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Example sentences for "just couldn"

  • And I have a reason for doing that, because I just couldn't do it to her father.

  • I just couldn't, and I don't have any patience.

  • And I just couldn't understand it--a young person.

  • Gee, if I'd had a raise like that I just couldn't wait to tell you.

  • But when you came near me that way I just couldn't help it.

  • He ain't very well known around the State, and he was bound to run--and I just couldn't let him come out without any clothes on.

  • But now he just couldn't go another step.

  • He just couldn't believe he had heard correctly.

  • The General tried to look stern, but he just couldn't keep the grin from breaking through.

  • He just couldn't conceive that a girl could manage a business.

  • I just couldn't kill them; it would be like killing a pet dog.

  • I just couldn't work the one without owning the other.

  • He's been hiding out at some of the resorts over in the Grand Lake district, but like others of his kind, he just couldn't keep his mental cussedness hidden and the better element over there is making it too hot for him.

  • Well, in my judgment, it just couldn't conceivably have been the first one because I heard the sound of the shot.

  • But we tried to photograph it and we just couldn't get it.

  • And even when he was telling that night about it, I seemed to see him slipping, slipping over that horrible ledge and I just couldn't help actually putting out my hand to draw him back.

  • And I just couldn't keep still when day after day I heard on deck this naval fashion plate girding at men and women whose plain shoes he wasn't worthy to black.

  • Lots of times I tried to fix it with Mr. Ellsworth and I just couldn't.

  • I just couldn't throw the chop for fear I'd miss.

  • Harry Donnelle held the lantern over toward the animal and looked at him ever so long, as if he just couldn't believe his eyes.

  • But in a minute Aunt Tommy came in and she and Dick began to talk, and I just couldn't get a word in edgewise.

  • I thought at first we just couldn't have her, but I decided to leave it to you.

  • I just couldn't write you about my life here, not because it was hard, but it was so ugly and empty.

  • Padre dear, he couldn't say anything that could make you unhappy--he just couldn't!

  • But I just couldn't bear to listen to any more religion.

  • And I knew that love was the great principle of everything, and that it just couldn't fail, any more than the principle of algebra could fail to solve my problems.

  • I tracked him, but I never thought"--and I just couldn't say any more.

  • Well, I was so flabbergasted that I just couldn't speak and even Pee-wee was struck dumb.

  • When I thought of that adorable ring I just couldn't wait till morning to see it again.

  • As I looked at the curl her fingers had brushed so carefully into shape, and the curve of the baby lips that had never known anything but truth, I just couldn't bear to think of him growing up to be deceived and disappointed.

  • I wanted to write to Richard, but I just couldn't.

  • Pretty soon I knew I couldn't go any more; I tried, but I just couldn't.

  • But down below we just couldn't find those rocks.

  • And I just couldn't stop thinking about that.

  • But now that we all stood there looking at it, we just couldn't speak, exactly.

  • I just couldn't seem to help letting him have it.

  • I guess it was because he was so big and strong that he just couldn't bear to lord it over her like most boys do with girls.

  • We just couldn't find it in all that trampled sand, not if we hunted all week for it with a comb.

  • I just couldn't sleep last night for thinking about the glorious surprise my abused stomach was due to have to-day.

  • But I just couldn't get here any sooner, Mrs. Shields.

  • Now he just couldn't believe his eyes and ears.

  • He just couldn't possibly move a muscle under this terrible pressure.

  • It just couldn't be that there would be no more of those tussles of friendly play; those boxing matches or wrestling bouts by which his growing body adjusted to swift action and hard knocks.

  • It just couldn't be that Pop wouldn't live, he thought in panic.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "just couldn" 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:
    just above; just because; just boil; just come; just couldn; just enough; just exactly; just going; just have; just here; just kind; just like; just nothing; just outside; just sense; just take; just the; just then; just thought; just want; just when; justices appointed; justify the; manuscript copy; prime minister; wild olive