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Example sentences for "cannot even"

  • But we cannot even speak of using them against the temples, especially now when they are occupied with caring for the wounded.

  • Heroic souls have moments of deep depression which the common man cannot even imagine.

  • I cannot even divine, therefore, where we could get thirty thousand talents.

  • My soul is low in the dust--I cannot even pray.

  • But it cannot be, and I cannot even explain to you any part of my situation.

  • I must accept no part of your thanks, for my being here is entirely accidental, and I cannot even offer to escort you on your departure.

  • It cannot even be said that it necessarily implies suffering.

  • I cannot even hope to show that it is necessarily productive of misery to the individual, for I know that some people take pleasure in vicious conduct.

  • It is not so much that the problem cannot be answered, as that it cannot even be asked in any intelligible sense.

  • By it we perceive identity and distinction, unity and number; by it we compare, affirm, or deny; without it we cannot even think.

  • I know not, I cannot even speculate, on how this might have ended, when a sudden change of events gave a decisive turn to my destinies.

  • How my trials might have ended, had the course of my life gone on uninterruptedly, I cannot even guess.

  • But if we leave out the first cause, we cannot even think of them without baseness and obscenity.

  • That image however is so marred and obscured by sin that we cannot even in thought reach the comprehension of it.

  • The enormous massacres polluted the ocean with blood to an extent such as our human battles, from the earliest day, cannot even begin to compare with.

  • The cruel harpoon, plunged again and again into that quivering and sensitive body inflicts suffering, such as we cannot even think of, without blushing for that human nature of which we so often and so unblushingly boast.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black gave; cannot afford; cannot attempt; cannot bear; cannot call; cannot come; cannot comprehend; cannot conceive; cannot endure; cannot explain; cannot know; cannot possibly; cannot read; cannot recall; cannot refuse; cannot remember; cannot save; cannot see; cannot think; cannot understand; cannot write; flat stone; force sufficient; important business; thought itself; you imagine