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Example sentences for "pledged"

Lexicographically close words:
plectognath; plectra; plectrum; pled; pledge; pledges; pledget; pledgets; pledging; plee
  1. At length Pharaoh pledged his subjects, and his subjects pledged Pharaoh.

  2. It is the King's," I answered as I pledged him in the golden, jewelled cup which a butler had handed to me.

  3. Only one thing did she say to me when there was a little pause while the cup went round, and she pledged me according to custom and passed it on.

  4. Then the blind mother of the pledged girl went to the dwelling, accompanied by her brother, one of the richest men in the pueblo, whereupon the father and mother of the successful girl knocked them down and beat them.

  5. Two families then pledged their children.

  6. You remember how we pledged us in the fancies of our youth, We would run the quest forever for the Holy Grail of Truth!

  7. You remember how we pledged us all the glories of renown,-- Pledged the gold of Ind and Ophir and the greatness of the crown.

  8. You remember how we pledged us we would banish want and woe, As we laughed and sang the love-song in the Love Lands long ago!

  9. With Maurice, elector of Saxony, he persuaded Philip, landgrave of Hesse, to surrender to Charles after the imperial victory at Muhlberg in April 1547, and pledged his word that the landgrave would be pardoned.

  10. We must also rule out any plan which would materially impair the value of the United States 2 per cent bonds now pledged to secure circulations, the issue of which was made under conditions peculiarly creditable to the Treasury.

  11. We must also rule out any plan which would materially impair the value of the United States 2 per cent bonds now pledged to secure circulation, the issue of which was made under conditions peculiarly creditable to the Treasury.

  12. The Emperor was dying; and pledged as France was to the Pragmatic Sanction few believed she would redeem her pledge.

  13. A far more important provision of the peace pledged Lewis to an abandonment of the Stuart cause and a recognition of William as King of England.

  14. A Tory majority, pledged to peace as to a reduction of taxation and indifferent to foreign affairs, was returned to the House of Commons.

  15. When this much had been done both the Methodists and Baptists of Kentucky pledged their allegiance to their respective newly formed southern conventions.

  16. In June of the same year the Kentucky Baptists for the most part withdrew from the northern organization and pledged themselves to this newly formed southern convention.

  17. The two ladies, who were bosom friends, had pledged their word to each other, that she who died first should appear to the survivor and inform her of the nature of the future state.

  18. It became also known that the two friends had pledged each other, not only that the survivor should take care of the children of him who died first, but also that he should make an effort to appear to him if permitted to do so.

  19. We know what we saw; but remember, you have pledged your word not to make any dispeace with what I have told you.

  20. In 1490 Lorenzo redeemed from the Centurioni of Genoa a valuable tiara which had been pledged to them.

  21. Among other things she said, "Before you left Chicago we ladies presented your regiment with a flag, and your colonel when he received that flag pledged himself that it should ever be defended, and sustained with honor.

  22. So the Bengal elections too resulted in the return, often by relatively large bodies of voters, of members pledged and competent to co-operate with Government.

  23. And when he gets into Parliament is there a more Conservative person on the face of the earth than the Radical member pledged to social reform?

  24. You have set the ball rolling, and I can assure you that the next Member whom Medchester sends here, whether it be you or any one else, will come fully pledged to a certain measure of Protection.

  25. He was pledged to conduct in Kiev and Warsaw, as well as at the Hague and in Amsterdam,[172] and to attend the first performance of Oniegin in Hamburg and of Pique Dame in Prague.

  26. I see such an endless pile of work before me to which I am pledged that I dare not look into the future.

  27. The whole thing was done on a bumper of claret in a tavern where they met; and the old knight having once pledged his word, no lawyers could hold him back from it.

  28. With one accord they agreed to this, and Carver pledged Master Carfax, and all the Doones grew merry.

  29. She sat there, absorbing May, absorbing the Warden, measuring them, weighing them while she tried to eat a piece of toast, biting it up as if she had pledged herself to reduce it to the minutest fragments.

  30. When you first shook hands with Jim he was already a pledged man.

  31. The girl he was pledged to marry, if she wished to marry him, might wreck his life!

  32. She is pledged in love to Philip, the son of the bitter enemy of her family, and is attracted to Stephen, the lover of her cousin Lucy.

  33. They pledged themselves to help and to defend each other, and to obey such laws as they might make for the good of the colony.

  34. The minute-men were bands of enrolled patriots pledged to start at a minute's notice to a call for their services.

  35. They pledged themselves to stand by each other.

  36. At one time it was imperial; at another independent; now pledged or given away by an emperor; now held by a duke.

  37. I am pledged to no party, and am free to exercise my independent judgment.

  38. Carried forward by his disinterested enthusiasm, and pledged by the promise he, had somewhat artfully extorted from them, they rose, and with one voice repeated the oath proposed to, them.

  39. At the meeting, four days before, the citizens of Memphis had solemnly pledged themselves never to surrender.

  40. In the event of the failure of this means of defense, the inhabitants were pledged to do many dreadful things before submitting to the invaders.

  41. Erempel, Zebek, and Loosang the Lama were pledged life-deep to prevent any accommodation; and their efforts were unfortunately seconded by those of 30 their deadliest enemies.

  42. Your uncle too is confined below--so I have gathered from the talk of Martin and the rest; and I pledged my word also, when she gave me the key; but I did not pledge my word not to contrive to free you afterwards.

  43. I now know the whole truth, that the good Commander resigned his claims in favour of Madame de Montigni; that to her son those claims appertained when my father signed the contract, and, therefore, it was to him he pledged me.

  44. Here are their names, all pledged to see the deed accomplished.

  45. And Sigurd answered: "That will I hold to, for I have pledged my word.

  46. Halfdan, blushing deeply, hastened to doff his iron gauntlet, and the two men, severed so long, forgot their enmity and pledged abiding faith with friendly grasp.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pledged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affianced; affirmed; alleged; assured; attested; avowed; beholden; betrothed; bound; certified; committed; contracted; declared; engaged; enunciated; guaranteed; intended; liable; obligated; obliged; pledged; posted; predicated; professed; promised; pronounced; responsible; saddled; stated; sworn; tied; warranted