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Example sentences for "say about"

  • I do; and that is why, after hearing what she has to say about it, I think she has done right.

  • All I've got to say about that is, that I, for one, don't like that kind of conduct.

  • He had a good deal to say about Bates, and more about Sissy Cameron, and Sophia found that she had a good deal to say in answer.

  • But you must have something to say about it, mamma.

  • I do not know, dear, that I have anything to say about it.

  • But the greater on that account was the feasibility of discussing the question, and the archdeacon had a good deal to say about it.

  • You know what that wise old Omar had to say about it all.

  • Beason waited patiently, supposing the man to be thinking what to say about so great a difficulty.

  • But he won't have anything to say about--the change.

  • It's Austen that comes around to inquire for his father--Hilary never has a word to say about Austen.

  • If they find him when they get abroad, you don't suppose they'll swallow anything you have to say about trying to deliver him over.

  • But a man should have something to say about boys.

  • I'm going to be in on the formation of this company, and I'm going to have my say about it!

  • Well, if she wanted to be miffed at a little accident like that, and read things falsely, and think the worst of people, she might; that was all Sam had to say about it!

  • Whatever you have to say about it just now don't count.

  • And gin he thocht one had a word to say about Allie, he would gar his black dog rive him in bits but he would get it out o' him.

  • He made some pretence of having something more to say about business, but he forgot it in a little, and went off to other matters, speaking with angry vehemence about men and things of which John knew nothing.

  • He had much to say about Mr Hadden and his family, and about their great kindness to both Willie and himself.

  • He had, each time, something to say about business, but apparently the laird had changed his mind about the building of the new wing, for nothing more was to be done for the present.

  • I shall have nothing to say about it--nothing.

  • What a beastly thing to say about anybody!

  • You see, I can think of such extraordinarily nasty things to say about people I don't like.

  • There is really nothing to say about them.

  • What I wanted to say about books is this: that there are times in which every active mind feels itself above any and all human books.

  • I have something more to say about trees.

  • But I found that it was the general wish that another of our company should let us hear what he had to say about it.

  • He was wonderfully well acquainted with the leading facts about the Andes, the Apennines, and the Appalachians; he had nothing in particular to say about Ararat, Ben Nevis, and various other mountains that were mentioned.

  • Paul's first burst of gratitude and praise does not exhaust all that he has to say about Epaphroditus.

  • But men will never have to say about any of God's architecture, He 'began to build and was not able to finish.

  • The New Testament has much to say about hope.

  • Another man has something to say about a vine, and lo, before it is out, it is metamorphosed by this miserable creature into misery; he has changed slaema to tlaema, with a suggestive hint of tlaemon.

  • If I fall in with any of these ladies, I will see what they have to say about it.

  • Rumours had reached us of the things he used to say about us in his lectures.

  • To hear if I had anything to say about my visit to your bishop, I suppose?

  • And had she anything unpleasant to say about me?

  • And this is really all I have to say about my most distinguished classmate.

  • It is not to be expected that Emerson should have much that is new to say about "Napoleon; or, the Man of the World.

  • Emerson has a good deal to say about conversation in his Essay on "Clubs," but nothing very notable on the special subject of the Essay.

  • But after the pulpit has said what it thinks of the pulpit, it is well to listen to what the pews have to say about it.

  • All that Emerson has to say about "Courage" is worth listening to, for he was a truly brave man in that sphere of action where there are more cowards than are found in the battle-field.

  • Peregrine had nothing more to say about it, and the baronet was thinking how best he might encourage his grandson.

  • I don't exactly know what to say about it," said Mrs. Smiley.

  • It was a quarter to ten by the small town clock on the mantelpiece, and the jeweller rubbing his hands over the fire tried in vain to remember what etiquette had to say about starting a meal before the arrival of an expected guest.

  • Mrs. Mitchell 'ad a few words to say about it next day, but Gerty told 'er to save 'er breath for walking upstairs.

  • Don't you know what he used to say about dying?

  • I have nothing whatever to say about Mr. Lancaster.

  • Miss Port was on the point of following him; she had something to say about Olive; but she stopped.

  • You, Peabody, wouldn't be in the Senate to-day if the voters had anything to say about it.

  • But, unfortunately, Congress also has something to say about choosing it," spoke Haines.

  • We'd have something to say about that," Carolina laughed, amusedly.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "say 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:
    demoniacal possession; different line; escaped from; known work; long voyage; say anything more about; say good; say not; say nothing; say something; say they; say unto; say what; sayd before; sayde vnto; sayest thou; saying thus; saying unto; saying what; says again; says elsewhere; says himself; says poor; says she; state institutions; that boy