Sent
[sent] or [sɛnt]
Definition
(noun.) 100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia.
(adj.) caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Send
(v. & n.) See Scent, v. & n.
(-) obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Send, for sendeth.
(-) imp. & p. p. of Send.
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Definition
n. (Spens.) scent perception.
pa.t. and pa.p. of send.
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Examples
- The porter lit it again, and I asked if that was all the light the clerk sent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It sent her into a strange, convulsed anger, to be thwarted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- One of these papers was sent to Major Dobbin,--Regt. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And from the safety of his overhanging limb the ape-child sent back the fearsome answer of his kind. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- A large force of railroad men have already been sent to Beaufort, and other mechanics will go to Fort Fisher in a day or two. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Part of the wool of Spain is manufactured in Great Britain, and some part of that cloth is afterwards sent back to Spain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Where's the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I despatched the first woman-servant I could find to Rosanna's room; and I sent the boy back to say that I myself would follow him with the boot. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He asked his informant, the butler, whether the doctor had been sent for. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But if she DID, the letter was written and sent away with a privacy which eluded all her watchfulness to ascertain the fact. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Mr. Franklin's letter I sent to him in the library--into which refuge his driftings had now taken him for the second time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was not all settled before Monday: as soon as it was, the express was sent off to Longbourn. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Just let him be sent to the calaboose a few times, and thoroughly dressed down! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The surplus part of them, therefore, must be sent abroad, and exchanged for something for which there is a demand at home. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Baird's division was accordingly sent from the right of Orchard Knob. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Le sentiment de la fausseté des plaisirs présents, et l'ignorance de la vanité des plaisirs absents causent l'inconstance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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