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How to use just then in a sentence

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She bent her head over and exhaled deeply, but just then the dragon let out an ear-piercing shriek and made a dive right at them.
I gave his mother a hug when she began to cry, she started me off too, and just then I noticed that she must have been hurting more than I was.
My undauntedness was just then shattered by the sound of very large plates landing on our table.
In September of 1943 my marriage was solemnised with V.S., who had come out of jail just then.
As if right on cue, the door to the parlor opened just then and another servant, a young man, entered.
Graham had need of a new backpack and, strange to tell, my legs gave out on me just then.
It was the chief steward, and, quite honestly, the last person Kirstle wanted to see just then.
As he takes out his dagger to do God's will by sacrificing his son as a peace offering to God, just then out comes a lamb.
He was just then arriving at the pond with a small ice chest looking very hung over.
He started door-to-door canvass on April 28 and as happened him on previous occasions, his car conked out just then.
Wow, we almost passed out just then because of all the flipping excitement.
I opened my mouth for a sharp rebuke but just then the waitress appeared, bringing our plates of burgers and fries.
They had time to finish it because the Lacedaemonians at home were just then celebrating a festival.
He was conscious of it, but he was a taciturn man and just then he had nothing to say.
She threw off the covers and sat up. just then she heard a small, barely audible chuckle.
I got so mad with my older brother just then, and I decided myself, that I would tell Mama and Papa about it that night.
He always kept it short and one of his feet shuffled around when he was nervous, as he did just then.
She dares him to do it, and just then the clock strikes twelve.
But just then a carrion crow swooped down and took one of the ducklings.
Now anyone with half a brain cell knows what I did just then.
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The firm was immediately employed on the Illustrated London News, just then projected.
The shell collector was thinking, just then, of the persistence of nematocysts.
No on had time to answer, for just then all frogdom seemed to croak inquiringly, in answer to the sounds coming from the burlap bag.
My view would be that if a case is just then we should look for ways of supporting it by coherent argument.
Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and Master Jacky. Boys will be boys and our two twins were no exception to this golden rule.
I am not sure if you were watching that training session just then, but there were five or six dust-ups and the boys have been training with a lot of intensity.

