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Example sentences for "thereupon"

Lexicographically close words:
therethrough; thereto; theretofore; thereunder; thereunto; thereuppon; therevnto; therevpon; therewith; therewithal
  1. Thereupon the allies proceeded to Southwold or Solebay, and came to an anchor on the evening of the 20th.

  2. The English boats were thereupon anchored close to her, with the intention of endeavouring to set her on fire by means of a fireship, so soon as it could be got ready.

  3. When the breeze got up, the English ships stood toward the enemy, who thereupon incontinently fled, and was not followed for any considerable distance.

  4. Her captain, Sir Robert Cross, ran the big Portuguese on board, who thereupon "lashed his ship fast by the shrouds and sailed away with her by her side.

  5. The waiter is thereupon summoned, and ordered to bring in a set of chessmen.

  6. A second letter was thereupon despatched to Edinburgh, retracting the move in question, but the cannie sons of Auld Reekie held them to their first showing, and the London Club lost the game in consequence.

  7. Places were thereupon offered to Lord Northbrook and Lord Lansdowne.

  8. All were rejected by the Council after close divisions, and Lord Percy thereupon resigned the chairmanship.

  9. Lord Percy thereupon attacked him, asserting 'that he had broken away from the leaders of the party and not adhered to them as he ought to have done.

  10. Thereupon the Council were careful not to communicate this hostile measure to the Associations in the country, ever hoping that a conciliatory spirit might yet avert a public rupture.

  11. Elaborate, formidable, and, as it proved, thoroughly effective measures were thereupon adopted to enable the voice of Birmingham to be heard.

  12. A direct conflict between the two Houses and a dissolution thereupon was an inevitable and perhaps an indispensable consequence of his policy.

  13. Lord Randolph Churchill thereupon immediately resigned the chairmanship of the Council.

  14. The Queen thereupon accepted the resignations, which were announced to Parliament on the 12th, and sent for Lord Salisbury.

  15. Thereupon Sir Henry Wolff sprang up and objected to its being administered to him.

  16. He spread a newspaper over his knees to avoid soiling his trousers, and, with a pocketknife he always carried, helped himself to a chicken leg coated with jelly, which he thereupon proceeded to devour.

  17. Thereupon Cesaire began to enumerate his reasons, to speak about Celeste's good qualities, to prove that she would be worth a thousand times what the child would cost.

  18. The two gendarmes thereupon seized the carpenter by the arms and dragged him out.

  19. I thereupon took up her little black wooden trunk, such as servants use, and took it into the room on the right, which I had chosen for her.

  20. Thereupon the driver appeared, holding in his hand one of his lanterns, which cast a sudden glow on the interior of the coach, lighting up the double row of startled faces, mouths agape, and eyes wide open in surprise and terror.

  21. His wife thereupon produced a parcel tied with string, from which she extracted a piece of cold veal.

  22. A curious custom here is that of exchanging wives with a friend or acquaintance, who thereupon becomes a brother, even legally, and so far as the disposal of property is concerned.

  23. The Inchaun people were thereupon attacked by the Whalen men, who slaughtered every soul in their village.

  24. Thereupon the maiden, Aino, Hastened to her mother's cottage.

  25. Thereupon the mighty hunter Angry grows, and much disheartened, Starts again the moose to capture, Gliding off behind the courser.

  26. Thereupon the rising storm-wind Flying from the East in fierceness, Whips the ocean into surges, Strikes the stars with sprays of ocean Till the waves are white with fervor.

  27. Thereupon wise Wainamoinen Headlong fell upon the waters, Plunged beneath the rolling billows, From the saddle of the courser, From his dappled steed of magic.

  28. Being informed in hot haste that the puissant and mighty Lord of Cartillon lay dying in sin, possessed of frenzies and fiends, and stood in need most urgent of extreme unction, we deliberated thereupon together.

  29. Thereupon I backed into the diagonal corner, and stood stock still.

  30. England, was determined to do the like in Ireland; and that he thereupon had appointed him (archbishop Browne) one of the commissioners for seeing this order put in execution.

  31. Every one commended his own extravagantly: a dispute thereupon arising, Collatinus said there was no occasion for words, that it might be known in a few hours how far his wife Lucretia excelled all the rest.

  32. Thereupon they issued this order jointly: That no one should support the election of Lucius Quinctius as consul: if any one should do so, that they would not allow the vote.

  33. Thereupon a battle was fought, in which victory rested with the Latins, but for Æneas it was even the last of his acts on earth.

  34. Thereupon they say that he immediately cut the whetstone in two.

  35. Thereupon the dictator, disregarding nothing that held out hope of divine or human aid, is said to have vowed a temple to Castor, and to have promised rewards to the first and second of the soldiers who should enter the enemy's camp.

  36. Thereupon some of the cows that were driven away, lowed, as they usually do, when they missed those that were left; and the lowings of those that were shut in being heard in answer from the cave, caused Hercules to turn round.

  37. Thereupon he granted the Alban ambassadors an opportunity of stating with what demands they came.

  38. This incident affected both the people and the leaders; silence and sudden quiet followed; the leaders thereupon came forward to conclude a treaty; and not only concluded a peace, but formed one state out of two.

  39. The king of Meluhha seems thereupon to have feared for his own land, and placing Yatna in chains, sent him to Assyria.

  40. You say well," replied the general; and thereupon sat still about a quarter of an hour.

  41. He desired the parishioners to stay a while, saying he had a message from God unto them, and thereupon offered to go into the pulpit.

