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Example sentences for "from the"

  • The British Consul-General provided us with the necessary documents for my brother and me to board the last evacuation vessel sailing from the port of Piraeus.

  • A couple of ELAS snipers hiding in a school a few hundred yards away from the British Embassy took a few pot shots at him as he got out of an armoured vehicle which had brought him from the airport.

  • When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.

  • After you once get cold clear through, the feeling of the rain on you is sweet.

  • Emil looked down and patted him on the shoulder.

  • He settled in Omaha and became a leader and adviser among his people there.

  • I, for my 84) part, from the nature of my life, advanced infallibly in one direction and in one direction only.

  • The doctor had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon; and his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical, had changed the destination of the block at the bottom of the garden.

  • Pyncheon Street formerly bore the humbler appellation of Maule's Lane, from the name of the original occupant of the soil, before whose cottage-door it was a cow-path.

  • From the look of unutterable woe upon his face, it appeared to be his doom to spend eternity in a vain effort to make his accounts balance.

  • She conducted me to a spacious chamber in one of the buildings fronting on the plaza, and which, from the litter of silks and furs upon the floor, I took to be the sleeping quarters of several of the natives.

  • Thinking to have some amusement at his expense, I rushed toward him, and when almost upon him sprang into the air, alighting far beyond him and away from the city.

  • Suddenly a low but distinct moaning sound issued from the recesses of the cave behind me, and, as it reached the ears of the Indians, they turned and fled in terror, panic-stricken.

  • I have often heard my father caution him against his wild recklessness, but he would only laugh, and say that the tumble that killed him would be from the back of a horse yet unfoaled.

  • Never before had an armed body of green warriors entered the gates of Helium, and that they came now as friends and allies filled the red men with rejoicing.

  • They came quite close to me, rubbing their muzzles against my body and nosing for the bits of food it was always my practice to reward them with.

  • I, myself, was in but little better plight but I could not bring myself to eat the uncooked flesh and I had no means of making a fire.

  • Then, by degrees, I won their confidence in much the same manner as I had adopted countless times with my many mundane mounts.

  • From the recesses of this knot of foliage the loud notes of three cuckoos were resounding through the still air.

  • You were nothing to me once, and I was contented; you are now nothing to me again, and how different the second nothing is from the first!

  • Look at it now, David--if you can see it from the doorway of this hut--and you will see that it is still in the exact center of the heavens.

  • Inch by inch he worked his paws upward as the tree leaned more and more from the perpendicular.

  • But I believe the story, and so would you, and so would the learned Fellow of the Royal Geological Society, had you and he heard it from the lips of the man who told it to me.

  • A friendly correspondence as neighbors and old acquaintances had continued between me and Mrs. Read's family, who all had a regard for me from the time of my first lodging in their house.

  • They were very thankfully receiv'd, and the kindness acknowledg'd by letters to me from the colonels of both regiments, in the most grateful terms.

  • The fact is, that from the time of the Restoration we shall scarcely meet with a single writer, from the philosopher to the vaudevillist, and from the professor to the song-maker, who did not wish to act as a torch on the path of humanity.

  • Her grandmother, who had a philosopher's opinion of priests, blamed their fanaticism, and took her little granddaughter away from the convent.

  • Is not this something like Solness, the builder, from the top of his tower?

  • Better still than this, the novelist could take the watchword from the sociologist, just as Mascarilla put Roman history into madrigals, she was able to put Pierre Leroux's philosophy into novels.

  • There were delegates, too, from the Germans, Italians, Poles, and most of the inhabitants of Montmartre and of Batignolles.

  • From the description of inanimate bodies and plants, I passed to animals, and particularly to man.

  • Here we discovered a spiral stairway leading up from the center of the circular room.

  • Most noble Jeddak," he said, addressing Kulan Tith, "from the first I suspected this stranger within thy palace.

  • I am Dotar Sojat," I replied, recalling a name given me by the Tharks many years before, from the surnames of the first two of their warriors I had killed, which is the custom among them.

  • Discouraged, I withdrew into the forest beside a broad highway which entered the city from the east, and with Woola beside me lay down to sleep.

  • Footnote: The story is borrowed, language and all, from the Morte d'Arthur.

  • My boys were experts in all sorts of things, from the stoning up of a well to the constructing of a mathematical instrument.

  • Archie was coming up from the depot, restless and discontented, wishing there were something to do.

  • Archie came in from the smoker, she was sitting still, looking intently out of the window and smiling, her lips a little parted, her hair in a blaze of sunshine.

  • He divined Ray Kennedy's hopes, and he distrusted every expedition that led away from the piano.

  • Giddy came down, cheerful at the prospect of getting into port, and singing a new topical ditty that had come up from the Santa Fe by way of La Junta.

  • She could not turn her eyes from the meadow; she could not help watching all that passed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "from the" 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:
    absolute liberty; accomplished fact; average price; being ordered; coasting trade; either real; evil conscience; four tablespoons; fresh milk; from all; from the; from thence; heart failure; instrument used; know from; little boiling; little fellow; monogamic marriage; please take; previously explained; private sector; recall something; slave shall; stone circle