How to use "decided" in a sentence

They'll just think that I decided not to meet them

The girls now felt very tired and decided not to go to the party

I have decided to do this every ninety minutes

Then I missed the next drink and decided to save it for later

Aron's housemates decided not to wait any longer

12.00 am It's my third night here and I've decided to take my first sip of urine

When the captain of the American ship the Abraham Lincoln decided to leave and look for the monster, he asked me to go with them as an expert.

Bubba and I decided that we would get a shrimp boat when we got home again, and catch shrimps, and make a lot of money

It was the doctors at the hospital who decided to send me to NASA - that's the space centre at Houston, in Texas.

I decided to go home to Mobile, but the bus stopped at Nashville on the way and I went into town for a drink and something to eat

I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that Constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government

I decided what kind of people they were before they said a word to me

I decided to ask Mr Slinkton some questions

I decided that my first impression of Mr Slinkton was wrong.

They decided to continue on their way to work and tell the first policeman they met.

Mary and Barnett decided to live together, and by the beginning of 1888 they were renting a room, 13 Miller's Court in Dorset Street.

So perhaps he decided to kill his next victim indoors and chose Mary Kelly, knowing her room was safe.

After studying the garden, he decided that escape would be easy

What could she do? She had sold her hair and her teeth; what else could she sell? And then she decided that she had no other choice: she would have to sell herself.

The devil had suddenly decided to be kind, and she did not know what to think.

Nothing had changed, and he decided that he had one last duty to perform: he must send Cosette a final message and tell her of his death

Then Valjean frowned and, after a quick calculation, decided that Marius was probably still alive

After a long discussion with his friends, Enjolras decided that the married men (there were five of them) had to leave.

'That's fair,' Enjolras decided, when nobody objected

He decided to cheat

He decided to come to the biggest, richest, most important gambling city in the world, and he decided to cheat.

That was when he decided he was good enough and clever enough and lucky enough to play at my table

She decided that they needed to talk about something different, because she'd come here to make things better, not worse.

I know you've thought about it, and I can see you've decided the answer is no

"So they decided not to fix the old equipment

"So, is that it? You've decided? For sure?"

She decided to go for a run at the energy center; maybe it would cheer her up

But the day before her next Ultranet Talk Hour with Cham, she decided to go to the simulator center

There was one last Ultranet Talk Hour with Cham before the end of the month, but Sala decided it wasn't even worth trying to talk to him about leaving

"Cham is having such a good time that we've decided I should do Pod Life, too."

'Mrs Van Hopper only decided to leave yesterday

I smiled and said, 'We have not decided

I decided that I would find out more about the Fancy Dress Ball

I decided to put my new books in the library and I said nothing about the cupid.

I decided to go up to the west wing

'So you haven't decided what to wear, Madam,' Mrs Danvers said in a friendly voice.

'No, I haven't decided yet,' I replied.

Tell me whether you think the writer had decided to kill herself.' Colonel Julyan took the note and read it slowly.

Five years ago, however, on her twenty-eighth birthday, she began to realize that she had, if she was lucky, ten years left as a show dancer, and she decided to establish herself in the business in another capacity, to avoid being washed up at thirty-eight

What if they came, lights flashing and sirens screaming - and found no one? If she had summoned the police every time that she imagined hearing a prowler in the house during the past two weeks, they would have decided long ago that she was scramble-brained

She didn't need that much time to shower, apply her makeup, and dress, so she decided to pack some of Danny's belongings

After several visits there, she had decided that it must be one of the dullest cities in the world

"I've decided to go cold turkey."

She decided to try his number again in half an hour.

After a while, she decided that she was crying for Danny

Tina waited until at least a hundred names had been listed before she decided that the system had been programmed to print the lines about Danny only one time, only on her office's first data request of the afternoon, and on no later call-up.

"This afternoon I decided it has to be a stranger

Most of his friends had shared his avid interest in ghosts and ghouls; besides, the grotesque hadn't been his only interest, so she had decided not to worry about it.

