Example sentences for: received

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

  • NEADS first received a call about United 93 from the military liaison at Cleveland Center at 10:07.

  • (Soldiers in the Gulf for Desert Storm received the initial dosage only.)

  • We received the rule on August 21, 1996.

  • Linguistic chauvinism might be understandable were we discussing RP (that is, the Received Pronunciation of the prestige southern British dialect), but, if that is the case, in the present instance we must then be looking at a dictionary of “RP Slang,” whatever that might be.

  • At the beginning of the film, now in wide release, Berkowitz--thirtyish and divorced and unable to get his directing career off the ground--explains that he has received a sum of money from a private investor (heard cursing the director via a hidden tape recorder) to go on 20 dates with 20 attractive women and thereby capture something unglimpsed in commercial movies about the single life, the nature of love, etc., etc., ad nauseam.


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