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Example sentences for "children were"

  • But, of course, Evangeline's children were likely to be unmanageable; they had such extraordinary training when they were babies.

  • And so the hours flew by, and at last the time arrived when the children were to appear before the footlights.

  • Children were taught to read in order to uplift their souls (as the claim went).

  • Children were no longer a matter of continuity and survival.

  • Just before the war there were only five schools of this kind and only 400 children were enrolled.

  • Until they reached maturity, children were expected to do what they were told by their parents or by other adults without question.

  • The warmest words that have ever been spoken to me about my descriptions of children were from an old gentleman whom I afterward found to be trying to get hold of little children.

  • Just as the school-children were starting to go home, Ole came staggering along with his son's dead body on his back.

  • A few women and old men and children were to be seen in the villages, a bent figure in a field, an occasional cart that drew aside as we hurried at eighty kilometers an hour along deserted routes drawn as with a ruler across the land.

  • At night, in the warm season, when well brought up children were at home or at the seashore, strange things were said to happen at Uhrig's Cave.

  • All King Olaf's children were handsome in appearance, and clever from childhood.

  • Marina and Lee Oswald and their children were in my home when I left and were there when I returned.

  • Some of Tante Rose's children were, like herself, very clever and charming, some very stupid, like Tonton Joson.

  • We children were forbidden to cross on it, but on this day I remember my adventurous cousin Jules rushing to and fro from one bank to the other in defiance of authority.

  • And at last the great day came, and we children were up with the lark.

  • Although children were welcomed, yet the discipline of younger children was rather severe and children were taught to reverence and obey their parents and superiors.

  • Children were clothed in about the same manner and the same styles as their elders, there being no great distinguishing marks in the dress of the younger and older people.

  • Children were brought up quite strictly during the Middle Ages.

  • Children were taught to pay great respect to old age.

  • There was the same number of children in each family; but Angus Dhu's children were most of them older than their cousins, and while Angus Bhan had six sons and two daughters, Angus Dhu had six daughters and two sons.

  • That dear wife was sold from me nearly twenty years ago; soon after my children were sold, and I thought my heart was broke.

  • But to their great disappointment, in searching the house, no Clara or children were there.

  • My children were urgent to send for the doctor at once.

  • My children were about me, but their sympathy did not help me.

  • With the exception of Ernst and Ludwig, all of my children were present.

  • The neighbors' children were in the street; their noise grated on my ears.

  • Children were sent to school, and placed in great men's houses to learn courtesy and the formalities of high life.

  • Children were given a few drops of wine in which to drink the health of their elders.

  • All authorities agree that if children were spared at birth they were treated with great affection.

  • Children were vowed to the goddess for life or for a time.

  • Children were exchanged in order to be saved.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absorbent cotton; another hour; boat ashore; children born; children from; children must; children should; children under; children will; cutting down; foreign authors; great sorrow; human things; know all; part chorus; plant them; social life; specimens taken; tailed shrew; that being; think about; thou have; vice presidents; water buffalo; yellow paper; you shall hear from