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Example sentences for "discovered"

Lexicographically close words:
discourteously; discourtesy; discover; discoverable; discoverd; discoverer; discoverers; discoverest; discovereth; discoveries
  1. Oh, but we have discovered further complications, Your Majesty!

  2. After a short search he discovered it behind a large cabinet where the peasant had concealed it.

  3. You discovered a carrion-pit, not the battlefield of Teutoburg.

  4. Since he drank from her with such appetite and comfort and we discovered that I had no milk," she said, "we soon noticed that he was wiser than all of us when he wouldn't take nourishment from me.

  5. And I have therefore discovered the right battlefield.

  6. The method which the young Hegel discovered empirically, and which the mature rationalist applied to every sphere of human life and thought, is the famous Dialectical Method.

  7. It can't be gunpowder, because Count Seckendorf has already discovered that.

  8. That is what I have always thought, and now I have discovered the most unmistakable evidence of it.

  9. In the meantime our axle had broken; we felled a tree with an axe we had with us and bound it securely with ropes; then my brother-in-law discovered how handy I was and complimented me.

  10. Impudently they persist in it, that the late discovered Indians show antiquities thousands before Adam.

  11. Fourier approximated to Christianity inasmuch as he believed in a divine Providence; but like Owen he had an unbounded and heterodox faith in human goodness and perfectibility; and he claimed to have discovered the "plan of God" for men.

  12. He wrote to Spinoza on points of optics before he discovered the authorship; and he is represented later as speaking of the Tractatus with respect.

  13. The hand of Diderot perhaps may be discovered in the skilful allusions to the skeptical Demonstratio Evangelica of Huet, which De Prades professes to have translated when at his seminary, seeking there the antidote to the poison of the deists.

  14. For one blissful moment she allowed him to gaze in at the clear windows of her soul; then remembering the unusual but effective restorative she had used in the case, she flamed out in sudden colors, the banners of discovered love.

  15. For Bender would trust it in no other hand; whereby he discovered not only his wisdom, but also an unexpected fund of tact in his rough messenger.

  16. People discovered that Flaubert's methods were in no wise dependent upon the character of his materials, that they were the same in regard to this colossal, foreign subject as they had been in dealing with his former commonplace theme.

  17. On the other hand, he had an actual horror of the theatrical, and in his zealous antipathy he many times found it where others had not discovered it.

  18. Very early it was discovered that the gifted boy possessed talents which made it seem desirable to furnish him with higher opportunities for education than those afforded in the office of Assessor Branting.

  19. He discovered that a very distinguished lady, with whom he was captivated, had yielded to the advances of a wholly unpolished, boorish man.

  20. The child was discovered at different periods in the literatures of different countries; in England, for instance, much earlier than in France.

  21. The pagan element that Tegnér discovered in his own nature, derived its nourishment from two sources in his earliest studies; first from his relations to northern antiquities, and second from his devotion to Greek poetry.

  22. The plot represents the Indian hermit Kalanus as believing devoutly that he has discovered in Alexander, who has just reached India on his triumphal progress through Asia, a revelation of Brahma's eternal light.

  23. It is no wonder that at first people scarcely discovered anything else in the work than this mode of contemplation, and the fidelity to real life that was its product.

  24. Now it was discovered that this haven was full of rocks and shoals.

  25. Thus in literature are discovered by degrees the burgher (in Denmark by Holberg), the student, the peasant, etc.

  26. Had the present meeting been discovered by spies the whole movement would have been seriously crippled for a considerable time.

  27. Then, too, Makar's lodgings might have been discovered by the police and made a trap of.

  28. Traces of an improvised dynamite mine had been discovered in the basement.

  29. After two days of searching and sniffing the police discovered the unknown man's lodging, where they found some revolutionary literature and other evidence that pointed to him as the author of the fatal explosion.

  30. Finally, on the sixth day, it was discovered that the proprietress of the little dry goods store had a clear recollection of her face.

  31. Pievakin's house was searched by gendarmes, but no "underground" literature was discovered there.

  32. Having thus discovered a boarding house in which lived an important officer of the secret service he had sent the Dandy to hire a room there.

  33. When his identity was discovered at Police Headquarters, it caused a panic among the officials of the place.

  34. When Elkin discovered who the important revolutionist from St. Petersburg was the blood rushed to his face.

  35. He breathed a sigh of relief, then joyfully caught his breath as he suddenly discovered two bright eyes looking straight at him through one of the cracks.

  36. One corner was devoted to the homing pigeons, and here Andrea discovered Chico in the same cage with some highly trained racers from Belgium.

  37. Again he hugged his pet until he suddenly discovered a hungry bill in his pocket, and he remembered that Chico hadn't had his breakfast.

