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Example sentences for "committed"

Lexicographically close words:
commits; committ; committal; committals; committe; committee; committeeman; committeemen; committees; committest
  1. As soone as the bishop had ended this tale, he was attached by the earle marshall, and committed to ward in the abbei of saint Albons.

  2. These forged inuentions caused manie to beleeue the brute raised by the countesse of Oxford, for the which they came in trouble, were apprehended and committed to prison.

  3. The sins I have sinned turn into a blessing; The transgressions I have committed let the wind carry away!

  4. There were the same paradigms to be committed to memory, the same lists of words and phrases to be learned by heart, the same extracts from the authors of the past to be stored up in the mind.

  5. The sin that I sinned I knew not, The transgression I committed I knew not.

  6. During the past year we have committed to the various prisons in Massachusetts five thousand six hundred sixty-nine persons for crime.

  7. In the last year there were 4,643 persons committed to your watch-houses, more than the twenty-fifth of the whole population.

  8. Even if we take all the offences committed by these strangers who have come amongst us, it does not compare so very unfavorably as some allege with the "good old times.

  9. There will be the general murder and robbery committed on account of the nation, and the particular murder and robbery on account of the special individual.

  10. Curiously, enough, however, if a mendicant used the same plea in begging a mite of alms on the streets, the law has invariably regarded him as a vagrant to be committed to the Workhouse.

  11. The rich evaded taxation; and if in the process it was necessary to perjure themselves, they committed perjury with alacrity.

  12. Doubtless similar frauds were being committed in other lines of importations.

  13. Although undeniably great frauds had been committed by the banking class, not a single one of that class went to jail.

  14. The prisons were perennially filled with convicts, nearly all of whom had committed some crime against property, and for so doing were put in chains behind heavy bars, guarded by rifles and great stone walls.

  15. The enormities brazenly committed during the Spanish-American War of 1898 are sufficiently remembered.

  16. Armand, the companion and darling of her childhood, the man for whom she had committed the deadly sin, which had so hopelessly imperilled her brave husband's life.

  17. She would see her husband, tell him all, and, if he was ready to forgive the crime, which she had committed in her blind ignorance, she would yet have the happiness of dying by his side.

  18. Surely Fate could not deal a blow like that: Nature itself would rise in revolt: her hand, when it held that tiny scrap of paper last night, would have surely have been struck numb ere it committed a deed so appalling and so terrible.

  19. He has the advantage of not having committed himself much.

  20. And he says--I'll translate it for you: 'In killing Brown the Southern States have committed a crime which will take its place among the calamities of history.

  21. If I committed you for vagrancy or assault, it would delay you in a business which you must have deeply at heart.

  22. Extend your pardon to me for my almost committed crime of to-day,--and give me your blessing!

  23. As for Cardinal Bonpre, one of the noblest and purest of men, you surely cannot be in earnest when you speak of his having committed a grave error!

  24. One of them, who was most familiar with him, when there seemed no hope of shaking his purpose, went so far as to tell of some sin which Patrick had committed in his boyhood, thirty years before.

  25. He was often attacked by the Arian mob; he was stoned; he was carried before the magistrates on charges of disturbing the peace; the house which he had turned into a chapel was broken into by night, and shocking outrages were committed in it.

  26. The persecution at Lyons and Vienne was begun by the mob of those towns, who insulted the Christians in the streets, broke into their houses, and committed other such outrages against them.

  27. Julian granted their request, and forthwith they returned home in great triumph, and committed violent outrages against the Catholics.

  28. He could not recite the odes of Horace from memory; but he was able to repeat lengthy quotations from both English and foreign authors, and that without ever having committed them.

  29. He had committed to memory one of the longest lists of exceptions in the Latin grammar, and never missed an opportunity of repeating it as rapidly as possible and with a comical look.

  30. They imagine that in some way unknown to themselves they may have committed this act, and it causes them great concern.

  31. The man who has actually committed this sin never feels any alarm about it.

  32. I was going, in my bluntness, to put the direct question, but felt as if I had committed myself quite enough for one night.

  33. Who is there among us that has known him before he committed the offence, that shall take upon him to say he can sit down coolly and pen a dispassionate description of a murderer?

  34. He committed theft at my house not more than an hour ago; and I am going to find him if he is in the State.

  35. I knew him to be a scoundrel in money affairs as well as in every other way: as a lawyer I could put my finger on a great crime that he had committed to win a large part of his fortune.

