English example sentences with "went"

Learn how to use went in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

This is my friend Rachel. We went to high school together.

It has been so long since I last went to Disneyland with my family.

I went to the zoo yesterday.

We went to London last year.

I went to drink a beer with friends.

It is time you went to school.

Do you deny that you went there?

Your father went through all that trouble for your sake.

You went too far in your joke.

Thanks to you, the job went well.

I went to the airport by taxi.

A time bomb went off in the airport killing thirteen people.

After all the trouble we went to in coming up with that project, it only took them a second to shoot it down in the meeting.

Every Friday night they went and got liquored up.

Many men went west in search of gold.

Kyoko went away, humming a song.

The athletic meeting went on as scheduled.

She went there last summer.

The express train went by so fast that we hardly saw it.

My vacation went by quickly.

The bell went off right in the middle of our discussion.

Congress went into recess.

Sick and tired, she went to bed early.

He was so sad that he almost went mad.

Strange to say, the figure went out of sight suddenly.

His face went to pieces with tears.

The thermometer went down below zero.

Making nothing of the cold, he went out in thin clothes.

Some of the students went by bus, and others on foot.

I usually went to bed at ten in my school days.

On leaving school, he went to Africa.

On leaving school, he went into business.

As soon as he graduated, he went to work in his father's general store.

We went on a school trip to Nara.

We went to Lake Towada on a school excursion.

School being over, we went home.

School being over, we went swimming in the pool.

As we went around the corner, the lake came in sight.

Down went the bus over the cliff.

It was careless of her to leave the door unlocked when she went out.

He took his daughter with him whenever he went abroad.

I felt a chill when I went out of the house.

As soon as I went out, it began to rain.

I shivered with cold when I went outside.

He called his father as he went up the stairs.

We went to the theater early, so we could be sure that everyone could get a seat.

They went to the beach.

He went to France to brush up on his speaking ability.

The company was in the red and went under.

The firm went under due to lack of capital.

The company went after its no. 1 customer complaint: power outages.

The conference went off according to the plan.

The meeting went on in this manner.

Her absence went unnoticed until the end of the meeting.

We broke up and went our own ways.

We went to New York by plane.

We waited up for him until two o'clock and then finally went to bed.

We went to court when they refused to pay for the damage.

We got into his car and went to the sea.

We objected, but she went out anyway.

We went to the museum.

We went due north.

We went astray in the woods.

We went into a shop to get some food.

We went as far as Kyoto.

We went early to make certain that we could get seats.

We painted the house once, then we went over it again.

We went by bus as far as London.

We went together to Laramie, and there we parted.

We all went in search of gold.

We went on talking about the matter.

We went up and down by elevator.

Our train went at 200 kilometers an hour.

Our experiment went wrong last week.

Since neither one of us could afford to take the other to the movies, we went Dutch.

The church we went past crumbled five minutes afterwards due to a huge earthquake and more than a 100 churchgoers were buried alive.

As we went around the corner, the lake came into view.

The fire went on for some time before it was brought under control.

The fire broke out after the staff went home.

The fire went out.

The fire went out by itself.

Being free, she went out for a walk.

I went home and ate a hearty breakfast.

I was half asleep when I went home.

I usually went to bed at ten during the summer vacation.

As the centuries went by and England became more crowded, the people found their food supply a great problem.

Having nothing to do, he went downtown.

Everything went better than I had expected.

I need to find out exactly what went wrong.

Something went off with a loud noise.

The king went hunting this morning.

After his wife left him, Harold went nuts.

The smoke went upward through the chimney.

I got more and more bored as the speech went on.

On arriving at the station, I went to see my uncle at his office.

The English poet Percy Shelley went so far as to call hell a city much like London.

The rumor soon went about.

He caught a chill because he went out in the rain.

He went out in spite of the rain.

The children went to school in spite of the rain.

In spite of the rain, I went out.

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