SLEW in a Sentence
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21 example sentences for SLEW, such as:
1. The captain could not slew the ship round in time to avoid an accident.
2. Nevertheless, he was dragged to prison, and before the day of trial slew himself.
3. Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthelemy slew Cournet.
4. The captain flew into a passion at the disrespectful behaviour of the brute, and slew him on my body.
2. Nevertheless, he was dragged to prison, and before the day of trial slew himself.
3. Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthelemy slew Cournet.
4. The captain flew into a passion at the disrespectful behaviour of the brute, and slew him on my body.
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Meanings and Examples of SLEW
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slew
v. turn sharply; change direction abruptly
v. move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 Nevertheless, he was dragged to prison, and before the day of trial slew himself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLV.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLV.
2 Enraged by this, Alexander renewed the siege, and with such vigour, that he took and destroyed the city, and either slew or made slaves of its inhabitants.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXVII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXVII.
3 Pausanias, of whom we have made mention so often, slew Philip of Macedon as he walked between his son and his son-in-law to the temple, surrounded by a thousand armed guards.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
4 Diocles they slew; but Hippias, making his escape, avenged him.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
5 For though Brutus was victorious with his wing of the army Cassius, whose wing was beaten, believed the entire army to be defeated, and under this belief gave way to despair and slew himself.
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.
6 I was in bed and fast asleep when it pleased God to send the Bulgarians to our delightful castle of Thunder-ten-Tronckh; they slew my father and brother, and cut my mother in pieces.
7 The captain flew into a passion at the disrespectful behaviour of the brute, and slew him on my body.
8 Duhesme, the general of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew the prisoner.
9 Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthelemy slew Cournet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
10 So spoke he, and slew fit sacrifice on the altars, a bull to Neptune, a bull to thee, fair Apollo, a black sheep to Tempest, a white to the prosperous West winds.
11 Now the heavy hand of war dealt equal woe and counterchange of death; in even balance conquerors and conquered slew and fell; nor one nor other knows of retreat.
12 Yet if untimely death awaited my son, it will be good to think he fell leading the Teucrians into Latium, and slew his Volscian thousands before he fell.
13 And he lent the king the wonderful sword, and he slew the enemy's army with it; and thus the kingdom was once more in peace and plenty.
14 He was drawing in this circle geometrical lines, and seemed as much absorbed in his problem as Archimedes was when the soldier of Marcellus slew him.
15 They ate their sandwiches by a prairie slew: long grass reaching up out of clear water, mossy bogs, red-winged black-birds, the scum a splash of gold-green.
Example Sentence:
1 The captain could not slew the ship round in time to avoid an accident.
2 This month, she takes the lead in Kenneth Branagh's sumptuous new live-action version of Cinderella, before playing centre stage in a slew of other high-profile projects.