captains.

  • The players stand, scattered promiscuously, one of their number, who is It, being placed in the center at the opening of the game.

  • How unreasonable would the position of the font by the door appear to him, till he learnt the symbolical reason for its being placed there!

  • But the pyx, being placed on the altar, which is Christ, signifieth apostles and martyrs.

  • And the cavity itself is made sometimes on the top part of the block, and sometimes no other seal is put over it, but the table, being placed over it, is considered as the seal.

  • One of these rings has a little bugle on each side, as if it had been strung on the beaded work of a mummy, instead of being placed on the finger.

  • I was filled with confusion at being placed beside a man as superior to me in knowledge of war as he was in rank and birth; but I felt with gratitude how well M.

  • The mark a b being placed at the level of the eye, we make the surface of the solution become exactly a tangent to the plane a b.

  • If food is not placed directly in large or small quantities of water, it is cooked by contact with steam or in a utensil that is heated by being placed in another containing boiling water, as, for example, a double boiler.

  • If they are quite stale, they should be dipped quickly into hot water before being placed in the oven.

  • Sometimes, especially in country districts, such winter vegetables are buried in the ground out of doors, being placed at a depth that renders them safe from the attacks of frost.

  • In these processes the food is cooked by being exposed to the source of heat or by being placed in a closed oven and subjected to heated air.

  • Yet when these were filled with dilute sulphuric acid, and, being placed in succession, had one common current of electricity passed through them, very nearly the same quantity of gas was evolved in all.

  • Solution of iodide of potassium, in moistened paper, being placed at the interruption of the circuit at x, was readily decomposed.

  • Thus Spirogyra filaments, which have been denuded of starch by being placed in the dark, form starch in one day if they are placed in a 10 to 20% solution of dextrose.

  • I have never been able to understand why Sir Reginald Custance, instead of being placed {551} upon half-pay until his retirement, was not appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty.

  • I was somewhat consoled in the Defence by being placed in charge of the cutter; in which I succeeded, by a small feat of seamanship, in earning the rare commendation of the first lieutenant.

  • As soon as this was done the ladies and children were brought up from the cabin, which was already half full of water, and, being placed in her, she pulled away for the jolly-boat.

  • After this I was constantly thinking how I should act should I have the option of being placed on the quarter-deck and becoming an officer in the Russian service, for we were on board a Russian frigate.

  • Owen did his best to gain my confidence, and so far succeeded, that, being placed in his watch, I was his constant companion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being placed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being admitted; being agreeable; being apprehended; being built; being convinced; being covered; being devoured; being discovered; being eager; being exposed; being found; being full; being given; being haunted; being minded; being possessed; being regarded; being shot; being then; being true; being turned; being under; being useful; being wounded; certain times; changed habits