DATED in a Sentence

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221 example sentences for DATED, such as:

1. Please advise us of the date.
2. There's no date on this letter.
3. I can't give you a precise date.
4. The date went sheer out of my head.
5. This technology is bang up to date.

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dated
 a.  old-fashioned; obsolete
Classic Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
1  The weather was fine; it was about the middle of the month of August, nearly two months after the death of Justine, that miserable epoch from which I dated all my woe.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  If the minister's voice had not kept her there, there would, nevertheless, have been an inevitable magnetism in that spot, whence she dated the first hour of her life of ignominy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
3  Young as I was, I believe that I dated a new admiration of Joe from that night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
4  It was dated an hour and a half before dinner.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
5  He caught up the next paper; it was a brief note in the doctor's hand and dated at the top.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
6  The boards round and the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building of the house.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
7  Well, of course it can be explained; your father may have forgotten to date his signature, and someone else may have dated it haphazard before they knew of his death.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
8  On his desk the coroner found a letter, dated at five o'clock that afternoon.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
9  It is only a line dated from Castle Dracula, and says that he is just starting for home.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
11  On the other hand there were new-comers, the Manresas, bringing the old houses up to date, adding bathrooms.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
12  There was no mirror, at that date, in my room; that which stands beside me as I write, was brought there later on and for the very purpose of these transformations.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
13  My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
14  Yet, though quarter-staff play be out of date, what we can in prose we will do for these bold champions.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  I'm afraid I am a little out of date, and my collieries are like me.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence: (127 in 9 pages)
16  She had misread a date in the Tour Book.
17  The date of the document can be deduced from references to the Civil War.
18  Some photos contain internal evidence that may help to date them.
19  Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
20  The date went sheer out of my head.
21  A passport that is out of date is invalid.
22  Please advise us of the date.
23  We need to fix a date for the next meeting.
24  The exact date of the event has escaped me.
25  There's no date on this letter.
26  I can't give you a precise date.
27  She grew increasingly nervous as the date of the audition drew closer.
28  This technology is bang up to date.
29  She suggested an earlier date for the meeting.
30  Let's fix a definite date for the next meeting.