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Example sentences for "boarded"

Lexicographically close words:
boa; boaf; boar; board; boarder; boarders; boarding; boardinghouse; boardroom
  1. Next morning, however, was calm and bright as we motored to Southampton, where I boarded {155} R.

  2. His 400 bluejackets were on board, smartly dressed in British fashion; but he confided to us that most of them were raw recruits, and that some had never seen the sea till they boarded the Araguaya!

  3. Bethinking myself that I had never yet gone down the Rhine by water, I boarded a steamer at Biebrich, {192} and steamed down the yellow turbid river for eight hours in mist and rain, wishing all the time that I was in the train.

  4. So was silence again save for these hoarse unlovely voices where they launched and boarded the longboat.

  5. Penfeather do lack for men--Mings says he counted but ten at most when they boarded him!

  6. When Patsy and the Major had both departed for work on Monday morning Uncle John boarded a car and rode downtown also.

  7. Our bumboat boarded us early and stayed with us until the corporal of the guard called "time.

  8. The mysterious manner in which he boarded the ship, and the quickness with which we steamed from port, created some excitement, and we felt the importance of our mission.

  9. We boarded a special train with the crew and officers of the "Nahant," and were soon speeding over the level country towards New York.

  10. The 'Industry' had scarcely dropped her anchor before the Additional Resident boarded her.

  11. Five days later they boarded the railway cars running south, and Hal had his eyes opened as to the possibilities of traveling in comfort.

  12. From Abercrombie we drove on to Saint Cloud, the terminus of the railroad, where, considerably the worse for our hurried trip and truly wretched experience with the mosquitoes, we boarded the welcome cars.

  13. To test whether this could be done I boarded the gunboat Essex and requested Captain Wm.

  14. Halleck, Murray, Ord, and I, boarded with Dona Augustias, and turned in our rations as pay for our board.

  15. It was a square pit about twenty-five feet deep, boarded up, with wooden steps leading to the bottom, wherein was a fine copper pump, to lift the water to a tank above.

  16. The sight of the mangled and dying men which met my eye as I boarded the ship was sickening.

  17. Evidently he had boarded the Bear at that port, however, and then changed his mind about going north, for he radioed me to take him off.

  18. All but a small oval of the partition was boarded up, and the Chinaman's head obscured that.

  19. The Chicago train on the other line was on time, and the four passengers boarded it and were soon being pulled toward the great city of the Lakes with more comfort than they had experienced on the other train.

  20. Leading the way, and keeping in the shadows as much as possible, Jack went to where two planks, each about seven feet long, lay near the boarded race.

  21. Accordingly after dinner, they boarded an electric car which took them in the direction of the lake.

  22. I boarded with our men, and I can remember I felt a heavy blow.

  23. I was sailing down channel, interfering with nobody, when I was boarded by a lot of armed men in the dark, and I did what any skipper would do under the circumstances.

  24. I was going peacefully down channel when your boat boarded us.

  25. There can be no disgrace for one who boarded a vessel along with his crew, and had the bad luck to be struck down.

  26. Surprised by the utter silence on board, he had shared with Fitz the feeling that they must have boarded some derelict whose crew, perhaps in great peril, had deserted their vessel and sought safety in the boats.

  27. Divided between pangs of regret and eager thoughts of the new service as line officers, Hal and Noll boarded a train one morning and started west.

  28. None of the crew of the boarded vessel spoke.

  29. While the young officers were still at the table Captain Foster boarded and entered the cabin.

  30. After waiting for several hours we quietly boarded a train coming from Komatipoort, and managed to reach Lourengo Marques unobserved.

  31. Trains crammed with men arrive from the rear, discharge their freights of assorted humanity, and are immediately boarded by the dismounted men destined for Komatipoort.

  32. Twice the Spaniards had boarded their enemy, and both times they had been repulsed with loss.

  33. Finally his feet began to feel wet and cold, and he boarded a car.

  34. She boarded a car in the best of spirits, feeling her blood still flowing pleasantly.

  35. Fifth Avenue was boarded up where the rich had deserted their mansions.

  36. He hurried to Madison Street and boarded a horse-car, which carried him to Ogden Place in half an hour.

  37. Though he said this to himself, it was with a vague feeling of uneasiness that Ned boarded a car to go to the offices of Skem & Skim.

  38. They boarded the elevated which ran near Mrs. Kenfield's house and were soon on their way to the station where Ned's aunt was to take her train.

  39. They boarded a car and were soon at Ned's uncle's home.

  40. They slid down the rope, boarded the submarine, and dived below.

  41. After a short interval the boat was pulled out to sea, and its occupants boarded the fishing vessel, anchored where they had left it.

  42. The building itself, was in a very perfect state at that time, and ought to have been boarded up after the field it stood in was thrown open.

  43. Dan Baxter led the way to the nearest elevated station and they ran upstairs to the platform and soon boarded a car bound for the vicinity of Prospect Park.

  44. Jack Ness, as they boarded one of the cars.

  45. He boarded a train, and the boys followed, Sam getting in the same car with the broker and Dick and Tom entering the next car, but keeping in sight of their brother.

  46. When the Lieutenant's Sloop boarded the other, Captain Teach's Men threw in several new fashioned sort of Grenadoes, viz.

  47. The three paused a moment inside the door, evidently to accustom their eyes to the half darkness, for all the windows were boarded up.

  48. Thayer, editor of the Haverhill Gazette, with whom Whittier boarded while at the academy.

  49. The house on Water Street at which she boarded was directly opposite that of Abijah W.

  50. We boarded together at M'Gowan's; and after my wife died I went about with him considerable.

  51. Offe Caraccas,' now; you see, here was some unhappy vessel boarded off that coast.

  52. The four who had boarded made straight before them for the building, shouting as they ran, and the men among the trees shouted back to encourage them.

  53. So the railroad put an old passenger car on a side track up there and boarded up the under part so you couldn't see the wheels, just the same as on a lunch wagon.

  54. The part that was boarded off for a ticket office was at one end, and in the other part the seats were left just the same as in a regular car.

  55. He often needed the necessaries, to say nothing of the comforts of life, frequently making his morning and evening meal out of potatoes and salt, the former being of his own cooking, as he boarded himself.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boarded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.