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Example sentences for "ordered"

Lexicographically close words:
ordenance; ordenary; ordenes; order; orderd; orderer; ordereth; ordering; orderlie; orderlies
  1. By a gesture Uncle Prudent ordered the firing to cease.

  2. When Tom Turner and his companions were getting ready for fishing, the engineer ordered them to shut up Frycollin in his cabin.

  3. Here was capacity that might be utilized to the limit; and, accordingly, in May, 1917, we ordered from the Bethlehem Co.

  4. However irksome to the impatient construction officers the interval between the time when the cantonments were ordered and the day when the last sites were approved, it was not time wasted by any means.

  5. As soon as we formally took the step to send troops against Germany the Engineers ordered great quantities of this equipment and by the latter part of 1917 had plenty of it ready to go overseas.

  6. A subsequent contract with Midvale brought the total number of howitzers ordered from that plant up to 195.

  7. Why didst thou laugh so when the man ordered a pair of shoes that would last him seven years?

  8. Then Metatron, thus discovered, was ordered out and flogged with sixty lashes from a fiery scourge.

  9. The sons, when ordered by the latter to do homage to the idols of the Empire, declined, and justified their disobedience by quoting each a simple text from the sacred Scriptures.

  10. The feast of blood at last shocked even the leader of the hostile heathens, who ordered a stay of this wholesale murder.

  11. Rabbi Gamaliel ordered his servant Tobi to bring something good from the market, and he brought a tongue.

  12. The emperor was very much pleased, and emptying the man's basket of its figs, he ordered it to be filled with gold coins.

  13. Before he ordered the expedition he endeavored by means of signs, in accordance with the superstition of his age, to ascertain the result of the attempt.

  14. Having refused several of the Bishop's messengers, they were finally ordered to seize him, and bring him by force before the prelate.

  15. As, for example, when Toviah transgressed and Zigud appeared against him singly before Rav Pappa, and Rav Pappa ordered this witness to receive forty stripes save one in return.

  16. When this was told to the emperor, he ordered the old man to stand in the hallway of the palace, and all who passed pelted him with his figs.

  17. This he purchased and ordered it to be delivered at the inn toward which he was traveling.

  18. He declined at first to give up the sword of the angel, and would have stood to his point but for the echo of a voice which peremptorily ordered its immediate restoration.

  19. Her communication with Mr. Mac-Morlan encouraged her to hope that she would not be suddenly or unkindly deprived of this asylum; but fortune had ordered otherwise.

  20. To complete the misfortunes of this miserable day, my wife, who suspected the design with which I left the fortress, had ordered her palanquin to follow me, and was alarmed and almost made prisoner by another troop of these plunderers.

  21. He endeavoured to persuade himself that he should see Colonel Mannering to breakfast, and ordered his wife to place her best china and prepare herself accordingly.

  22. Finally, the eyes are ordered to wander indiscriminately, and with all pudicity, over the whole flock, and never to be fixed upon a pretty lamb.

  23. At the same time the Port Captain and Flag Officer of the frigate ordered his men to knock out the bottoms of eighteen boats which the enemy after his attack had left on the beach.

  24. Meanwhile our Commandant-General ordered all of them to be supplied with copious refreshments of bread and wine, a generous act which astonished them not less than the kindness shown to their wounded by the officials of the hospital.

  25. Diego de Egues, whom our histories call 'Diagues,' ordered the fleet to be fired, after all the treasure had been housed in the fort.

  26. The Ecclesiastical Court of Tenerife ordered the Chapter of Music to sing a solemn Te Deum, at which the municipal body attended.

  27. When this battalion was not wanted in its former position it was ordered to the square behind the Citadel.

  28. Notwithstanding which, the Marquess de las Palmas ordered a deliberate fire to be kept up in case of surprise.

  29. With the help of a microscope and the intelligent exercise of his reason, he would in time conceive the truth.

  30. He was not to get away so easily, however, for before he came out into the open road he was hailed by the men behind him and ordered to stop.

