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Example sentences for "not that"

  • Not that I should be disposed to recommend (at present) the extreme measures adopted by some States, where an infant whose angle deviates by half a degree from the correct angularity is summarily destroyed at birth.

  • Not that I apprehended, at the moment, any danger from her divulging my secret, but I knew that to any Woman in Flatland the narrative of my adventures must needs be unintelligible.

  • Not that it must be for a moment supposed that our Women are destitute of affection.

  • Not that, David, not that," she murmured.

  • Not that he told him of the gold-pieces and of the unexpected use to which they had been put--indeed, no.

  • Not that I didn't walk by myself over every other foot of the acres and acres of beautiful land my father owned; but plowed fields, grassy meadows, wood pasture, and the orchard were different.

  • Valorsay came to his relief, for as Pascal was about to open the same door by which he had entered, the marquis exclaimed: "Not that way!

  • Not that he had wholly ceased to practise dissimulation.

  • Not I--I'm not that sort of a person, as I'll soon let them know.

  • Not that I've heard," smiled Billy; "but she is going to wear a pink.

  • In the same place I saw out of the inn-windows a man-servant passing in the livery of my house, which you are to think I had never before seen worn, or not that I could remember.

  • It is not that I thought any the less, or any the less warmly, of Flora.

  • With all his faults, I know he is not THAT.

  • Not that I am of any political party or system.

  • Is not that son of mine a child of the prison?

  • Not that conduct is not constitutive, but dear!

  • I have never forgiven that weak, amiable boy a little trick he played me when I could ill afford it: I mean that whenever I think of it, some of the old wrath kindles, not that I would hurt the poor soul, if I got the world with it.

  • They failed to entertain a coy public, at which I wondered, not that I set much account by my verses, which are the verses of Prosator; but I do know how to tell a yarn, and two of the yarns are great.

  • Not that that's any excuse for the thing I did; but it does make it seem a wonder that I ever could have made a start even at being decent.

  • Not that he compelled or caused the transfer of all interest to himself.

  • Not that, when he sometimes discussed the writing of it with me, I was in sympathy with it.

  • Not that he assumed anything, or forced comparisons; on the contrary, no man could have insisted less upon himself.

  • Not the money--not that, hardly at all--but what you did for me.

  • Your delightful Wordsworth trap I have tried on two hardened Wordsworthians, not that I am not one myself.

  • Perhaps these reasons would not be sufficient to shield me from your attractions, were it not that my affections are already bestowed upon another.

  • Not that I doubt her resting in her Grave: I am now convinced that my reason wandered, and the falsehood of the Ghost's prediction is sufficient to prove my error.

  • The wonder is not that it is so bad, but that there should be any good left in it.

  • Not that we three can expect to be numbered with such as these, yet have we done something -- enough, perhaps, to throw a garment over the nakedness of our folly.

  • Not that I care about that, but I think I was weak not to chance it.

  • It is not that I have seen only the worst side of it but that that seems to be so much the most prominent.

  • Not that Richard in any way resembled a prig or was even, so far as I know, ever so considered by the most reprehensible of his fellow students.

  • Not that I would be likely to see anything hidden under a year.

  • Not that we would have endangered his safety by any tremendous weather--but only by a steady contrary wind, or a calm.

  • In fact, it is not that I consider the ball as ill-timed; what does it signify?

  • Not that I'm superstitious at all, you know, in the vulgar way.

  • Not that he looks like a weakling, you know.

  • Not that I've lost my interest in any of the older forms of sociology, you know, just because I am keeping up with the newer phases of it.

  • Not that I was really so uncomfortable in the auto, you know.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not that" 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:
    bons mots; not always; not because; not care; not easy; not far; not fit; not forget; not give; not like; not mistaken; not now; not pretend; not say; not surprising; not this; noted above; nothing about; nothing better; nothing could; nothing except; nothing less; nothing remarkable; nothing should; take him; unless you