WERE in a Sentence

Learn WERE 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.
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.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of WERE
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  The servants were gone to a neighbouring fair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
2  Their colours and their forms, were then to him.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
3  If he were vanquished, I should be a free man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
4  Such were the lessons of my father.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
5  What his feelings were whom I pursued I cannot know.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
6  They were fond of the sweet orphan.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  They were composed of oddly familiar pieces of ivory.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  We were at a particularly tipsy table.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
9  She didn't know you were alive.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  They were, doubtless, good men, just and sage.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
11  That, surely, were a shallow view of it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
12  But they were uttered only within his imagination.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
13  I could wish the stairs were handsome.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
14  Colonel Brandon's horses were announced.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
15  They were soon within thirty yards of the gentleman.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
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.