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Example sentences for "entered"

Lexicographically close words:
enter; entera; enteramente; enterance; enterd; enterest; entereth; enteric; entering; enterit
  1. As man has only recently entered upon the age of knowledge, and has always hitherto been guided by sentiments and beliefs, we may conceive the vast importance of hatred as a factor of his history.

  2. One can picture the immense vanity of these dictators as they solemnly entered the towns, surrounded by guards, men whose gesture was enough to cause heads to fall.

  3. But when they entered into conflict with peoples who had an ideal as strong as their own victory became far more difficult.

  4. The whole troop now entered the city together, escorting the Prince to the town-house.

  5. After lunch we entered upon the seventy-mile stretch from the Little to the Big Colorado.

  6. At the end of the pinyon thicket Satan overhauled Jones's bay, and we entered the open forest together.

  7. When I reached the point where the cougar had entered the slide, I called the hounds, but they did not come nor answer me.

  8. She entered the clump of trees, and bumped her nose against the pinyon Old Tom was in, and looked up like a dog that knew her business.

  9. At length we reached the top, and entered the great arched aisles of Buckskin Forest.

  10. Moreover, I saw many things that escaped most observers--how she entered the cage, how she maneuvered among them, how she kept a compelling gaze on them!

  11. He had thrown off the burden of To-day; he had entered on his eternal To-morrow.

  12. In the year 1770, a French merchant-ship entered the port of Calcutta.

  13. The first time he had entered the place Bibbs had become dizzy instantly, and six months of it had only added increasing nausea to faintness.

  14. And, having thus spoken, he quitted the room as straightforwardly as he had entered it.

  15. No," said Bibbs, as the three entered the church together.

  16. Sibyl had taken pains not to arrive either before or after the hand was precisely on the hour; and the members of the family were all seated at the table within two minutes after she and Roscoe had entered the house.

  17. Bibbs came through the hall whistling, and entered the room briskly.

  18. They were burnishing up the brass work, one afternoon, when some one entered the boathouse.

  19. The iron had entered deep into the flesh.

  20. As the couple entered an ice cream store Jerry remarked: "Well, it's a free country.

  21. It was a terrible sight that met the boys' eyes as they entered the narrow cut.

  22. Coming, uncle," called a voice, and a tall pretty girl entered the room, stopping in confusion at the sight of the strangers.

  23. There were half a dozen, he said, who had entered their craft, and he asked if the boys did not want to take part in the contest.

  24. The Baker family's cook entered the dining room at this point and Bob mentioned that the box she had asked for was finished.

  25. Showing no inclination toward the life of a farmer, the boy, at sixteen, had already entered the shop of a merchant in Reading.

  26. The illustrations of a later edition entered thoroughly into the spirit of the author's intent.

  27. As the idea occurred to her, Norah entered the shrubbery.

  28. As they crossed the hall and entered the breakfast-room, Miss Vanstone was full of the all-absorbing subject of the last night's concert.

  29. THE first week passed, the second week passed, and Magdalen was, to all appearance, no nearer to the discovery of the Secret Trust than on the day when she first entered on her service at St. Crux.

  30. The maid entered the room, remained there a moment, and came out again, closing the door gently.

  31. He entered the house by the back way, and found his sister, the clergyman's wife, sitting alone over her work in the parlor.

  32. This time she entered the shop without an instant's hesitation.

  33. The first part of it referred to Captain Wragge, and entered unreservedly into all necessary explanations relating to the man himself and to the motive which had brought him to Combe-Raven.

  34. Almost at the same moment Miss Garth entered the hall from the morning-room.

  35. Magdalen softly locked the door of her room, drew the blind over the window, and entered at once on her preparations for the perilous experiment of the day.

  36. You have entered into no particulars,' I said.

  37. Never since it had first entered her heart, never since she had first felt it sacred to her at her father's grave, had the Purpose to which she had vowed herself, so nearly lost its hold on her as at this time.

  38. But when they entered the henhouse, Blackbird was singing away merrily on the roost, and all the fowls lay around in heaps with their necks wrung.

  39. When she entered his room, and saw him in this plight, she gave a loud shriek, and ran off to tell the King.

  40. Marius entered the Rue St. Honoré by the passage Delorme.

  41. The hole by which Gavroche entered was a breach scarce visible from the outside, as it was concealed, as we said, under the elephant's belly, and so narrow that only cats and boys could pass through it.

