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Example sentences for "could just"

  • Illustration: "There was one he could just reach.

  • He looked at the apples; there was one which he could just reach as he stood on his tip-toe.

  • You know what I mean--I could just feel it in the air.

  • Jiminy, I could just feel my voice tremble.

  • I could just kind of see him poking around with his stick.

  • I could just sort of see that new flag with Camp McCord on it, and I could hear Bert saying, "Camp McCord doesn't strike its colors as easily as all that.

  • She spoke to me, for the first time, in whispering tones that I could just hear as I sat close at her side.

  • Looking instantly toward her, I could just see, in the deepening darkness, t hat her head had fallen on the back of the chair.

  • I sat down at the window, where I could just discover, here and there between the trees, the glimmer of the waters of the lake.

  • He could just as easily have spoken the Canaanites out of existence as to have spoken the hornets in.

  • I could just manage to get out of my bunk and crawl up-stairs on to the sofa in the tiny saloon, which was heaped up with our small luggage, and was the home of the two dogs, Rob and Scotty.

  • We could just manage to sit round the table.

  • He could just assent to remarks made to him by the captain and that was all.

  • All around I could just kind of feel people staring and moving in their seats.

  • I could just feel my father looking at me.

  • I could just hear my own voice as if I was speaking all alone in the world, and I was awful nervous.

  • I could just see by the faint light that his house had been raised a storey higher, and little iron balconies, like railings, stuck to the drawing-room windows.

  • Scarcely had he spoken when out in the center of the lake we could just distinguish a long boat with three rowers going swiftly towards the entrance to the river, which we so desired to gain.

  • I sprang through the gap, straining my eyes into the gloom, and as I did so could just distinguish a dark figure receding quickly beneath the wall of the wood.

  • By Jove, I was so terribly shocked I could just feel it in my face!

  • By Jove, I got red--could just feel it, you know!

  • Beyond, to the south-east, could just be perceived two pyramidal mountains, but they were very distant and scarcely visible.

  • Not only that, but on that particular day I could just perceive, directly under that cloudlet, a faint column of white mist connecting it vertically with the ground.

  • But this is not all; up to this time I have supposed that to determine the place of an object I have made use only of my eye and a single finger; but I could just as well have employed other means, for example, all my other fingers.

  • He could just as easily forget about me and mind his own business--but I knew he wouldn't be satisfied until he'd either got me where he wanted me or forced me to a showdown, with all its embarrassments.

  • And he could just keep on writing to her.

  • Thought I could just pick a bit; but now it's all nice and ready, and as prime as can be, I'm done.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could just" 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:
    causing them; could afford; could assume; could confide; could discover; could draw; could easily; could gain; could get; could give; could guess; could hardly; could haue; could judge; could live; could neither; could not have said; could read; could scarce; could sell; could tell; could understand; fixed capital; laisser faire; maintain order; strange expression