DESPATCH in a Sentence

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37 example sentences for DESPATCH, such as:
1. We soon despatched the chocolate cake.
2. The despatch came from court about the time we expected.
3. Messengers were then despatched to his lodge requiring his presence.
4. A messenger was despatched to take the news to the soldiers at the front.
5. The despatch box, an immense oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DESPATCH
despatch
 n.  the property of being prompt and efficient
 n.  an official report (usually sent in haste)
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  I used all despatch, and am thankful I was not too late: as you, doubtless, must be also.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  No wonder that letters addressed to people here had never received an answer: as well despatch epistles to a vault in a church aisle.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  The despatch came from court about the time we expected.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IX.
4  You will have sufficient time before five o'clock; despatch a messenger to apprise the grooms at the first station.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 85. The Journey.
5  Beauchamp understood that nothing remained but to submit, and left the office to despatch a courier to Morcerf.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 86. The Trial.
6  Invitations were sent with despatch, and many a young lady went to bed that night with her head full of happy cares as well as Fanny.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  Oliver needed no prompting to despatch, and in little more than five minutes they were on their way to Craven Street.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  The woman suddenly turned to her work, and labored with a despatch that was perfectly astonishing to Tom.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  The despatch box, an immense oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
10  She tore herself betimes from the lingering enjoyment of her breakfast-tray, rang to have her grey gown laid out, and despatched her maid to borrow a prayer-book from Mrs. Trenor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
11  She determined, however, to see Mrs. Trenor for a few moments, and ringing for her maid she despatched a telegram to say that she would be with her friend that evening at ten.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
12  It was in Bertha's interest, certainly, that she had despatched Dorset to consult with Lawrence Selden.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
13  Messengers were then despatched to his lodge requiring his presence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
14  The chief consulted apart with his companions, and messengers despatched to collect certain others of the most distinguished men of the tribe.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
15  Miss Ophelia despatched a messenger, and soon the whole of the servants were convened in the room.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  We soon despatched the chocolate cake.
2  A messenger was despatched to take the news to the soldiers at the front.