Below you will find example sentences with "walked away". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Walked Away in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: walked
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 21
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 24.4 words

Words in this phrase

walked away

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • walked can mean: simple past and past participle of walk Frequent word
  • away can mean: From a place, hence. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

2022 adele walked away with the 1× a challenger walked away with rs 1× and he walked away with the 1× and just walked away 1× and then walked away 1× as he walked away after the 1× as he walked away from a 1× as i walked away a whirlwind 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

after four years 1× and he walked 1× apart from him 1× as he entered 1× as he walked 1× as i walked 1×

Common sentence endings:

also been nominated 1× and walked away 1× continuing the boycott 1× contract with muti 1× from the show 1× i was floored 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

dogs 3× show 3× president 3× asked 3× biden 2× next 2× became 2× first 2× runner 2× entered 2× new 2× day 2×

Related phrases

drove away further away stay away miles away ran away passed away feet away stayed away throw away far away

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

wales police wake island wake forest wake county wakanda forever waiting room

Just after it in the phrase index:

walker county walking dead walks near walks off walks past wall mounted

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same ending:

drove away further away stay away miles away ran away passed away

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "walked away" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 24.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 2022 adele walked away with the, a challenger walked away with rs, dogs, show and president stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with drove away, further away and stay away, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with walked away

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

She walked away, saying she was staying away from the scary space under the stairs. (15 words)

And he walked away with the score for Halo 4, it was a million dollar deal. (16 words)

Attendees at this massive, three-day gardening show surely walked away with some new plant babies. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

Apart from him being the winner, Apurva Nemlekar became the first runner-up and Kiran Mane was the second runner-up, and Rakhi Sawant, who entered as a challenger walked away with Rs 9 lakh from the show. (38 words)

After four years at Pomona College, Wolfinger walked away with a degree in political science and Spanish but no real idea about how to achieve his next goal of becoming a professional food writer. (34 words)

Cohen Biden walked up to Ziegler during a trial break, pointed her finger at him, and shouted, “You have no right to be here, you Nazi piece of shit,” and then walked away. (33 words)

Question examples

Biden chuckled and walked away, waving at the media, when a reporter asked the president, “Did you see that Ron DeSantis said that if he became president, he would pardon Trump? (31 words)

Example sentences (20)

Cohen Biden walked up to Ziegler during a trial break, pointed her finger at him, and shouted, “You have no right to be here, you Nazi piece of shit,” and then walked away.

I had a friend in uni who was out at a bar one night and another girl walked up and started fondling her breasts, said "those are nice", and just walked away.

Researchers have found birds had different reactions to dogs if they were on or off-lead: they walked away from leashed dogs, but flew away from the unleashed dogs.

She walked away, saying she was staying away from the scary space under the stairs.

After four years at Pomona College, Wolfinger walked away with a degree in political science and Spanish but no real idea about how to achieve his next goal of becoming a professional food writer.

And he walked away with the score for Halo 4, it was a million dollar deal.

Apart from him being the winner, Apurva Nemlekar became the first runner-up and Kiran Mane was the second runner-up, and Rakhi Sawant, who entered as a challenger walked away with Rs 9 lakh from the show.

As he entered his teens, he walked away from the sport to seek new thrills in gaming.

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As he walked away after the day’s session was closed, he said Republicans are still deciding about continuing the boycott.

Ash Hossain, president of Memorial University's faculty association, said the university walked away from negotiations Sunday at noon.

As I walked away, a whirlwind of thoughts went round my head as my adrenaline began to come down from its intoxicating peak.

Asked about what comes next, Gillum said “sleep” as he walked away from a gaggle of news reporters.

Asked several times what crimes Bragg had committed that meant he should be imprisoned, Paul had nothing to say, but just turned and walked away.

As Schiff walked away, Nancy Pelosi, rose from her seat to hug Schiff as his colleague’s patted him on the back.

Attendees at this massive, three-day gardening show surely walked away with some new plant babies.

At the first non-gendered awards show in 2022, Adele walked away with the Artist of the Year prize, for which Little Simz, Sam Fender, Dave and Ed Sheeran had also been nominated.

Biden chuckled and walked away, waving at the media, when a reporter asked the president, “Did you see that Ron DeSantis said that if he became president, he would pardon Trump?

But it was the CSO that walked away with a coveted season-opening engagement and tour contract with Muti.

Buttigieg would not take questions and walked away from reporters after attending a press conference announcing justice reform on Tuesday.

But when he walked away from J.D. at the end and Ben had disappeared, and you pan out to see the tombstones, I was floored.

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