  31. He was rather annoyed that Lola--whom he had come there expressly to meet--should have ordered him to remain apart from her.

  32. Hubert was wondering what had become of Pucci whom he ordered to be near him, and whom he had not seen the whole evening.

  33. I was ordered by the King to assume the name of Duprez, while Ghelardi was to be known as Jules Gigleux.

  34. When reminded of his promise, he said that he had ordered dinner at home with Mrs. Williams.

  35. He took every opportunity of edging himself close to Johnson's side even at meal-times, and was sometimes ordered imperiously back to his place like a faithful but over-obtrusive spaniel.

  36. Henry mused for a moment in silence, and then, without any farther observation, ordered St. Maurice back again to his cell.

  37. If a man had a pain in his head, he was ordered to apply leeches; if he had a pain in his toe, it was all the same thing.

  38. Charles promised that he would instantly return, and left her, but at the same time he ordered his servant to stay at the hotel.

  39. After dinner we ordered a bottle of Sautern, which was marked in the carte at two francs ten sous.

  40. Froude, who gives them an extended notice, says: "In general, the house was perhaps the best ordered in England.

  41. The nurse protested that she had given only the medicinal dose ordered by the doctor, but was not believed.

  42. The burgomaster was ordered immediately to provide rations for the regiment.

  43. Instead of killing the snipers, whose age was between ten and seventeen, the surgeons were ordered to slice the tendons of the wrist so that the noncombatants should be prevented from holding a gun or using a knife.

  44. A third company of bicycle scouts were ordered to advance for the purpose of drawing fire.

  45. But under the circumstances he ordered her released instead of being shot.

  46. And did the private, ordered against his will to perform an act whose memory drove him insane, commit an atrocity?

  47. Although they have been warned by so many examples, that synods and hypocritical unions are productive of great evils, yet they have ordered us to hold synods again.

  48. He was ordered to reside with the counsellors of the Elector.

  49. Melanchthon was ordered to visit Thuringia, accompanied by Jerome Schurff, Erasmus of Haugwitz, and John of Planitz.

  50. Philip became more and more animated, and Luther immediately ordered them to prepare some food, and took it to him himself.

  51. The Elector John, who was greatly concerned for the spread of the truth, ordered such a visitation.

  52. But the Elector saw through his disguise, and ordered his Theologians to retire from the discussion at Ratisbon.

  53. The Emperor received him in a very ungracious manner, and ordered him, together with the captive Duke Ernest of Brunswick-Lueneburg, to be conveyed to the camp.

  54. When the leaders of the League now proposed terms of peace, he ordered them to surrender at discretion.

  55. The Pope ordered public prayers for the extermination of heretics, but the Protestants made all possible preparations to resist the Emperor.

  56. The Chapter, which was ordered to proceed to another election, refused to do so; so that the Elector found himself compelled to interfere by force of arms, notwithstanding the threats of the Emperor.

  57. The miracle is not wrought by the merits of the priest, but because Christ has so ordered it, that his body is present wherever men commune.

  58. He now ordered them to look for it, in order that he might finish it.

  59. The Regiment was mustered out on the 9th June, and ordered to Elmira, N.

  60. Soon after the Regiment was ordered to Washington, and from thence to Harper's Ferry, Va.

  61. The Regiment was soon attached to the 12th Army Corps; after a few weeks in camp were ordered to join Gen.

  62. Hooker had perfected the plan for the battle of Chancellorsville, to which place the Regiment was ordered in the latter part of April, 1863, under command of Gen.

  63. About eleven o'clock firing was heard upon the picket line, when they were ordered out and soon in line, which had hardly been done before they received a sharp volley of musketry from the rebels.

  64. In the latter part of that month Hooker was ordered by Grant to open communication between Bridgport, Ala.

  65. January 27th he was ordered to the hospital, being wholly unfit for duty; was detained there twenty days: was again with the Regiment at Raleigh, N.

  66. After several other engagements in this vicinity, the enemy were routed, and the men ordered to prepare for the taking of Atlanta, which city was captured by the Union forces Sept.

