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Example sentences for "find out"

  • The thing for us to do is to find out how we are going to get him out or get him.

  • It's where it will be safe until it can be looked up and we find out whose it is.

  • I want to read through this program first to find out what I'm to have for my dinner.

  • I'm going to find out first if mine is here to be looked after," said Grant.

  • We shall have to find that out later by--Well, we'll find out later, Dr.

  • What one person knows others are sure to find out.

  • That is what shall have to find out by making suitable inquiries of members of the family.

  • That's what I'm going to try to find out.

  • That's just what we've got to find out," decided Ned.

  • I'm going to find out why he doesn't enlist!

  • If those German spies and their helpers remain in possession long, they'll find out enough of my secrets to enable them to duplicate the machine, and especially some of the most exclusive features.

  • They hoped to get possession of Tom's tank long enough to find out some of the secrets.

  • You'd give anything to find out what I know, and then run to Laddie with it, but you can't fool me.

  • I'd like to be hanged enough to find out how it goes, and then come back, and brag about it.

  • I knew what they said and did, but their names, where they came from, where they went when the wind blew and the snow fell--how was I going to find out that?

  • You'll find out I'll learn things if I try," I boasted.

  • I'll find out, b'George, whether she'll act that way or not.

  • I didn't find out anything to-day," said Carrie, taking off her gloves.

  • Well, I'm to find out to-morrow," returned Carrie disliking to draw out a lie any longer than was necessary.

  • As he did so, he made up his mind that if Carrie was alone, or if she had gone to another place, it behooved him to find out.

  • But how in thunder we're to have a chance to find out whether we like each other enough is beyond my savvee, unless we make that chance ourselves.

  • She felt like one who had suffered the terror of the onslaught of a murderous footpad only to find out that it was an innocent pedestrian asking the time.

  • But it has killed my belief in woman to find out that you would sell yourself.

  • Often enough to find out that he was crazy?

  • To find out he resorted to various elaborate round about methods that did credit to the ingenuity of his mind.

  • Before you're through with this you'll find out I'm right.

  • Don't try to find out: it's beyond your powers of perception.

  • And why, next day, did he send the Masher to find out things in the neighbourhood of Montmaur?

  • I hope he won't have had time to find out.

  • Meanwhile, if I were not in such a hurry, I should wait till you leave and I should follow Daubrecq to find out in whose charge he has placed the child whom he is going to hand back to me.

  • That's just what I don't know; and to find out, it is my business to get to church before the service is over.

  • She must set out to regain, little by little, the position she had lost; and the first step in the tedious task was to find out, as soon as possible, on how many of her friends she could count.

  • Louisa used to lie awake at night wondering whether the women who called on us called on ME because I was with her, or on HER because she was with me; and she was always laying traps to find out what I thought.

  • But I doubt we shall ne'er go far enough for folks not to find out as we've got them belonging to us as are transported o'er the seas, and were like to be hanged.

  • I walked about the shore almost all day, to find out a place to fix my habitation, greatly concerned to secure myself from any attack in the night, either from wild beasts or men.

  • He wanted to get up to the window to find out if he could see more, and to discover how those games would end, and he saw that there was no ladder, because the Widow had been afraid that he might do this and she had hidden it.

  • She left the chamber, and when the duchess, who was waiting to find out if Tirant could go to her that night, saw her come out so agitated and flushed, she did not dare say a word to her.

  • As to what there was to find out, he had only one fear--that it might not be bad enough.

  • He was out of his mind if I don't find out.

  • He has taken a great deal of trouble to find out, but half of it isn't true.

  • My lord," he said, "I suppose you came to find out something.

  • However, the mischief was done, and to rebuke my servant might have aggravated it by setting his wits at work to find out my motive for secrecy.

  • It is the business of that science to find out what is the greatest amount of thermal energy that can possibly be recoverable into organized kinds under given circumstances.

  • It is inadvisable to probe a wound in order to find out if the belly-cavity has been penetrated, as the probe itself might carry inwards septic germs.

  • But I think it would be a good idea to find out all we can of Professor Swyington Bumper.

  • That's what we've got to find out," Tom said.

  • I suppose he wants to find out my plans so as to be ready to jump in the breach in case we fail.

  • I'll find out if Mr. Damon can be with us on such short notice.


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