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Example sentences for "fell into"

  • He sunk on the couch again exhausted; another fit of intolerable shivering seized him, and he mechanically pulled his old student's cloak over him for warmth, as he fell into a delirious sleep.

  • He recognized with delight that he was sitting on his couch and could lie down, and soon he fell into a deep, heavy sleep.

  • With that he fell into a quiet slumber:--subsided into such a gentle, pleasant sleep, that it was quite infantine.

  • This was such a vast speculation that he fell into a doze again, and slept until the fire was quite burnt out.

  • He fell into a shivering fit as he put the question, and shutting out the light with his hands, sat shaking in every limb until it had passed away.

  • That young men whose early life had been one of hardships found himself, indeed, well-housed and fed as the Lord Giovanni had promised him, and so he fell into a slothful spirit, and was content to play the Fool for bed and board.

  • I fell into thought as I trudged along, and I was building plans for the sunlit future that was to be ours.

  • Several that had stood at hand made shift to obey him, whereat I fell into such a blind, unreasoning fury that incontinently I drew my sword, and laid about me.

  • If it fell into a crack, they dug it up again as you would see men quarrying stone at home; it had not enough life in it to be able to escape its tormentors.

  • And as we all thought it would be better to have the rope on before we fell into a crevasse than afterwards, our further advance was made with a rope between the first two.

  • He fell into a lethargy of the senses, and only gradually became aware after a while of the strange long-drawn sigh of rain at the window.

  • And in the faint atmosphere of age that seemed like a veil to hang about the odd old house and these prodigious branches, he fell into a kind of waking dream.

  • He fell into a chill doze, heard voices innumerable, and one above the rest, shouting them down, until there fell a lull.

  • Listening to this and similar conversation, I fell into a doze before the fire, in which I continued for a considerable time, but was at length aroused by a voice exclaiming in a loud tone, "All are captured!

  • I followed his advice, and writing a note in pencil to Maria Diaz, I dispatched it by the llavero, and then sitting down on the wooden pitcher, I fell into a reverie, which continued for a considerable time.

  • Then he shook with terror and with a bound he was inside the inn, when he shut and bolted the door, and then he fell into a chair trembling all over, for he felt certain that his comrade had called him at the moment he was expiring.

  • He fell into a chair, and looked at the child with dull eyes.

  • He fell into a chair, in consternation, for that was the fourth time on which he had forgotten a commission that he had promised to do for her.

  • He walked another hundred yards anti then fell into a chair, choking with emotion.

  • But I didn't, Mr Boffin, and I fell into it.

  • But, in lieu of coming directly, he fell into a sweet sleep for some quarter of an hour more, during which added interval Riah sat upon the stairs and waited with perfect patience.

  • Indeed, before the interview was over he fell into a pitiably lachrymose tone, and claimed sympathy for the many hardships he had to undergo through the ill-treatment of his family.

  • A citizen of Memphis took him away in a kind of daze and gave him a bed in his house, where he fell into a stupor of fatigue and surrender.

  • Once when he had asked Orion for a few dollars to buy a second-hand gun, Orion, exasperated by desperate circumstances, fell into a passion and rated him for thinking of such extravagance.

  • My ejaculation roused my companion from his reverie, and we fell into a conversation appropriate to the occasion and the surroundings.

  • He threw open the lattice window, and setting his light upon the table, fell into a train of meditation on the hurried events of the two preceding days.

  • He folded his hands, and murmuring something more they could not hear, fell into a sleep--only a sleep at first, for they saw him smile.

  • And downward fell into a groveling swine.

  • He fell into an universal tremor of all his joints.

  • The 19th of July we fell into a great whirling and brustling of a tide, setting to the northward; and sailing about half a league we came into a very calm sea, which bent to the south-south-west.

  • He fell into a number of scrapes, and ran into debt through sundry small extravagances.

  • After she had gone the marquis fell into a torrent of self-exculpation and cried for mercy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fell into" 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:
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