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Example sentences for "felt when"

  • P: The chiefs of Pharaoh's people said: Lo!

  • S: They ask you for a decision of the law.

  • P: Except those who seek refuge with a people between whom and you there is a covenant, or (those who) come unto you because their hearts forbid them to make war on you or make war on their own folk.

  • Do you remember how forlorn we felt when we were cast away on this station platform last fall?

  • You know just how we felt when we landed high and dry in this town without any one to care whether we survived or perished.

  • I shall never forget how I felt when he handed me a slip of paper.

  • How cheerful I felt when at last I went away.

  • But if you at such time have been among others who have shared your grief, and had a doctor to take the responsibility off your hands, then you may only guess at what I felt when I saw Thorkill lying there perfectly unconscious.

  • I felt when I got up that I could not walk much further.

  • You can never imagine how I felt when I stood in the presence of Niagara until you have the same mysterious sensations yourself.

  • Only such a one can appreciate the eagerness with which I talked to my toys, to stones, trees, birds and dumb animals, or the delight I felt when at my call Mildred ran to me or my dogs obeyed my commands.

  • I shall never forget the surprise and delight I felt when I uttered my first connected sentence, "It is warm.

  • You cannot realize the extent of the joy I felt when I heard you speak to my mother as you did!

  • I like even now to recollect the pleasing impression I felt when I was able to admire myself full length in a large mirror.

  • You can easily realize now the joy I felt when I saw you; you are a bird of good omen.

  • I wrote the following words: "In getting rid of the portrait, Casanova experiences a satisfaction by far superior to that which he felt when, owing to a stupid fancy, he was foolish enough to put it in his pocket.

  • The fish may with impunity be touched with a key, or any other metallic instrument; no shock is felt when a conducting or non-conducting body is interposed between the finger and the electrical organ of the torpedo.

  • It is difficult to define the satisfaction that is felt when, in the midst of nations of whose language we are ignorant, we meet with a being with whom we can converse without an interpreter.

  • Long privations give a value to the smallest enjoyments; and I cannot express the pleasure we felt when we saw for the first time wheaten bread on the governor's table.

  • However, I did not fall on my knees to thank God; for my sentiments of gratitude to God were suddenly chilled by the unspeakable humiliation I felt when I considered that that stranger was a Protestant!

  • I will not attempt to say what I felt when I entered the damp and dark cells where the culprits were enchained.

  • How can I describe the shock I felt when I saw him, there, in the mud, a monument of the unspeakable corruption of my church!

  • I felt when I was asked to marry Mr. Davy!

  • You will not expect me to say how I felt when I found they were my own sister Millicent, my own Lenhart Davy, and that they did not melt away.

  • Nevertheless, something might be done to improve our relationship, something which would relieve me of that uneasy lack of unity I felt when at home, of the lassitude and ennui I was wont to feel creeping over me on Sundays and holidays.

  • Oh Mr. Insall, I wish I could tell you how I felt when I read your story, and when Mrs. Maturin read me those other books of yours.

  • How thankful I felt when I saw him do so, for his purpose was answered.

  • Oh, how thankful I felt when Grace at length reached me with the shell of water.

  • How grateful I felt when at length the boat reached us.

  • Oh, what joy and gratitude I felt when I recognised Walter, as he staggered forward towards us!

  • Then I remember softly, suddenly, how I felt when I was watching the lions eat.

  • The true scientists, in this country and in Germany and in France, all understood just how Wilbur Wright felt when he left New York with its heads up.

  • I have returned, feeling more uneasy and more depressed than I felt when I went out; for I have come back fearing that I may yet have reason to repent not having left my unfinished dress on the milliner's hands.

  • God preserve me from ever feeling such misery again as I felt when I lay down by Tommy, and took him, dead and bloody, in my arms!

  • Judge what I felt when I found what it really contained.

  • Do you know what I felt when I heard this?

  • I feel none of the absurd terror of the poor man which I felt when I was blind.


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