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I had been listening to this rhapsody with the greatest admiration, when just then Bittra came in.
I don't know whether someone punctured an air cushion just then, or whether it was me heavin' a sigh of relief.
Even Americus, her teasing brother, would have gladdened her eyes just then.
But just then the plane took a sickening bounce, as if its antigravity had only started to operate within yards of the ground.
But just then Lulu felt something pulling her down toward where the big wheel went around and around, and she got frightened.
But Boreas Bluster, coming in just then, saw what was going on, and gave chilblain a whack that sent him spinning out of the room.
But just then my childish pride was grievously piqued by Philip's criticism.
There was a clutch on her throat just then, which would not relax at the call of her will.
He was a tall man, and was just then very wet, and as black as any coal heaver.
Detective Crowley was enmeshed in a mystery which he could not solve just then.
Diana's quick eyes, however, noted the movement, though she said nothing just then.
At the same time, the seaplane just then did not seem to be making any headway.
But just then the dog rose to look pointedly toward the corner of the house.
His strongest feeling just then was one of self-reproach, mingled with humiliation.
The other dragoon had just then returned, and made me a sign to follow him.
He was going to say more, but just then Bannon strode into the office and over to the draughting table.
And just then his eye fell upon the epergne, a very old and beautiful piece of silver, that graced the dinner-table.
I knew him well enough as I came upon him just then leaning over the bulwark taking an eyeful of Dutch scenery.
It was just then that Ebony observed him and uttered a falsetto cry of astonishment.
That cherished and perfumed beard expanded, as if it had just then received the last manipulation of the friseur.
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The job of front-end brakeman on a mountain division is no great stake for a man ordinarily, but it was one for me, just then.
We made our way to the galleried porch and sat down, there being a lull in the figures just then.
But I didn't have to tell them all this, for just then we heard the gate click and saw our friend, Mr. Gayle, coming up the walk.
And just then Jane Hubbard came downstairs, shepherding before her a pale and glassy-eyed Bream.
The Gorgon cannot have looked more coldly wicked than her ladyship just then.
She could not speak, just then, for the griping ache that was in her throat.
She was amused by Gwendolyn, but regretful that the visit had been timed just then.
It was hanging on the stable-door, and the horses were just then brought in.
The matter was not one about which I cared to speak just then, for I felt very sad and heartsore.
If silvertip had not spoken just then, this story might end very differently.
They say hope springs eternal in the human breast, but my breast didn't feel human just then.
She would have given every hope she had in the world, just then, for Sidney's stainless past.
He wanted to suggest to Manager Fogg that making the change just then would be inadvisable.
Sedately Betty walked downstairs, but just then Doris sat down at the piano and began a gay, jazzy tune.
But she was just then supersensitive on the subject, though I did not suspect it.
I saw a shower of sparks just then that looked as if they came from a switch engine.
But just then he happened to recollect the book he had received from the lay brother.
But my wife happened, just then, to be away acting at Szeged, and would not be back for a week.
Keg was a good dresser, but I never saw him quite as letter-perfect and wholly immaculate as he was just then.
However, lory would have felt uncomfortable, just then, in any other place.
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And she mercifully refrained from spoken pity, which he felt he could not have borne just then.
Captain Middleton was rather appealing just then, so earnest and big and boyish.
She could not even trouble herself about Granny's mispronunciation just then.
I had disobeyed you, Miss Nevil, and I should not have dared to look at you just then.
Bab was a brave child, but she did feel a little shaky and nohow just then.
The speed of the current in her veins was just then as swift as it was viewless.
Nicanor came to hate him vindictively, with no reason at all, as he hated all the world just then.
But just then I heerd a buzzin' sound, an' I reckoned there mun be a waps somewheer about.
The surgeon promised to attend to them, but just then Onslow turned to Jefferson.
The gentleman then took it and carried it to the pilot, who was just then coming down from the paddle box and putting on his coat.
She would have liked to assist Pawnee Brown, but could not see how it could just then be done.
And going out on to the pavement she called pere Bru who was just then crossing the roadway.
A few words more explained the situation, and, angry as he was, plater did not stop to waste time in idle reproaches just then.
If that willing Mrs. poot had only appeared just then, her services would have been invaluable.
There was another boom in recruiting just then, following on another German outrage.
This man was one of the passengers on the Aegir, who had just then arrived in Detroit.
I was grateful to the doughty Mr. Atwood, but just then I should have enjoyed choking him.
So he stared with all his might at the banjoist, who just then began another song.
I belonged to several Freedmen's Societies, and had just then pledged myself to beg a barrelful of old clothing to send South.
He wanted a bearskin, even if the fur was not just then in prime condition.
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And just then Trant got in the way of the belaying pin again, and this time he did not seem to want to get up.
And just then she bethought herself of the hour and drew forth her tiny watch.
It was just then that Sir James rode back from his reconnaissance.
The thing I most desired just then was to become an architect.
And note, just then the trooper close behind us had been wounded by a shell fragment.
He looks up at the coach, and just then a pea hits him on the nose, and some catches his cob behind and makes him dance up on his hind legs.
Even the tricks and cruelties he saw at Durham's had little meaning for him just then, save as they might happen to affect his future with Ona.
For all that the rag doll didn't think he was coming just then.
Jansenius entered just then, and Agatha became motionless and gazed abstractedly at a vase of flowers.
Also, for the most part, they were just then more or less in liquor.
Gilder, in truth, could not trust himself just then to an audible command.
A woman, veiled and bangled, climbed aboard just then, and I understood.
And just then Miss Wiggin passed by with her nose slightly in the air.
She reeled just then, giddy with fatigue, and down came the lash and flicked a flake of skin from her naked shoulder.
Harold, just then, had happily uncovered the simmering kettle.
Bela could not come, as he had just then a school examination.
The idealist, the mystic, were very present in honoria just then.
He grinned to himself, and just then the hoot of an owl sounded.
Daring was the fashionable amusement among the Avonlea small fry just then.
They would have liked to follow it up, but, alas, they had no time for adventures just then.
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Something that happened just then capped the climax of Maurice's misery.
He will probably never know why chantry, just then, began to be amiable.
The mail carrier just then came in with a huge bundle of letters.
It was as if an evil spirit possessed the child, and had just then peeped forth in mockery.
Uncle Paul grunted, and just then Captain chubb strolled up.
I couldn't make a casus belli of it just then, because my Chief had taken all the troops to hammer a gang of slave kings up north.
But just then, all at once, something gave three taps on the windowpane.
And just then the cab suddenly stopped, and there was his persecutor rapping on the front glass.
The yards were seething with agitation just then, said the man, speaking as a unionist.
Customers came just then, to change the current of his thoughts.
The rain came on just then and perhaps assisted in dampening their ardour.
Its newness and desolateness of appearance revolted me, just then.
It was the fire of Grimshaw's piquet just then at bay below Talana.
The possibility of raising Catalonia in the interest of the REY NETTO, who had just then crossed the Pyrenees, was much discussed there.
Well, just then along comes these two chaps slipping along close by me, with something under their arm, and I reckoned they'd stole it.
But there were financial reasons which made that inexpedient just then.
And Jo shut the door, feeling that food was an uncongenial topic just then.
For just then, although the sun had still an hour or two to run, all the echoes of the island awoke and bellowed to the thunder of a cannon.
There was a tapping on the end table just then, and all the boys rose.
But just then the dog, squirming and rubbing against the newcomer's legs, opened his mouth and barked.
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But just then he espied the transfigured face of the girl in pink.
A dollar looked bigger to me, just then, than a wheel of the yellow peril.
He felt, just then, that it was the kindest thing he could do.
But just then fixie moved a little and whispered something in his sleep.
Horses were certainly at a high premium just then in Flanders.
Fortunately, there was just then a flood of evening sunshine in the air.
March, as she and her daughter went through the new kingdom arm in arm, for just then they seemed to cling together more tenderly than ever.
And just then Hughie fetched him a clout that knocked him clean down the stairs and off the veranda.
The mess was in no mood just then to weigh insults to Russian colonels.
In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.
While we were getting it back again the parrot, which was in its cage, let out a squawk.When just then the parrot cuts with another of them squawks.
And just then the Admiral perceived a house by the wayside, and something depending over the house door which might be construed as a sign by the hopeful and thirsty.
That braggart horde was encamped but about three miles off, and were just then in high glee and festivity, and more swaggering than ever, celebrating a prodigious victory.
The workman took off his coat leisurely and hung it on one of the spikes of the rail, saying something to a policeman who just then sauntered along.

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