  42. The shots were fired by Marius, who had just entered the barricade.

  43. Many of these intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most frightful of adventures, turned away their heads.

  44. In any case, it was evident that the secrecy of the garden was violated, and that strangers entered it.

  45. Her feet were bare and her clothes torn, as on the day when she so boldly entered his room, but the tatters were two months older, the holes larger, and the rags filthier.

  46. Very cautiously she entered the wood, and started her search, ears and eyes constantly on the alert, and hands and feet ready to spring and climb up a tree at any moment, if the need arose.

  47. When they entered the Second Green Lane they saw a figure bustling along in front of them, that Molly recognized at once.

  48. She helped Miss Lydia to open her front door, and the two entered the cottage together.

  49. So the children entered the narrow, dark hall and Mr Papingay shut the front door behind them.

  50. At the top of the hilly street they crossed an open square with a market cross in the centre, and entered another narrow street with bulging houses and shops in it.

  51. So they opened the gate and entered her garden.

  52. At last, puffing and blowing, and wiping his forehead, he entered camp and threw himself on one of the rocks.

  53. Having done this, and sent a notice of their pre-emption to the Surveyor General, to be filed as their declaration of claim to the little farm with the orchard, they entered complaint against John Logan, and so sat down to await results.

  54. He was entered on the books as a very desperate character, a barn-burner, and possible murderer.

  55. Something had entered the enclosure like a bullet fired from a gun.

  56. The friends entered the wood, which continued quite open, and tramped steadily forward with the intention of finding place where they could start a fire and converse without danger of discovery by enemies.

  57. As the runaway horse had undergone the same experience, and as Otto had descried him when he emerged from the river, it was easy to locate quite closely the point where he entered Louisiana.

  58. What he ought to have done, when he observed the drowsy fisherman, was to bring the boys to the spot, so that, directly after the red man was dispossessed, the three could have entered the boat and hastened across the river.

  59. He shut himself up in a little room apart, that no one ever entered save himself and one old woman.

  60. Never a word about the damage, thought the priest; never so much as entered her head.

  61. Enok had entered upon his office, and was lay-helper now in earnestness and all humility, with a kerchief over his ears.

  62. But it was this way now with Rolandsen: from the time he had entered into partnership with Mack, he had promised himself to do good work and not waste time in dreaming of other things.

  63. Thieves that night entered our ringfence of thorns, and stole a cloth from off one of my men while he was sleeping.

  64. Leaving the park, we now entered the riches part of Uzaramo, affording crops as fine as any part of India.

  65. These first explanations over, I entered my tent, in which Baraka had been living, and there I found a lot of my brass wires on the ground, lying scattered about.

  66. The impudent magician, without leave, and contrary to all the usages of the country, had entered and set my house against itself during my absence, and had schemed to rob me of a goat.

  67. Then Earl Hakon set sail with the whole of this host southward past Stad; and when it came to his ears that King Ragnfrod with his host had entered into the Sognfjord thither led he his men and there encountered him.

  68. Thereafter Fin craved a truce for Calf, and then were they confronted, the King and Calf, & entered into a covenant like unto the agreement to which the King & Fin had arrived on this matter.

  69. Thereafter did the peasants come unto Olaf, and as all liked one another passing well forthwith entered they into fellowship.

  70. Now with King Olaf when he entered into the temple were a certain few of his men & a certain few of the peasants.

  71. And now Cyril of Alexandria (§ 47, 6) entered the lists as champion of the Alexandrian dogmatics.

  72. After Pepin had entered into closer relations with the popes, he endeavoured, in A.

  73. Many Christian youths from the best families attended the flourishing Moorish schools, entered enthusiastically upon the study of the Arabic language and literature, pressed eagerly on to the service of the Court and Government, etc.

  74. In the time of Louis the Pious, Agobard appears as a reformer of the liturgy, in connection with which he passionately contended against Amalarius, against whom also Florus Magister entered the lists.

  75. The Suevi= were still heathens when they entered Spain with the Vandals in A.

  76. Rupert’s departure on a pilgrimage to Rome had indeed entered into relations with Gregory II.

  77. To foster the movement there the Apostles sent Barnabas, who entered into it with his whole soul, and in Paul associated with himself a yet more capable worker.

