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"Were" in a Sentence (23 examples)
Humans were never meant to live forever.
I was wondering if you were going to show up today.
In the 1950's, the Finns were cited as having one of the least healthy diets in the world.
Oh, my white pants! And they were new.
They were left speechless.
Most schools were designed not to transform society, but to reproduce it.
Sarah was discerning enough to realize that her friends were trying to prank her.
He was sick of being vilified all the time by people who were jealous of his ability.
Food and drink were served in such profusion at the wedding that the bride and groom began to wonder if they should not have invited more guests.
The bottles of beer that I brought to the party were redundant; the host's family owned a brewery.
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John, you were the only person to see him.
We were about to leave.
Mary and John, you were right.
They were a fine group.
They were to be the best of friends from that day on.
I wish that it were Sunday.
I wish that I were with you.
Were it simply that she wore a hat, I would not be upset at all. (= If it were simply...) Were father a king, we would have war. (= If father were a king,...)
Maccabi would have been out of contention were it not for Stoke's profligacy, but their fortune eventually ran out as the visitors opened the scoring.
1799-1805, Sharon Turner, History of the Anglo-Saxons Every man was valued at a certain sum, which was called his were.
If by that he failed to pay or give security for the were, or fine, at which murder was legally rated; he might be put to death by the relatives of the murdered man.
Written statutes busied themselves only with the amount of the were, or fine, or (for the first century after the Conquest) with the method of procedure.
The consequence of conviction was, the payment to the person injured, of a were, or penalty, proportioned to the offencel but though this was the ordinary course, the recovery of the were was not the only object of the proceedings. "The were," says Reeve, "in cases of homicide, and the fines that were paid in cases of theft of various kinds, were only to redeem the offender from the proper punishment of the law, which was death, and that was reddemable, not only by paying money, but by undergoing some personal pains; hence it is that we hear a great variety of corporal punishments..."...
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