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Example sentences for "checked himself"

  • He checked himself, then added in a lower tone, "She has no doubt it is true.

  • He checked himself, then flashed out again, haughtily, "I have seen Miss Hilton, and I have seen she is reluctant to become my wife.

  • But, midway in his welcoming advance, he checked himself; sniffing the sodden October air, and seeking to locate a new and highly interesting scent which had just assailed his sensitive nostrils.

  • Midway of his charge, he checked himself.

  • It was on the tip of his tongue to say it aloud, but he checked himself in time.

  • He checked himself; he had said more than he wished.

  • Diego grinned, checked himself on the verge of venturing another comment, and tilted his head sidewise instead, his ears perked toward the medley of fiesta sounds outside.

  • He wanted to raise his hand and put them in place, but he checked himself with a start.

  • I am going--" Then he checked himself, baffled by the massive ignorance he confronted.

  • You seem to think I am started on a line of persecution of your uncle--" he checked himself.

  • She was thinking that Lawson had never moved her so, and wishing Curtis were less inexorable in his logic, when he checked himself by saying: "I beg your pardon again.

  • He checked himself there, but Lawson understood as well as he the situation.

  • He checked himself as if trying to break a bad habit.

  • But suddenly he checked himself, stood still for a moment, then with a gloomy face and without taking his hands out of his pockets ran smartly up the stairs.

  • He checked himself in the middle of the sentence, lowered his eyes to avoid seeing her unpleasantly irritated and irresolute face, and said: "I did not come here at all to quarrel with you.

  • He checked himself, fearing to seem naive, yet he felt an irresistible desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite different, and better, Pierre than he had been in Petersburg.

  • Pierre was about to ask, but seeing the stern expression of the adjutant who was also looking that way, he checked himself.

  • But looking at her still face, he checked himself, and just in time.

  • He started to say something, checked himself, and said something entirely different.

  • Fred started angrily at this, but he checked himself, reined back his horse, and looking very white now from anger and pain, he gave the word of command.

  • Archelaus, whose hearing had not improved of late, checked himself in the act of filling his master's tub.

  • Constable Ward, for the instant plainly relieved, checked himself, and stood trembling, irresolute.

  • The Lord Proprietor, on the verge of an angry retort, checked himself, with a short laugh.

  • He was plainly on the point of inquiring next, whether Lucilla had been at Exeter--when he checked himself.

  • He checked himself in the act of sitting down, and looked towards the open window.

  • But where," and he checked himself suddenly, and threw a piercing glance round him, "is the woman whose scream you heard?

  • But he checked himself; all his followers so evidently shared his enthusiasm that a feeling of jealousy overcame him.

  • I will ask him how he can distinguish people's faces when it is as dark as--" He checked himself, apparently enlightened by a sudden inspiration.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "checked himself" 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:
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