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Example sentences for "stent"

Lexicographically close words:
stenographer; stenographers; stenographic; stenography; stenosis; stente; stentorian; step; stepbrother; stepchildren
  1. She was willing to sacrifice Stent and Bolinski, but it was natural she should shield her brother as far as she could.

  2. At one of her remarks Stent laughed heartily.

  3. Stent shifted uneasily in his chair; his ill-humour was evidently returning.

  4. If her connection with the mysterious Stent were less innocent than she had led him to believe, she would have plenty of time to communicate with this gentleman by means of that useful little instrument.

  5. Then they took him down to Horsham, where Stent had a house.

  6. You know already that Stent and Bolinski were the two men who abducted your father.

  7. Stent made out to me at first that they were getting Mr Monkton away for a brief space to render him harmless.

  8. Stent held out one hand, and with the other clapped the young man on the shoulder with rough good humour.

  9. Certainly the face and figure of the man Strange answered to the description of the person named Stent whom Scotland Yard had been unable to trace.

  10. I may say that Stent never went near him himself, for fear of recognition.

  11. I am informed that this person Stent is in possession of the true and actual facts concerning the Minister's curious disappearance.

  12. As he expected, the two others were Stent and Bolinski.

  13. I wonder if this Mr Stent happens to be a friend of yours, or your father's?

  14. Well, one day Mr Stent and I found ourselves alone in the drawing-room, and the ice was broken.

  15. He had been mixed up with Stent and Bolinski for years, and he knew too much.

  16. John accordingly detests the garden; and the only time he works briskly in it is when he has a stent set, to do so much weeding before the Fourth of July.

  17. I doubted if there could be any Fourth of July if my stent was not done.

  18. Nu stent se gewuna on Godes geladhunge, thaet ealle Godes dheowan on cyrclicum dhenungum, aegdher ge on halgum raedingum ge on gedremum lofsangum, dhaera witegena gyddunga singallice on thyssere tide reccadh.

  19. Eft he cwaedh to Iohanne, "Loca nu, her stent thin modor.

  20. I see it wus a hard stent for him, to do it in the time she had sot.

  21. I knew that George had rather not be mourned for on dry handkerchiefs, than that I should stent myself in emotions in such a time as this.

  22. The avowal led to a pathetic scene: Anne Stent wept and fainted, and finally her feelings became so clear that the couple pledged themselves to each other; and the young gentleman from the colonies was rejected.

  23. Mr. Stent was indignant, and sent his daughter to live elsewhere.

  24. While things were in this state, Thomas Stent came back from a cruise covered with glory.

  25. Stent soon had to go to sea, but suggested an ingenious arrangement for the future.

  26. She lived in a boarding-house, and Stent proposed that Stephen should lodge in the same house, where he would be able both to see Anne Stent and to plead his friend's cause with Maria.

  27. Miss Stent seems to have been the superior of Maria in intellect and accomplishments, though inferior in beauty.

  28. But now concerning two others of the fed-up dozen on board the mule transport--Harry Stent and Jim Brown.

  29. Instantly both Brown and Stent thought of the same thing: the chance that these Germans might spy others of the Athabasca regiment prowling among the ferns and rocks of neighbouring slopes.

  30. At the shocking sound of the impact Stent wheeled from the abyss, then staggered back under the powerful shove from Von Glahn’s nervous arm.

  31. If Stent did not notice the impalpable touch, neither did Brown notice it, watching them.

  32. Stent smiled, perfectly conscious of Brown’s telepathic support in whatever was now to pass between them and these two Germans.

  33. Stent stepped forward and stood silently beside him, looking out across the vast cleft in the mountains, but not using his field glasses.

  34. We have a long day and a longer night ahead of us," he said pleasantly, looking from Stent to Brown.

  35. My friend Stent tells me that you are old at it.

  36. I thought it fine poetry--then," insisted Stent with a forced smile.

  37. The young man’s lameness resulted from a trench acquaintance with the game which Stent desired to hunt.

  38. There was an odd look in Siurd’s soft brown eyes; he turned and spoke to Herr Professor von Dresslin, using dialect--and instantly appearing to recollect himself he asked pardon of Stent and Brown in his very perfect English.

  39. Better make a note or two," said Stent briefly.

  40. Twice he found pretext to pick up his rifle, but discarded it carelessly, apparently not noticing that Stent and Brown always resumed their own weapons when he touched his.

  41. I had a stent of cording wood that day and finished it before two o'clock Then I got my pole of mountain ash, made hook and line ready, dug some worms and went fishing.

  42. We had finished our stent early the day of which lam writing.

  43. I have been here ever since a quarter after three on Thursday last, by the Shrewsbury clock, which I am fortunately enabled absolutely to ascertain because Mrs. Stent once lived at Shrewsbury, or at least at Tewksbury.

  44. Mrs. Stent seems to have tried their patience, and will be known henceforward as having bored Jane Austen.

  45. A certain Mrs. Stent comes into one of these letters 'ejaculating some wonder about the cocks and hens.

  46. Further, Mr. Stent accompanied Cecil Rhodes to the Mattopo hills, where the late Colossus went unarmed to hold with the Matabele chiefs the pourparler which brought about the peace of Southern Rhodesia.

  47. In the siege of Mafeking, Mr. Stent was Reuter's war correspondent, and all things considered, it must be conceded that he is better qualified to write on a subject of this kind than all the critics of Dr.

  48. Mr. Stent as a Kimberley youth spent many years in the de Beers mining compounds, working with Natives of nearly all African tribes.

  49. Mr. Stent is a high authority in the Chinese language and literature, but is not at home in English prosody.

  50. Stent in the volume called "The Jade Chaplet," there are a few in the satiric vein which attest the ready adroitness of Chinese women in moments of crisis.

  51. A week before we start Eudo Stent goes to the north-west edge of the Everglades, and makes smoke talk until he gets a brief answer somewhere on the horizon.

  52. Eudo Stent skinned it and Mr. Cardross is going to have it set up in New York.

  53. Eudo Stent brought panfuls of fried bass, still sizzling under the crisp bacon; and great panniers woven of green palmetto, piled high with smoking sweet potatoes all dusty from the ashes; and pots of coffee and tea, steaming and aromatic.

  54. Stent rode up and drew it out for her; Hamil saw her break and load, swing in the saddle, and gaze straight into an evil-looking bog all set with ancient cypress knees and the undulating snaky roots of palmettos.

  55. And there are dad and Stent riding in line with that outpost pine--ho-paiee!

  56. The men backed their nervously snorting horses, giving her room; Stent dismounted, picked up a pig-nut, and threw it accurately.

  57. Stent and Ogilvy, anticipating some possibilities of a collision, had telegraphed from Horsell to the barracks as soon as the Martians emerged, for the help of a company of soldiers to protect these strange creatures from violence.

  58. I found myself alone, and saw the people on the other side of the pit running off, Stent among them.

  59. Stent was giving directions in a clear, high-pitched voice.

  60. So she hired a cab--she had plenty of money, Elnathan didn't stent her on wages.

  61. Mony a day I bound a stent [sheaf] behind your faither on the rigs o' Hartrigge.

  62. Elmira and her mother had toiled hard to make those ruffles and finish their daily stent on shoes, but the dress was in readiness and Elmira arrayed in it before eight o'clock on Thursday night.

  63. I came first with a stent to knit on a garter, and we sat out here.

  64. I'm going to stent myself," said the Colonel, still breathing hard; then he looked keenly at Jerome.

  65. Aunt Camilla wrote with pensive pauses of reflection, and Lucina knitted until her stent was finished.


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