Sentence examples for a departed from inspiring English sources

Too far away to intercept them before they could attack Ceylon, Force A departed about eleven hours after arrival on a course that Somerville thought would allow him to attack by night while avoiding detection during the day.

It was a eulogy for himself, a departed citizen.

Each may have been intended as an imaginary portrait of a departed ancestor.

I never gave her that note from a departed soul because in fact I imagined it.

Strangely enough, that would be one of the greatest compliments a departed chief executive could receive.

A departed Internet security business left behind cubicles, desks, chairs and a palm-recognition entry system.

A more moving eulogy for a departed friend has scarcely been sung.

The successor to a departed governor would still be the ranking senator.

But Waterhouse's script also turns Bernard's musings into a paean to a departed Soho.

The extravagance of funeral rites was surpassed, in some societies, by ceremonies to deify a departed chief or priest.

The novel can certainly be used as a tool for the better understanding of a departed age.