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Example sentences for "went below"

  • Some spars had been towed off from the Bellona, and Tom at once set about fitting up a jury-mast, while the carpenter and his crew went below to try and find the leak, and see what could be done to stop it.

  • He calculated that it was about midnight when he went below, and finding that it was time, roused up Gerald.

  • At last, greatly to their satisfaction, he went below, and replaced the pistols in his berth.

  • The major having allowed his "woman kind," as he called them, time to shake into their berths, went below.

  • I went below at meal-time, but I hurried again on deck, fascinated by the scene, though I would gladly have shut it out from my sight.

  • Again cries of terror came up from the passengers in the cabins; I therefore, as I could be of no use on deck, went below in the hopes of tranquillising their minds.

  • The fight soon gave work for our surgeons, and I went below, as I had undertaken to do, to help them.

  • He replied, "Not in the least, but that he must have the seven shillings before I went below.

  • As soon as he went below, he commenced distributing prints of a black man kneeling in chains, and saying, "Am not I your brother?

  • The captain and first lieutenant then went below, and O'Brien came aft.

  • Having no money in my pocket, I promised to pay them as soon as I went below; but Mr Jenkins would not trust me.

  • When Lennox turned away, I could not help noticing, that he stuck his tongue in his cheek, and winked to one of the crew as he went below.

  • They lowered the canvas and then went below to cook a meal.

  • What had looked like open water when he went below, was now a waste of sloppy sand that ran back as far as he could see.

  • The sun was bright and the breeze fresh, and after opening the skylights to ventilate the boat, he went below to see if their blankets were damp.

  • But, after a while, we felt so cold that we couldn't stand it any longer, and we went below.

  • There were but few passengers on deck, for it was quite cold, and it now began to grow dark, and we went below.

  • I proposed that we should go and look at our state-room, which was number twenty-two, and so we went below.

  • I stood for half an hour watching this scene, then I went below to Roscoe's cabin and relieved the bookmaker.

  • After about an hour I went below to Galt Roscoe's cabin.

  • I went below, and involuntarily made my way to Boyd Madras's cabin.

  • Consequently he went below now in search of his master, and finding him, pointed out that the captain was ready, and only awaited Gilbert's instructions.

  • Gilbert knew only too well that that was strictly true; he went below, nursing his wrath, and wondering what had better be done.

  • Finally he went below, and curled himself up in a corner of the saloon, and went to sleep.

  • I left him still pacing the deck when I went below to supper.

  • As soon as the captain went below, and it was thought he was asleep, the mate, who was a phlegmatic sort of person, went below also, and left a man and a boy to do the pumping.

  • The sailor then left him, and allowed an interval of half an hour to pass, and as the worthy officer did not make his appearance, he went below again, and found him slumbering as peacefully as before.

  • We went below, and as soon as I got in the cabin, I discovered a kettle of boiled rice, on which I pounced like a hawk.

  • He now left the captain, and his Mexican companion, seemingly in close conference together, while he went below himself, and dropped as naturally into the routine of his duty, as if he had never left the brig.

  • He looked a little glum, for a man may be as round as a barrel, and wish to be thought genteel and slender; but he went below, in quest of Josh, without making any reply.

  • We got to our berth in the East India Docks at last, and arter we were made fast we went below to 'ave a wash and change into our shoregoing togs.

  • He had arranged that the skipper should steer while he and Miss Harris breakfasted, but the coffee was no sooner on the table than the skipper called him, and relinquishing the helm in his favour, went below to do the honours.

  • He went below, the two other boys following his example.

  • He went below, in the cabin of the Viking.

  • It was all clear and serene in Henry Burns's eyes, and he went below, rolled in on his berth, and went to sleep.

  • He went below again, lighted a lantern and made as thorough an examination of the boat as possible, even moving a good deal of the freight about in order to get at points where he suspected the principal leaks to be.

  • With that he went below again to inspect.

  • He went below, where he broke an egg in a large soda-water glass and whipped it up with an egg-beater.

  • He went below two or three times to see that nothing was wrong with the cargo.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "went below" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    communication trenches; horizontal section; went aboard; went ahead; went ashore; went away; went before; went below; went directly; went downstairs; went first; went forth; went forward; went home; went immediately; went off; went out; went over; went past; went right; went south; went through; went together; went towards; went west; went with