were's Usage Examples:

military personnel who were mobilised from 1914 to 1918, 8 million were killed, 7 million were permanently disabled, and 15 million were seriously injured.

The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through.

They won the Southern League Second Division in 1900–01 and were elected into the Football League in 1920.

Germany quickly became a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the government.

Bayern Munich were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Paris Saint-Germain.

the nominal capital of both parts until AD 476, when the imperial insignia were sent to Constantinople, following the capture of Ravenna by the barbarians.

some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partially loaded.

A disproportionate number of men were left aboard because.

Relations between Israel and its neighbours were not normalised after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

South West Africa were classified by degree of nominal self-rule: 6 were "non-self-governing", 10 were "self-governing", and 4 were "independent".

Over the course of seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.

The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.

They were unable to defend their title as they advanced to the Champions League knockout stage, and were eliminated by Borussia Dortmund.

world, young people of the 2010s were less inclined to have sexual intercourse compared to their predecessors when they were at the same age.

where slavery had been abolished, and to islands in the Caribbean that were not part of the slave trade.

Although there were substantial changes in society and political structures, the break with classical.

the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were slaughtered by armed militias.

Prisoners were beaten, tortured, and executed for the most trivial reasons.

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period.

The Troubles (Irish: Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist period of conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to.

aircraft were concentrated, as well as the Reading Power Station.

Several aircraft were destroyed, some others were damaged, and five Israelis were killed.

Synonyms:

diverge; turn up; want; adhere; mill about; discombobulate; mingle; head; linger; belong; account for; answer; begin; interrelate; clean; stick by; appear; let go; underlie; run into; disagree; weigh; count; prove; rank; breathe; start; total; impend; stink; rest; fit; fall; go; embody; come; test; swing; subtend; merit; comprise; enter; recognize; require; lounge; cost; sell; wind; head up; pay; be given; confuse; throw; lean; pack; rate; object; lie; osculate; deserve; depend; lubricate; matter; press; amount; boil; stay on; delimitate; compact; mill around; hold; lurk; discord; connect; make; gape; contain; delineate; drown; buzz; broil; embellish; decorate; encounter; rage; promise; mess about; transplant; look; figure; rut; continue; draw; fuddle; stick; abound; yaw; stand by; lend; come in handy; beat; jumble; wash; tend; end; gravitate; retard; scintillate; terminate; accept; loaf; stand; tarry; coruscate; make sense; beautify; twist; grace; moon around; squat; lollygag; range; fox; remain; shine; litter; define; delimit; disaccord; point; take; moon about; bake; substantiate; measure; trim; distribute; seem; represent; balance; owe; cohere; lallygag; sparkle; suffer; deck; cut; seethe; footle; consist; cut across; hoodoo; suit; run; body forth; swim; add up; hurt; iridesce; work; cover; number; turn out; translate; bedevil; incarnate; come in for; curve; be well; incline; specify; adorn; stay; hang; yawn; compare; hail; befuddle; hum; suck; relate; loiter; feel; put out; kill; confound; need; mope; hang around; buy; account; stagnate; act;

Antonyms:

converge; suffer; agree; be well; change;