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They in a sentence

Sentence examples for they. Learn how established writers used the word in their sentences. Learn how to imitate them to express your idea.

They all liked Ag.

They were both disgusted.

They were very frightened.

They were glad to let her.

They’re wops, ain’t they?

They all came just like that.

Why they came East I don’t know.

They were carrying Sam Cardinella.

“They’re crooks, ain’t they?” said Boyle.

“Do they miss me?” she cried ecstatically.

Just carts loaded with everything they owned.

I don’t hear them because they are not important.

Across the bay they found the other boat beached.

They came around a bend and a dog came out barking.

They came out onto the gallows through a door in the wall.

Drevitts got frightened when he found they were both dead.

There were only a few patients, and they all knew about it.

They were swearing at him and flopping the cape in his face.

They rushed it, and officers came out alone and worked on it.

They tried to get over it, and we potted them from forty yards.

They laid Maera down on a cot and one of the men went for the doctor.

Before he went back to the front they went into the Duomo and prayed.

They did not even remember that he was middleweight boxing champion.

They whack-whacked the white horse on the legs and he kneed himself up.

He had no money, and they fed him behind the counter in railway eating houses.

They tried to hold him up against the wall but he sat down in a puddle of water.

Too heavy to lift and you could shoot through it and they would have to climb over it.

After the armistice they agreed he should go home to get a job so they might be married.

The young Indian stopped and blew out his lantern and they all walked on along the road.

They hanged Sam Cardinella at six o’clock in the morning in the corridor of the county jail.

When they fired the first volley he was sitting down in the water with his head on his knees.

Then everything commenced to run faster and faster as when they speed up a cinematograph film.

On the train from Padua to Milan they quarreled about her not being willing to come home at once.

They shot the six cabinet ministers at half-past six in the morning against the wall of a hospital.

One hot evening in Milan they carried him up onto the roof and he could look out over the top of the town.

Then they went into the woods and followed a trail that led to the logging road that ran back into the hills.

When they operated on him she prepared him for the operating table; and they had a joke about friend or enema.

While they were strapping his legs together two guards held him up and the two priests were whispering to him.

When they came toward him with the cap to go over his head Sam Cardinella lost control of his sphincter muscles.

Nick sat against the wall of the church where they had dragged him to be clear of machine gun fire in the street.

“That’s all right maybe this time,” said Drevitts, “but how did you know they were wops when you bumped them off?”

When they had to say goodbye, in the station at Milan, they kissed goodbye, but were not finished with the quarrel.

They wanted to get married, but there was not enough time for the banns, and neither of them had birth certificates.

They were here, and they accepted Tom and me, making only a polite pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained.

They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away.

They felt as though they were married, but they wanted everyone to know about it, and to make it so they could not lose it.

I heard the drums coming down the street and then the fifes and the pipes and then they came around the corner, all dancing.

They walked up from the beach through a meadow that was soaking wet with dew, following the young Indian who carried a lantern.

He sat down in the sand and puked and they held a cape over him while the crowd hollered and threw things down into the bull ring.

They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.

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