Sample Sentences for
ensue
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    A long silence ensued, and then finally the door opened again.  (source)
    ensued = followed
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    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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    A brief quiet ensued.  (source)
    ensued = followed
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    Someone spotted a mess hall, and a charge ensued.  (source)
    ensued = followed
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    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)
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    Every time another nationality arrives in large numbers, turf wars ensue.†  (source)
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    A wrestling match ensues.†  (source)
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    The old-timer on Sulphur Creek was right, he thought in the moment of controlled despair that ensued:  (source)
    ensued = followed
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    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)
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    Days of darkness ensue, the switches dead, the grid empty.†  (source)
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    Armed forces will be stationed to ensure that the process ensues in as orderly a manner as possible.†  (source)
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    Instantly, pandemonium ensued as everyone ran this way and that, shouting at one another.†  (source)
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    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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