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Example sentences for "cannot see"

  • I will be frank, Mr. Bentley, and confess to you that at present I cannot see my way.

  • He cannot see me except as, the woman who drove him into making money.

  • As I look back upon everything, all our relations, I cannot see how I could have been different.

  • But she understands how much colours mean to me, even though I cannot see them.

  • Now that I cannot see, she is no longer afraid.

  • We cannot see them, but they move on their darkling path and have a sun round which they circle.

  • Why I cannot see, unless it was remote from the route of travel, and the desolation of it was congenial to him.

  • What the students can find to fight their little duels about I cannot see; but fight they do, as many a scarred cheek attests.

  • Why the government shut them I cannot see: perhaps it knew nothing of it, and some stupid official took the pompous responsibility.

  • Get behind these trunks where they cannot see us.

  • By Saint Anne of Beaupre," exclaimed Du Lhut, "I think it would be well if you could get your men out of this also, for I cannot see how it is to be held until morning.

  • He is but weight for us to carry, and I cannot see that we profit by his company.

  • I cannot see you go out alone into the desert at night," Androvsky replied.

  • As I glanced up I saw one shake just above where the new grave was, and a woman's voice said, 'I cannot see it, I cannot see it!

  • We cannot see, neither do we believe, that it is possible for the Negro to attain unto the American type of civilization, while he lives in the same territory and in immediate contact with the white people.

  • But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us.

  • It's extraordinar ye cannot see where ye stand!

  • I suppose it is needless anyone should be informed upon my visit," said I, "though the precise nature of my gains by that I cannot see.

  • But, for all that, gentlemen, I cannot see what we would want to make it public for.

  • I cannot see you so," he said, gently touching the hand which lay listlessly beside him.

  • I cannot see why,--but it is that thou mayest bloom the brighter, my dear one.

  • Still I cannot see that we can deny that phenomena may be manifested, in virtue of the laws of nature, totally different from those which we have ever seen or heard of.

  • So far from it, that I cannot see, upon the principles on which we refuse to believe miracles, that it is even intelligible.

  • I cannot see why we may not agree on all else.

  • I cannot see, however, why she should have taken the pains to find him here.

  • We cannot see a rainbow every day just when we want to, but we can see miniature rainbows which contain just the same colours as the real ones in a number of things any time the sun shines.

  • We cannot see how it rotates, but if, as we said just now, it turns the same face always to Saturn, then of course it rotates the wrong way too.

  • Now unless he be born of God, he cannot see it.

  • And so our common sense would tell us, as it told the heathens of old, that there must be GODS--beings whom we cannot see, who made the world.

  • And therefore His ways with us must be good and loving ways, and any news about them must be good news, and a gospel, though we cannot see it so at first.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannot see" 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:
    bad weather; cannot abide; cannot bear; cannot bring; cannot but; cannot come; cannot consent; cannot expect; cannot fail; cannot find; cannot give; cannot help; cannot here; cannot hold; cannot hope; cannot leave; cannot omit; cannot pass; cannot pretend; cannot say; cannot sleep; cannot speak; cannot stop; cannot write; thou shalt not die; yonder town