WERE in a Sentence
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404 example sentences for WERE, such as:
1. We were very adult about it.
2. She didn't know you were alive.
3. We were flying above the clouds.
4. Things were pretty tough at first.
5. They were to arrive on the morrow.
2. She didn't know you were alive.
3. We were flying above the clouds.
4. Things were pretty tough at first.
5. They were to arrive on the morrow.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of WERE
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Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1 The servants were gone to a neighbouring fair.
2 Their colours and their forms, were then to him.
3 If he were vanquished, I should be a free man.
4 Such were the lessons of my father.
5 What his feelings were whom I pursued I cannot know.
6 They were fond of the sweet orphan.
7 They were composed of oddly familiar pieces of ivory.
8 We were at a particularly tipsy table.
9 She didn't know you were alive.
10 They were, doubtless, good men, just and sage.
11 That, surely, were a shallow view of it.
12 But they were uttered only within his imagination.
13 I could wish the stairs were handsome.
14 Colonel Brandon's horses were announced.
15 They were soon within thirty yards of the gentleman.
Example Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1 The streets were noisy and full of activity.
2 We were very adult about it.
3 My legs were tired after so much walking.
4 They were able to concert their difference.
5 We were flying above the clouds.
6 They were the pioneers of the American West.
7 Bees were buzzing around the picnic tables.
8 They were to arrive on the morrow.
9 A friend is, as it were, a second self.
10 We were wrong to assume that she'd agree.
11 They were denied access to the information.
12 While we were chatting, he slipped into bed.
13 Things were pretty tough at first.
14 The rioters were taken away by force.
15 They were all gathered round the TV.