  78. Allegorically, when the soul has entered upon the way of purification Reason, with the dew of repentance, washes off the stain of sin, and girds the spirit with humility.

  79. Some time after, Messer Benincasa sitting as judge in Rome, Ghino entered the city with a band of his followers, made his way to the tribunal, slew Benincasa, and escaped unharmed.

  80. The souls in the Ante-Purgatory typify those who have entered on the way towards justification, but have not yet attained it.

  81. Tell us how it is that thou makest of thyself a wall to the sun, as if thou hadst not yet entered within the net of death.

  82. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and, as I entered the passage, I heard the sound of voices from above.

  83. He entered with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into the arm-chair which I pushed forward for him.

  84. He slipped his key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell.

  85. When the inspector and a constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge him with theft.

  86. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in some dark-colored stuff, with a black veil, entered the room.

  87. I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the table.

  88. As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat.

  89. The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure.

  90. We were all assembled round him when the door opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room.

  91. It is the vilest murder-trap on the whole river-side, and I fear that Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more.

  92. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition, and retired to her room.

  93. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion.

  94. I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his room.

  95. As he entered the public room he started back in surprise, as his glance rested on a man wearing a white hat.

  96. At length they entered the great Union Depot, and with the rest of the passengers Walter alighted carrying his valise in his hand.

  97. Having entered the room, he strode softly to the chair over which Walter had thrown his clothes and began to feel in the pockets of his pantaloons.

  98. A middle-aged man entered and looked inquiringly at Walter.

  99. Walter turned, following his look, and when he saw who had entered he understood the situation.

  100. Four miles from the hotel they entered a wood, through which the road ran for half a mile.

  101. Perhaps I had better call," thought Walter, and he entered the path that led to the side door.

  102. Meanwhile, Manning, whose hearing was keen, was made aware through it that the burglar had entered the room.

  103. On the whole, it is fortunate that the young do not comprehend the difficult struggle that lies before them, or they would become discouraged before they had fairly entered upon it.

  104. He entered a large building, devoted to offices, and ascended to the third story, where he found the office of Perkins & Windermere, the names given in the advertisement.

  105. He went to the Euclid Hotel, and entered his name, E.

  106. The lateness of the hour pleading in his favour, a monk, doubting not the truth of his assertion, admitted the stranger, who entered without further question on the duties of his humble office.

  107. With its usual bounty, the wind increased to a gale, and we entered Copenhagen harbour at three o'clock, with a reef in the mainsail, and ploughing up the water in furious fashion.

  108. Overpowered at last by the fury of the vertical sun, I entered the tent that had been formed by raising the gig's sail on the four oars.

  109. Mrs. Green has entered upon an untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring.

  110. On Monday morning when I went on deck, I found that we had entered the Bukke Fiord; and the same ravines, chasms, and cascades, identified the sublimity of the scenery with that which I have already attributed to the other Fiords.

  111. Our cicerone raised no objection; and, turning to one of his countrymen who had entered the room to gape at us, for I could not then, and I cannot now conceive the nature of his business, addressed him in his native language.

  112. While the sick man wept, my two friends, with countenances of joy, entered the cabin.

  113. At two o'clock in the afternoon we entered Christiansand Harbour; and taking our old berth a little to the westward of the castle, fired a salute, to let our friends know we had returned.

  114. On Wednesday morning we entered the Sogne Fiord.

  115. The Norwegian, our guide, entered into a lengthened dialogue through the door, and assured the fisherman of our good faith and bad plight, begging that he would rise, and help us with the means of returning to Auron.

  116. I answer for your safety the moment we have entered the first vaulted passage.

  117. John De Witt was about finishing this letter to Admiral Ruyter when a maid servant entered the room and announced to the ex-Grand Pensionary of Holland that Monsieur Serdan, together with two other persons, asked to speak with him.

  118. John De Witt urged his friends to withdraw, clasped their hands, and entered alone, the door being unlocked, then closed and re-locked after him by the grenadier who was furnished with a key.

  119. As John De Witt was uttering these last words, listened to devoutly by Nominoe, Monsieur Tilly entered precipitately into the apartment.

