Went in a sentence

Once the horn went all the way through him and he felt it go into the sand.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

I went back to the hotel and Maera was on the balcony looking out to see if I’d be bringing him back.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

Ag went back to Torre di Mosta to open a hospital.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

When they stopped the music for the crouch he hunched down in the street with them all and when they started it again he jumped up and went dancing down the street with them.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

So I went down and caught up with them and grabbed him while he was crouched down waiting for the music to break loose and said, Come on Luis.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

The others went down and took the bottles with them.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

He went inside when he saw me and came downstairs disgusted.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

They laid Maera down on a cot and one of the men went out for the doctor.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

He went to America on a boat from Genoa.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

We went to work on the trench and in the morning the sun came up and the day was hot and muggy and cheerful and quiet.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

He went under the anæsthetic holding tight on to himself so that he would not blab about anything during the silly, talky time.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

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Dictionary

Merriam-Webster
— past tense of GO
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Macmillan
— the past tense of go
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Other Word Forms

go
goes
going
gone


Usage

15 uses of ‘went’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
67 uses of ‘went’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
91 uses of ‘went’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
27 uses of ‘went’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle