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Example sentences for "cannot find"

  • Though the Central Authority expressed itself as "desirous of encouraging" the experiment, we cannot find that it issued the Order, without which no board of guardians could create a new salaried office, for nearly fourteen years.

  • We cannot find that, down to the present day, any such permission has been given.

  • The result is that we cannot find that it has yet taken shape even to the extent of as many as a dozen salaried Poor Law nurses for the outdoor sick from one end of the Kingdom to the other.

  • How often I jump up in sheer despair because I cannot find a rhyme, or the metre goes wrong, or because I have absolutely no notion what this or that character would say at a particular moment!

  • Oniegin has given me such pleasure that I cannot find words to express it.

  • Yet, dejected as I am, when I review the transaction between me and this writer, I cannot find, that I have been deficient in reverence.

  • The utility of this tax I cannot find: a tax on luxury is no better than another tax, unless it hinders luxury, which cannot be said of the impost upon tea, while it is thus used by the great and the mean, the rich and the poor.

  • I cannot find utterance," said Holt, stammering forth the words with difficulty.

  • I have been seeking for some proper terms in which to express to you my grateful sense of your humanity in coming to me when I was left sick and alone, but I cannot find them," he said at length, facing her.

  • I am hungry, and I am weary, and I cannot find him.

  • I cannot find her, She is got free again: but where, or which way?

  • When he cannot find a convenient deserted burrow of some other animal, he digs a home for himself and there raises several families each year.

  • Sometimes, however, if we cannot find a place that just suits us, we go quite a distance.

  • He eats seeds and other vegetable food when he cannot find insects or flesh" "How about his enemies?

  • But this circumstance I cannot find in Athenæus.

  • The author refers to the testimony of Aristotle; but this circumstance I cannot find in the works of that philosopher which have been preserved.

  • The passage where he does so I cannot find; but in plate xxix.

  • Nihilo, and quotes some words from it; but I cannot find it; nor am I surprised at this, as it was not known to Dr.

  • I cannot find a loosed soul to lift up His praises, and give them out to others.

  • And for the other: woe, woe is me, that I cannot find a heart to give back again my unworthy little love for His great sea-full of love to me!

  • To-day all that has passed; and I cannot find myself in this Warsaw, and, what is worse, I cannot find my former honesty.

  • I tell thee sincerely that I cannot find myself.

  • I have hunted for the Princess everywhere, and still I cannot find her.

  • She has been stolen from me, and I cannot find her.

  • If you can find me, and I cannot find you, then we will know you are more clever than I am, and I will marry you.

  • But love is such a mystery, I cannot find it out; For when I think I'm best resolved, I then am in most doubt.

  • In sun nor yet in shade, I cannot find a resting-place, My burden to unlade.

  • I do sometimes seek His face very much when I cannot find it.

  • They have taken me from him, and I cannot find him.

  • They have taken me from him, and, I cannot find him.

  • They have taken me from him, and I cannot find him; bring me to William Reilly.

  • In vain I stretch my hands to clasp their hands; I cannot find them.

  • They have taken my Lord away; I cannot find Him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannot find" 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:
    cannot abide; cannot attempt; cannot avoid; cannot come; cannot doubt; cannot even; cannot explain; cannot fail; cannot give; cannot have; cannot imagine; cannot know; cannot pass; cannot possibly; cannot read; cannot save; cannot sleep; cannot take; cannot tell you how; cannot well; colossal statue; pastoral life; seven provinces; sometimes nearly; world civilization; young again