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Example sentences for "passed through"

  • Then for the first time I went into Ablain St.-Nazaire, which afterward I passed through scores of times on the way to Vimy when that ridge was ours.

  • I saw him, as I passed through Chester, going to prison, amidst the execrations of the populace.

  • I passed through a gallery of fine statues, to a magnificent library, which I admired till the master of the house appeared, and from that moment he commanded, or rather captivated, my attention.

  • A multitude of ideas, more than had ever come in my mind in a twelvemonth, passed through it in these few minutes.

  • Although the season was tolerably far advanced, there were still a few late flowers in the hedge-rows here and there, whose odor as he passed through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood.

  • He passed through a breach and entered the town again.

  • When he passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously after him, and surrounded him like a swarm of gnats.

  • He refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor in his diocese during the Hundred Days.

  • Once I passed through a city (Adrianople) doubly devastated, once by the hellish arson of my own hand, and once by the earthquake: and I made haste to leave that place behind me.

  • Ascending the stairs, we passed through a long gallery, and, turning to our left, examined somewhat more carefully a suite of rooms running parallel with it.

  • As we passed through one of the gates (I think it was that of San Pancrazio) the abbe pointed out the spot where the Constable de Bourbon was killed while attempting to scale the walls.

  • Besides the Moses, the church contains some attractions of a pictorial kind, which are reposited in the sacristy, into which we passed through a side door.

  • A wave of hatred, a hot desire to kill, passed through me as I scanned the face staring at us.

  • Now it was close; we passed through it and were out of the tunnel.

  • Guided by the lightnings, we beat our way to the door; passed through it.

  • We passed through a more pleasing country than usual, and one that was better timbered and better grassed than it had been at any distance from the river.

  • On the 15th a strong and bitterly cold wind blew from the westward as we passed through a country differing in no material respect from that of the day before.

  • Notwithstanding this, it has been affirmed that he made his brother's ashes be passed through a sieve, to find the gold that was melted down when burnt with the body.

  • We passed through, a forest of young pines that had been rented three years to colored people in five and ten acre lots.

  • He said he forgot a great many things every day, "but I can never forget the grief I passed through in parting with my good wives and chillens.

  • I had one morsel of bread yet: the remnant of a roll I had bought in a town we passed through at noon with a stray penny--my last coin.

  • About ten minutes after, the driver got down and opened a pair of gates: we passed through, and they clashed to behind us.

  • Arrived at his destination, Willis felt his way to the gap in the hedge which he had used before, passed through, and with infinite care raised his ladder to the window of Archer's office.

  • He unlocked the door, passed through, slammed it behind him, and his retreating steps sounded from within.

  • The door of the office was also locked, but the bent wire conquered it too, and in a couple of minutes he pushed it open, passed through, and closed it behind him.

  • On my way to Karheil I passed through Blain, where I saw the ruins of the famous castle of the Rohans, the cradle of that mighty race.

  • No sentries at the door of the Hôtel des Arcades, in the Place Jean-Bart, challenged three strangers of shabby and hungry look when they passed through in search of food.

  • In the Town Hall square we passed through a mass of people who surrounded a body of 150 German prisoners who had just been brought in from the front.

  • As we passed through towns in our motor-cars there were signs of increased activity.

  • The day before, my attention had frequently been attracted by the wild beauties of the country we passed through.

  • We passed through miles of land being prepared for bean culture.

  • We passed through Pala, with its ancient mission of that name, and its horde of Indian inhabitants.

  • We passed through Garvanza, Glendale and Tropico, and were soon on the San Fernando road.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being engaged; but having; calcium carbonate; causing them; come doun; does when; general emancipation; glass slide; hostile territory; join him; kissed her; moment like; passed along; passed away; passed down; passed from; passed out; passed over; passed several; passed the; passed them; passed through; passed upon; rather large; steam power; weak solutions