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Example sentences for "underwent"

Lexicographically close words:
underwater; underway; underwear; underweigh; underweight; underwood; underworld; underwrite; underwriter; underwriters
  1. The Dauphin underwent the same ceremonies, but he was attended only by Princesses of the Blood.

  2. Mr. Winter's manner toward Philip underwent a change after that memorable evening when the minister stood by him at the peril of his own life.

  3. His whole manner now underwent a swift change.

  4. But the greatest danger I ever underwent in that kingdom, was from a monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks of the kitchen.

  5. The frequent labours I underwent every day, made, in a few weeks, a very considerable change in my health: the more my master got by me, the more insatiable he grew.

  6. John, finding his inability to pay, stirred up the people of Roussillon to revolt against French domination, whereupon Louis poured thirty thousand men into the country, and during fifteen years it underwent all the miseries of war.

  7. At Bordeaux with his aid the English underwent a signal defeat.

  8. It underwent several changes before its final publication in 1818.

  9. As for Jack, my feelings to him underwent a rapid and decisive change.

  10. At the age of three he appeared as the boy in Kotzebue's Pizarro, and throughout his youth he underwent all the hardships connected with theatrical touring in those early days.

  11. But at the eleventh hour this unfavourable demeanour underwent a marked change.

  12. Naturally, as the unbroken peace of the Tokugawa regime became habitual, the mood of the nation underwent a change.

  13. It is to be presumed, that the prisoner underwent an examination which proved no way favorable to him.

  14. This prodigy coming to the knowledge of the Pharisees, the beggar underwent an examination; he openly confessed that one called Jesus had cured him with a clay of his composition and some bathings in Siloam.

  15. From day to day each battery in turn underwent a severe shelling, and the casualties in men and guns mounted, ever mounted.

  16. During this period from the 11th onwards both brigades underwent the severest trials.

  17. The infamous Aretino either underwent or feigned a conversion, and wrote to the pope, at the instance of Ochino, begging pardon for his libels against the papal court.

  18. When the religious views of Mr. Chalmers underwent the great change which will be described afterwards, he was much distressed for this publication, and did his utmost to withdraw it from circulation.

  19. No institution in history ever underwent at once a transformation so beneficent as that of the British Post-Office.

  20. While we allow that the Christians underwent much persecution, there can be no doubt that the number of the sufferers has been grossly exaggerated.

  21. The discussion was given up, when it was announced that a room was ready; and Rashe underwent so much in climbing the stairs, that Cilly thought she could not have been worse on the car.

  22. He was brought up to selfishness, and nothing but what he underwent last year could have shaken him out of it.

  23. Mr. Stone's face underwent the queer discoloration which marked the sudden summoning of his far thoughts.

  24. In that progress, however, his feelings underwent a change; no longer merely curious and amused, he felt sorry for the poor fellow he was shadowing.

  25. The only spiritual development she underwent all those years of her girlhood was through her headlong love for her father.

  26. But, in any case, and as quickly as surely as she realised that he was becoming enslaved to her sister, his charms underwent a mysterious intensification in her eyes that only aggravated the difficulties of her position.

  27. Never had she expected that Leo would behave in this way, particularly in the presence of young men, and her feeling towards her sister underwent a momentary revulsion.

  28. If the chorus-singers from the Opera were not converted to piety by the nuns, the nuns underwent the influence of the professional vocalists.

  29. Fourteen of the unhappy men underwent this frightful punishment and supported it with courage.

  30. Suppressed in 1807, this theatre underwent a number of transformations, to serve at last as a dancing saloon, known to everyone and beloved by students under the title of The Prado.

  31. At the same time the attitude of the legislatures and the courts in some states toward strikes underwent a slight modification.

  32. The financial basis of the newspaper also underwent a transition.

  33. Many of these underwent a phenomenal growth and had a great influence on the states in which they were established.

  34. From that day the character of the young queen underwent a most decided change.

  35. Literature became stilted and full of mannerisms and underwent a process of refinement which left it without strength or vigor, and society in general seemed more concerned with form and ceremony than with the deeper things of the spirit.

  36. Roaring and grumbling, the unfortunate clothier was brought back to the manor, and underwent Sir Payan's objurgation with but an ill grace.


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