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Example sentences for "about that"

  • But of course, Mr Toogood could not have known anything about that.

  • I haven't been able to finish old Mrs Heard's tippet, literally because people would talk to me about that dearest of all dear fellows, John Eames.

  • Here is Mr Crosbie here,--about that bill," said Musselboro.

  • And he will murder you too;--about that girl.

  • It is a sin that flattereth, that dissembleth, that offereth to hold God, as it were, fair in hand, about that which is neither purposed nor intended.

  • And anon, or about that time, we found ourselves at a depot, where wuz the entire census of several other States, and Territories.

  • Wall, anon or about that time, we drew near the place where I wanted to be.

  • But, say, that reminds me--I never did tell her about that letter.

  • My old preceptor writes me, from what I've told him, that there is about that chance.

  • But he's telling you the truth, near as I know it, about that woman.

  • I wish't I knew as much as you do about that.

  • I was getting to be near fifty years old, and it happened to me, as it not rarely does to people at about that time of life, that my hair began to fall out.

  • I don't think there was anything very sentimental about that.

  • Mr. Howard paused for a moment, and Helen said very earnestly, "I wish that you would tell me about that.

  • Yes," said the other; "about that, probably a little more.

  • Dearest David," she whispered, "is it right to refuse to tell me about that sorrow?

  • About that time, a man may live forever at a cent a day, and sell for all he's worth at last--for soap fat!

  • For the last three years, or about that length of time, she has been owned by Charles M.

  • About that subject I will not say anything more.

  • He was worth to his owner, it was reckoned, fifteen hundred or about that a year.

  • I never knew that she was in the family way when she ran away; I heard of it about that time; she ran off in the fall of 1828.

  • If it ain't necessary, I wish you wouldn't say nothin' about that upsettin' business to the folks to home.

  • No, 'twas somethin' about that letter, the one I forgot so long.

  • When a man loves something similar to himself, he endeavours, as far as he can, to bring it about that he should be loved thereby in return (III.

  • If God had so willed, he might have brought it about that what is now perfection should be extreme imperfection, and vice versâ.

  • But, it may still be urged, if God wished to bring it about that we should perceive them, he would be obliged to endow us with a greater faculty of perception, but not a greater faculty of volition than we have already.

  • There's a bloody sight more pox than pax about that boyo.

  • Cady, that helped raise you, told me about that.

  • Saxon, them curtains are lyin' about that room, makin' a noise for every one to hear that that room's furnished.

  • You'll have to tell me about that as you go along," remarked the young Naval officer.

  • Griller told me about that before we reached town," Sergeant Noll continued.

  • I've simply got to have it, and that's all there is about that!

  • I just simply, plain won't stand it, and that's all there is about that!

  • What Bob says, goes; and that's all there is about that!

  • Will I tell ye about that, alanna, to pass the time till herself comes in?

  • Billy 'ull tell 'ee about that," and he winked surreptitiously at his friend.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "about that" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about business; about eight times the; about eighteen; about fifteen; about fifty; about four; about nine; about right; about six; about sixty; about that; about the; about the same size; about thirty; about three; about time; about two miles from; about what; dear life; five persons; fixed salary; great size; large surface; long discussion; once apparent; says the