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Example sentences for "one would"

  • The ground ought to be measurably sacred by this time, one would think.

  • You have beauty too--you only need to make yourself neat and clean to be as pretty a little girl as one would wish to see.

  • One would as soon expect to find sea-gulls in Kansas.

  • One would as soon expect to find silver in a grindstone.

  • This was sufficiently terrifying, one would think, to excuse the Baron for following the example of his host.

  • No one would think he was the master of everything here.

  • Indeed with these dregs of the newspapers, these gutter-slanderers, if one would be open and say all the truth aloud, what would one have to fear?

  • I understand that they have gone on trying the two old stagers till it is useless to try them any longer; and if there is to be a fresh man, no one would be more likely than the Duke.

  • At the whist-table no one would venture to scold him.

  • The boy they talked about was very young--under twenty, one would say.

  • One would expect to find some evidences of India in my uncle's house.

  • Then he began to speak as one would set in motion some delicate involved machinery running away into the hidden spaces of a workshop.

  • And whenever I made a point, I rapped it on the pavement with the ferule of my walking stick; as one would say, 'you owe me for that!

  • It was evident that something very exciting was either happening or expected, but though I asked each passenger, no one would give me the slightest explanation.

  • The question of an inquest had to be considered, and it would never do to put forward the truth, as no one would believe it.

  • No one would refuse me a kitten, would they?

  • And now and again, as the amorous perfume of chestnut flowers and of fern was drifted too near, one would say to the other: "My dear!

  • One thought comforted him: No one would know--it was not the sort of thing that she would speak about.

  • It was finished, it was perfectly beautiful, and no one would live in it now.

  • And if no one would act, what would become of that mother of us all who is called Germany?

  • Perhaps I am partly the cause of this long absence, but one cannot transact business as quickly as one would wish.

  • If one failed, one would certainly be killed; if one succeeded, one would get away somewhere over there.

  • That, come to think of it, was what they would always do; one would do anything they wanted done, the other would lie under cover near at hand, ready to shoot.

  • Their voices would recede into the twilight; one would hear a laugh at the memory of this particularly salient incident or that.

  • One would like to tell of Bert sallying forth to challenge his rival, of a ring formed and a spirited encounter, and Bert by some miracle of pluck and love and good fortune winning.

  • One would think it was sugar," murmured Georges, giggling like a greedy little child.

  • One would like to be very rich on occasions like this," added Nana.

  • One would like to catch him one--a brat like that who ought to be at school still!

  • One would think it was all my fault; do you mean to say it was wrong in me to grow rich?

  • One would think it was never in their Power or Inclination to do any man Justice.

  • Indeed says this entertaining tract, sans poussee, one would not be able to hold, at table or in the salon, with a neighbor of either sex, the least conversation.

  • One would need an encyclopaedia, a row of volumes, of the gloriousness of human impulses.

  • One would have to be blind and deaf on this side to be ignorant of European persuasion of America's triviality.

  • Here," one would say, "is the power that has held you.

  • One would be irresistibly reminded of a Sunday afternoon in the city of London, if it were not for those unmeaning explosions.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one would" 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:
    coloured silks; irregular verbs; little danger; oleic acid; one after the other; one and the same; one corner; one for; one hundred; one hundred thousand men; one hundred thousand pounds; one kind; one knew; one knows; one man; one may; one more; one must; one sees; one should; one species; one thousand five hundred; one way; one will; revealed from; this extraordinary