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Example sentences for "cannot help"

  • I know it is wrong to judge, but I cannot help it.

  • I cannot help it, Madge, when my children are so disobedient.

  • But I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial-plates are brighter.

  • We are sorry, but we cannot help it--we have neither sentiments nor sonnets, ready for every occasion.

  • We may resist, we may modify; but we cannot help loving, and we cannot help dying.

  • But with all my reluctance to introduce any thing ludicrous upon so serious an occasion, I cannot help referring to a little story which those very astonished persons call to my mind.

  • I'd like to know now which is the madder, he who is so because he cannot help it, or he who is so of his own choice?

  • Tell it as thou wilt," replied Don Quixote; "and as fate will have it that I cannot help listening to thee, go on.

  • As to our position, that we cannot help; and I don't mind that you are unable to own me.

  • The grown- up ones, older than myself, I cannot help much, but the little ones I can.

  • You must forgive me this once: I cannot help--will you give me permission to make a difficult remark?

  • The truth is, that I never care much for reading what one ought to read; I wish I did, but I cannot help it.

  • I cannot help feeling," said Mr. Alford, "that you are playing with fire over a powder magazine.

  • You may think me weak, but I cannot help it.

  • When you spoke of accepting the conditions of life, I hoped you had in mind what you have said--the conditions of life as they ARE, as we cannot help or change them.

  • Yet I speak as I feel--I cannot help feeling.

  • I am afraid we cannot help it," returned the laird, arresting his step.

  • I am a year older, I believe," she answered, "but I cannot help it.

  • I cannot help confessing it, for it is true.

  • For a moment, and I cannot help confessing it, I trembled lest you had come here, not as M.

  • Major Buckley, "you must think me very wicked to think of such things at a time like this, but I cannot help it.

  • I cannot help, although somewhat in the wrong place, telling the reader under what circumstances I saw him last.

  • I laugh at this ridiculous mistake, and Patu, to whom I say why I am laughing, cannot help joining me.

  • You are at liberty to lay my foolish delicacy to the account of my youthful age, but I feel so, and I cannot help it.

  • Yet I must not blame him, for I know he cannot help it.

  • I am very sorry," I said to her, "but I cannot help it.

  • I am passionately fond of music, darling, but I cannot help trembling at the idea of going out.

  • I cannot help my feelings--they were dead indeed if they did not respond to such an inspiration.

  • It is something I cannot help, something beyond my power to prevent if I would.

  • No," she insisted strangely, "if you cannot put two and two together, I fear I cannot help you.

  • She dislikes my talking of her, but at times I cannot help it.

  • The patriotic Giustina Renier-Michiel of course makes much of the courtesy thus extended to the people by the State, but I cannot help thinking it must have been hard to bear.

  • By Heavens, how the blood must have gushed into the capillaries when a certain great man (whom with all his faults I cannot help liking) read it!

  • I am growing as bad as the worst about species, and hardly have a vestige of belief in the permanence of species left in me; and this confession will make you think very lightly of me, but I cannot help it.

  • I sincerely hope that I take a wrong and gloomy view, but I cannot help fearing--I would rather see no Life than one that would interest very few.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannot help" 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:
    betook themselves; cannot attempt; cannot but; cannot call; cannot conceive; cannot describe; cannot doubt; cannot endure; cannot have; cannot here; cannot hold; cannot leave; cannot pass; cannot possibly; cannot read; cannot refuse; cannot say; cannot speak; cannot tell you how; clearly defined; dress suit; nest among the reeds; separate state; started down; well and; well stirred