ensued
Americanverb
Etymology
Origin of ensued
Example Sentences
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Ensued a weighty conference at the Presidential mansion.
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Ensued a three-hour secret session which one delegate later told reporters was "wasted in wind."
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Ensued, last week, furious dissensions among Indian politicians as to whether this offer should be accepted.
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Ensued hours of lordly legal buzz-buzz, enlivened when Baron Atkin, a Lord of Appeal, murmured: "But ought we not to inspect the actual sawed-off shotgun?"
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Ensued then a measureless period when he slept and dreamed strange jumbled dreams.
From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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