Sentence examples for we were elsewhere from inspiring English sources

"We were elsewhere, off the planet, sequestered in space for 20 years.

This is the most melancholy of Bierce's rabbit-out-of-the-hat endings, and it works better than the others because of the sense of the uncanny that it casts, retrospectively, over the tall tale we've just read: we had thought we were still in this world, but we were elsewhere, in a no man's land between the natural and the supernatural.

This isn't because we aren't happy or wish we were elsewhere.

Conversely, if we let the hot spots degrade further, we're going to lose a large proportion of global biodiversity regardless of how successful we are elsewhere".

And given that we are elsewhere entitled to suspect de facto apartheid in Hollywood, when it comes to the issue of casting romantic leads, Asante, Pike and Oyelowo make it look easy and necessary.

But he was replaced by Mr Skilling, whose eyes, as we now know, were elsewhere.

We've been elsewhere and we haven't got anything as a result of that and I think, let's go English.

Her thoughts were elsewhere.

José told us that most of his clients stay up to a month with him, but we were due elsewhere.

The tense, anticipatory scherzo and the ferocious way Fischer launched the finale were reminders of how thrilling his Beethoven can be, and of what we were missing elsewhere.

The best we get at times is "elsewhere in Iraq".