  42. After the denunciation had been read the president asked the prisoner if he had any questions to put to the witness, and thereupon Bruno cried in a loud voice: "Of course I have.

  43. Thereupon Joseph, keeping his eyes upon his mother, whispered something in Uncle David's ear, and straightway the gorgeous garments were produced.

  44. I will not go back yet," said Roma, and thereupon the priest and his assistants stepped into the carriages.

  45. Thereupon Cromwell stopped asking, but despatched a fleet to the West Indies to seize a post which might become a centre of British trade.

  46. Thereupon the Germans made up a ridiculous little faculty of their own, and imposed it upon the university, which, we must remember had no students.

  47. Great Britain thereupon laid down her famous "Rule of 1756" that commerce illegal in time of peace was not legal in time of war, and attacked neutral ships found trading with French colonies.

  48. Thereupon Rigoux disappeared, but returning between seven and eight in the evening, took him round the waist and carried him back to the sacristy, promising to come again for him the next day.

  49. Thereupon Pierre and his wife made him good cheer, telling him that for the love of Maître Rigoux they would treat him well, and that he must obey the said Rigoux, which he promised to do.

  50. Thereupon Rigoux changed into a great he-goat, black and stinking, around whom they all danced backward with their faces outward and their backs towards the goat.

  51. The situation was grave and Colonel Gordon Clarke of the Westminsters thereupon ordered the officer in charge of “D” Company (Lieutenant Hutchison) to take the remainder of his Company and eject the Turk with the bayonet.

  52. Companies thereupon threw their old shirts on the dust heap.

  53. The officer thereupon slipped a franc note on to the parapet in front of the sentry’s face.

  54. Headquarters Company was thereupon ordered to line the trench and each man had to make himself a good fire position.

  55. Thereupon I withdrew and studied the Odes.

  56. He was thereupon introduced by the Master's followers, and on coming out he said: My sons, why grieve at your Master's fall from power?

  57. Thereupon Confucius swore a solemn oath, saying: In whatsoever I have sinned, may I be abominable in the sight of God!

  58. Telson thereupon taunted his adversary with "funking it," and went at him again, very showy in action, but decidedly feeble in execution.

  59. As he made no offer to reply, Crossfield thereupon regaled the House with a highly facetious report of that famous meeting, amid much laughter and cheers, not a few of which were directed to the heroic "Skyrockets.

  60. Parson and Telson thereupon retreated to the sofa, on the edge of which they sat for another five or ten minutes, looking about them complacently, and not attempting to break the silence of the scene.

  61. Thereupon the Germans crossed the canal with three machine guns.

  62. Thereupon a Canadian "lumberjack" named Vincent became the base, the machine gun being fired from his back.

  63. Thereupon the Third Dragoons received orders to attempt to retake the Château of Hooge.

  64. Thereupon the Arabs withdrew: We were Christians, and they did not know that we were friends.

  65. Thereupon the Germans brought up reenforcements, which were rendered useless by the French artillery, which prevented them from going forward to the battle line.

  66. Thereupon the British infantry advanced and made prisoners of the few Germans left alive in the first line.

  67. Thereupon the Saxons dropped their guns and the firing from the British side ceased, only to be taken up on the German side by the Westphalians.

  68. Thereupon the Third Brigade retreated about 700 yards to a new front south of the village and north of the hamlet of Fortuin.

  69. Thereupon the Belgian sharpshooters became especially active and exterminated the machine-gun crews before the Germans could take advantage of the position they had gained by using the rafts.

  70. And thereupon I nodded to her cheerily, and she nodded to me, and laughed aloud, and I laughed in return, and all went on again as before.

  71. Thereupon my heart seemed to swell to bursting, and the blood rushed through my veins so that I could hear it and nothing else for a while.

  72. One day she showed me her crucifix and kissed it, and thereupon I took a little silver crucifix that always stood by me, and kissed that, and so she knew that we were one in religion.

  73. He then proceeds to "force" three or more cards in an order previously agreed upon, and the holders thereupon ask of the assistant, as the performer has previously instructed them to do, what the names of the cards are.

  74. The chooser thereupon pushes the card between the others, which are not opened out by the performer, but merely presented in a compact body.

  75. And thereupon she suffered the pleasant mastery of his brawn, and was hugged and wrestled with until the coffee pot boiled over and she darted from him to the rescue.

  76. And thereupon she proceeded to rub the lather in with her fingers.

  77. The compassionate children thereupon laid hold of the little man, and held him fast till the bird gave up the struggle and flew off.

  78. Thereupon he cried out, "Spare me, my dear Lord Bear!

  79. He suddenly threw down the twigs, and thereupon made the dove take wing.

  80. Thereupon he went to the mountain, and as he approached the opening of the passage which led into its inmost recesses, he saw, sitting upon the ground, and leaning his back against a tree, a Languid Youth.

  81. Thereupon a handful of police advanced courageously against the rioters, and proved quite sufficient to disperse and rout them.

  82. Thereupon Volpi proposed that they should follow the old man and rob him, adding, "he has got a whole lot of coppers.

  83. The students thereupon retired, but on their return next morning received no reply whatever.

  84. His heroism and bravery had meanwhile given the command time to rally, and they thereupon dispersed the enemy.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thereupon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    after; afterwards; consequently; ergo; hence; later; next; since; subsequently; then; thereafter; therefore; thus