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Example sentences for "showed them"

  • No, you never told me, but Some One who knew all about them, showed them to me.

  • He showed them how to make kayaks by stretching green hides over a framework of ribs, and letting the hides dry.

  • He showed them how to put a stick through their fish and hold it in the fire, till it was a thousand times more delicious than when raw.

  • They brought the drift logs, and he showed them how to lay them up for walls, and how to make a roof of branches covered with earth.

  • The conspirators gladly heard this, thinking themselves unsuspected of treason, and readily went off to the places which he showed them.

  • I did give the fellow something that showed them us, and promised to come some other time, and he would show me Lady Castlemaine's, which I could not then see, it being locked up!

  • I could not deny these probabilities, and although I showed them that we could not get back to our starting-point with the wind as it was, they insisted upon returning.

  • When at last he had procured two good ones--and he showed them in proof of the truthfulness of his story--he was nearly as long again in finding his way back to the steamer.

  • And leading them across to a darker part of the church, he showed them a tomb with a kneeling figure, having a sword in its hand.

  • It showed them, not half a mile away, a plantation house.

  • It showed them a swarm of field-hands coming to the day's toil.

  • It showed them a mounted overseer, only a few hundred feet away, riding up to the flat range of the field from a ravine that had hidden him.

  • Finally he showed them how, in case of losing fire in spite of all these precautions, it could be recovered by means of friction.

  • In this way, as he showed them, fire could be kept in for a very long time; and that, if two brands were taken from each fire, there would be little difficulty in keeping fire perpetually.

  • He showed them how to build houses of wood and to thatch them with the reeds which grew in the marshes.

  • He showed them how to build houses of wood and stone, and how to tame sheep and cattle and make them useful, and how to plow and sow and reap, and how to protect themselves from the storms of winter and the beasts of the woods.

  • Totally ignorant of their great value, she showed them only with a true woman's love of beautiful things, showed them as artlessly as if they were but pretty shells or flowers.

  • As the far-off flickering light fell on their faces, it showed them to be full of abject fear.

  • I showed them how it was done, and then I said to them, "You will have to practice this way of shooting when fighting with the Indians.

  • I showed them how to take the scalps off, and then they asked what I was going to do with them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fine silver; for the common benefit; forming part; found upon; genital organs; great statesman; hard eggs; her being; hydrofluoric acid; infinite distance; inquiring look; land values; lengthened period; looking place; must begin; poor dear; produce the; room where; showed himself; showed itself; showed them; sorrow and; things done; this our