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143 example sentences for ROUT, such as:

1. The vast rout held their peace.
2. We drove home by a roundabout route.
3. His conjectures were put to the rout.
4. The plane deviated from its usual route.
5. Satellites route data all over the globe.

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 Meanings and Examples of ROUT
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rout
 v.  put to disorderly flight or retreat; drive out; cause to flee; defeat overwhelmingly
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1  The cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other without releasing the other.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
2  The rout behind the Guard was melancholy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
3  He strives to detain the army, he recalls it to its duty, he insults it, he clings to the rout.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
4  The Prussians, let loose on the retreating rout, pushed forward.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
5  His conjectures were put to the rout.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
6  The vast rout held their peace.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
7  The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF ...
8  These carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
9  Straightway Quercens and Aquicolus beautiful in arms, and desperate Tmarus, and Haemon, seed of Mars, either gave back in rout with all their columns, or in the very gateway laid down their life.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
10  Nay, twice even then did he charge amid the enemy, twice drove them in flying rout along the walls.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
11  Enough have we seen of rout and death, and desolation over our broad lands.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
12  Barred out before their weeping parents' eyes and faces, some, swept on by the rout, roll headlong into the trenches; some, blindly rushing with loosened rein, batter at the gates and stiffly-bolted doorway.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
13  Not knowing their manner of fighting, Carmagnola fell upon them with his horsemen, expecting to put them at once to rout; but finding them immovable, after losing many of his men he withdrew.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII.
14  The Romans separated into two divisions, one of which with the consul, the other with the centurion Tempanius by whose valour the army had that day been saved from utter rout.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII.
15  Which, as we saw, did not afterwards turn out as expected, because, after the rout at Vaila, one party at once took courage and seized the state.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX — ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TO WHI...
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  He took a tortuous route through back streets.
17  The climbers tried to find a new route to the top of the mountain.
18  The overland route is across some really tough mountains.
19  The plane did not fly the usual commercial route.
20  Satellites route data all over the globe.
21  Motorists are advised to find an alternative route.
22  We drove home by a roundabout route.
23  We took a cross-country route instead of the motorway.
24  The dog cocked its leg by every tree on our route.
25  The railway network had reached its greatest extent in route mileage.
26  In such rising route of China, the PLA has been tools and policy-making participant more than being sharer of political power.
27  The plane deviated from its usual route.
28  The pipeline would cross on route from Iran, earning the Pakistani government millions of dollars in transit fees.
29  The airline decided to inaugurate its new route to the Far East with a special reduced fare offer.
30  To avoid the traffic congestion on the main highways, she took a circuitous route.