Sentence for contained | Use contained in a sentence

Sentences with contained in them. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use contained in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for contained.

• The world contained him only. (12)
• It contained quite a number of rooms. (12)
• It contained the weightiest of secrets. (10)
• It was heavy, and contained something hard. (10)
• Of course I contained my voice all the more. (10)
• A look at Benjy, contained and cheery, restored him. (8)
• Whatever the letter contained, I can anticipate it. (10)
• Never had she felt such a one as this letter contained. (4)
• No morning could be fine that contained such a discovery. (8)
• In 1777 Philadelphia contained about thirty thousand souls. (18)
• The park was very large, and contained great variety of ground. (4)
• The second letter contained scenes between Wilsonople and the Moon. (10)
• He clearly could not learn from misfortune; he was not to be contained. (10)
• It contained an amethyst necklace, an emerald pendant, and a diamond ring. (8)
• The letter succeeding the omission contained no excuse, and it was brief. (10)
• She spoke of him languidly, as if his letters contained wearisome trifling. (10)
• She spoke of him languidly, as if his letters contained wearisome trifling. (22)
• And her letter contained womanly sympathy for him in his battle with his uncle. (10)
• Why, it was the one which had contained the paragraph she had read at breakfast! (8)
• It was by no means unreasonably large, and contained neither tapestry nor velvet. (4)
• This was the idea of Stella Ashurst, whose character contained a streak of sentiment. (8)
• It contained some precise details, and ended in a claim for damages, and George smiled. (8)
• It contained quite as much food for marvel and moral reflection as either of the others. (13)
• The chest had a little top made of small, carved columns; this, too, contained a drawer. (12)
• The letter contained but a few words from a firm of solicitors confirming an appointment. (8)
• The second story of this building contained the sleeping apartments of the British agent. (18)
• At the inquest nothing could elicit an intelligent account of what the paper had contained. (1)
• But the silence following the verdict was heavy; the silence contained an unheard thunder. (10)
• Mr. Paramor lifted a vase and sniffed at the rose it contained; Gregory walked to the window. (8)
• A workman in a blue blouse passed, and threw them crumbs from the paper which contained his dinner. (8)
• This introductory ode to Freedom was his throwing off of steam, the foretaste of what he contained. (10)
• It contained every place which Heine had mentioned, and she was determined not one should escape them. (9)
• In this retreat, which contained a rustic bench, Nedda was accustomed to sit and read; she went there now. (8)
• The man reached out a hand, covered with black hairs, and took up a tumbler that contained a dark-coloured fluid. (8)
• She still held the sheet in her hand, and was shouting to the angry elements the magic formulas which it contained. (5)
• The two lines of postscript contained more, far more food for hopes and fears than did all the rest of the epistle. (6)
• It contained the papers on Beau Tibbs, among others, and I tried to write sketches and studies of life in their manner. (9)
• Hilary, looking down on the little hat which, by his special wish, contained no feathers, felt a lump rise in his throat. (8)
• He leaned forward watching them with much the same contained, shrewd, critical look he would have bent on a pack of hounds. (8)
• Of these three possible reasons for our dislike of things as they are, the first two are perhaps contained within the third. (8)
• An overthrown table, a partly burned candle, a chair and some paper with writing on it were all else that the room contained. (1)
• They contained no actual complaint, nor was there any revival of past occurrences, or any communication of present suffering. (4)
• In this state of her spirits, a letter was delivered to her from the post, which contained a proposal particularly well timed. (4)
• Something, it seems to me, may be contained and kept alive in formality, but in formlessness everything spills and wastes away. (9)
• It contained an order on a firm of attorneys to sell out so much Bank Stock and pay over one thousand pounds to Mr. A. Blancove. (10)
• It contained an order on a firm of attorneys to sell out so much Bank Stock and pay over one thousand pounds to Mr. A. Blancove. (22)
• His style was broad and bold and contained much of that serious and earnest character now attributed to his Teutonic associations. (3)
• At last, with mysterious roguishness, he inquired what it contained, and on being answered, shook his head with kindly incredulity. (2)
• Still another brought me a dispatch he had prepared, requesting me to look it over and see whether it contained anything strictly libelous. (16)
• Besides the Commander and the two Commissioners, the room contained a large round table and a sideboard well supplied with Madeira and claret. (18)
• He had imagination sufficient to conceive the lamentations they contained, and the reproach they were to his own subserviency in not sending them. (10)
• He had imagination sufficient to conceive the lamentations they contained, and the reproach they were to his own subserviency in not sending them. (22)
• With regard to her not accompanying them to Ireland, her account to her aunt contained nothing but truth, though there might be some truths not told. (4)
• The catalogues of the instruments contained in the Metropolitan Museum (Crosby-Brown Collection), New York City, will be found very useful for reference. (3)
• She read it hastily in the presence of Arthur Rhodes, having at a glance at the handwriting anticipated the proposal it contained and the official phrasing. (10)
• Epsom permitted it; but Ewell contained a sturdy citizen, who, smoking his pipe under his eaves, contemplative of passers-by, saw strife rushing on like a meteor. (10)
• Epsom permitted it; but Ewell contained a sturdy citizen, who, smoking his pipe under his eaves, contemplative of passers-by, saw strife rushing on like a meteor. (22)
• He commissioned Anselmus Winckler, an excellent notary, and formerly his most intimate school friend, to close the apothecary shop and to sell privately whatever it contained. (5)

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