Example sentences for: went

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

  • I went to a high school (all male, and not one of those fee-paying buggery clinics from Masterpiece Theatre ) where the rugby team were gods.

  • The labor and thought that went into those letters helped politicians understand how many voters really cared about an issue and exactly what those voters thought.

  • People went out of their way to attack not just the book--some candidly admitted they hadn't bothered to read it--but Harrison personally, and her husband, her agent, and her publishers for good measure.

  • Therefore, as time went on, the knowledgeability of the Bell Curve discussion grew, but the attention paid to that discussion inevitably shrank.

  • Saturday my study group (go ahead, laugh) met to discuss Doug Henwood's new book Wall Street (I missed this session because I hadn't read the book) and at lunchtime they went to a demonstration in Union Square, that was supposed to be of Latino sweatshop workers, and came away reeling: maybe fifteen people, mostly ancient sectarians and a few young ones, all full of the old rhetoric (a moment of silence followed by a "moment of rage" with raised fists but some people didn't know how to do it, memories of the black athletes' stand at the Mexico City Olympics having faded).


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