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Example sentences for "father died"

  • I went to school a little while, but my father died and my mother bound me out to a white man.

  • My father died when I was eight, and I was away from home railroading most of the time and didn't hear much about old times from my mother.

  • The night my father died I had been carried out of the house by Maman Zine and deposited with my other cousin, Marianne, who lived with her father in the rue de Soissons.

  • Finally, one evening, they sent me away from the house as they had done when my father died.

  • Madame Darcourt was our neighbour; she resided on the ground floor of the house adjoining the one in which my father died.

  • When I was thirteen or fourteen my father died, and I was then left to shift for myself.

  • I had been with my master about six years, and was then going on for twenty-one, when my father died.

  • My father died when he was forty--and any one to have seen him would have fancied he was sixty-five at least--so broke down was he with hard work and drinking.

  • I would give you some violets, but they wither'd all when my father died.

  • For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within 's two hours.

  • He's done everything for me, and I live with him since my father died.

  • These are some pictures of Grenoble which must leave been taken shortly before my father died.

  • When I was eleven years of age and ran away from Temple Bow after my father died, Polly Ann found me in the hills.

  • She never fretted for any one so much, except when my father died.

  • The next day my father died, and John and Jasper went to London.

  • On the night before my father died he told my mother that she and I would be comfortably off; he also said that he wished that I and his son's little daughter, that other Charlotte he called her, should grow up together as sisters.

  • My father died murdered, at Zeeland--and the man you must help me to find is the wretch who killed him.

  • My father died murdered in the inn at Zeeland!

  • About a year after my father died, my sister was taken sick and died in about two months.

  • My mother, a sister seven years old, and myself, were all the family after my father died.

  • I had no hope that I was a Christian when my father died; but my mother used to come up the ladder every night and kneel down, and put her hand upon my head, and pray that I might be converted.

  • When my father died, each took her portion of the heritage, and after awhile my mother died also and left me and my sisters-german a thousand dinars each.

  • My father died, and I took the kingdom after him and ruled my subjects with justice and beneficence.

  • My mother died in Georgia at the age of 70, and my father died in Moore County at the age of 82.

  • My father died, and my mother bought a home.

  • Father died in Raleigh an mother died out on Miss Annie Ball's farm 'bout seven miles from Raleigh.

  • Arnold's father died in a first attack of angina.

  • My father died before I was born, and then my mother was deprived by wicked relations of all she possessed.

  • And when my father died, I was left helpless, and my relations took from me my property, so I went to a foreign country, and resorted to the miserable condition of being servant to another man.

  • Father died of dropsy; one brother was killed in a railroad accident; one sister suffered from St. Vitus' dance; another died of tuberculosis.

  • In a plea for clemency he dwells upon the fact that his father died insane, that he himself suffered from epilepsy in his youth, and that at the age of twenty he spent a year in an insane asylum in Austria.

  • You know that my father died suddenly, almost a week ago.

  • I never for a moment believed your assertion that my father died a pauper, and I took immediate steps to disprove it.

  • When my father died, the hill field had been planted for a potato crop, and the strand field had been planted for wheat.

  • Friday was the day on which my father died.

  • It is that family started to bring out my father’s family from Ireland, when they heard in 1847 that my father died, and that we were evicted.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "father died" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bunch grass; father came; father dear; father died; father gave; father had; father himself; father left; father looked; father says; father should; father used; father will; her for; know good and evil; may easily; monastic vows; questions relating; single vowel; slavery friends; sudden onset; thee must; there shall; thousand generations; will not hang myself; would turn