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Example sentences for "but her eyes were"

  • Her face was very white, and she was panting as if hard-run for breath, but her eyes were shining, and she was smiling at him.

  • Only dimly could he see her, but her eyes were shining.

  • Her wet hair was still clinging to her face, her feet and arms and part of her body were wet; but her eyes were shining, and she was smiling at him.

  • He endeavored to comfort her by holding out hopes of brighter days, but her eyes were fixed on shadows, and his cheering words failed to call up a smile.

  • She was very miserable, but her eyes were tearless, and she sat, she knew not how long, unconscious of what passed around her.

  • Her heart was heavy, but her eyes were undimmed, and her grave, composed face betokened little of the sorrow which oppressed her.

  • She had become very pale, but her eyes were glistening at the honest feeling she had witnessed.

  • I looked with a quick flash toward Miss Warren, but her eyes were on the mother, and they were full of a daughter's love.

  • I'd scold like Xanthippe if I thought it would do any good," she said, with a faint smile; but her eyes were full of reproach.

  • She spoke with a smile, but her eyes were serious, even sad.

  • The rose was weeping, but her eyes were dry.

  • But her eyes were fixed on the far-off moving speck that was the horse carrying Androvsky madly towards the south.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but her eyes were" 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:
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