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Example sentences for "kept saying"

  • Not just yet, not just at present,' he kept saying both to Roger and to himself.

  • So she went over the ground again, pegging and explaining till the wrinkled brow was smooth again, and he kept saying, 'I see, miss.

  • Whenever he went down to Hogstead he kept saying to himself: “Yes, I’m safe now, secure within time and space.

  • All through the next dance he kept saying to himself: “I shall have to kiss her the next time.

  • All through the next dance he kept saying to himself: "I shall have to kiss her the next time.

  • Whenever he went down to Hogstead he kept saying to himself: "Yes, I'm safe now, secure within time and space.

  • And as he went through the forest he kept saying to himself: "Suppose I sit down on a stump, and suppose I just eat one little pie!

  • And as he went along, he kept saying to himself: "Suppose I sit down on a stump, and suppose I just eat one little pie!

  • And as he carried her along he kept saying to himself: "Oh, I should so like to sit down on a stump, and I should so like to eat one little pie!

  • And all the time the oil kept saying: "No creak, No squeak.

  • And all the time the light kept saying: "I'm the headlight shining bright Like a sunbeam through the night.

  • He kept saying to himself, "I don't really depend on the wood at all.

  • And all the time the sand kept saying: "When ice drips, And wheel slips, I am sand Close at hand.

  • I kept saying to myself, 'You'll have to go through with it now, Joe, old man!

  • I was mad with anxiety and fright: I remember I kept saying, 'I'll be kinder to Mary after this!

  • He kept saying he could scarcely forgive himself, and even years after, I often heard him say that he couldn't understand what had come over his memory that day.

  • He kept saying to himself he wanted to "surprise" them all, and that if he told Artie every one would be sure to hear of it.

  • He kept saying it over and over to himself: "Arbeit und Rhythmus.

  • No, they hadn't broken him yet; he still had hold of his nerves, he kept saying to himself.

  • Oh, I mustn't get in wrong," he kept saying to himself as he went down the ladder into the hold.

  • I never saw such a profusion," he kept saying.

  • He kept saying to himself: "I am lost, lost!

  • He kept saying to me that I was a handsome girl, that I was good company, that I just suited him--and I, I liked him well enough.

  • He kept saying to me: 'Why, you must be mad!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kept saying" 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:
    avoid being; beautiful country; birth and; carbon copy; kept alive; kept down; kept from; kept his; kept open; kept perfectly; kept quiet; kept right; kept saying; kept secret; kept silence; kept them; kept thinking; kept waiting; marginal utility; mental effort; might bear; might perhaps; much meat; spiritual religion; uterine disease; zinc ointment