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Example sentences for "just that"

  • Of course they will do just that," cried Miss Trevor.

  • It is just that note, which is characteristic of so many clergymen, that note of smoothing-over and apology, which you lack.

  • It's just that, sir,--they know nothing at all.

  • Just that,' answered he, and repeated some damned verse I never heard, with Horatio in it, and made them all laugh.

  • Just that minute, Pop and Mom came out of the side door of Tom's house, and it was time for us to go home.

  • Just that second, Dragonfly sneezed again, and said to Poetry, "I'm allergic to horses.

  • I spoke severely--just that way, you know.

  • It has got to go just that way," he said determinedly.

  • I thought you'd be just that way," she said.

  • Just that--too much and not quite enough.

  • But a streak of bad luck hit him at just that minute, and he gave out.

  • I had never looked at it in just that light," observed Presley.

  • I had never looked at it in just that light," repeated Presley.

  • I hadn't thought of it in just that way," he observed.

  • She had perhaps come to him meaning to forget for a while in just that way.

  • You might have thought he was waiting all the evening for just that thing to happen.

  • Mary, it seemed, would not have characterized her father's behavior earlier in the evening in just that way.

  • But, Imogen, it's just that: is she so little?

  • Ah, it's just that that I must do," said Mrs. Upton.

  • She knows that the most decorative rĂ´le of all is just that, the weary, patient Atlas, bearing the happy world on his shoulders.

  • I said: "Just that, a workman all his life.

  • It is a lie--just that, a lie--to declare That wages are the worth of work.

  • If anything would take away this tired feeling, it is just that, Lois.

  • Just that," said Lois; "so far as I know.

  • Just that want of style makes her peculiar.

  • And to think that I should have let Garda go there, at just that moment!

  • Many around the world were afraid we would do just that.

  • I want you to meet two more people tonight who do just that.

  • There are now long waiting lines of immigrants that are trying to do just that.

  • And we've begun to do just that, by strengthening the power and choice of individuals and families.

  • This year I am proposing that the Congress provide the full $300 million that the Congress last year authorized to do just that.

  • But it's just that," said Vanderbank, "that makes one feel so base.

  • You 'feel' as if I did--but the reality is just that I don't.

  • What I like it for is just that it's so funny in itself.

  • It's just that he said Sue was pregnant and he was hinting things.

  • More than a few of his feminine visitors had hinted at just that, but Harry didn't respond.

  • Schuyler touches on just that point in his Psychology of Time," he said, eagerly.

  • I assure you, Mr. Bending, that Power Utilities would do just that--as soon as it became economically feasible for us to do so.

  • No; it's just that I'm an idealist of sorts.

  • It's just that an officer in the British Embassy was telling me just the other day that the Phoenix Garage was one of the most fascinating establishments in San Hermano.

  • It's just that I'm--well, that I just catch myself staring at nothing at the craziest times.

  • He told me that you threatened to do just that," he said.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "just that" 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 and; just been; just beginning; just cause; just exactly; just love; just men made perfect; just opposite; just peace; just price; just proportion; just right; just said; just simply; just step; just that; just the; just when; justify himself; justify the; justifying faith; long moment; much chance; private collection; wages will; wild sheep