  38. So Jesuit missionaries, who discovered our similar ginseng, were not slow in exporting it to China when it was literally worth its weight in gold.

  39. When Keppler discovered the majestic order of movement of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed, "Oh God, I think Thy thoughts after Thee!

  40. The sole use man has discovered for this often pestiferous weed with which nature carpets moist soil the world around is to feed caged song-birds.

  41. The wand discovered nothing, and Linnaeus's mark was soon trampled down by the company present, so that when he went to finish the experiment by fetching the gold himself, he was utterly at a loss where to find it.

  42. I discovered that the form of the flower requires it.

  43. But had not small pollen carriers discovered it weeks before, the scaly, glutinous cups would hold no charming, plumed seeds ready to ride on autumn gales.

  44. Its sole use yet discovered is to screen ugly fences and rubbish heaps by climbing and trailing luxuriantly over everything within reach.

  45. A bee with some orchid pollen-stumps attached to its head was once sent to Mr. Frank Cheshire, the English expert who had just discovered some strange bee diseases.

  46. So silently was this done that but one person discovered it--a squaw, who cried, "We are all dead!

  47. He presently discovered that whenever the miller was away a candle shone in the window until a figure wrapped in a military cloak emerged from the shadows, knocked, and was admitted.

  48. Bill Quick worked secretly, and, unlike other men of the place and time, he did not take his trophies Indian-fashion.

  49. Both men were marched away forthwith, but Michel was released in an hour, for in that time the people had subscribed enough to pay his debt.

  50. Was it conscience, craziness, or fate that led old man Baker to hang himself above the grave of his victim?

  51. It had to be dealt severely and quickly, for it was administered to a kind of men that became dangerous if they saw any advantage or any superiority in their strength or numbers over the decent people with whom they were cast.

  52. I caught sight of him long before he discovered me, and could make my notes upon him.

  53. I've only suspected you of a sweetness and kindness and goodness which I don't think you've discovered in yourself.

  54. With a curious little shock of surprise I discovered that there could be other solar systems besides the one to which I was accustomed, and that Canada was not the whole of North America.

  55. Words made it gross, and it was what he must have discovered each time he approached me.

  56. I discovered that Stacy Grainger's house was on the corner of Fifth Avenue and a corresponding cross-street a little farther down-town.

  57. Fortunately, they discovered a deep and dark ravine that led down from the mountains through the line of sentries.

  58. The light of morn discovered a French vessel at anchor off the harbor, which was quickly boarded.

  59. Lambert soon discovered that certain persons in the country around were in correspondence with the garrison, sending them information.

  60. Eighteen of the younger men were, on the night fixed, amusing themselves with drinking in a public-house, and talked with such freedom that the hostess discovered their secret.

  61. He had been twice discovered within the hour, after a month and a half of impunity.

  62. Their offence was not discovered till July of the following year.

  63. The king was really there, and at last was discovered by the eager searcher.

  64. He then drew off his troops, not having discovered the concealed men in this proceeding.

  65. To the surprise of the worthy lieutenant, he discovered that Seymour was not there to be guarded.

  66. In the morning Justin discovered that Davison was temporarily absent, possibly out of town, but was expected at any moment.

  67. This was a caucus of the opposition, and Justin discovered that he was being hailed as an ally, and was expected to say something.

  68. Yes, he did, when I hinted at what I had discovered and told him I had left Denver for good and all; he told me I was a little idiot.

  69. Honourable Sir, -- You are aware that during the month of August last I told you and General Botha by word of mouth that I discovered the sending of commandos to German South-West Africa for the purpose of conquering that territory.

  70. An hour later, everything settled to my satisfaction, I had discovered a vacant bed in Corozal bachelor quarters and was pulling off my coat preparatory to the shower-bath and a well-earned night's repose.

  71. I discovered there was on the Zone a yellow tailor who made Beau Brummel uniforms at $7.

  72. Johnson, that to write of such well-known cities "with the solemnity of geographical description, as if we had been cast upon a newly discovered coast, has the appearance of a very frivolous ostentation.

  73. At Salen there was an intense moment when, as the steamer started, a boy on shore discovered that he had forgotten his bag.

  74. He discovered that what his mind had pictured, and his heart had longed for, his constitution could not endure.

  75. He enjoyed the situation as much as a man could who had discovered that he had amalgamated himself with an hospital which was mortgaged for all it was worth to the family physician.

  76. He had discovered the result, but not the cause; so he began rooting among the sage brush of the sand downs for the foundation stone of his social submergence.

  77. To the south of us is a great healthy world where men live; where they have discovered all that the world has to give, and where they enjoy those things to the utmost; where they read and write and take records of their doings.

