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Example sentences for "friend said"

  • I don't think that I understand you distinctly," my friend said, his face slightly flushing under a suspicion of her meaning.

  • I know who you are," my friend said, at a venture; "you are a shepherd on the Hawkswood estate.

  • When they arrived at the station near the metropolis where the tickets are collected, the ticket-collector came, and my friend said, "My servant has my ticket in the next carriage.

  • My friend said, "he is in the next carriage--or the next carriage but one; he is there.

  • But we must, on occasions like this, make some assumptions, like the lady of whom a friend said: "She puts on a good deal of style now she has a box at the opera.

  • When my friend said this to me, I was reduced to a terrible state by grief, and after I had bewailed my lot, I went and told it to my parents, and I spent that time in hope of a re-union with my beloved.

  • And my friend said to me, "Go and shew yourself to her, and take the noose from her neck;" so I immediately went towards her.

  • At the close of the lecture a friend said to me: "You said some good things but though from the old bourbon State of Kentucky, you are ahead of public sentiment in Boston.

  • After the debate a friend said to me: "It was that last home picture that saved you.

  • A friend said to me, during the great depression: "Don't you think it will be over soon?

  • At the close of the service a friend said: "That must have been the proudest moment of your life, for surely I never witnessed such a scene.

  • My friend said to himself he was sure she would not have patience with him very long, but he put the boy in her class as she requested.

  • My friend said it was one of the most solemn scenes he ever witnessed in his life.

  • As I was leaving New York to go to England in 1867, a friend said to me: "I hope you will go to Edinburgh and be at the General Assembly this year.

  • I spoke up and told him he could not, and my friend said that it was not fair to back out.

  • My friend said, "Why, Devol, he has been playing three-card monte.

  • My friend said he would send me the money to redeem his jewelry by the barkeeper the next trip.

  • That night my friend said to me: "I wish I was as smart as you at cards.

  • But when a friend said that he had nothing more to live for, he made the man understand that he was not ready to hoist the white flag.

  • I thought you were planning to complete your education," a friend said to a young man whom he had not seen for some time; "yet now you are clerking in a store.

  • Just before he went "over there" a friend said to him: "It is fortunate that your practice is to be cared for so efficiently.

  • That's exactly why I've come here, my dear Jack," my friend said.


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