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  • A long silence ensued, and then finally the door opened again.  (source)
    ensued = followed
  • A brief quiet ensued.  (source)
  • In the ensuing national hysteria Congress funneled millions upon millions of dollars into the California-based aerospace industry, and the boom was on.  (source)
    ensuing = subsequent (happening later)
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  • Someone spotted a mess hall, and a charge ensued.  (source)
    ensued = followed
  • The general's shattered hip—and all of the ensuing complications, the pneumonia, blood poisoning, the protracted stay at the nursing home—ended Khala Jamila's long-running soliloquies about her own health.  (source)
    ensuing = subsequent (happening later)
  • Every time another nationality arrives in large numbers, turf wars ensue.†  (source)
    ensue = follow
  • A wrestling match ensues.†  (source)
    ensues = follows
  • The old-timer on Sulphur Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair that ensued:  (source)
    ensued = followed
  • He never raised his voice, but instead he let the noise surrounding it gradually sink so that his voice emerged in the ensuing silence without any emphasis on his part—"so that you were standing next to the river bank, watching Phineas climb the tree?" he was saying, and had waited, I knew, until this silence to say.  (source)
    ensuing = subsequent (happening later)
  • "Without question," concluded the Count, "summer is now at the gates and the days that ensue are sure to be long and carefree...."†  (source)
    ensue = follow
  • Robert Frost has a poem, "Out, Out—" (1916), about a momentary lapse of attention and the terrible act of violence that ensues.†  (source)
    ensues = follows
  • A strange roundup of the wounded ensued.†  (source)
    ensued = followed
  • Their attachment to the Union is based on great and important reasons, which I will try to explain in some ensuing papers.  (source)
    ensuing = following (happening later)
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