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Example sentences for "learned that"

  • About this time we learned that Pemberton's army, stationed at Vicksburg, were subsisting entirely on rats.

  • I did not know the meaning of this maneuver until after the battle, when I learned that it was General McPherson's dead body.

  • I learned that he had served out the term for which he had originally volunteered, had quit our army and joined that of the Yankees, and was captured with Prentiss' Yankee brigade at Shiloh.

  • The Dwarf lays about him with a will, and soon makes the crowd scuttle off.

  • I thought I was in a dream; my astonishment was beyond expression, when I learned that my friend M.

  • At his return to Paris he wished to amuse Diderot with the story, and by this means the 'Coterie d'Holbachique' learned that I was seriously resolved to pass the winter at the Hermitage.

  • A week later she asked for that collar by return of post, and was not pleased when she learned that it took time to make.

  • Before I had been out and about a week I learned that the "fit" theory had been discarded in favor of insanity.

  • I'm not tremendously sincere--not tremendous in any grand sense of the word, but I've learned that I can be tremendously awkward in a false position.

  • It would be as fatal to me as to you, for I could not long survive if I learned that I had been leaning on such a broken reed.

  • I nearly lost it when I learned that my father had discharged Mr. Bodine.

  • His voice shook as he answered: "Ten days ago I learned that my brother was dead, Mr. Isham.

  • Time had softened his feelings, and we learned that he had another girl, who was in Paris just then, and invited us on the spot to dine with her at "Joseph's.

  • In the course of discourse I learned that he was the postman, and was going his rounds in his cart—he was more than respectful to me, he was fawning and sycophantic.

  • I learned that he was a carpenter, and that he had been up the gully to see an acquaintance—perhaps a sweetheart.

  • After staying for some time to gaze, I proceeded, and soon met several carts, from the driver of one of which I learned that I was yet three miles from Bala.

  • When we returned to headquarters I learned that Lieut.

  • From this company of men we learned that near us there was a mining camp, the stock belonged to the miners, and that the two men killed had been herding the horses and mules about three miles away from camp.

  • I learned that Mr. Hughes had died during my absence; I also learned that Johnnie West was at Bent's Fort.

  • I'd learned that, and I'd learned it early enough to be of use to me, which was a mercy.

  • We learned that no trace of our presence on the scene had been discovered, and the prudent monks advised us to return home, so as not by our absence to arouse any suspicion against us.

  • The enemy's dead and many of his wounded fell into our hands; also a considerable number of prisoners, from whom we learned that Longstreet's and Ewell's corps were but four miles to the rear.

  • When I learned that by this occurrence a vacancy existed, I wrote to our representative in Congress, the Hon.

  • From one of the drivers he learned that Kutuzov's staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to.

  • The captain gazed intently at him as he had done when he learned that "shelter" was Unterkunft in German, and his face suddenly brightened.

  • His face turned to stone whenever he learned that one of his young officers was born between the Memel and the Vistula, and after the war he never trod on East Prussian soil.

  • Inquiring whose it was, I learned that a man believed by the grooms to be from Blois had just arrived and was closeted with the baron.

  • I blamed myself much for my carelessness in leaving it where a chance eye might rest upon it; and more when, questioning Simon further, I learned that M.

  • But privately he thought much of his words, and more when he learned that he was an astrologer from Paris, who had the name, at any rate in this country, of having studied under Nostradamus.

  • We learned that we had made war upon a useful friend, instead of an ill-boding, harmful creature.

  • I had to strap Junior once before he learned that fact, and it was amazin' how I helped his eyesight and trained his fingers through his back.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "learned that" 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:
    blessed forever; call forth; certainly would; divine beings; each slice; endless torment; four columns; general chapter; having recourse; keep watch; latent state; learned afterwards; learned brother; learned friend; learned from; learned later; learned societies; learned that; long voyage; naval forces; official reports; singing birds; solar radiation; tall trees; various shapes; well aware