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ascertained

How to use ascertained in a sentence

Rich natives and Chinese lost large sums of money, the total of which cannot be ascertained.

The intention to hinder, delay or defraud creditors is a question of fact to be ascertained by proper judicial inquiry.

As soon as he had reached the south gate he had ascertained this by a glance at the gravel shoulder of the road.

There are in fact no experiments in which the effects of a purely mineral soil have been ascertained.

When the question comes before a court, it seeks after the intention of the parties, and is guided by it when ascertained.

REEF k, in latitude 14 degrees 47 minutes, has a dry sand upon it: its sub-marine extent was not ascertained.

The continuation of the shoal between the islands and Point Lookout was not clearly ascertained.

Some shoal marks on the water were observed opposite these islands, but their existence was not ascertained.

When the true state of the case was ascertained, her course was directed aright, and full steam let on.

It was afterwards ascertained that a mistake had been made in reference to the vessel that had signalled.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985