Sentence examples for Was from inspiring English sources

"It was not.

I thought it was going to be easy.

But it was not to be.

"How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.

It was not to be.

Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.

I was born in Shanghai in 1940.

It was my fault.

This was a mistake.

That was not to be.

I was horrified".