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Example sentences for "said about"

  • Tell me everything you can now recall as to what he said about--you used the term, what we lawyers call a conclusion.

  • Do you remember any more of the details about what he said about that?

  • I don't remember anything that she may have said about that.

  • Mary felt that there was no more to be said about Mr. Twentyman and her hopes and prospects, and for the moment she was glad to be left in peace.

  • There's nothing more to be said about it, my dear.

  • What is said about the Li Sao here comes from that work--except the suggestions as to its inner meaning.

  • Well; there is something to be said about that.

  • Now of course, were that all to be said about it, Chinamen would no doubt sometimes get confused: would think you meant a corpse, when you were really talking about poetry, and so on.

  • I have worked hard at the little book, and am disposed (as you see) to take it more seriously than it deserves; and whatever is said about it comes home to me.

  • Thank you also sincerely, for the pleasant things you have said about myself; all the pleasanter for being said in connection with the subject of Rossetti, whose genius and work I esteemed so greatly.

  • MY DEAR SHARP, I am greatly obliged to you for what you have written about my wife’s poetry, any recognition of which touches me more nearly than anything that could be said about my own verse.

  • The other condition is this--and it need be only a verbal promise--that nothing be said about my company's making this loan nor our securing the refusal of the property.

  • I know you told me what he said about love an' women in general, but I don't know as you said what he thought about women in particular.

  • The fact is ignored by general consent, and little is said about it, and nothing is written about it.

  • And then there was nothing more said about it.

  • And thus there was nothing more said about Lucy's beauty on that occasion.

  • For a minute or two Mrs. Robarts thought that, perhaps, nothing was to be said about Lucy.

  • There is nothing special to be said about Boone.

  • Awhile ago it was the fashion to be petite and arch; it is now the fashion to be tall and gracious, and nothing more can be said about it.

  • That there Mr Distin 'll have his knife into me for what I said about him.

  • You were thinking about what Distin said about my not being fit to associate with gentlemen.

  • Then about all their visitor had said about flying, and that set him wondering whether it would be possible to contrive something which might easily be tested.

  • As nothing is said about land, we must suppose that he did not sight Greenland.

  • But we recognise most of these, and even more fairy features, precisely in the Icelandic descriptions of the Skrælings in Wineland, Markland and Greenland, as appears from what is said about them on pp.

  • Which is just exactly what I’d said about Mis’ Toplady’s crocheted bed-spread.

  • And when it come to Unfinished Business, there was me on my feet again to say that the work that had been put in my hands wasn’t finished and there’d be more to be said about it later.

  • She hopped right up to say that the work that had been put in her hands was all finished, the same as was ordered, and no more to be said about it.

  • I suppose there is nothing more to be said about it," said Trevelyan, after a pause.

  • There is only one thing to be said about it, Rowley.

  • I have told him that you disapproved of it, and that nothing more must be said about it.

  • The man had behaved like an idiot, Miss Stanbury said; but he had been brought into a little dilemma, and nothing should be said about it from the house in the Close.

  • Of course I couldn't ask Mother, or Aunt Hattie, after what she said about my calling them prospective suitors.

  • Besides, I don't believe Father'll ask me to, after what I said about Mother.

  • What is said about songs in it, however, is rather specially good.

  • He even recalled the short poem, and some civil words he said about it caused Burnamy to overrun in confidences that at once touched and amused him.

  • Did you tell him what Stoller had, said about Burnamy?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "said about" 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:
    said afore; said after; said angrily; said bonds; said drily; said good; said gravely; said here; said hurriedly; said little; said mamma; said poor; said shortly; said soberly; said sternly; said the; said the first speaker; said the little doctor; said the little knight; said the little lady; said the young nobleman; said the young woman; said very; said with; thus refers; twere well