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Example sentences for "cannot well"

  • Usually only one of these little blossoms in a cluster on each plant opens at a time; but that one peers upward so brightly from among the grass it cannot well be overlooked.

  • Yet it often happens that some of these beings, having something in common with creatures we are wont to notice, since we stand to them in sexual, parental, or hostile relations, cannot well go unobserved.

  • A poet or philosopher may be erratic and assure us that he is inspired; if we cannot well gainsay it, we are at least not obliged to read his works.

  • This hunger, when it cannot well be fed by recollecting things past, relishes a profusion of things simultaneous.

  • Hezekiah; but we cannot well limit it in this way, we must extend it to the whole collection.

  • The agreement in the very rare and peculiar form, which nowhere else occurs, cannot well be a matter of accident.

  • Second person, representing a person or thing spoken to.

  • Whether each sentence containing an adverbial infinitive has the meaning of purpose, result, etc.

  • Degree: "We have won gold enough to serve us the rest of our lives;" "But the poor lady was too sad to talk except to the boys now and again.

  • Every quaking leaf and fluttering shadow sent the blood backward to her heart.

  • When the price of cattle, for example, rises so high, that it is as profitable to cultivate land in order to raise food for them as in order to raise food for man, it cannot well go higher.

  • One branch, either of foreign or domestic trade, cannot well be a much more intricate business than another.

  • When it has got so high, it cannot well go higher.

  • A salmon fishery pays a rent; and rent, though it cannot well be called the rent of land, makes a part of the price of a salmon, as well as wages and profit.

  • We cannot well suppose, however, that the astronomer priests were oblivious to the true state of things.

  • At present I shall certainly abstain, since at present I cannot well afford to expose myself to the danger of a fresh mortification.

  • Virtuous and faithful Heberden, whose skill Attempts no task it cannot well fulfil, Gives melancholy up to nature's care, And sends the patient into purer air.

  • But even this is a point which I cannot well compass at present, both because I am too busy, and because poor Mrs. Unwin is not able to bear the fatigue of company.

  • While I write this, my poor Mary sits mute; which I cannot well bear, and which, together with want of time to write much, will have a curtailing effect on my epistle.

  • There are things that should be done, not spoken; that till the doing of them is begun, cannot well be spoken.

  • Colonial Offices, Foreign, Home and other Offices, got together under these strange circumstances, cannot well be expected to be the best that human ingenuity could devise; the wonder rather is to see them so good as they are.

  • Miserabler theory than that of money on the ledger being the primary rule for Empires, or for any higher entity than City owls and their mice-catching, cannot well be propounded.

  • I presume, as Mr. Littlepage was there, and was posted so near the corps in question, he cannot well be mistaken.

  • I have, sir; and that in the plainest terms--such as cannot well be misunderstood.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannot well" 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 afford; cannot allow; cannot attempt; cannot but; cannot comprehend; cannot consent; cannot endure; cannot escape; cannot expect; cannot explain; cannot express; cannot fail; cannot give; cannot have; cannot hope; cannot pass; cannot possibly; cannot read; cannot save; cannot speak; cannot stay; does appear; foreign debt; give security; had turned; slight touch