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Example sentences for "one can"

  • A perfect order reigns, one can see, and everything, down to its healthy smell of soap-suds, gives to this apartment a wholesome and rural aspect.

  • One can find as many Cabinet leaders as one desires, while the good cooks, you can count them.

  • One can't spend six years like six weeks.

  • A woman is nothing without a few years of grown-up girlhood before her marriage; and, what is more, no one can judge of her when she is fresh from the school-room.

  • One can't take a quarter of it in at once.

  • After the account I have given of the state of the street, no one can be surprised that on going into the cellar inhabited by Davenport, the smell was so foetid as almost to knock the two men down.

  • We'd all ha' gone, if he had na been in such a hurry, for no one can say as Manchester firemen is ever backward when there's danger.

  • For how body and soul had been kept together, even as much as they were, during the days he had dwelt alone, no one can say.

  • Well, but as I was saying, I went at seven.

  • Yes, it's very sudden," said he dreamily.

  • You see, one can't keep the run of three hundred men without some trouble.

  • I am glad to see society grapple with issues in which no one can afford to be neutral.

  • He idles about here the whole day long, one can't get rid of him; and then when he is wanted he does not come.

  • One can tell a child everything, anything.

  • Not to speak of your natural beauty, one can look at your face and say to one's self, 'She has the face of a kind sister.

  • And supposing it's something that one--one can't speak about before ladies?

  • That there were feuds in the place, no one can deny.

  • And the worst of it is, one can't do anything to a roof till the Rains are over.

  • One can't make omelets without breaking eggs.

  • The liberty of the press, one can't help it.

  • And wretched the letter That no one can read!

  • My good sir, one can't marry a vulgar fraction!

  • Scaphio: My dear King, in that kind of thing no one can hold a candle to you.

  • One can but be practical, and Mrs Meagles and myself are nothing else.

  • That it is a very good connection, no one can deny.

  • One can dine--sup--what you please to call it?

  • That he has somehow or other, and how is of no consequence, attained a very good position, no one can deny.

  • I mean no one can say "No" because of him, dear pet.

  • In each breast the same thought arose, 'No one can say it's OUR fault.

  • My dear Archdeacon," she said, "no one can be an unbeliever nowadays.

  • One can't go on indefinitely as a tenant-for-life in a fools' paradise.

  • One can't be sure," persisted Merla; "when one wanders about as much as he did one gets mixed up and forgets where one HAS been.

  • What the next invention in government may be no one can tell; but whatever it be, it will be in accordance with the ideas and altered circumstances of progressive ages.

  • No one can anticipate or foresee the revolutions in human thought, and therefore in human governments, "till He shall come whose right it is to reign.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one can" 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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