PREPARED in a Sentence

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418 example sentences for PREPARED, such as:
1. If you wish for peace, be prepared for war.
2. We prepared ourselves for the long journey ahead.
3. She was prepared to lie in order to achieve her ends.
4. Whatever the majority decided I was prepared to go along with.
5. Most scientists of the time were prepared to accept Darwin's case.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PREPARED
prepared
 a.  made ready or fit or suitable beforehand
 a.  having made preparations
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  These matters she discussed with Prissy in whispers one evening, as they prepared Melanie's supper tray, and Prissy, surprisingly enough, calmed her fears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  There were no sounds of negroes' lazy voices in neighboring kitchens, no pleasant sounds of breakfasts being prepared, for all the near neighbors except Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Merriwether had refugeed to Macon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  From the kitchen below, she heard the rattle of china as Prissy prepared breakfast, but no sound of Mrs. Meade's Betsy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  She only saw, or thought she saw, that her mother had been wrong, and she changed swiftly to meet this new world for which she was not prepared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  She saw that except for the peas and a pan of corn pone there was no other food being prepared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  The Yankees knew there'd be trouble tonight and they've prepared for it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
7  She leaned her head against one of the uprights of the porch and prepared to cry but no tears came.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
8  She questioned him intelligently, she heard him submissively; and, prepared for the look of lassitude which usually crept over his listeners' faces, he grew eloquent under her receptive gaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
9  He gave, at any rate, no sign of resenting it and seemed prepared to supply in his own manner all the ease that was lacking in hers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
10  Her servant did not come till eight o'clock, and she prepared her own tea-tray and placed it beside the bed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
11  She spoke with the intention of making him see that, if his words implied a tentative allusion to her private affairs, she was prepared to meet and repudiate it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
12  "So that I was prepared for the consequences," he corrected good-humouredly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
13  In her affection for Raymie's defender, in her desire to "discover artistic talent," Carol prepared to be delighted by the recital.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  While the men floated on the lake, casting for black bass, the women prepared lunch and yawned.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  The Commercial Club issued a booklet prepared by a great and expensive literary person from a Minneapolis advertising agency, a red-headed young man who smoked cigarettes in a long amber holder.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (208 in 14 pages)
1  Most scientists of the time were prepared to accept Darwin's case.
2  She was prepared to lie in order to achieve her ends.
3  Campaigners have said that they are prepared to defy the law in order to achieve their aims.
4  The important question is whether he is prepared to go to war to achieve his territorial ambitions.
5  The United States is prepared to use military force to achieve its aims.
6  He was prepared to risk everything in order to achieve his ambition.
7  They might well be prepared to do you harm in order to achieve their purpose.
8  Neither side seems prepared to make the first move towards reaching a peace agreement.
9  We were able to set the meeting ahead because the report was prepared earlier than we expected.
10  We prepared ourselves for the long journey ahead.
11  The city's bomb shelters were being prepared for possible air raids.
12  Whatever the majority decided I was prepared to go along with.
13  Anyone who gambles on the stock exchange has to be prepared to lose money.
14  If you wish for peace, be prepared for war.
15  It's going to be a tough competition but I'm mentally prepared for it.