How to use "several" in a sentence

There are several at my feet and some drinking the blood on the canyon wall

I didn't see him for several days

And that was all of our conversation for several days.

After several minutes, Bubba was getting really excited and saying, 'Good, good, good!' Then he asked, 'Where did you learn to play like that?'

The President asked me a lot of questions about Vietnam and the army, but I just said, 'Yes, it's OK' or shook my head to say no, and after several minutes of this we were both silent.

Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that "the citizen of each State shall be entitled to all privileged and immunities of citizens in the several States?"

'You asked Mr Sampson several times if he had any news about Meltham

He'd changed his name to Champmathieu and had lived for several years in the village of Ailly-le-Haut-Cloche

He watched as several witnesses swore on the Bible that the man standing before the judge was Jean Valjean

Cosette gazed at the doll for several minutes but, remembering her job, she sighed and continued on her way

She looked cold and ill, and when she spoke, Marius saw that she had lost several of her teeth

The conversation continued politely in this way for several minutes

As soon as the fighting started, Enjolras and several of his friends started to build a barricade outside the Corinth wine shop in the rue de la Chanvrerie, a small street surrounded by dark alleys in the market district of Paris

There were several street children, excited by the sound of battle, who also joined them

He moved from one passage into another, slipping several times on the wet floor

Neither of them spoke for several minutes

He would then stare at the house for several minutes, tears rolling down his cheeks, before turning round and slowly returning home.

'I have all the proof here,' Thenardier said, producing an envelope in which there were several documents and newspaper articles

He was even more surprised when, instead of chasing him out of the room, Marius ran towards him and pressed several thousand-franc notes into his hand.

She says her husband, the deceased Mr Dawson, hit her there several times

There are still several people in the carriage: the young couple is still there and the two businessmen.

There were sandwiches, bread and butter and several kinds of cake

She had taken several steps up in her career during the past year, and she had relied on hard work as a sort of morphine, using it to dull her pain until the wound fully healed.

The bed was properly made, and several science-fiction-movie action figures were posed on the deep headboard

It was so huge that a DC-9 airliner could be rolled onto it without using half the space available - a feat that had been accomplished as part of a production number on a similar stage at a hotel in Reno several years ago

She let the hot water beat down on her neck for several minutes, until the stiffness in her muscles melted and flowed away.

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

The Nevada Nuclear Test Site, where underground detonations were conducted several times a year, was less than a hundred miles north of Las Vegas

For several seconds she was certain that she could feel the switch straining under her fingertip as it tried to pop on.

The cast of Magyck! Took several bows, then the crew, then the orchestra, all of them flushed with the excitement of being part of an unqualified hit

A poster of one of the movie monsters had been ripped apart; it hung from the wall in several pieces

Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning

In the process of trying to hurt his ex-wife, he'd waste several days of the court's time, and the end result would be exactly the same as if he'd never been given a chance to protest."

Standing at the sink, he peeled and chopped a small onion, cleaned six stalks of celery, and peeled several slender carrots

Kennebeck held several jobs in different intelligence organizations

If you want to purchase a false passport, a counterfeit driver's license, or anything of that nature, you can pick and choose from several of the best document-forgery artists in the world, because this is where a lot of them live

He pushed it several times.

Stone posts and softly glowing electric lamps marked the way to the front door, and warm light radiated from several first-floor windows.

And it probably goes down several stories too."

It was ringed by ordinary medical equipment as well as by several mysterious electronic monitors.

Eventually, after a bad first draft, he was taken off the project when he missed several extensions of his contractual deadline

I opened Helene's envelope and took out several closely written pages

A few days later, Andre had a new problem which made him fussy and bad-tempered for several weeks

'I tried to tell you several times,' I said

There was a pause before she said, 'I had not seen him for several years.'

He had brought several keys with him and in one minute, the suitcase was open

Going to the edge of the pit, I found a group of men in it - Henderson, Ogilvy, and a tall fair-haired man I afterwards learnt was Stent, the Astronomer Royal, with several workmen holding spades

He learned that several unusual telegrams had been received in the morning from Byfleet and Chertsey stations, but that these had suddenly stopped

My brother spoke to several of the refugees but none could give him any news of Woking, except one man who said that it had been totally destroyed the previous night.

After several more hours on the road, they suddenly saw the sea and the most amazing crowd of ships of all types that it is possible to imagine.

When I looked again, the busy building-machine had already put together several of the pieces of metal from inside the cylinder into a shape that was very like its own

I came into Oxford Street by Marble Arch, and here again were black powder and several bodies

I have learned since then that I was not the first discoverer of the Martian defeat -several wanderers like me had already known about it on the previous night

I am certain that King Henry VIII met Anne Boleyn in several other places, too.

I'm sure I can love several men at the same time.' 'Mercy!'

I - Walter Hartright, drawing teacher - have asked several people to contribute narratives