  120. Mademoiselle Plouernel entered the clearing, holding her silken mask in her hand.

  121. Upon arriving at Nantes I learned that a body of ten thousand troops, commanded by Monsieur De Forbin, had just entered Brittany in order to crush the rebellious parliamentarians--were they bourgeois or peasants.

  122. The soldiers have entered the yard and are trying to beat down the house door with the butts of their muskets.

  123. Not a little surprised at these words, Mademoiselle Plouernel was about to ask the stranger for an explanation, when Monsieur Tilly entered the salon.

  124. As John De Witt was uttering these last words Madam De Witt re-entered accompanied by her two daughters, Agnes and Mary, one thirteen, the other fifteen years of age.

  125. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by S.

  126. Sometimes, when it was absolutely necessary to finish off some work, I have entered the shop with a stern determination not to drink a single drop until I completed it.

  127. He tells us himself that he entered upon public business in the time of the Phocian war, and the same may be collected from his Philippics.

  128. When I entered the audience-room, I found it packed with humanity from bottom to top, and there were thousands outside who could not get in.

  129. At the end of the first six weeks a new and rare face entered the school as a co-teacher.

  130. It was in 1827, and Henry was fourteen years old, when he entered the Mount Pleasant Institute.

  131. When I entered the room, there were vigorous cheers from the coloured portion of the audience, and faint cheers from some of the white people.

  132. These various influences combined to produce a more spiritual type of religion, and a more elaborate eschatology, than had originally entered into the national faith of Israel.

  133. It does not appear that this interview was immediately productive of any further consequences to Adamnán, who, in due course, entered the monastic life, as before mentioned.

  134. They entered into Hell, and saw a wild and billowy sea of fire, and the souls aflame therein, wailing, their heads above the surface.

  135. They entered into a pit like a cave between two mountains, and at length came to a lofty black mountain, in the upper part of which was a glen, broad below and narrow above, and this was the porch of Hell.

  136. At the period in question, the traditional literature of Ireland would appear to have entered into the national life to no less a degree than in Greece itself.

  137. On leaving Hell, they entered into a great light, and came to a wall whereon were multitudes of men and women.

  138. As such they entered upon a new life in the writings of the Latin authors; for even in Virgil the literary aspect of the legend predominates, though not to the exclusion of its more serious elements.

  139. It must be remembered that speculations of the kind which characterised the Orphic, Platonic, Pythagorean, and Neo-Platonic schools were not the only forms in which Greek thought entered into the intellectual evolution of that age.

  140. His concealment was so effectual that it never entered her unsophisticated mind that this barrister in good practice, this rising politician, who seemed to have his feet on the ladder of success, could be crushed and burdened with debt.

  141. I am going now to dine at my club, and shall spend my evening over a monologue which has suggested itself since I entered this room.

  142. Mrs. Chigwin felt the utmost confidence in her visitor, both from what she had heard of her before and from what she saw of her as soon as she entered the cottage.

  143. A flood of light entered Lettice's mind; but she took her discovery with outward calmness.

  144. Nay, something more than disgust entered his mind as he saw the smile on her besotted face.

  145. And the energetic baronet hurried away, whilst Sydney entered the Club, and made straight for the smoking-room.

  146. And we've nothing to go upon, Bessy, and I'm sure the idea would never have entered my head but for you.

  147. For Sydney had not entered Nan's room since that unlucky time when she fainted at his appearance.

  148. With one hand on the table, and her delicate face flushed, she presented a picture of loveliness such as the man who entered did not often see.

  149. He had not yet entered his suit, and he felt pretty certain that when he did so, and Cora was made aware of it in the usual manner, she would find some way of turning round and biting him.

  150. Thus, when Sydney entered his study about a quarter to seven, with a companion whom he had found waiting for him on the door-step, it would have been impossible for him to conjecture the presence of his wife.

  151. But his supercilious contempt for the county was well veiled, and the people who entered into conversation with Sydney Campion, the new M.

  152. And then she smoothed her brows, and smiled at him as he re-entered the room.

  153. Poor Brooke Dalton kissed the letter quietly, and said nothing about it; nor did he openly give utterance to the words which entered his mind in reference to Sydney's intervention.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    entered into; entered the; entered upon