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Example sentences for "line from"

  • In 1878 the company built from Oakland to Martinez, and from Benicia to Suisun, and still later it constructed a line from Benicia to Fairfield.

  • To this I may add a line from one of his letters six years later.

  • The first public Railway Act was that passed in 1801, authorizing the construction of a line from Wandsworth to Croydon, under the name of "The Surrey Iron Railway.

  • George Stephenson Surveys a line from Chester to Holyhead.

  • Many years afterward, when looking back at his position on this trying occasion, he said: "When I went to Liverpool to plan a line from thence to Manchester, I pledged myself to the directors to attain a speed of ten miles an hour.

  • I write once, and sometimes twice a week, to a lady who knows not that she ever received a line from me.

  • I was disappointed at not having a line from you by the Saturday's mail.

  • A week and more has elapsed since I left home, and not a line from you; not even the Sunday letter.

  • Hancock was particular in his inquiry after you, and was disappointed in not receiving a line from you.

  • Another charter was granted to a Baron Sina for a line from Vienna to Raab and Gloggnitz.

  • A line from Bangkok to Bianghsen, in Siam, is being projected at the present time.

  • British Guiana completed in 1866 a line from Georgetown to New Amsterdam, but not one mile of railroad has been built in that colony since.

  • Marschall, advocating the construction of a line from Paris to Strasburg, predicted that any new invasion of France by Germany would most probably be attempted between Metz and Strasburg.

  • When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.

  • George Stephenson surveyed a line from Chester to Holyhead in 1838, and at the same time reported on the line through North Wales to Port Dynllaen, proposed by the Irish Railway Commissioners.

  • The borrowed portion ends with verse 3 of the canticle, the remainder of which follows in a version for the most part independent, though containing here and there a line from Azarias.

  • The coast-line from Taknaf, the mouth of the Naaf, in the Akyab district on the north, to the estuary of the Pakchan at Maliwun on the south, is about 1200 m.

  • Eufemia; and there is also a line from Sibari up the valley of the Crati to Cosenza and Pietrafitta.

  • This gathering passed resolutions in favour of a line from Portland to Halifax through St John.

  • New Brunswick wished to give to the fertile valley of the St John and the shores of the Bay of Fundy {95} an exit to the sea, and to unite them with the American railways by a line from St John to Portland.

  • A line from Montreal to Windsor, opposite Detroit, became a necessity.

  • The Northern and Eastern Railway Bill, for making a line from London to Cambridge, and thence to Norwich and Yarmouth, as planned by Mr. James Walker, was read a first time in the House of Commons.

  • In the very few lines I have received from you, not the least mention is made that you have ever received a line from me.

  • Not a line from you or my dear Charles since you arrived in Holland, where I suppose you still are.

  • I know you must have written many times since I had the pleasure of receiving a line from you, for this month completes a year since the date of your last letter.

  • Not a line from Congress, nor any member, since I left you.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "line 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:
    bonny bonny; dying hour; five thousand; hasty retreat; just enough; line ahead; line clear; line drawn; line engraving; line stanza; line stanzas; line system; line trenches; line troops; lineal descendant; lined stanzas; linen paper; linen yarn; lines drawn; mail order; painted many; railway accident; shortly before; successive generations; vascular bundles; wildlife sanctuary