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Example sentences for "could imagine"

  • It was the gayest company one ever could imagine, as they marched along.

  • Illustration: It was the gayest company one ever could imagine, as they marched along.

  • We could imagine that at one time they formed one flat ring, which afterwards divided itself into three, following the same law as we see dividing the rings of Saturn at the present day.

  • I even felt humiliated that she should think I could imagine her of the same sex as those young ladies: in a word, I accepted her agency rather than none, and availed myself of it at all events.

  • I could have wished to have been confined in it in such a manner as to have had no intercourse with mortals, and I certainly took every measure I could imagine to relieve me from the necessity of troubling my head about them.

  • He had suffered the ministrations of that same doctor and he could imagine no visit of his to result in a situation at all pleasant to any one concerned.

  • If they didn't let him alone, he would tell them all that he could imagine nothing of less consequence.

  • He could imagine it of them; as soon as they thought about voting they began to interfere in a man's business.

  • I could imagine my mother watching for the same star I was looking at; I could imagine that we were really looking at the same spot.

  • I could imagine my father celebrating the new moon with a prayer.

  • At once he could imagine Odette, puzzled, anxious, distressed at having received neither visit nor letter from him and this picture of her, by calming his jealousy, made it easy for him to break himself of the habit of seeing her.

  • I could imagine that my old penholder feels reproachfully towards me.

  • I could imagine a man who, by living alone and at peace, came to regard the everyday world as not really existent, but a creation of his own fancy in unsound moments.

  • I could imagine that, as in a fairy tale, the books do but await my departure to begin talking among themselves.

  • In the security of his bed he could imagine that he was talking very slowly and carefully while Mr. Britling listened; already he was more than half way to dreamland or he could not have supposed anything so incredible.

  • A tremendous desire for eloquence arose in Mr. Direck's soul, a desire so tremendous that no conceivable phrase he could imagine satisfied it.

  • I could imagine a delicate poem shutting up half its sweetness from his cold, cold scrutiny,--if you will excuse the floweriness of the idea.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    clear solution; could answer; could discover; could distinguish; could easily; could endure; could form; could judge; could learn; could not bring himself; could not have said; could not refrain from; could observe; could play; could reach; could recover; could reply; could scarce; could spare; could speak; could talk; falling short; made believe; never shall; particularly true; short range