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Example sentences for "say something"

  • Mary wished to say something sensible, but knew not how.

  • Jane had already written a few lines to her sister to announce their safe arrival in London; and when she wrote again, Elizabeth hoped it would be in her power to say something of the Bingleys.

  • The tears of her to say something, even a taunt, to which he might reply.

  • I--I wanted to say something to you in a friendly way.

  • I wanted to say something [Joy does not look at him, but twists her fingers.

  • You were about to say something, I believe?

  • LARRY reaches the door, turns as if to say something-finds no words, and goes.

  • The writer now wishes to say something on the subject of canting nonsense, of which there is a great deal in England.

  • I was about to say something in Armenian," said I.

  • Widdowson was about to say something to Monica, when Mrs. Luke, who had again closely observed the girl through the glasses, interposed in a gentle tone.

  • I myself don't think it was very delicate, but haven't you worried me to say something of the kind?

  • He made an effort to say something; seemed to abandon it; again tried, and spoke in a thick, unnatural voice.

  • Your son isn't used to my rough ways, and my soldier's wooing frightens him, but I think he was about to say something important.

  • I'll say something important to him if he doesn't!

  • But perhaps if a woman of the world should find herself by accident sitting beside a man for the length of time it must necessarily take two slow old horses to jog three miles, she might expect that man to say something of some sort!

  • Madame de Ventadour interposed with some twaddle, to give Madame time to breathe and recover sufficiently to say something.

  • Let me say something more of this Harlay.

  • Let me say something now of the young prince and his spouse, whom we thus lost in such quick succession.

  • Gesvres, or to see him dead--but what can be done with a man who, in order to say something cutting to you, says it to himself first?

  • In his breast the song was alive and there it called to life a restless desire to do something, to say something.

  • All this had for Foma a particularly pleasant flavour; he grew bolder, seized by the general good feeling, and he longed to say something good to these people, to please them all in some way or other.

  • She would surely be first to say something, uttering some unintelligible words, which were foreign to herself.

  • But I may perhaps be able to say something to cheer me up.

  • Everyone wishes to say something to everyone else of one so dear to all, and no one can say what each and all feel.

  • I stood up, and gave them a sermonette, then made Dudley, who speaks good Mai, say something.

  • At the voice, Thyrza drew the window down, then turned and stood before her sister, as if she were going to say something.

  • When Thyrza had given her assurance, Egremont's face showed that he was going to say something in a different tone.

  • But I was going to say something, Lyddy,' Thyrza pursued, when a kiss upon her hair assured her that from one at all events there was no need to ask forgiveness.

  • If you had not been so kind to my little girl, I might be tempted to say something rude in answer to your last speech.

  • Roger could see her startled gesture, she turned back to say something to Mr. Henderson before coming towards the house.

  • He looked at Nina, as if expecting her to say something more, but Nina turned towards the house and went up the steps, motioning him away with her hand.

  • Say something, Nina; have you no sympathy?

  • A sudden overwhelming desire to say something more, to say what he really felt, turned him red.

  • He tried to say something, but all his attention was given to trying not to hurt her hands.

  • But sometimes he'll say something as sharp and sensible as anything.

  • Now no minister is so welcomed as he is, and I don't believe that there ever has been a single time since he started coming again that he hasn't been asked to say something to us.

  • Any friend of his is sure to say something, after a while, about his determination, his insistence on going ahead with anything on which he has really set his heart.

  • She wanted to say something to Josephine, something frightfully important, about--about the future and what.

  • Supposing father had wanted to say something--something private to them.

  • He thought she looked so beautiful that he had to say something, "You look very cool.

  • Duc d'Orleans himself approached me to say something a moment afterwards, and he had no sooner quitted my side than M.

  • The Duc de Guiche pressed me to say something, even if it was only that I knew all.


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