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Example sentences for "doubled"

Lexicographically close words:
dou; douaniers; douar; douard; double; doubleness; doubler; doubles; doublet; doubleth
  1. They may be doubled temporarily, as we shall see in the next chapter: but these duplications add nothing to the number of the souls capable of reincarnation.

  2. So society imposes it, along with the practices which are derived from it, and thus the ritual precept is doubled by a logical precept which is only the intellectual aspect of the former.

  3. At the same instant Ham's rifle cracked; and the legs of Pockface doubled up under him, and he went down, like a shot rabbit.

  4. The guard was doubled that night and the camp-fire was kept blazing brightly, so that no one could creep into camp unseen under cover of the darkness.

  5. The guard was again doubled that night and instructed to keep the camp-fire blazing brightly.

  6. The memory of Sir Julius breathing about her still, doubled the feminine attraction.

  7. And all the while Jean sat in the corner of a room in the empty house by the wall, his legs doubled under him, his arms folded in his loose tunic, his head dropped forward upon his breast.

  8. And as Herrick sat down again, Jean doubled his legs under him and squatted on the floor.

  9. See that the sentries are doubled everywhere.

  10. And he sank to the floor, his legs doubled under him.

  11. And so then when he felt himself so wounded he doubled his strokes, and gave them so many wounds that he felled them to the earth, and would have slain them had they not yielded them.

  12. The 10th, going ashore in the boat for victuals as usual, and having doubled a point, they saw three canoes with savages, who went immediately on shore, and scrambled up the mountains like monkeys.

  13. In the afternoon, having doubled the southerly point, two boats were seen, which belonged to Van Noort, who had put back to the Bay of Knights in search of the Faith.

  14. Next day they doubled Cape Froward, with some danger, on account of bad anchorage and contrary winds.

  15. They doubled the Cape of Good Hope on the 6th March, and arrived at St Helena on 30th of that month, where they found the Zealand.

  16. It was intimated to him that he might return to Atlamalco in the course of a few days,--an elastic term which might be halved or doubled without any blame attaching to the skipper.

  17. As he spoke, he leaned forward with his hands resting on the table, and the chubby fingers doubled in upon the palms.

  18. The number of Christians reported at the end of ten centuries was doubled in the next five centuries.

  19. The farm products have considerably more than doubled in ten years, equaling in value eighteen times the world's output of gold.

  20. The total was doubled again in the next three hundred years.

  21. It is particularly adapted to youthful matrons, or ladies who may have doubled their teens without being caught in the noose of Hymen.

  22. I had been asked, I remembered, for a week, and I had doubled my furlough.

  23. A wrenched and doubled mass of zinc had hurtled out of the heavens and struck some one down.

  24. He ground his teeth and doubled until the stakes grew enormous, while the dealer dealt monotonously.

  25. He jerked his head towards the door at his elbow in quest of a retreat a shudder ran over him, his knees buckled and he plunged forward upon his face, his arm still doubled under him.

  26. He worked the wires of his machine until his dolls doubled and danced and twisted at his touch.

  27. There were no tracks here, therefore they must have doubled back towards town.

  28. As he doubled over retching, a smashing blow caught his chin, and he tasted blood in his mouth as his knees buckled under him.

  29. Quickly he glanced up and down the corridor, doubled a hard fist and drove it through the panel with a crunch.

  30. Whereupon, of course, the Bittleton Club at once doubled it, and Miss Gladwin’s fame filled the air.

  31. The distance seemed to have doubled before they got to the descent, and this slope to be three times as long, as they tramped slowly down into the gulch, where the doctor called a halt once more.

  32. Having doubled the number of the sentries, and taken other precautions against the return of this terrible intruder, I re-entered the tent which gave shelter to the Jarocho and his sister.

  33. He had scarcely settled upon the ground before his confrere, dropping in like fashion, fell doubled over his body.

  34. She showed how in the appointment of the new school board the fact that their power had been doubled and trebled by the recently granted Municipal vote was manifest.

  35. At the second slanting of the great, tawdry lane he bent with it and encountered suddenly a little knot of flustered women just descended from the elevated way that doubled the din and blare of the shrieking city.

  36. They doubled the promontory of the mountains, and arrived in sight of the famous Bridge of Pinos, that crosses a rushing stream often dyed with Christian and Moslem blood.

  37. I gave the steed another taste of the stirrups and doubled my speed.

  38. Conrad is a painter doubled by a psychologist; he is the psychologist of the sea--and that is his chief claim to originality, his Peak of Darien.

  39. But, given by nature a certain kind of temperament in which curiosity is doubled by mental energy, and you may achieve versatility.

  40. A thinker doubled by an artist he is the one man north who recalls the harsh but pregnant truths of Henrik Ibsen.

  41. He then doubled back and, proceeding some distance, got down into the fosse and stole forward to them again under the wall.

  42. The stranger was nearly doubled up with laughter, which he turned away to hide.

  43. Releasing me at once, he was completely doubled up, standing in the middle of the pavement outside a grocer's shop, his hands pressed against his body, gasping for breath.

  44. At the same instant a light canoe doubled a little cape formed by some mangrove-trees jutting out into the bed of the stream, and darted in pursuit of the flamingos which had fallen in the water.

  45. That night the ice more than doubled in thickness, and they started ashore next morning for a good long tramp eastward, drawing a light sledge bearing provisions, and ready for the carriage of any game that might be shot.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doubled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    double; doubled; duplicated; flexible; fluted; folded; gathered; plagiarized; plaited; pleated; pliable; plicate; reiterate; repeated; tucked