Sentence for behind | Use behind in a sentence

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• He stole up close behind. (8)
• Willoughby was behind her. (10)
• He shot glances behind him. (10)
• Behind them stood Mrs. Bellew. (8)
• He soon left the house behind. (8)
• The door swings to behind him. (8)
• From behind us came a little laugh. (8)
• And then he heard a stir behind him. (8)
• She stood with hers clasped behind her. (9)
• Wilfrid refused even to look behind him. (10)
• Whole centuries of authority stood behind him. (8)
• He opened the outer door and shut it to behind him. (8)
• There is something, you know, behind all this evil. (8)
• The maid was hid-up, scared-like, behind the curtain. (8)
• All the long house behind him seemed asleep, deserted. (8)
• Behind what is said each day stands a long tradition. (16)
• This, with the hamlet lying behind unseen, is Swanston. (2)
• His mind, I think, was in Nashville, behind a breastwork. (7)
• At the extreme left and a few yards behind came the captain. (1)
• Had Uncle Soames and the old buffer behind made a mess of it? (8)
• Behind the ostentation of civility, their words were daggers. (10)
• A worm-eaten board found behind a partition was black with blood. (12)
• You know that it is a beautiful screen, with emptiness behind it. (12)
• Lavender, who stood in the middle of his lawn, with Blink behind him. (8)
• Before us ran the murmuring brook and behind us ran the turn-pike road. (4)
• To each of them the second meaning stood shadowy behind the utterances. (22)
• And, leaning out, he drew the curtains to behind him and lighted his pipe. (8)
• Behind, which, to those who have caught the springs of his character, volumes may be seen. (10)
• The trouble with success is that it is apt to leave life behind, or apart. (9)
• He heard a sound behind him, and saw that his wife and daughter had come in. (8)
• And he looked round at the three Germans slouching up shamefacedly behind him. (8)
• Here he found a half-company of infantry lounging behind a line of stacked rifles. (1)
• And, as if she had been his shadow lengthened out to that far distance, she moved behind him. (8)
• Light was all in confusion yet; away low down behind the trees, the rose of dawn still clung. (8)
• The long procession sank down the darkness, leaving the low red fire to die out behind them. (10)
• The roan rushed past the little groom, whose top boots seemed to twinkle as he jumped up behind. (8)
• If, behind all that innocence and candour, she has any trained artfulness, she will beat us all. (10)
• Swithin would soon have been out, but a little behind he caught sight of Rozsi swept off her feet. (8)
• Many remained standing; but while they stared upward, they were thrust aside by others behind them. (12)
• Perhaps she will be kind enough to use this money to satisfy a few obligations that I leave behind. (12)
• The sergeant in the rear rank, immediately behind Captain Graffenreid, now observed a strange sight. (1)
• No wonder her father had hidden that photograph, so secretly behind her own-ashamed of having kept it! (8)
• The glow died above the river, the singing ceased; the young moon hid behind a tree, and all was dark. (8)
• Her meaning seized me at once; we both sprang out of the ditch and ran, dragging our blanket behind us. (10)
• The words of both uncle and nephew gave the impression of unspoken meanings, far more important, behind. (8)
• The orchestra, which was played behind the scenes, consisted of a harpsichord, two lutes and a bass-viol. (3)
• Harry, a little behind the others, performed a laborious mock salute, and then ordered her back to the house. (10)
• She did not see Winton, who stood stone-quiet, watching, while the nurse moved about her business behind a screen. (8)
• You must bear in mind that when she sailed away she left behind only fifty of her {44} fellow-countrymen in Quebec. (19)
• In a little dark room behind the hall the Committee were already assembled, and they went at once on to the platform. (8)
• Across her shoulders, and behind, flowed large loose curls, brown in shadow, almost golden where the ray touched them. (10)
• Behind each there was more, behind the country a great deal more, than could be displayed by a glass. (10)
• So they coursed away, speeding behind their Chief and Bhanavar; sweet were the desert herbs under their crushing hooves! (10)
• He felt her arms fasten behind his neck, but they were cool as marble; he met her eyes, and they were mocking and compassionate. (8)
• He was ironical over the views of Radicals or Socialists, but disliked to hear such people personally abused behind their backs. (8)
• Secretly behind it, the man was proud of having a heart to beat for the cause of the besiegeing enemy, in the present instance. (10)
• The trees and flowers wore an awakened look in the gleams of light that came stealing down from behind the purple of the clouds. (8)
• Standing there in the dark it was almost as if they had come up behind her, with their pleadings; and a shiver ran down her back. (8)
• Content that her aspect should be seemly, she ran down the stairs, unfastened the bolts, and without hesitation closed the door behind her. (22)
• Algernon asked himself when, taking his ticket and the five-and-twenty pounds, he repelled the stare of a man behind a neighbouring partition. (10)
• For one instant the assailants paused above their dead, then struggled forward, their bayonets glittering in the eyes that shone behind the smoke. (7)
• She pursued the woman Warwick unmercifully through a series of interviews with her decorous and crudely-minded defenders; accurately perusing them behind their senior staidness. (10)

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Definition of behind:

• behind, be-hnd’, prep. at the back of (_place_, or as support_): remaining after or coming after (_time_, rank_, order_): inferior to, or not so far advanced as. | adv. at the back, in the rear: backward: past. | adj. or adv. behind’hand, being behind: tardy, or in arrears of debt, &c.: clandestine. (0)

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