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Example sentences for "feel that"

  • I couldn't sleep, I couldn't live, if I didn't feel that I was on my way back to power.

  • Yet it irritated her to feel that, though they would care not at all for her low opinion of them, she did care a great deal because they would fail to appreciate her.

  • I feel that this is the beginning of Dumont's end.

  • Now, I feel that you're sympathetic where you don't understand, too.

  • I want to feel that I can do something for the author of 'The Rosebud Garden,' if it is only to cook a dinner for her.

  • I feel that I have humiliated myself to the very dust.

  • But I want to FEEL that it is in perfect order, even if she isn't to see it," Anne told Marilla.

  • But I feel that I can't expect to do it before then, for it has truly been a bitter disappointment.

  • I feel that we are born to be connected; and those tears convince me that you feel it too, dear Fanny.

  • Fanny was just recovered enough to feel that she could not regret it; for to her many other sources of uneasiness was added the severe one of shame for the home in which he found her.

  • Such a look of reproach at Edmund from his father she could never have expected to witness; and to feel that it was in any degree deserved was an aggravation indeed.

  • But I feel that I might if I had a fair chance.

  • I don't want to feel that I'm being hurried.

  • But I don't love you, and I feel that I never could.

  • You make me feel that I've got to be careful with you--that I must be on my guard.

  • Had they come in short to be sane where Strether was destined to feel that he himself had only been silly?

  • At the sound of these names Strether almost blushed to feel that he couldn't have sounded them first--and yet couldn't either have justified his squeamishness.

  • It was interesting to him to feel that he was in the presence of new measures, other standards, a different scale of relations, and that evidently here were a happy pair who didn't think of things at all as he and Waymarsh thought.

  • The only thing I've any business to like is to feel that I'm moving him.

  • Strether seemed suddenly to like to feel that he really never had.

  • He would have liked to feel that perhaps he might come back.

  • I don't know--but that he makes me feel that there is nothing but evil and lies in the world and nothing can help one against them.

  • I feel that I must see her, too," he said.

  • I am a little tired--just enough to feel that to slink away for a moment alone would be agreeable.

  • I used to feel that if I could only have one friend, just one, I could bear it better.

  • I am not prepared to meet my God, but still I feel that my career has been made to appear much worse than it really is.

  • I feel that I have disgraced myself, I am not fit either to live or die.

  • And I feel that, if the yielding up of my life to the injured law will atone, even in part, for the crime I have committed, that is a consolation.

  • A purpose there must have been, and, surely, mine was an exalted destiny, because I feel that within my soul are powers immeasurable.

  • However passionately I love a woman, if she only gives me to feel that I have to marry her--then farewell, love!

  • I have not yet drained the cup of suffering, and now I feel that I still have long to live.

  • It may be that I shall die soon; I feel that I am growing weaker from day to day.

  • And you've a right to feel that, and not to go about as gaping and as thoughtless as if you was beholding to nobody.

  • I feel that I am called back to those amongst whom my lot was first cast.

  • They say she created the necessity for the position, and every one seems to feel that it is a necessity.

  • You actually make me feel that I am doing the moths a kindness to take them.

  • It has appealed to me at times that she was a shade neglectful of her home duties, but he does not seem to feel that way.

  • This caused me to feel that I ought to tell her, and Caddy too, that I was going to be the mistress of Bleak House and that if I avoided that disclosure any longer I might become less worthy in my own eyes of its master's love.

  • If you have really meant to give me a proof of your good opinion, though ill-timed and misplaced, I feel that I ought to thank you.

  • Business has become so specialized and the work of the individual seems so petty that he is not likely to feel that he is expressing himself through his work or to retain a feeling of independence.

  • If the little man in a country territory doesn't feel that he has a fighting chance to equal or surpass the man in the big agency, he makes no attempt to qualify.

  • I find it relatively easy

    to assume this attitude when I feel that I stand on my own responsibility; that the problem cannot possibly be referred to any higher authority, but that the solution depends upon me alone.


  • It is not my own secret that I have just told you; and, if I have confided it to you, it is because I feel that it is a great piece of good fortune for us; and there is no joy for me, that you do not share.

  • I feel that I should be reduced to panic; but yet I am not.

  • There may be nothing but the present and no such thing as time, but I feel that I am about to take a trip into the hereafter from which I shall never return.

  • If you are taken away I shall never escape, for I feel that I am as well off here as I should be anywhere within this buried world.

  • For my part I feel that I must congratulate you on your successful work and thank you for the pleasure you have given me in its perusal.

  • We began to see grass, and to feel that, at last, we were out of the desert.

  • I was glad to find a place to lay my head, and to feel that we were not under orders; to find and to keep a roof-tree, under which we could abide forever.

  • He always seemed pleasant, and interested in their labors, asking many question, but that was all, and our hero began to feel that perhaps he was wrong in his suspicions.

  • So, as long as he doesn't feel that he can help me out, I guess I'd better be traveling on.

  • It is bad enough to feel that I made some mistake, causing the gun to burst; but I would never cease to reproach myself if I felt that the man who fired it was killed, or even hurt.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feel that" 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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