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Example sentences for "mattered little"

  • I could not refuse; it mattered little to me after all whether I went to the Bois; I had plenty of time.

  • He was asked what sort of story he wanted; but it mattered little to him: he wanted it to read in bed at night, something that would put him to sleep right away.

  • I admit that I liked her manner; I have always been susceptible to anything which resembles sincerity or frankness; moreover, it mattered little to me then whether I was mistaken or not.

  • It mattered little which, for his refusal discredited him in the eyes of many of the nobles who had hitherto protected him, and thenceforth he was obliged to lie in hiding.

  • It mattered little to him that Mrs. Colfax ignored him as completely as if his chair had been vacant He glanced at that lady once, and smiled, for he was tasting the sweets of victory.

  • It mattered little to Eda that the young man awaiting their commands had pimples and long hair and grinned affectionately as he greeted them.

  • It mattered little to me, since I desired to forget him as quickly as possible.

  • It mattered little to them that I was poor.

  • But it mattered little to me what they thought; I was at liberty to do whatever I chose.

  • Nicette was ready to go with me; wherever she could be with me, she was perfectly happy; it mattered little to her under what sky or in what climate we were to pass our lives.

  • However, it mattered little to me what maggot he had in his brain; it surprised me more than it interested me.

  • It mattered little that a few shrewd men might suspect the dishonesty of the pretexts put forth, if only the multitude could be sufficiently deluded to make them part with their money.

  • It mattered little to him that for years he toiled on without any official recognition on the part of the University authorities of the value of his work.

  • It mattered little what he wrote a few years ago, when he was little known; but it mattered much what he might write now that he was a man of mark.

  • It mattered little, he declared, if we who had begun the struggle should go down into the Valley of Death, so that we left behind, for those who were to come, a land free from misrule and the oppression of tyrants.

  • Ever since the notion of her marriage with Hycy Burke or his brother--it mattered little to him which--he felt exceedingly dissatisfied with her attachment to M'Mahon.

  • Inwardly I was calling myself a cad, for it mattered little whether or not I loved her.

  • Poor, pitiful action it was to walk, but with every fall of my feet and every click of my cane I could say to myself that I was going home, to my boyhood's home, and it mattered little if I had no other.

  • A belt-line car charged at him as though it mattered little if he were ground beneath its wheels.

  • It mattered little whether or not what he said was true.

  • It mattered little to her if she entered her duchy surreptitiously, provided she was sovereign there.

  • If Rosas did not receive the letter in time, it mattered little!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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