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Example sentences for "little when"

  • I thought he started a little when I mentioned Eric Hamilton's name.

  • She could settle to nothing, take pleasure in nothing; and I was not surprised that Mr. Hamilton grumbled a little when he paid his morning visit.

  • And she grumbled not a little when I insisted on arranging a beautiful spray of holly as a breast-knot, and twisting some very handsome coral beads that Charlie had given me round her neck.

  • Appleby started a little when he saw him.

  • A minute or two later he was shown into a room where Hester Earle sat with Nettie Harding, and smiled a little when he saw the latter's heightened color.

  • Then the men swarmed about the deck again, and Appleby wondered a little when amidst a clatter of blocks two more strips of sail went thrashing aloft, for it seemed to him that the "Ventura" was already carrying a risky press of canvas.

  • If you mean do I admire her youth and prettiness, do my senses ache a little when I see her moving about--yes!

  • In the beginning of the period she was once seen to cry a little when sitting by herself, and at the same time wept a little when spoken to, but this was now isolated.

  • On the other hand, she helped the nurses a little when urged.

  • We have seen that twice she swore a little when opposed.

  • Illustration: The goblins fell back a little when he began, and made horrible grimaces all through the rhyme.

  • My heart sank a little when I heard the sharp vibrating sound of Mrs. Smedley's voice as we were announced.

  • He recovered a little when he had eaten, but he leaned back against the wet rock with a furrowed face when Weston took out his pipe.

  • The man was evidently in a state of apprehension, and he shrank back a little when a big, grim-faced chopper ladled out a great plateful of the burnt stew from a vessel on the stove.

  • Weston started a little when he reached the last suggestion, for he fancied that it was Miss Stirling who had made it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little when" 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:
    little birds; little chap; little chopped; little country; little distance from the; little door; little doubt; little essence; little family; little fortune; little game; little girl; little golden; little hamlet; little higher; little juice; little lake; little mace; little mare; little minced; little place; little practice; little sunshine; little troubled; little wife; little wild