He still had the silencer-equipped pistol in his hand, and he decided to keep it.

But Death decided that Kevin belonged to him, because the funeral had been held already and because the grave had been closed

It had been published only two years ago, long after she had decided that horror comics were harmless.

"Evidently they think someone from Project Pandora has decided to rat on them."

Maybe there was so much at stake that the security men at the installation decided Jaborski and Lincoln had to die

He lived here for eight or nine years before he decided to apply for citizenship

Elliot almost turned in at the entrance, but at the last moment, he decided to drive by the place.

He decided he would kill her himself when the time came, and that thought gave him an instant erection.

Tamaguchi decided to test Danny to destruction

Both Jaborski and the other scout leader decided they might have a dangerous character on their hands

After reviewing the chaos that he had inherited, the new head of network decided that even though Darkfall was an exciting script, he didn't want to make a movie "about little creatures living in the walls." He decided that we would film the other script I had done; for which I received primary credit but not sole credit because of Writers Guild rules virtually guaranteeing the first writer some kind of credit as long as that writer's drafts had been composed in one of the languages spoken on Earth.

They decided it was an accident, but I didn't agree

Helene was so calm during the investigation that the doctors finally decided she was mad (something I had for a long time thought the only possible solution), so there was no trial

I decided I would try to question Helene myself.

Instead, I decided to try a sudden attack.

As I closed it, I suddenly decided to go down to our shed, which Lawrence Redding was using as a studio, to look at Griselda's picture while no one was there

It seems to me that if a young man had decided to take another man's life, he would not appear upset about it afterwards

I decided to leave them and found my wife and Miss Marple in the sitting room.

I was upset and afterwards I suddenly decided to go and see the vicar.

Then I decided not to

Then today, I decided to come up here

I decided to visit Dr Haydock and went down the road to his house.

When the vicar came in, Lawrence explained that he had called to tell him that he had decided to leave the village

And, in his confused state, he decided to confess.'

I have also decided that since now I'm going to be a real "wife and mother" I must look after the house as well

They listened, knocked on the burnt metal with a rock and, getting no answer, they both decided that the men inside were either unconscious or dead.

After breakfast, instead of working, I decided to walk down towards the common

The strength of the Martians worried me so much that I had decided to take my wife to the south coast, and leave the country with her immediately

I had already decided that the area around London would be the scene of a great battle before the Martians could be destroyed.

Although the three of them were hungry themselves, they decided to walk on.

I decided to leave him

When it was clear to the curate that I intended to go alone, he suddenly decided to come

When we got to Sheen, the curate said that he felt unwell and we decided to try one of the houses.

At last I decided that it had.

I began to feel that I had failed my wife, and decided to leave this dreamer of great things and to go on into London

After this tragedy, she decided to leave America, and come back to England to live with her aunt.

That was yesterday, Mr Holmes, and then I decided to come and see you for help.'

So we decided to go on the river trip.

We decided to start from Kingston the following Saturday.

We decided to camp out in good weather and sleep at an inn or a hotel in bad weather

We decided never to take a paraffin oil stove again.

Harris and George decided to pack them

Now that George was on the boat, we decided to make him work

We stopped there and decided to spend the night on the boat

We decided to wake up Harris

George decided to get dressed

I decided to go to the river bank and throw some water on myself.

It was very cold and I decided not to go in

We decided not to try scrambled eggs again, until Harris had the right pan and stove.

We decided to return to one of the Shiplake islands to spend the night.

After the Irish stew, George and I decided to go to Henley for an evening walk

'But we have decided to stay and die on this boat,' said George

But I prefer not to, because I don't want to cause you pain, Miss Halcombe." As soon as he left, I decided to take this new house.'

When Malala got better, she decided to continue her fight for girls' education.

Men decided who could be in which sports.

When Billie Jean King was twelve years old, she decided that she wanted to fight for equal rights for girls and women

Loveness and Ruvimbo decided that they had to do something about child marriage