Received

//ɹɪˈsiːvd//

"Received" in a Sentence (12 examples)

I received your letter yesterday.

I received a five hundred dollar advance on my pay.

Each student received his diploma in turn.

We received word of his death.

We received an immediate answer to our letter.

We received a large parcel.

When his wife died, he received dozens of letters of sympathy.

I received your letter the day before yesterday.

We've received a lot of applications in answer to our advertisements.

From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.

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And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men.

The old saying goes that we should not judge a man until we have walked a mile in his shoes. As with so much received wisdom – from judging books by their covers to the relative exchange rate for birds in hands and bushes – this is of course rubbish.

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