FALLEN in a Sentence

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252 example sentences for FALLEN, such as:
1. Her cap had fallen on her knees.
2. The building had fallen into disrepair.
3. Several of the books had fallen onto the floor.
4. The tunnel project has already fallen behind schedule.
5. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon erect.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FALLEN
fallen
 a.  having dropped by the force of gravity
 a.  having lost your chastity
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
2  This professor, when he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
3  This pun which has fallen from the skies must not be received with too much stupor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
4  Tholomyes, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE
5  An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, his horse having tumbled down.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
6  Her cap had fallen on her knees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
7  The first thing which struck him in this paddock was a door of the sixteenth century, which here simulates an arcade, everything else having fallen prostrate around it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
8  Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by seven lance-thrusts.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
9  Had the action been begun two hours earlier, it would have been over at four o'clock, and Blucher would have fallen on the battle won by Napoleon.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW
10  Those who had conquered Europe have fallen prone on the earth, with nothing left to say nor to do, feeling the present shadow of a terrible presence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
11  Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon erect.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
12  In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
13  All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the convict had fallen into the sea.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
14  The frigate Algesiras was anchored alongside the Orion, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it was to be feared that he would slip under one or the other of them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
15  Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and rolled aside.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  The administration has fallen into step with its European allies on this issue.
2  Those African leaders have now fallen victims of neocolonialism and sold their fellow Africans down the river.
3  The tunnel project has already fallen behind schedule.
4  Although the curtain has now fallen on the Republican era, many of its values still remain.
5  When the tree is fallen, every one runs to it with his axe.
6  There is a new trunk growing from the fallen dead tree.
7  The dollar has fallen in value amid rumors of weakness in the US economy.
8  Many small businesses have fallen victim to the recession.
9  The mat was smoldering where the burning log had fallen.
10  The building had fallen into disrepair.
11  Night/Darkness had fallen by the time we got back to the camp.
12  Standards of hygiene have fallen with all the attendant risks of disease.
13  Thousands of people could die because the relief effort has fallen so far behind.
14  I try to figure to myself what would have happened if I had fallen into the icy water.
15  Several of the books had fallen onto the floor.