Sentence examples for expedition when they from inspiring English sources

Nannie suffered personally during this "thiefing expedition" when they stole her beloved horse: "They took off a great many negroes and horses, among the latter was my beautiful gallant grey 'Stonewall Jackson.' He was a present from Pa".

The 18-year-olds were returning empty-handed from a failed fishing expedition when they entered the Hilton Double Tree resort and shot the one-metre fish last Wednesday.

A family of three (the mop-topped forest ranger dad, Marshall, his tight-trousered son Lynn and the young Holly, with her blond braids, overbite and excessive spunk) are white-water rafting on "a routine expedition" when they're pulled into a whirlpool -- a vortex into another dimension, one in which Claymation dinosaurs roam the earth.

Several times on past expeditions, when they brought up the line, they discovered that the shark they'd been hoping to catch had been consumed by a larger shark, the bigger predator now dangling from the hook.

Needless to say, by the 68th day of their expedition (when a nasty rumor predicts that they will all die of suffocation), things are not going well.

An expedition was forming when they spotted their teacher shuffling past the door.

The Sjogrens said the need for this kind of automation became apparent during a recent Everest expedition when their Webmaster went on vacation just as they were approaching the summit.

A few days after the burying expedition, when German foot-soldiers surprised the Essex as they saddled up, he watched in amazement as the Bengal Lancers leapt on to their horses bareback, plucked their lances out of the ground and routed the enemy.

On an earlier expedition, when both she and Mr. Tanz were in Los Angeles, they visited Tortoise General Store in Venice, all pale wood shelves with simple, striking Japanese table items.

When I checked with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and with Ballard, they confirmed that Pellegrino was on neither the 1985 expedition, when the Titanic was discovered not by a robot but by a towed imaging sled, nor on Ballard's follow-up trip to the Titanic in 1986.

In this case the officer was engaged in a fishing expedition when he answered the telephone.