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Example sentences for "housed"

Lexicographically close words:
housebreaking; housecarle; housecarles; housecarls; housecleaning; houseful; household; householder; householders; households
  1. I was scarcely housed at Madrid, having only quitted the hotel the previous day, when the news reached me of the death of one of the fair and accomplished young Countesses--the companions of my journey from Bayonne to Burgos.

  2. However this might be, assuredly we were none of us sorry to find ourselves at eight o'clock that evening safely housed at Toledo.

  3. Often before they are safely housed again, they are exposed to powerful winds and drenching rains, which beat down and destroy many of their number.

  4. Snugly housed in the hollow of a tree whose thickness and decayed interior are such admirable materials for excluding atmospheric changes, the bees in Winter are in a state of almost absolute repose.

  5. It seems, at first, a trivial thing; indeed, the man who is well fed and properly housed and clothed seems able to keep it up for a considerable time and without appreciable ill results.

  6. The greater difficulty in China is, of course, that very few opium-smokers are well fed and properly housed and clothed.

  7. This bookshop, which does business under the unusual name "Parnassus at Home," is housed in one of the comfortable old brown-stone dwellings which have been the joy of several generations of plumbers and cockroaches.

  8. The original Parnassus, a quaint old blue wagon in which Roger had lived and journeyed and sold books over several thousand miles of country roads in the days before his marriage, was now housed in Andrew's barn.

  9. I could feel the warmth of her body and the clinging of her dimpled arm as she drew my head against her naked, palpitating little breast as though to defend me from suffering against the whole world.

  10. Her life of ease and freedom from money-care had changed her greatly, and with her black silk frock, her lace kerchief and cap, she seemed quite like some old gentlewoman.

  11. Aye," he concluded, "ye'll be proud of Danvers!

  12. At this she crossed the room to a wooden cupboard, unlocked the door, and took from it a small box, the key of which she had in her bosom.

  13. Canals and dikes have been constructed to control and distribute the much-needed water, and the officials are housed in new buildings of substantial appearance.

  14. The Henry Walters collection of paintings, mostly by modern French artists, and of Chinese and Japanese bronzes, ivory carvings, enamels, porcelain and paintings is housed in the Walters Art Gallery at the S.

  15. Weakly he made his way forward to the little cubbyhole in which was housed the central station of his thought-telegraph.

  16. The figure of Wilks went with slow bounds over toward the back of the ledge where the glassite shelter housed the treasure.

  17. It was only meet that a man come upon such a mission should be housed and fed as became a man of blood.

  18. Now that she was safe within walls, securely housed and sheltered, she recognised the gravity of her position an hour ago.

  19. We are to be housed in the Hospital this very afternoon.

  20. Paul Ferroll, a sensational novel of some force,--a lady whose powers of heart and mind were housed in an infirm body.

  21. My experience under rented roofs led me to build, in 1865, this dwelling, which has housed our domestic life for seven and thirty years.

  22. From the hour that Marcia's wailing child was laid on Eliza's bosom she accepted it as an incarnation of the soul of little Elliot, adrift in space but housed at last in the form committed to her fostering care.

  23. Next, I pray Heaven, should he or they be housed With mine own knowledge in my home, that I May suffer all I imprecate on them.

  24. They are no longer housed in stuffy hotels and air tight, super-heated sanitariums.

  25. Just now Casa Grande town boasts 400 people housed chiefly in one story adobe dwellings.

  26. Cowboys, outlaws, sheep herders, housed beneath mural paintings and frescoes that would have been the pride of a European palace.

  27. Such a structure as Casa Grande must have housed a whole tribe in time of religious festival or war; so you come back to the explanation of ventilator shafts.

  28. The more promising of these pupils, who were fitted by their rank and disposition to associate with his princely charges, the master housed under his own roof; while for the rest he provided suitable lodgings near at hand.

  29. It was not until the next century that Bessarion's books were finally housed according to their dignity.

  30. With existing methods, a rigid airship must be housed in a suitable shed when not in flight.

  31. The vessel itself is fitted with apparatus complementary to that housed in the masthead.

  32. The university is, moreover, rich in institutions for the promotion of medical and chemical science, for the most part housed in buildings belonging to the governing body.

  33. The Museum also housed the Wallace collection until the opening of Hertford House, and the pictures now in the National Portrait Gallery.

  34. So the crossbreed was permitted to stay on, living at Shawemere on sufferance, well enough fed and housed in the stables, permitted to wander pretty much at will, but unpetted and unnoticed.

  35. So he bent his steps towards the stable where he housed his mule.

  36. Under Arras itself sufficient room existed to hold many thousands of our troops, who were housed underground before the battle opened.

  37. The Germans had left a system of elaborate dug-outs, some of which now housed Brigade Headquarters, but others, owing to shelling and rain, had collapsed or were flooded.

  38. This unsavoury residence housed two platoons of D Company, Company Headquarters, and Stobie, our doctor, with the Regimental Aid Post.

  39. The nations of bees and ants, it must be observed, are housed together in one nest or hive, the whole population of which is originally derived from one common mother, and the leaders of the swarms in each are the females.

  40. Before they are housed they often begin to construct a little comb on the branch on which they alight[192].

  41. In the same block the Gossoms had established themselves, on the profits of The People's, and only two doors away, on the same side of the street, a successful novelist had housed himself behind what looked like a Venetian facade.

  42. If it was a daily question how you could keep yourself housed and fed, why it did not matter what you did with your life.

  43. There was an enormous hangar that was designed for the assembling of a giant dirigible; it housed another ship now.

  44. Before the war, the owner of Sola Ranch had grown apples; this field had housed a few horses.

  45. These were not the only occasions on which Fort St. George was assailed, but they suffice to show how necessary it was that the Company's employees and their wares should be housed within the walls of a fort.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "housed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    armored; clouded; covert; enveloped; floored; hooded; housed; mantled; masked; muffled; obscured; packaged; paved; quartered; roofed; screened; sheathed; shielded; shrouded; tented; undercover; veiled; walled; wrapped