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Example sentences for "read some"

  • The French lessons were very agreeable to me, and besides duly preparing them, I read some French on my own account, and acquired a liking for the language that has remained with me ever since.

  • I read some of them, more or less, but have totally forgotten them all except a black-letter Chaucer.

  • He wrote most of the day, but stopped now and then to read some of the telegrams or letters of condolence which came flooding in.

  • When you're eighteen you can read Ivanhoe, and you want to wait until you're ninety to read some of the rest.

  • I tried to read some of hers, and I told her I didn't like them.

  • Read some of 'The Shepherd's Calendar' and quote from it.

  • I've read some of it--they made us do it, freshman year.

  • Read some books in the library for sometime.

  • While Uncle Mano and Madam chatted, I read some books.

  • Read some books on spiders in the afternoon.

  • He read some extracts, after Johnson's death, from the Meditations, and wrote contemptuously of them.

  • The one who perhaps made herself most notorious was Harriet Martineau, and in spite of her disagreeable egotism it is still a pleasure to read some of her less controversial writings.

  • I have read it not as we read some so-called literature, from a sense of duty, but with unqualified interest.

  • We became friends at once; he had some taste for poetry, I read some of my productions to him, and having paid him a visit the following day, he shewed me several pieces of his own composition which were well written.

  • In turning over the manuscript at Leipzig, I read some of the suppressed passages, and regretted their suppression; but Herr Brockhaus, the present head of the firm, assured me that they are not really very considerable in number.

  • She read no books but her father's--a serious man who had no novels in his library, and she was longing to read some tales of romance.

  • If there is any sea up I am either sick or contrive to read some voyage or travels.

  • Later in the voyage, Fitz-Roy asked me to read some of my Journal, and declared it would be worth publishing; so here was a second book in prospect!

  • In the fifth and sixth grades children should begin to read some of the best biographical and historical stories of America and of European countries.

  • At the beginning of the fourth grade, therefore, they are prepared to read some of those choice literary products which constitute a part of the permanent literature of the world.

  • I should wish to read some of them, as well as to have witnesses examined.

  • He then proceeded to read some remarks of Sir W.

  • She then conceived an immediate desire to read some of his writings.

  • Seven Digits Backwards Say, "Listen carefully, I am going to read some numbers, and I want you to say them backwards.

  • Five Digits Backwards "Listen carefully; I am going to read some numbers, and I want you to say them backwards.

  • I am going to read some numbers, and I want you to say them backwards.

  • In the later years of this period certain classes and certain schools may find it well to read some of the literary stories of adventure, such as Ivanhoe, or Treasure Island, or The Last of the Mohicans.

  • Besides, one hastens to add that every child should hear and should later on have a chance to read some of the free, wandering, fantastic things which his teacher cannot feel justified in giving to the class.

  • When the children have advanced to some proficiency in reading, they will, of course, begin to read some of their own literature, reading aloud in the class and often having the text before them as the teacher reads.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anything but; eight ships; forty feet; her dark; minute portion; moral action; mountain road; organized society; rather obtuse; read about; read aloud; read and; read from; read over; read them; read what; reader will; readily detected; readily distinguished; readily soluble; readily understood; reading the; reads thus; ready enough; ready for; ready sale