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Example sentences for "reflected"

Lexicographically close words:
refining; refit; refitted; refitting; reflect; reflecting; reflection; reflections; reflective; reflectively
  1. Keeter reflected grimly that a race such as this would probably be able to deduce a launching and firing system for the thing, would probably have the planet ringed with launching stations within weeks.

  2. It was a long way to Arcturus, a long, lonely way--even for a hardened pirate, he reflected sadly.

  3. It would disappoint no one, Keeter reflected happily, as he took a deep breath and blew an almost imperceptible film of dust from the helmet's iridescent finish.

  4. On her head was an old black silk top hat, which also reflected the rays of light.

  5. The afternoon was drawing to a close when we saw far in front of us the golden rays of the now fast-declining sun reflected on the cupola of the large church, flanking the principal square of the country town of San Jose.

  6. He is not a reader, for he is not imbued with book notions of things; his ideas of them are direct, and everything with him is not memory, but reflected sensation.

  7. This state of alarm was reflected in the foreign press.

  8. Ryvkin, "The Velizh Case as reflected in local legends," Perezhytoye, vol.

  9. It was a beautiful Sunday evening, the rays of the descending sun were reflected redly from the grey walls of the castle, and from the black rocks on which it was founded.

  10. I, as I looked into one on Cornhill, gorgeous with precious merchandise, and lighted up with lustres, the rays of which were reflected from a hundred mirrors.

  11. Thus the increase of negro criminality, so far as it is reflected in the number of prisoners, exceeded the increase of white criminality more in the North than it did in the South.

  12. These dramas touch our sympathies at all points, and are representative of human life today, because they reflected the human life of their time.

  13. And this lucid, candid inner life is reflected in her dress.

  14. The Senator reflected on whether he should broach some such subtle solution of the situation as had occurred to him to his colleagues, but he decided not.

  15. She was running deep with ambition, and she was all the more conspicuous, and in a way irritating to some, because she reflected in her own consciousness her social defects, against which she was inwardly fighting.

  16. She had liked the rather exaggerated curtsies they taught her, and she had often reflected on how she would use them when she reached home.

  17. He reflected that if he and Butler and Mollenhauer could get together and promise Cowperwood protection in return for the surrender of his street-railway holdings it would be a very different matter.

  18. Excessive sympathy is capable of minor martyrdom; their reflected suffering borders upon real pain.

  19. Bessie to herself; and perhaps this pleasant thought was reflected in her face, for more than one passer-by glanced at her half enviously.

  20. Bessie sat and reflected a moment, and then a sudden impulse came to her, and she opened her blotting-case, and wrote a few hurried lines.

  21. The beams were instantly reflected in Anna's face, and they beamed at each other.

  22. Doors that had been shut ever since she married, opened before her on her appearing with such a pretty débutante under her wing, and she could enjoy the reflected glory of Anna's little triumphs.

  23. She knew that she had never been as beautiful in her life, as now--just now--in the halo of the sunset shining on her hair and reflected in the rare old gown she wore.

  24. Through the hot month of July she had watched the boll grow and expand, until in August the lowest and oldest one next to the ground burst, and shone through the pale green leaves like the image of a star reflected in waters of green.

  25. It particularly was reflected in the home; the domestic arrangements and customs of the people.

  26. This is reflected in the modified construction which the president and others began to place on the Monroe Doctrine.

  27. Colonel Roosevelt said that the conduct of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry reflected honor upon the whole American people, especially on their own race.

  28. And their white brothers--may remember that generosity, disinterested courage and bravery, are of no particular race and complexion, and that the image of the Heavenly Father may be reflected alike by all.

  29. After I had read this characteristic note, I reflected deeply upon the tragic event--her suicide.

  30. Fanny reflected a few moments, during which she asked herself--"What is the right course for me to pursue in this matter?

  31. Then, he reflected that a person does not go to sleep thus naked, at half-past seven in the morning under cool trees.

  32. When he had heard all, he reflected for a few moments, then said in the calm, matter-of-fact tone he might have used if he had been speaking of the best way to insure a good harvest.

  33. She looked like a gentlewoman," reflected his friend.

  34. Near at hand the garden was as if a thin web of silver had been cast over it, pale and dim, where wet surfaces reflected the diffused daylight.

  35. It could hardly have said as much for me, but I reflected that I had not been two hundred years old to begin with, and consoled myself as I could in my consciousness that I was really not so young by twenty odd years as I once was.

  36. But here I ought to own that all this is a reflected light from after-reading, and not from my previous knowledge of the local history.

  37. It made her flush with shame when she reflected that he was bound to know that the man for whom she had given him up had treated her so slightingly.

  38. It was with a deep sense of relief that she reflected on the impossibility of Horace's arrival in time for the funeral.

  39. The left-hand side of the picture shows the two lovers embracing--the change in their attitudes being reflected in their altered heights.

  40. Such schools of painting reflected the Rajput need for passionate romance rather than any specially strong adhesion to Krishna, the divine lover.

  41. The question of what a man does, when he comes here an uninterpreted stranger, is interestingly reflected in these two blocks.

  42. In the present issue we put forward the composite situation as reflected in the lives of two groups--the immigrant and the Negro.

  43. Perhaps a reflected "odor of sanctity," an association by proxy with clerical work, has made press rooms and binderies favored above more obviously manufacturing pursuits.

  44. A little steamer passed across the reflected glory, and came to a stop not a hundred yards from the gate of the house.

  45. Elinor reflected to herself that they were really kind people, as she went out again into the grey afternoon where everything was getting up for rain.

  46. While the bottle is in this position, uncork it, and let the water run gradually out: it will appear, that while the real bottle is emptying, the reflected one is filling.

  47. Hence, a single scratch or furrow in a surface, may produce colours by the interference of the rays reflected from its opposite edges.

  48. Observe the various colours which are reflected from the glass drops usually suspended from a lustre or chandelier, and you will witness a mimic rainbow.

  49. Incidentally, he reflected with amusement, as he recalled his wager, he might pick up a few useful hints.

  50. It showed, he reflected philosophically, how out of evil cometh good.

  51. It was better to glide restfully along the poppied way and see the landscape presentment of those stately piles crowning the hilltops or reflected in the bright waters of the Loire.

  52. Having reflected deliberately on their situation, they felt convinced that something on their part must be done by way of conciliation, if they had any intention of quitting the country, and of prosecuting their enterprise.

  53. He reflected that he had parted from the last European he might probably behold, and perhaps quitted for ever the comforts of Christian society.

  54. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings.


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