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Example sentences for "say that"

  • I knew that you'd say that, and it's just what I thought myself.

  • I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them.

  • And so it ended by my letting them have a wire to say that I could not come.

  • In substance, I am bound to say that I think his new views are probably saner than his old ones, but the insanity lies in his sudden reasonless change and in his violent blurts of speech.

  • I suppose it 's improper for me to say that--especially to you!

  • The discovery greatly disgusted him; Bernard Longueville's chronicler must do him the justice to say that it failed to yield him an even transient thrill of pleasure.

  • He wondered if she had really been going to say that at first.

  • These words only were pencilled therein: I am sincerely sorry to say that it was seriously made.

  • Whenever I met him out for a walk, he used to say that he was much taken with my looks, and he kept pressing me to marry him.

  • Say that you do a quarter, a tenth, as much as I do you, and I'll be content!

  • I am very much the reverse of what you say so cruelly--Oh, Jude, it WAS cruel to say that!

  • Nevertheless, he preserved them with jealous care, and was careful not to say that he had found them.

  • I am only doing the count justice when I say that my future was a subject of constant anxiety to him during the last few months of his life.

  • Then allow me to say that I see nothing in this case in any way differing from the others, nor can I understand why this should be wrong, if the others were not.

  • It is needless to say that he exercised uncommon care in the composition of the menu on a day like this when his future course depended, perhaps, on a word more or less.

  • I came Tess, to say that I don't like you to be working like this, and I have come on purpose for you.

  • William used to say that he'd seen a man look a fool a good many times, but never such a fool as that bull looked when he found his pious feelings had been played upon, and 'twas not Christmas Eve.

  • SIR, J write these few lines to say that my Daughter is away from me at present, and J am not sure when she will return, but J will let you know as Soon as she do.

  • He could no longer say that he would always reject her, and not to say that was in spirit to accept her now.

  • Say that again," asked d'Urberville, who had listened with the greatest attention.

  • She mounted the planking that led into the shelter of the bare brick walls, and her husband slowly followed.

  • You seem to have a great passion for playing with shavings," he said.

  • If he will take that to any bookseller, and tell him what bindings he wants, he will fill the order for him.

  • I wanted to say--to say that it's I who make her talk about you.

  • I don't say that's all, nor that that's it.

  • Daniel used to say that he gained his bet and the widow's custom at ONE BLOW.

  • People used to say that it was enough to turn milk sour for her even to look at it.

  • I was going to say that I wish I could help you to some kind of work.

  • I do not hesitate to say that if you had your deserts you would be in the Penitentiary.

  • I married him because I loved him, but I won't say that I didn't love him partly because I thought I saw a promise of that life in him.

  • It is easy enough to say that; but you don't see the difficulty.

  • It is useless to say that," his mother answered with an impatient look of sorrow.

  • It would be better not to say that; it might not sound truthful.

  • I don't say that to make you go," she added, "I say it simply to justify myself.

  • For this reason one may perhaps say that there is no other place in which one's daily temper has such a mellow serenity, and none, at the same time, in which acute attacks of depression are more intolerable.

  • The poor lady fixed her eyes appealingly on Rowland's face and seemed to say that Mr. Striker had spoken her desire, though she herself would have expressed it less defiantly.

  • I have been seeing Mr. Roderick daily these three years, and yet it was only this morning that I felt as if I had at last the right to say that I knew him.

  • Say that a dozen times in his life a man has a complete sculpturesque vision--a vision in which the imagination recognizes a subject and the subject kindles the imagination.

  • It would be doing Uncle Abe an injustice to say that he was glad the storm had happened; but since it had to be he was very glad he had predicted it .

  • Oh, Anne, Anne, I didn't mean to say that .

  • Mr. Elisha Wright, who labored under the impression that he was a local wit, used to say that nobody in Avonlea ever thought of looking in the Charlottetown dailies for weather probabilities.

  • I only mean to say that Mr. Gryce and I are getting to be very good friends.

  • Do you mean to say that Judy's not well enough to see me?

  • But I came to say that my wife wants you to come down to our place next Sunday.

  • It was horrid of me to say that of Gerty," she said with charming compunction.

  • It is not too much to say that it will rank level with my own when the final credit of this business comes to be apportioned.

  • Professor Murray will, I am sure, excuse me if I say that he has the common fault of most Englishmen of being inaudible.

  • It is no doubt a curious formation," said I "but I am not geologist enough to say that it is wonderful.

  • It struck me as preposterous in London, but I'm bound to say that it seems even more so upon closer acquaintance.

  • But at this juncture Judy Pineau appeared to say that Sara, with her usual luck, had a sore throat, and that her mother consequently would not permit her to come.

  • I mean to say that I wouldn't mind if I had several wishbones of the same kind," retorted Peter stubbornly.

  • I don't say that it is about Miss Reade or that it isn't.

  • I acquainted a person of much riches, and one that was very understanding in the iron manufacture, who was pleased to say that he had often designed to get the trade into England, but never could find out the way.

  • But with all his inventive genius, in the exercise of which Mr. Roberts has so largely added to the productive power of the country, we regret to say that he is not gifted with the commercial faculty.

  • It is correct to say that he is chiefly concerned with the employment of the fleet, though his advice has weight in regard to its character and sufficiency, and is always sought in relation to the shipbuilding programme.

  • To say that he is merely ``describing a New Testament fact in Old Testament phraseology'' may be true of the result rather than of his design.

  • Matthew Arnold used to say that ``Gladstone influences all round him but Acton; it is Acton who influences Gladstone.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "say that" 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:
    allowing them; dead coral; distant thunder; great pile; known species; make trial; nervous control; never want; nuclear weapons; permit them; say not; say nothing; say something; say that; say this; say unto; say what; sayde vnto; saying anything; saying thus; saying unto; saying what; says nothing; says the; soon perceived; that morning