How to use "remained" in a sentence

Nevertheless, Mary and Barnett remained friends

Misery had made her ugly and only her beautiful blue eyes remained.

Marius's attempts to find him also ended in failure, and the true story of his escape from the barricade remained a complete mystery to him.

She remained on guard for a few minutes, but the night was so peaceful that at last she had to admit she was alone

The tricky spelling of the title was not Tina's idea, but most of the rest of the program was her creation, and she remained pleased with what she had wrought

As long as she remained a dancer, as long as she devoted her life to him, as long as she hung on his arm and looked delicious, he approved of her

But the keyboard remained frozen.

It remained dark.

But she and Elliot left the outer office, flicking off the lights as they went, and the computer remained dark and silent.

Elliot remained at the party only two hours

Not much remained to be done: The contents of three cartons in the back of the deep closet had to be sorted

The darkness was dispelled, but shadows remained along the walls and in the corners.

Yet the air remained cool - changed.

Although two of the hits he had ordered had gone totally awry, Alexander remained self-assured; he was convinced that he would eventually triumph.

Her eyes remained unfocused.

Not a single tree or any other sizable object remained, nothing behind which a man could hide

Dombey, who clearly did not share his associate's compulsion to play hero, remained docile in his chair

"Come on." He went to the big pane of glass, where only a few small spots of frost remained.

By the time the latest washing-machine-frenziedcat-dead-beloved story was delivered, no creative energy remained for the job at hand

The heating coils would probably have to maintain the road at about 38 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit to be sure that it remained free of snow and ice

She remained quite still, looking down at her hands

Dandelo was a small white cat who had come into our garden one day and remained with us

Colonel Melchett remained, and Slack who was looking at the note

He remained standing on one side of the pit that the Thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance and thinking that there might be some intelligent design in its shape

I remained there for some time.

People came to the common and left it, but all the time a crowd remained

We remained there until midday, and at that time found ourselves at the place where the River Wey joins the River Thames

As it was reported later, most of them remained busy with preparations in the pit on Horsell Common until nine that night, doing something that produced a great amount of Black Smoke.

I took hold of his arm, afraid that he might cry out, and for a long time we remained still

On Earth they could not move without effort, but even at the end of their time here they remained active

All that time I felt a growing need to look again at whatever remained of the little life that had seemed so happy and bright in my past

She remained silent and still.

I told him not to sign the settlement unless the part about the twenty thousand pounds remained as I had first written it