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Example sentences for "came away"

  • I came away untired, unsated; and with a delightful and distinct impression of all I had seen.

  • Last night we took advantage of a brilliant full moon to visit the Coliseum by moonlight; and if I came away disappointed of the pleasure I had expected, the fault was not in me nor in the scene around me.

  • With this sloop Captain William, as we then called him, came away, and found us at Port St Pedro, in the latitude of 32 degrees 30 minutes south.

  • My father, you see, had come out long before, but the two families had always been very intimate in England, and it was kept up after he came away.

  • Mamma bought me half a dozen pair of new ones just before I came away, and I had as many as that of old ones besides.

  • Mamma gave me a nice dressing-box before I came away, but I found very soon this was a queer place for a dressing-box to come to.

  • I didn't meet them," said Ellen; "I came away only a little while after Nancy.

  • Another gentleman had been tortured with headache; Mr. Long applied his lotion to it--the humour which caused his headache came away in a clear limpid discharge.

  • I remembered the old days so vividly there; I thought of my cousin Agnes, and wished that I could see her; and at last, as the daylight faded, I came away.

  • She kissed me when I came away, and I carried the flowers to the hospital.

  • I left Jack to stay the night, and, as I came away, I had more and more compassion for the man who was dying; yet I was glad to think so sad a life was almost over with.

  • I must have made some effort, vain and foolish enough, to rematerialize my old demigod, but when I came away it was with the feeling that there was very little more left of John Brown than there was of me.

  • I had somehow not prospered in my visit to Emerson as I had with Hawthorne, and I came away wondering in what sort I had gone wrong.

  • What is certain is that I went to the office of the Saturday Press in New York with much the same sort of feeling I had in going to the office of the Atlantic Monthly in Boston, but I came away with a very different feeling.

  • We came away rejoicing, and the new series began with the new year following.

  • So I came away, weary and heavy- laden, and on the way home stopped to tell Dr.

  • I came away, and all the way home I fought this battle with myself, saying, "He loves me!

  • She was tired, and I came away; and I have indeed been on my knees.

  • After we came away, I asked mother how she could listen to such a rigmarole in patience, and what good she supposed she had done by her visit.

  • After I came away, I was informed that this semi-chant is termed intoning, and is said to be a revival of an ancient method of rendering the church service.

  • I came away before it concluded, to avoid the damp night-air; but many chequered years and scenes of stirring interest must intervene to efface from my memory that sunset and those strange prayers in the Coliseum.

  • I came away at the close of the third act, leaving two more to be performed.

  • Whether the poor child came out of that attack alive I do not know; I had no doubt she was dying till just before I came away, when she appeared easier, though still unconscious.

  • But her lips were growing white with pain, and I came away.

  • We saw the whole place before we came away; and they certainly had shown great ingenuity in contriving to lodge such a number of people in and about the house--it was exactly like a small rising colony.

  • Just before I came away I met Lord Wharncliffe, and asked him about his interview with Radical Jones.

  • I came away; between Palmerston, Frederick Lamb, and Melbourne she knows everything, and is a furious anti-Reformer.

  • It seemed to me that it was of a private nature, and so--so that's why I came away.

  • Of course, I couldn't afford to get angry with a man so low bred, and I came away.

  • Only twice since he came away had he gone back with his mother for a holiday visit at Cobb's Corners.

  • The French Legation was almost destroyed before we came away, the Russian Legation could only be held with difficulty, and more than half the Fu had already been captured.

  • Of course I did not think of such matters before I came away, but he says that it is like the old Scotch clans: the State deals with the families and not with the different members of it.

  • I have the two revolvers my uncle gave me when I came away,” Rex said; “we can each carry one of them.

  • We came away together, Father Payne and I, and we strolled a little in the garden.

  • Come, I'll tell you frankly what I did think, as I came away.

  • There were very few servants that I saw--an old butler and some elderly maids--and then I came away.

  • I came away with a steady step--I think almost with a smile upon my face.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "came away" 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 either; came abreast; came alongside; came away; came back; came from; came here; came nearer; came nigh; came not; came over; came running; came rushing; came the; came they; came thither; came towards; came vnto; complete the; could ever; fallen tree; field officers; forty days; honest fellow; the ground; whole body