  36. No man had ever committed suicide upon achieving the summit of an ambition.

  37. If the daughter committed the murder it was probably Thalassa who replaced the key in the room afterwards.

  38. But Charles's story threw suspicion back on to Sisily by suggesting that the police had been misled about the time of the murder, which must have been committed at least half an hour earlier than they assumed.

  39. The impulse which had dictated his previous answer sprang from the thought that the foolish females downstairs could not contradict it, and he adhered calmly to the course now he was committed to it.

  40. I suppose you are aware your sister does not share your view that your brother committed suicide?

  41. Your own opinion is that your brother committed suicide?

  42. Men of action or intellect rarely committed suicide, not because they valued life highly, but because they had so much to do in their brief span that they hadn't time to think about putting an end to it.

  43. The murder was not committed until half-past nine, according to the stopped clock, which is another point suggesting lack of premeditation.

  44. Was it the attitude of a man who had committed suicide?

  45. But that point was not so immediately important as Thalassa's story that the murder had been committed during his absence from Flint House.

  46. But it is certain that whoever committed the murder left the room immediately after firing the shot, and the door was locked on the outside and the key removed.

  47. In their confidence and hurry, they committed the grave error of leaving their rifles behind.

  48. The theft was a most daring one, and must have been committed within the past few minutes.

  49. We are, as you often tell us, ‘very young’—too young to have committed many national sins.

  50. They committed their beloved dead tenderly to the keeping of the earth, with a full recognition of the analogy between this act and seed-planting, so powerfully set forth by St. Paul.

  51. The fortress of Muzazir, under Mount Rowandiz, was added to the Assyrian dominions, its gods were carried into captivity, and the King of Ararat committed suicide in despair.

  52. Why should I have committed a sin against the king my lord?

  53. He, on his way home, was also pleased that he had not fully committed himself.

  54. That a murder should have been committed anywhere was not such a very surprising thing in itself; but that a murder should take place in Havre, Havre which was under his own especial supervision, c'etait impossible!

  55. When Master Tom committed himself in the way I have hinted at, little Lizzie blushed crimson, and hung down her head so that he could not see her face.

  56. Pity that Pringle was not acquainted with it before he committed himself.

  57. In these conquests they committed very great cruelties, robberies, put many to death and destroyed towns, burning and desolating along the road without leaving memory of anything.

  58. He, therefore, sought to malign the preceding dynasty, persecuted the descendants of the Incas, and committed one act of cruel injustice.

  59. As the Huallas attempted to defend their lives and properties, many cruelties were committed by Manco Ccapac and Mama Occlo.

  60. They committed violence among their countrymen and among strangers to subject them and bring them to obedience under their command, so that they might serve them and pay tribute.

  61. The other nations, and some in Cunti-suyu, from fear at seeing the cruelties committed on the conquered, came in to submit, to avoid destruction.

  62. He committed great cruelties and was oppressive both among the natives of the places they passed, and among his own people.

  63. Cusi Yupanqui committed the punishment of the house to Chalco Chima and Quiz-quiz.

  64. When the Huayllacans knew this, they humbled themselves before Yahuar-huaccac, entreating him to forgive the evil deeds they had committed against him.

  65. Their assault being sudden they entered the fortress, massacred the garrison, and committed great havock, robberies and murders among the surrounding inhabitants.

  66. He committed great cruelties, for no other reason than that they did not come to obey his will.

  67. If any of them had helped Huascar they had not committed a crime, for they were bound to serve their Inca; and if there was any fault he would remit and pardon it, in the name of the great Lord Atahualpa.

  68. To think that the biggest crime which had been committed for years in the town should not be made the subject of a magisterial inquiry, was heartbreaking.

  69. Poor woman, she committed her one fault, and dearly she atoned for it.

  70. She also committed to memory his declaration that the very fact of Godolphin's playing the piece every now and then was proof positive that he would be very reluctant to part with it, if it came to that.

  71. The firing ceased on the following day, but the troubles of the people were rather increased than assuaged; murders and robberies were daily committed by the soldiery, the shops were all shut and some of the streets barricaded.

  72. Mehemet Ali's life was endangered, and he sought refuge by night in the citadel, while the soldiery committed many acts of plunder.

  73. The contention, often very recklessly urged, that the Revisers deliberately violated the principles under which the work was committed to them is thus, to use the kindest form of expression, entirely erroneous.

  74. He was cold sober and beginning to perceive the supreme folly he had committed in shooting a woman's mount from under her.

  75. We know there have been two murders committed here by unknown murderers.

  76. And Conley ain't committed any crime round here that I know of.

  77. It never occurred to me till you said Conley hadn't committed any crime that you know of that maybe--" He left the sentence unfinished.


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