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Example sentences for "going from"

  • Its fur is bushy, and of a reddish brown; the breast and belly are covered with fine hair, and not bare as in the mono colorado, or alouate roux of Buffon, which we carefully examined in going from Carthagena to Santa Fe de Bogota.

  • Bonpland and I, going from Guayaquil to the coast of Mexico, crossed latitudes in the Pacific, where the crew of our ship were dismayed by a hollow sound coming from the depth of the ocean, and transmitted by the waters.

  • They are separated by a mountainous tract, which is crossed in going from Caracas to the high savannahs of Ocumare, passing by La Valle and Salamanca.

  • Barr [3] Called Wenadel sea in the Anglo-Saxon original; probably because it had been crossed by the Vandals or Wends, in going from Spain to the conquest of Africa.

  • Coiganzu, described afterwards as the first city in the south-east of Mangi in going from Kathay, may possibly be Hoingan-fou, which answers to that situation.

  • Going from thence we came to a certain sea, having a small mountain on its banks, in which there is said to be a hole, whence such vehement tempests of wind issue in winter, that travellers can hardly pass without imminent danger.

  • What could be expected from a King who spent his time “going from abbey to abbey and devising with women.

  • We were nearly the same time in travelling the thirty-five miles from Hamburg to Ratzeburg, as we had been in going from London to Yarmouth, one hundred and twenty-six miles.

  • He had learned his trade after five years' service as apprentice, and had spent an additional five years in going from place to place as a journeyman workman, and felt that he knew his business.

  • Her mind went back into her childhood and she remembered the long days she had spent riding with her father in this same valley, going from farm to farm to haggle and dicker for the purchase of calves and pigs.

  • He stayed about as long as you'd be going from this to the gate below at the end of the avenue, and then went away.

  • I spent the next day in going from shop to shop, making fresh purchases for Marcoline, and we supped merrily at Madame Pernon's.

  • Like a courtly cavalier I would not sit down, but waited on the ladies, going from one to the other, eating the dainty bits they gave me, and seeing that all had what they wanted.

  • Ferragut passed two long hours, going from encampment to encampment, before reaching his destination.

  • Through her tears she saw this obese old man of sacerdotal benevolence, going from side to side gathering bottles together and mixing liquids, stirring the spoon around in a glass with a joyous tinkling.

  • Thus, you first count the cards by sevens, beginning with the one representing the person for whom you are acting, going from right to left.

  • She passed several weeks in this service, going from bed to bed with her little stores, which she dispensed under instructions from the surgeon, without being known by name to the many recipients of her attention and care.

  • And if (as may be the case) it is going from bad to worse, no amount of knowledge about what our posterity will think good can throw any light on the question what is good.

  • Unless it is going from bad to worse it is obviously absurd to suppose that you can find out what is good by discovering what our distant ancestors thought good.

  • When the horse saw his master going from him, he could not bear with it, but great as his load was he set out at full gallop following after him.

  • And there rose great cries of lamentation from the armies of the World when they saw him going from them, and the Fianna of Ireland raised great shouts of joy.

  • The greater part of this I collect each year by going from door to door and from house to house.

  • Often, at night, after spending the day in going from door to door trying to interest persons in the work at Tuskegee, she would be so exhausted that she could not undress herself.

  • While the work of going from door to door and from office to office is hard, disagreeable, and costly in bodily strength, yet it has some compensations.

  • CONN Don't be grieving that we're going from you, Anne.

  • CONN Well, one is always meeting new life upon the roads, and I want to spend the years I have before me going from place to place.

  • I know that you grieve for Maire going from you, and my own heart is unquiet for her.

  • I also expressly stated to the brethren, that I should only stay so long with them, as I saw it clearly to be the will of the Lord; for I had not given up my intention of going from place to place, if the Lord would allow me to do so.

  • As long as I was day after day in the open air, going from place to place, drinking wine and taking tonics, I felt well; but as soon as I returned to Hale, the old symptoms returned.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "going from" 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:
    alluvial soil; average size; calcium salts; false prophets; four cups; going about; going ashore; going away; going beyond; going concern; going down; going everywhere; going forth; going forward; going home; going right; going thither; heart tells; leave their; living being; mercurial barometer; much information; people shall; show itself; small library; young widow