  78. There he discovered a ledge several feet wide full of shining specks, and he traced it with his eyes right to the bed of the creek.

  79. But this was only because the ironies of fate had discovered that they were too happy, and that something must be done to damage their heavenliness.

  80. Only one person amongst the company discovered that Eleanor's pearls were real, and perhaps only that one had been educated in lace, save rudimentally, in the Melbourne shops.

  81. And now that she had discovered these charming orphans, who had beauty, and breeding, and culture, and not a relative or connection in the world, she did not know how to restrain the extravagance of her satisfaction.

  82. The world has discovered breechloaders, so to speak, and they go to the field with the old blunderbusses of centuries ago.

  83. Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself; and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode.

  84. This reading had puzzled me extremely at first; but, by degrees, I discovered that he uttered many of the same sounds when he read as when he talked.

  85. I found several letters, and, among others, one which I discovered from its commencement to be from your father.

  86. They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe.

  87. About five in the morning I discovered my lovely boy, whom the night before I had seen blooming and active in health, stretched on the grass livid and motionless: the print of the murderer's finger was on his neck.

  88. It was already dusk before we thought of returning; and then we discovered that William and Ernest, who had gone on before, were not to be found.

  89. Soon after my arrival in the hovel, I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory.

  90. Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.

  91. I was delighted when I first discovered that a pleasant sound, which often saluted my ears, proceeded from the throats of the little winged animals who had often intercepted the light from my eyes.

  92. A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family; it was poverty: and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree.

  93. Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned, and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.

  94. But I discovered no trace of him, and was beginning to conjecture that some fortunate chance had intervened to prevent the execution of his menaces; when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream.

  95. When she entered the court, she threw her eyes round it, and quickly discovered where we were seated.

  96. Sure enough the white-clad jackies came trailing along, some even getting down on their stomachs in order not to be discovered by the videttes walking the ramparts of the nearby shore fort.

  97. They skirted the precipice and as Hugh had predicted, soon discovered that it was possible to make the descent by means of a shelving path, which doubtless the wretched man had not found out.

  98. Then finally the scout master discovered that just ahead of them there lay a peculiar formation of rocks.

  99. Hugh admonished as he started to pass to the rear of the munching brute, where he had discovered the broken end of the rope lying on the ground.

  100. If in taking such a hazard he were discovered and made a prisoner of war, of course all hope of taking the garrison by surprise must be abandoned, and the game would go against the Naval Reserve men.

  101. This made her look closer, and she soon discovered a small group of fishes who seemed to be speaking very eagerly together.

  102. As they were undressing it was discovered that Madge had lost a coral necklace she had on.

  103. Rosy Posy discovered a pile of hay in a corner, and plumped herself down upon it, still holding tightly her beloved Boffin.

  104. King nearly scared Kitty out of her wits by pretending there was a great snake writhing among the dark-leaved reeds, but almost immediately she discovered it was only a rubber hose, and she laughed with the rest.

  105. So they went to the picturesque restaurant, and the six travellers suddenly discovered they were both tired and hungry.

  106. Why, when I discovered those eggs on a rocky ledge, I knew at once they were gulls' eggs.

  107. A rousing cheer attested to the fact that their approach had been discovered by some keen-eyed scout, who had communicated the pleasing intelligence to the others.

  108. The very second that he discovered the accident to the descending stone-laden flat-car, Hugh knew that it was up to him to do something in order to save those imperiled orphans from a terrible calamity.

  109. About two in the afternoon it was discovered that the rain had ceased.

  110. He, too, had discovered an old stable broom, with which he was belaboring the fire with savage fury, pounding it as though he might have a special grievance against its further encroachment.

  111. So keeping a bright lookout, whenever a little flame was discovered on the roof of a building some of the boys hustled there with a ladder, and one went up to throw a bucket of water over it.

  112. Then he looked at the track, and discovered the partly broken log projecting upward.

  113. He had discovered her identity with the ex-governess of Vellenaux, or he would never have presented himself at so early an hour after the bail.

  114. That one day while he, (the prisoner) was passing through the ruins of a deserted palace, he had discovered the entrance to a subterraneous passage, leading under the walls and coming out about a quarter of a mile from the fort.

  115. A noted German chemist claims to have discovered an effectual antidote to the harmful effects of coffee,--an antidote for which he had searched for years.

  116. In his experiments he discovered that the fibre of cotton, in its natural state before bleaching, neutralizes the harmful principle of the caffein.

  117. He tried to move his arms and discovered he had been securely bound.

  118. He turned to call the guards to help him with the woman when he discovered that they were gone.


  119. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discovered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    conceived; fabricated; invented; naked


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    discovered land; discovered that; discovered the