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143 example sentences for ROUT, such as:
1. The game ended in a total rout.
2. The vast rout held their peace.
3. His conjectures were put to the rout.
4. The rout behind the Guard was melancholy.
5. After our fifth goal the match became a rout.
2. The vast rout held their peace.
3. His conjectures were put to the rout.
4. The rout behind the Guard was melancholy.
5. After our fifth goal the match became a rout.
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Meanings and Examples of ROUT
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rout
v. put to disorderly flight or retreat; drive out; cause to flee; defeat overwhelmingly
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1 The cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other without releasing the other.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
2 The rout behind the Guard was melancholy.
3 He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he insults it, he clings to the rout.
4 The Prussians, let loose on the retreating rout, pushed forward.
5 His conjectures were put to the rout.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
6 The vast rout held their peace.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
7 The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF ...
8 These carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout.
9 Straightway Quercens and Aquicolus beautiful in arms, and desperate Tmarus, and Haemon, seed of Mars, either gave back in rout with all their columns, or in the very gateway laid down their life.
10 Nay, twice even then did he charge amid the enemy, twice drove them in flying rout along the walls.
11 Enough have we seen of rout and death, and desolation over our broad lands.
12 Barred out before their weeping parents' eyes and faces, some, swept on by the rout, roll headlong into the trenches; some, blindly rushing with loosened rein, batter at the gates and stiffly-bolted doorway.
13 Not knowing their manner of fighting, Carmagnola fell upon them with his horsemen, expecting to put them at once to rout; but finding them immovable, after losing many of his men he withdrew.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII.
14 The Romans separated into two divisions, one of which with the consul, the other with the centurion Tempanius by whose valour the army had that day been saved from utter rout.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII.
15 Which, as we saw, did not afterwards turn out as expected, because, after the rout at Vaila, one party at once took courage and seized the state.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 The game ended in a total rout.
2 I'll try my best to rout out a good goalkeeper for our football team.
3 After our fifth goal the match became a rout.
4 The reinforcements were able to rout the enemy.
5 Cash-strapped Venezuela claims that the group needs to stem the rout in prices.
6 The new trolleybus line was routed through the commercial district.
7 Others argue that more bus routes should be opened up because buses can accommodate more passengers.
8 Bus routes and railways, both overground and underground, converged on the station.
9 Drivers are advised to seek alternative routes.
10 While Russia has been keen to maintain its pipeline monopoly, the US has promoted routes which, as far as possible, are free from its rivals' control.
11 The Chinese respondents were quite well informed the three main routes of infection: unprotected sex, dirty needles, and mother-to-child transmission.
12 They have also had to contend with a split shift that requires them to drive routes in the morning and evening with no pay in between.
13 The only road access is a tortuous mountain route.
14 Barriers have been erected all along the route the Pope will take.
15 We took a roundabout route to avoid the accident.