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Example sentences for "cannot abide"

  • Also, when he asketh God for that which he cannot abide should be given him, or when he prayeth for that in his closet, that he cannot abide in his house, nor in his life.

  • Luke 6:46) He cannot abide to be reputed the Lord of those that presume to profess his name, and do not depart from iniquity.

  • I, if it were an Aspen Leafe: I cannot abide Swaggerers.

  • Masters of passion swayes it to the moode Of what it likes or loaths, now for your answer: As there is no firme reason to be rendred Why he cannot abide a gaping Pigge?

  • Aye, Corporal Oath, I would you would do so much as forsake us, sir; we cannot abide you, we must not be seen in your company.

  • Nor I neither, I cannot abide to handle a Ghost of all men.

  • I cannot abide, sir, to see a woman wronged, not I.

  • Ay, and he has fellows: of all filthy, dry-fisted knights, I cannot abide that he should touch me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came face; cannot abide; cannot comprehend; cannot conceive; cannot even; cannot expect; cannot explain; cannot express; cannot forget; cannot give; cannot know; cannot recall; cannot recollect; cannot represent; cannot see; cannot sleep; cannot tell; each branch; fancy ball; federal republic; good fellow; her marriage; horse could; inch square; missing from; representative from