  67. Were here ordered into camp at Fairfax, Va.

  68. The Duke gave consent, and ordered that they should fight before the chapel of the Cambio.

  69. It must have been tall, indeed, before the tyrannical Pope ordered its two upper storeys to be demolished.

  70. At last they rose, stained with the blood that streamed from him, and ordered his body to be carried to the hospital.

  71. I thought it strange that she ordered shad for dinner," said Mrs. Sherwood.

  72. As she passed the fish market her attention was attracted by some very fine shad displayed for sale, and they immediately suggested a further means of accomplishing her revenge, so she ordered a supply.

  73. As soon as the troops were ordered to Washington, she went there and offered her services as a nurse, and was at once appointed superintendent of women nurses for the whole army.

  74. This investigation was ordered by Congress as the result of a petition sent to that body by the Unitarian Temperance Society.

  75. The calamity was imputed by the "king of Israel" to the influence of Elisha, and he ordered the prophet to be immediately put to death.

  76. Scotland, the parliament ordered the royal children to be taken for security to Carisbrooke Castle.

  77. But he had reported the opposition of a few, and Ellenborough ordered an inquiry.

  78. A party of French hid in a thicket to watch the English, and Washington, thinking they were there for no good, ordered his men to fire.

  79. Without stopping for a minute after his long journey from China, he dashed on with the fleet and ordered his men to fire.

  80. The soldiers were ordered to fire on these men, and some of them fell dead.

  81. Then he ordered them to give up all their guns to his soldiers, but instead of that they took their guns and drove the Mexican soldiers away.

  82. Then Santa Anna ordered his soldiers to shoot down all that were left.

  83. And as soon as war had been declared Dewey was ordered to go to Manila and sink or take the Spanish fleet.

  84. It was not easy to tell who were acting as spies, so the English government ordered them all to be removed.

  85. He might have put a great many of them to death if the king had not stopped him and ordered him back to England.

  86. For this purpose three men were ordered to each window, in front of the building, to be ready with their muskets, in case of necessity.

  87. His companions had their sentence commuted to transportation for life, but on Johnston the law was ordered to be put in force.

  88. He was ordered to be detained, in obedience to the terms of the statute, during her Majesty's pleasure, and was subsequently conveyed to Bedlam.

  89. He was ordered to be imprisoned for eighteen months, and to enter into his own recognizance of 500l.

  90. He gave a receipt for them, signed in the name of Dunn; and he ordered the cabman to drive him to the Cross Keys, Wood-street.

  91. They gained rapidly on the small boat in which the object of their search was; but he, finding himself in danger of being secured, at once ordered his men to make for the shore.

  92. In a short time Captain Moir made his appearance, armed with a knife, and accompanied by a servant named Raven, and ordered the nets to be removed.

  93. He was therefore ordered to be detained during his Majesty's pleasure, and was subsequently conveyed to a mad-house.

  94. Loose ordered the jolly-boat to be hove overboard, and we put tackles over the long-boat to save ourselves.

  95. I entered a café and ordered a glass of beer.

  96. The long and the short of it was that I was ordered to produce my passport immediately.

  97. Take this man upstairs to my bedroom," he ordered the sergeant.

  98. Without waiting for my reply, he sat down at my table and ordered a glass of beer.

  99. I stood up at the bar and ordered a double noggin of Korn--a raw spirit made in these parts from potatoes, very potent but at least pure.

  100. I ordered a good, substantial breakfast and whiled away the time while it was coming by glancing at the morning paper which the waiter brought me.

  101. I ordered another drink for both of us, and won the man round without much difficulty.

  102. The people, indeed, looked so threatening that the Sultan gave way and ordered Aladdin to be unbound, and pardoned him in the sight of the crowd.

  103. He was carried before the Sultan, who ordered the executioner to cut off his head.

  104. No, stay where you are," I ordered sharply.

  105. My resolve to sit no more for my portrait, my journey to Grasmere I set on one side; and while I was yet at breakfast I ordered a horse to be saddled.


  106. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ordered him; ordered his; ordered the; ordered them