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Example sentences for "could swim"

  • Fortunately, Hippolyte was there, and he could swim like a fish.

  • I thought I could swim, and at Strong's Island and other places could hold my own with the natives pretty well.

  • I could swim to the shore but not round the point.

  • A couple of minutes earlier I had not thought about the distance I could swim, but had kept on swimming.

  • I don't know that I could swim so far as the shore, and we should have to undress and lose all our clothes.

  • Mark having seen that Bevis could do it, and knowing he could swim as far as Bevis could, did it much better.

  • After he had repeated it six or seven times he lifted his left hand a little way, and made a quarter stroke with it too, and then jumped up and shouted that he could swim.

  • How he wished he had his raft, and then that he could swim!

  • I'm sure I could swim to it," said Bevis, and he was inclined to try.

  • He could swim splendidly, and Barty imitated him.

  • By the time they decided to come out of the water Barty knew that it would not be long before he could swim as if he were a little fish.

  • Barty splashed about splendidly in the clear green water of the swimming pool and before his bath was ended he could swim ever so much better than he had swam the day before.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could answer; could bring; could confide; could feel; could find; could finde; could give; could guess; could haue; could hold; could mean; could not have told; could not help being; could not help laughing; could offer; could only have been; could recover; could still; could take; could tell; could think; looks round; one would have said; reduce them; though indeed; will usually