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Example sentences for "her place"

  • If anything happened to Curtis, her place was at his side.

  • Laura stirred abruptly in her place, adjusting her hair with nervous fingers.

  • Laura sat upright in her place, listening, one fist pressed against her lips.

  • When she had come into the room, her first glance had been towards her place at table.

  • As I only went out for the purpose of going to the apartment of Theresa, her place of residence almost became my own.

  • Madam d' Epinay blushed at his behavior, and, to induce him to repair his rudeness, offered me her place.

  • In her place Madam de Longueville would have been a mere trifler, in Madam de Longueville's situation she would have governed the state.

  • That meant that Hilma would take her place.

  • Then, in a few moments returned, taking up her place on the corner near the boarding-house, spying upon the approaching cable cars, peeping anxiously down the length of the sidewalks.

  • Each person--she felt it--must remain in his or her place.

  • Her husband, however, tried to detain her, offering to go to their young guest in her place.

  • Fran Maria nodded gently to Els, as if asking her sensible elder daughter to watch over her forsaken sister in her place.

  • The other mendicants, however, treated her so roughly, and the cruel enmity with which they tried to crowd her out of her place seemed so unbearable, that she could not hold out.

  • When she had remained about an hour in the state of stupified horror so natural in her situation, she was disturbed by the opening of the jarring bolts of her place of confinement, and Ratcliffe showed himself.

  • The family at the Manse of Knocktarlitie, in their own quiet happiness, heard of the well-dowered and beautiful Lady Staunton resuming her place in the fashionable world.

  • This Peveril is a perfect pattern of successful perfidy, carrying off this Queen of the Amazons, but he has left us, I think, a disconsolate Ariadne in her place.

  • When Maslova returned to her noisome cell after this interview, she took off her cloak and sat down in her place on the shelf bedstead with her hands folded on her lap.

  • Maslova did not answer, but went on to her place, the second from the end, and sat down beside Korableva.

  • I went directly to the cardinal and gave myself up in her place.

  • He said to himself that he, in her place, would have told everything on that first occasion when she had come home and had found him waiting for her.

  • She was liberated because I put myself in her place--it is rather complicated.

  • I am waiting to hear from you--what would you have done in her place?

  • You are keeping us in suspense, sir," the elderly lady complained, leaning forward in her place.

  • If I had been in her place I shouldn't have been like that.

  • Madame Foucault looked at them gluttonously, as any other person would have done in her place.

  • I daresay I should be just the same in her place.

  • Incidentally Soames meant to put a capable manager in her place, and make the restaurant pay good interest on his money.

  • Mrs. Decie, covering her lips, disappeared with a rustling of silk; in her place stood a stiff man in blue.

  • She rose, stretched herself, and went back to her place in the row.

  • Dalton came in her place, and I asked him where she was.

  • The maid had her rights, her place in the scheme of things, her pride.

  • I would like to put that girl in her place once!

  • My friends had congratulated themselves on this transaction having occurred before the organization of the Land League; but one night an armed and masked party took the widow lady and reinstated her in her place.

  • The police had marched out in the evening to her place to protect her in.

  • My friends were startled a little by a visit from this party, who informed them that they were returning from reinstating the lady in her place.

  • It's her place to be useful if we want her, and we needn't worry about spoiling a girl like that.

  • Ethel spoke with a little tone of command, having made up her mind to be mistress and keep Jane Bassett in her place, though she did know three languages and sketched much better than Miss Amory.

  • Every member was in her place at an unusually early hour that day, and each wore an air of mingled anxiety, expectation, and satisfaction, pleasant to behold.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her place" 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:
    general agent; her beauty; her brow; her crew; her father; her future; her grandmother; her hand; her heart; her last; her manner; her memory; her niece; her return; her very; her work; heraldic term; here comes; here must; here the; hereby know; hereby ordered; hereditary monarch; hereditary right; sit down; will live