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77 example sentences for GALLEY, such as:

1. The boy was caught and sold to be a galley slave.
2. A rancid odor filled the ship's galley and nauseated the crew.
3. He sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison.
4. I felt as if her shadow were absolutely upon us, when the galley hailed us.
5. I was chained to the very same galley and the same bench as the young Baron.

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 Meanings and Examples of GALLEY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
galley
 n.  boat propelled by oars; large vessel for war and national purposes
Classic Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  We embarked on board a galley of the country which was gilded like the great altar of St. Peter's at Rome.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
2  Then without losing time, he and his companions went on board a galley, in order to search on the banks of the Propontis for his Cunegonde, however ugly she might have become.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
3  The galley flew; they were already in the port.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
4  Candide sent directly for two Jews and sold them some more diamonds, and then they all set out together in another galley to deliver Cunegonde from slavery.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
5  I was chained to the very same galley and the same bench as the young Baron.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVIII
6  On board this galley there were four young men from Marseilles, five Neapolitan priests, and two monks from Corfu, who told us similar adventures happened daily.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVIII
7  The cannon were fired, and at night the patrol found him hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he resisted the galley guards who seized him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
8  He sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
9  Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
10  In the waters of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before the sound of the oars.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
11  A four-oared galley hovering about in so unusual a way as to attract this notice was an ugly circumstance that I could not get rid of.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
12  Meantime the galley, which was very skilfully handled, had crossed us, let us come up with her, and fallen alongside.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
13  I felt as if her shadow were absolutely upon us, when the galley hailed us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
14  At the same moment, without giving any audible direction to his crew, he ran the galley abroad of us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
15  Still, in the same moment, I saw the prisoner start up, lean across his captor, and pull the cloak from the neck of the shrinking sitter in the galley.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
Example Sentence:
1  The boy was caught and sold to be a galley slave.
2  A rancid odor filled the ship's galley and nauseated the crew.