SENT in a Sentence

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You see, after saying my prayers, I bethought me of telling my fortune by the cards; and God must have sent him as a punishment.

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 Meanings and Examples of SENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sent
 v.  (past tense) cause, permit, or enable to go
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You see, after saying my prayers, I bethought me of telling my fortune by the cards; and God must have sent him as a punishment.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  Accordingly he raised a turmoil which sent the staff flying.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
3  He was unused to receiving visitors, and for the moment conceived the new arrival to be a Government official, sent to question him concerning an abortive society to which he had formerly belonged.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
4  I have had the wheels removed from your koliaska, Monsieur Chichikov, and have sent your horse, Platon Mikhalitch, to a grazing ground fifteen versts away.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
5  At least you might have sent me word as to your destination and the probable length of your absence.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
6  But at last he became bankrupt, and God sent him other misfortunes also.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
7  All that you need do is to accept it as a commission sent of God.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
8  Touching a bell, the Prince ordered her to be sent for.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
9  Their father returned to his division and his wife, and only rarely sent his sons large sheets of grey paper, scrawled over in a bold clerkly hand.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Fenitchka was much frightened when she heard the master had sent for her; however, she followed her mother.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  On ordinary days a serf-boy used to keep driving them away with a large green branch; but on this occasion Vassily Ivanovitch had sent him away through dread of the criticism of the younger generation.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  'Arina Vlasyevna sent me to call you in to tea,' announced Anfisushka, coming by with an immense dish of ripe raspberries.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  She confined herself to a light exclamation, begged Arkady to remember her to his father, and sent for her aunt.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  Bazarov shook Piotr by the collar, and sent him for a droshky.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Nikolai Petrovitch sent Fenitchka twice to take him a glass of lemonade; Pavel Petrovitch gazed at her intently, and drank off the glass to the last drop.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
16  Two men were sent up the mountain while the main party of climbers remained at base camp.
17  The infantry was/were sent into battle.
18  Many young men were sent into battle without proper training.
19  He sent her some books, together with a dictionary.
20  Our best man was sent to treat with the native leaders.
21  Valuable information was sent back regarding troop movements, flying-bomb factory and assembly areas, and supply dumps.
22  Divers were sent down to try and locate the wreck.
23  He sent off copies to various people for them to read and make comments.
24  I was sent to boarding school, where I spent six years of unremitting misery.
25  Don't worry about a bed for tonight; I've sent ahead to the hotel to ask them to keep a room for us.
26  Yeah right, a little virgin, a device sent by heaven to cleanse your soul.
27  They sent us a bill for the work they had done.
28  The smell of blood sent the sharks into a feeding frenzy.
29  She sent a parcel of books to her brother.
30  We sent a card with Christmas greetings.