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Example sentences for "say the"

  • But, to say the truth, Walker was at this time almost in love with his handsome rosy good-humoured simple wife.

  • You're getting me so upset about it that if I ever hear anybody so much as say the name 'Alice Adams,' I'll run!

  • It struck me as original, to say the least: his amusing himself with those darkies.

  • Footnote a: I say the Court of Sessions, because in common courts there is a magistrate who exercises some of the functions of a public prosecutor.

  • Unbelievers are to be met with in America, but, to say the truth, there is no public organ of infidelity.

  • The child rather wondered what had led him to this belief, as, to say the truth, the old man seemed quite as sharp as he, and was infinitely more robust.

  • I'd as lieve stay aside thee; say the word!

  • Say the word, and you are chambermaid of 'The White Hart.

  • The good father has only to say the word, and the princes of his race will pour a thousand crowns into his lap.

  • They were, to say the least, verging on barbarism.

  • The wood will be cracked, to say the least; the pasteboard, whirled out of your hand, will only be dented, at most.

  • The thought of what I should do in this landless region if my frail shell, in its rapid flight to the sea, happened to be pierced by a snag, was, to say the least, not a comforting one.

  • Whereupon immensities of protocolling, arguing, and the Congress "fell into complete languor," say the Histories.

  • I say the elite, for Miss Barkers had caught the trick of the place, and piqued themselves upon their "aristocratic connection.

  • I say the post-woman, but I should say the postman's wife.

  • If she was not the rose (that is to say the conjuror) she had been near it.

  • The king, say the jurists, never dies, and the heralds cry, "The king is dead!

  • Whether your father approves of it or not, say the word; claim me, and I am yours for life.

  • The sooner they hear what I have to say the better.

  • There seemed to be a chance, to say the least of it, that I might serve Eunice's interests if I discovered what the enemy had to say.

  • It has been an effort to me to say the little I have said, since I first entered this room.

  • But, to say the truth, it would be a disappointment to myself: I long to see them as much as they to see me--perhaps more.

  • Indeed, to say the truth, there was something exhilarating in the idea of being driven to straits, and thrown upon our own resources.

  • Death, say the Three, is the best that can come to them; yet will that be a boon great indeed.

  • Yea, even the doom, Goodwin, that ye dreamed and the shadow of which, looking into your mind they see, say the Three.

  • It was not a pleasant commentary on his own character and degree of moral stamina, to say the least.

  • When a principle is asserted which establishes such a precedent, and may lead to such results, it is, to say the least, startling.

  • Contrasted with the cheerful combative hopefulness and enthusiasm of Aileen, the wearied uncertainty of Mrs. Cowperwood was, to say the least, a little tame.

  • Chapter IV The appearance of Frank Cowperwood at this time was, to say the least, prepossessing and satisfactory.


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