SENT in a Sentence

Learn SENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
344 example sentences for SENT, such as:
1. She sent back her breakfast tray untouched.
2. Blood samples were sent to the laboratory for analysis.
3. Touching a bell, the Prince ordered her to be sent for.
4. He sent three scouts ahead to take a look at the bridge.
5. The blood samples are sent to the laboratory for analysis.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SENT
sent
 a.  caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted
 n.  100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You see, after saying my prayers, I bethought me of telling my fortune by the cards; and God must have sent him as a punishment.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  Accordingly he raised a turmoil which sent the staff flying.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
3  He was unused to receiving visitors, and for the moment conceived the new arrival to be a Government official, sent to question him concerning an abortive society to which he had formerly belonged.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
4  I have had the wheels removed from your koliaska, Monsieur Chichikov, and have sent your horse, Platon Mikhalitch, to a grazing ground fifteen versts away.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
5  At least you might have sent me word as to your destination and the probable length of your absence.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
6  But at last he became bankrupt, and God sent him other misfortunes also.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
7  All that you need do is to accept it as a commission sent of God.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
8  Touching a bell, the Prince ordered her to be sent for.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
9  Their father returned to his division and his wife, and only rarely sent his sons large sheets of grey paper, scrawled over in a bold clerkly hand.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Fenitchka was much frightened when she heard the master had sent for her; however, she followed her mother.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  On ordinary days a serf-boy used to keep driving them away with a large green branch; but on this occasion Vassily Ivanovitch had sent him away through dread of the criticism of the younger generation.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  'Arina Vlasyevna sent me to call you in to tea,' announced Anfisushka, coming by with an immense dish of ripe raspberries.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  She confined herself to a light exclamation, begged Arkady to remember her to his father, and sent for her aunt.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  Bazarov shook Piotr by the collar, and sent him for a droshky.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Nikolai Petrovitch sent Fenitchka twice to take him a glass of lemonade; Pavel Petrovitch gazed at her intently, and drank off the glass to the last drop.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
1  She left her address with a request that any mail should be sent on to her.
2  Any further correspondence should be sent to my new address.
3  The agency sent a replacement for the secretary who resigned.
4  They were sent ahead of the main troops to examine the enemy's position.
5  He sent three scouts ahead to take a look at the bridge.
6  The huntsman sent a beater ahead to scare out the partridge.
7  The Lithuanian parliament also sent an open letter to the United Nations.
8  Among the clouds in the water, disappointed this fish is sent.
9  The blood samples are sent to the laboratory for analysis.
10  Blood samples were sent to the laboratory for analysis.
11  Troops have been sent to protect aid workers against attack.
12  The manager was unable to attend but sent his deputy as a substitute.
13  Simons sent his attorney to meet with the ranchers in hopes that they could still come to an amicable settlement.
14  For this peccadillo he was demoted and sent back to pound the beat.
15  She sent back her breakfast tray untouched.