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Example sentences for "being sent"

  • FĂ©nelon, at the hands of the king, being sent to the Bastille Prison for three weeks.

  • He had been set to boil a kettle, and taking the opportunity of being sent to gather wood for the fire, he had eluded his captors and had come to the spot where he had landed.

  • Leaving out of the question her own unwillingness to part with him, in her solitary position, she was especially anxious that he should not be thrown among strangers by being sent to school.

  • It may surprise you to hear it; but if you hadn't let the cottage to papa, I believe I should have suffered the indignity and misery of being sent to school.

  • What is so sent as to begin to exist where previously it did not exist, is locally moved by being sent; hence it is necessarily separated locally from the sender.

  • The Father alone is never described as being sent.

  • But as implying the authority of the giver as regards what is given, "to be given" only applies in God to the Person Who is from another; and the same as regards "being sent.

  • Although the effect of grace is also from the Father, Who dwells in us by grace, just as the Son and the Holy Ghost, still He is not described as being sent, for He is not from another.

  • The moment we were on the road, I told him that I was going to part company, because I was afraid of being sent as a felon to the galleys if I continued my journey with him.

  • We took good care to be careful, for if we had been discovered we stood a very fair chance of being sent to practice rowing at the expense of the Council of Ten.

  • The 25th I had an audience of the king, being sent for by Asaph Khan, and was received by his majesty with much courtesy.

  • Besides these, there were upwards of an hundred persons, so maimed or sick as to be incapable of being sent off at this time, for want of room in these two ships.

  • This evening, the son of the Raima, the new tributary formerly mentioned, was brought before the king, with much ceremony, being sent by his father with a present.

  • The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.

  • Defn: Not frankable; incapable of being sent free by public conveyance.

  • A quarter of an hour after, instead of being sent for, I saw a young and beautiful person enter my room; she made a modest bow, saying that she had come herself to return my visit, and that her brother would follow her immediately.

  • Any one would think it is Clotilde who is being sent away in such state by Austria.

  • I belonged to Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy, and now I am being sent as a present to her Grace, the young Duchess of Brittany.

  • And Caius Annius not long after being sent out by Sylla, finding Julius unassailable, sat down short at the foot of the mountains in perplexity.

  • Aristides, being sent to Lacedaemon, reproved them for their delay and neglect in abandoning Athens once more to the barbarians; and demanded their assistance for that part of Greece, which was not yet lost.

  • Mr. Covode introduced himself, and presented me as being sent by the Secretary of War.

  • When you have done all of these things you have, in the parlance of the wireless operator, tuned in and you are ready to receive whatever is being sent.

  • More likely after one of the palm-oil craft to see if they can pick up a few men out of them.

  • It's all very well to go on ramming and sponging and making believe to load, but it is like having your grog served out in an empty glass.

  • Accordingly some of the junior patricians, being sent to the camp which was at that time on Mount Vecilius, announce to the decemvirs "that by every means in their power they should keep the soldiers from mutinying.

  • Being sent for, just as Romulus before the building of the city obtained the throne by an augury, he commanded the gods to be consulted concerning himself also.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being sent" 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 allowed; being alone; being bent; being brought; being called; being capable; being come; being converted; being eaten; being either; being forced; being full; being joined; being married; being raised; being rather; being shot; being smaller; being taken; being then; being thought; being thrown; being true; being turned; being well; opera seria