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Example sentences for "explain myself"

  • But why do you force me to explain myself now?

  • And, trying to explain myself, I added: "One would think that a time comes when we judge like a traveller looking out from the top of a tower.

  • By the time I had given the information Papa, who had been proposing my health in a speech of which I caught little except an occasional Do I explain myself?

  • PAPA: It is now one year since you were last in Palermo and it seems like yesterday--do I explain myself?

  • I therefore resolved, after much thinking of it, to make a private visit to Mr. Skimpole and try delicately to explain myself.

  • If you will be so good as to favour me with your attention for a couple of minutes, miss, not more, I'll endeavour to explain myself as clearly as I can.

  • I can't stop to explain myself now," Mr. Franklin went on.

  • I ought to have done you the common justice to explain myself," she said, repeating my own words.

  • Will Miss Howe permit me to explain myself in person to her, Mr. Hickman?

  • He called upon me to explain myself, with a Sir-r, so pronounced, as to show that one of the most ignominious words in our language was in his head.

  • I don't want to touch it--I only want to explain myself.

  • You have not waited as I told you, to hear me explain myself.

  • If you would only allow me to explain myself, sir, you would view my conduct in a totally different light.

  • Another little turn before I explain myself--another little turn to compose your spirits.

  • To explain myself on this point, I will ask the reader to recall any one of Mr. Alma Tadema's pictures; it matters not a jot which is chosen.

  • To explain myself I will tell an anecdote which is always told whenever Delacroix's name is mentioned, without, however, the true significance of the anecdote being perceived.

  • To explain myself, I will have to go back to first principles.

  • You do not comprehend me," said the Doctor, "and to explain myself it will be necessary for me to speak at some length.

  • Now come back into the house and let me explain myself.

  • I will agree to explain myself, if you will reply.

  • I saw Monsieur Bertot, who did not prove of that service to me, which he would have been if I had then the power to explain myself.

  • My interior dispositions I was scarcely able to tell because I knew not how to explain myself, being very ignorant of those matters, having never read or heard of them.

  • As I saw him very seldom, and nothing stayed in my recollection, and as I read of nothing any way resembling my case, I knew not how to explain myself.

  • When I say that I spoke thus to Him, it is but to explain myself.

  • In my very effort to explain myself I was being irretrievably hurt.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    above mentioned; compound word; considered them; endless torment; everything else; explain matters; explain myself; explain the; explain them; explained later; explained only; explained that; explained the; explaining compounds; extraordinary occasions; intestinal irritation; many changes; none other name under heaven given; route from; said also; shown above; sidelong glance; trembling voice; will hereafter; without speaking; would often