Example sentences for: felled

How can you use “felled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It may just have been heat or hunger that caused one boy chorister to faint as if on cue as soon as the last chord faded during a rehearsal that morning, but it was easy to believe he had been felled by the music.

  • The felled seam commonly used for the inseam of jeans comes from a two-needle chain-stitch machine.

  • Two thousand years ago the Roman senator Cicero noted the creation of barren desert-like land in North Africa after the forests were felled for their timber, providing the earliest record of an ecosystem ‘service’ provided by forests—the stabilisation of soils.

  • We nod to the idea of value-subtraction whenever we fall back on Horace's phrase about "laboring to bring forth a mouse," or lament the forests felled to make possible a terrible book, or recollect an experience of working by committee.

  • The scenarios: Bush could lose his temper, be skewered by Forbes-sponsored ads, remain hopelessly fuzzy on the issues, be resented for his vast campaign (and inherited) resources, get cocky, fall apart in an early primary, or be felled by a scandalous skeleton rattling in his closet.


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