Sentence Examples

1. In the intervening millennia, the tiny cluster of fishing houses they had passed would become the harbour.
2. And how many others had been lost in the intervening centuries?
3. The body yielded to the currents of air, and though no murmur or groan escaped the victim, there were instants when he grimly faced his foes, and the anguish of cold despair might be traced, through the intervening distance, in possession of his swarthy lineaments.
4. Several other people in the village had been killed by lions in the intervening years.
5. She looked across the intervening hills, a saw-toothed range that extended for scores of miles to the sacred peak.
6. With the exception of the huge bulks of the skin-lodges, little could be seen save the flames of the fire, broken by the movements of intervening bodies, and the smoke rising slowly on the quiet air.
7. No matter what happens to the valley in the intervening years, no matter what anyone does, ices will melt.
8. All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.
9. I took up my place behind a yew-tree, and I saw his dark figure move until the intervening headstones and trees hid it from my sight.
10. The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.