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Example sentences for "not say"

  • Monseigneur, I do not say that I have nothing to do with the society.

  • I do not say he is arrested, since we see him alone in his carriage.

  • Look you, Trenck, I do not say 'the young girl;' in my interior life I am no longer that.

  • Let me dream on, give my mad fancy full play; or slay me if you will, but do not say that I mistake your meaning!

  • Did I not say that I desired to be alone?

  • I do not say as he does, 'Think no more of Lucien.

  • I not say to that brute beast who had just gone out of the room!

  • But do not say a single compromising word, do not let a sign of surprise escape you.

  • I do not say this as giving his exact language, but he said so substantially; and he would leave the question of slavery, where the territory was acquired, to be settled by the people of the acquired territory.

  • I remember the rule, and it must be borne in mind that in what I have read to you, I do not say that I know such a conspiracy to exist.

  • I do not say that I am precisely accurate in their numbers, but I am sufficiently so for any use I am making of it.

  • That class will include all who positively assert that it is right, and all who, like Judge Douglas, treat it as indifferent and do not say it is either right or wrong.

  • But when the poet speaks in the person of another, may we not say that he assimilates his style to that of the person who, as he informs you, is going to speak?

  • But with the rich man this is otherwise; of him we do not say that he has any specially appointed work which he must perform, if he would live.

  • But did we not say, Thrasymachus, that the unjust goes beyond both his like and unlike?

  • And may we not say confidently of man also, that he who is likely to be gentle to his friends and acquaintances, must by nature be a lover of wisdom and knowledge?

  • The doctor mebbe not know, because he very gruff and do not say.

  • I'll go very fast so that I not say it, for I am only old Pickaroon, and he is fine gentlemans!

  • I do not say that it is more pleasantly conducted than the Pavillon, for that were impossible; but the rooms are so cheery and bright and new, and then the food!

  • With every good wish from me and mine (should I not say 'she and hers'?

  • Besides, our friendship ought never to be, I do not say impaired, but in any degree affected, by a secret thought.

  • Do not say so; your remark is too sweeping, and there is much that is good in your 'Fables.

  • Do not say it, then, monsieur; for I would not listen to it.

  • Possible I do not say; but there is no doubt about fact that it is really so.

  • I do not say, Sir, you may not publish your travels; but I give you my opinion, that you would lessen yourself by it.

  • That a man has always the same firmness of mind I do not say; because every man feels his mind less firm at one time than another; but I think a man's being in a good or bad humour depends upon his will.

  • It is a diminution of pleasure, to be sure; but I do not say a diminution of happiness.

  • Sir, I do not say it is wrong to produce self complacency by drinking; I only deny that it improves the mind.

  • I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

  • Not my choosing; do not say choosing, Mr. Whitford.

  • I do not say I should have done the same.

  • I do not say it is the same," observed Sir Willoughby, bowing to their alliance of opinion.

  • I do not say--I do not say; perhaps we might come to an understanding," faltered Sabot.

  • Sabot resumed: "I do not say, I do not say.

  • He grew rather more gentle when he heard that, and added: "I do not say that it is, but it is very provoking, all the same.

  • I do not say which of us two has the convex eye.

  • You're like a cow,' and she showed her teeth, bidding me not say that.

  • I do not say that it is morally wrong for the merchant to endeavour to secure payment of a debt by requiring the debtor to agree to deliver to him the produce of his fishing.

  • It is merely a calculation of my own, and I do not say it is exactly correct.

  • Did he not say that he would not give it all to you in money because you were due him something for supplies you had already got?

  • Did he not say that it was only for this special occasion that you were to have liberty?

  • Would he not say that he would have nothing more to do you, because you had not paid your previous account?

  • I do not say that he was the intimate friend of many great men; but even great men acknowledged the acquaintance of Adolphus Crosbie, and he was to be seen in the drawing-rooms, or at any rate on the staircases, of Cabinet Ministers.

  • I do not say that he is wrong to think so.

  • I do not say that Mr Crosbie will be our hero, seeing that that part in the drama will be cut up, as it were, into fragments.

  • Accuse me," murmured the king, "but do not say I do not love you.

  • I do not say he is a man of genius, it is true; but he told me so; and after him, I repeat it to you.

  • Monk, I do not say this to excuse myself--for M.

  • My friend's hopeless eyes rested upon mine a pregnant minute, and then he said impressively: "Mark, you do not say anything.

  • I do not say this to flatter: I say it in a spirit of just and appreciative recognition.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not say" 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:
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