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Example sentences for "just what"

  • That is just what I thought, madame," he answered quickly, observing the Countess meanwhile with attention the more profound because it was scarcely visible.

  • Just what I wanted to know," thought Petit-Claud.

  • That is just what we want to-day," said the Countess, drawing back a little to make him understand that she had no wish for promises given under his breath.

  • That's just what I am wondering,' said the old gentleman, abruptly facing round, and Paula discovered that the countenance was not unfamiliar to her eye.

  • It is just what I was thinking of,' said De Stancy, now so far cooled down from his irritation as to be quite ready to accept Dare's adroitly suggested scheme.

  • It is just what I have wished, though I did not dream of suggesting it after what I have heard you say.

  • Well, that's just what I was goin' to explain when you took the word out o' my mouth.

  • That's just what I was looking forward to, Rory.

  • Since we found such a match for Violet, she is bound to help off her sisters; and as to Annette, a jaunt is just what is wanting to drive that black coat out of her head.

  • That is just what I say,' observed Lady Elizabeth.

  • It is just what is never shown; but I am convinced poor Arthur suffers from it.

  • Just what happened, no one could seem to tell afterward.

  • That's just what I don't want you to know, Aunt Polly, and I was afraid you WOULD peek, so I tied on the handkerchief.

  • Just what is it that you want me to tell my niece?

  • Then he looked up and saw another giantess, even bigger and uglier than the first one, who called out to him: 'Ah, this is just what I wanted!

  • She will call down to you and say: "Ah, this is just what I wanted!

  • When she saw who was there she cried out: 'Ah, this is just what I wanted!

  • As to the future, we can conceive nothing but the continuation of just what we see about us in the present.

  • He had conducted the affair ridiculously--"just what is to be expected of an infatuated fool.

  • Its advantage to him with them lay in its raising a doubt as to just what degree of disaster it hid--no small advantage.

  • But you are not a mother nor yet an aunt, and you have to do just what I tell you.

  • And he is manly and handsome; just what a young man ought to be.

  • If his Grace really does mean us to do just what we please ourselves, which is a thing we never thought of asking from his Grace, then we find, having turned the matter over among ourselves, that we are upon the whole Conservative.

  • That is just what it will not--that is, outside unity, and inside a menagerie.

  • Just what we came for," answered Forbes, "to say they have been on top of the mountain.

  • Vanderbilt finally offered to give the young man, if he would work for him, just what he got himself.

  • That's just what it is--an iniquitous shame.

  • I wouldn't have your hair any color but just what it is for the world," said Gilbert, with one or two convincing accompaniments.

  • Well, that's just what Leslie is doing," said Anne crisply.

  • Just what I say, Paret," he answered slowly.

  • I'm not talking about right and wrong in the ordinary sense--it's just what I feel.

  • But that's just what he needs," I objected.

  • Well, I am afraid; and that's just what I'm afraid of.

  • Lottie could not make out in just what sense.

  • That is just what I supposed you would say, Mr. Kenton, but I must say I didn't expect it of you.

  • Well, that's just what I made this window for.

  • That's just what I can't tell, though I've been thinking of it over and over, sir.

  • Just what I'd been hoping for I don't know, but I knew that my chance had come that morning.

  • Just what would it be worth to you to have me out of the way?

  • Now, that was what I did mean--just what I did mean--but not in that tone of voice.

  • It says: "Wait a minute, till I get my breath, and I'll know how much you know and just what lie to tell you.

  • After all, just what is there between you and them?

  • And this," she said with approval, "is just what a rose-garden ought to be.

  • What I mean to say is, that's just what it was, don't you know.

  • Just what I keep telling him, Mr. Bevan," said Alice.

  • That's just what I was askin' him, sir," blustered the workman.

  • It's just what you've been doing ever since they came here, that's all.

  • Never know just what he's goin' to do or just what he's goin' to say.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "just what" 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:
    chemical theory; curry powder; just about; just after; just because; just beginning; just behind; just boil; just east; just from; just happened; just like; just men made perfect; just naturally; just once; just peace; just sense; just stated; just step; just such; just take; just the; just wish; justifying faith; perfect silence; young fellow