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Example sentences for "cannot imagine"

  • How any sane person could retain his senses in that awful scene, I cannot imagine; I am sure I should soon go crazy myself.

  • In other words, if we deny that the Christian miracles occurred, and take from Christ all that is superhuman, we cannot imagine Him as the Founder of Christianity.

  • So if this life is intended as a time of probation in which to form a man's character, we cannot imagine a better system or one more admirably adapted to the end in view.

  • No doubt we cannot imagine how God can exert His Will over matter, but neither can we imagine how we can do it ourselves.

  • And though we cannot imagine how a mere wish can move particles of matter (in the brain or anywhere else), it is just as hard to imagine how the movement of particles of matter can produce a wish.

  • I cannot imagine a cause for so unusual an occurrence.

  • Here am I and my children deprived of our protector by some means which we cannot imagine.

  • I cannot imagine," added Mr. Marchdale, "that any men could be so unreasonable.

  • Very lucky for me that it is so of course, but what you can find to amuse you here I cannot imagine.

  • I cannot imagine my girls doing or saying anything vulgar, yet what they are like when away from home I have no means of finding out.

  • I cannot imagine what he would find to do in my own law office; he would doubtless regard it as a dull place and too narrow a sphere for his splendid capabilities.

  • It is good exercise; and, to be fair with him, I cannot imagine Choate or Webster playing bridge or taking scented baths.

  • But I cannot imagine," she continued, "why you should ask my advice.

  • I cannot imagine how he contrived to escape--can you?

  • But I cannot imagine how I came to fall in love with you.

  • I cannot imagine," she said to Rudolph, "why Braesig does not come.

  • How in the world he does it, I cannot imagine.

  • He talked a great deal, and was very entertaining; what tempted him, I cannot imagine.

  • I was very much provoked at my carelessness; indeed, I cannot imagine how it got there, for it was the first thing I thought of.

  • As women do not frequent such places, and private houses are not mentioned, I cannot imagine how my informant made the mistake, unless, like me, it was through hearing it repeated.

  • I cannot imagine a more terrible gift to a friendless girl.

  • I cannot imagine," replied the countess, with a smile.

  • But how on earth you managed to induce her to sit for her portrait, I cannot imagine.

  • How people survive two or three days under such circumstances, I cannot imagine: at the same time, I must confess that my guide did not suffer at all, and was astonished that one day's deprivation should be so troublesome to me.

  • How any person discovered that this formidable spot was the only point where the side of the mountain was practicable, I cannot imagine.

  • I cannot imagine a more complete contrast, in every respect, than between the forests of Valdivia or Chiloe, and the woods of Australia.

  • But I cannot imagine how I could be so off my guard.

  • I was only going to observe, that though such unfortunate circumstances do sometimes occur both to men and women, I cannot imagine them to be very frequent.

  • As regular a visitor was a huge long-bearded Norwegian who looked a prophet and was an artist, and who spent most of the winter in the study of Marion Crawford's novels, I cannot imagine why, as they roused him to fury.

  • I cannot imagine what it would feel like.

  • I cannot imagine how it was that the good God ever suffered the Holy City, even for an hour, to be in the hands of those wicked people.

  • I cannot imagine when or how Marguerite does hear all these things.

  • Will you pardon me if I transcribe these notes again, as I cannot imagine my first deliberations on this subject to have made a deep enough impression for you to recall them without help from me.

  • Why it was thought necessary, I cannot imagine, unless the gentlemen wished to smoke.

  • I cannot imagine he is safe, replied she, when I see some of his enemies (pointing to the haymakers) still alive.

  • But how any woman can help casting herself heart and soul at the feet of such a lowly grandeur, such a tender majesty, such a self-dissolving perfection--I cannot imagine.

  • I cannot imagine that a man who looks things in the face as you do, the moment they confront you, has not lived at all, has never met with anything in his history which has taught him something other people need to be taught.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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