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Example sentences for "say what"

  • How can I now, in my vain physiology, say what is love, what is not?

  • I say what I mean, and nobody shall talk me down.

  • I am quite afraid to say what Mr. Hamish did, this being a sober story.

  • The best plan for the future will be, to have no secrets one from the other; otherwise, it seems hard to say what labyrinths we may not get into.

  • As to the signature of the letter, Dolly was a man who would naturally be quite unable to say what he had and what he had not signed.

  • You might as well let me say what I've got to say,--out at once.

  • All this will be trouble enough to you when people begin to say what we are.

  • I didn't mean nothing bad, Mrs Hurtle; only why couldn't he say what he had to say himself, instead of bringing another to say it for him?

  • I must send you a line to say what a good fellow you are to send me so long an account of the Oxford doings.

  • I thank God I did not think so when I saw Huxley; for he spoke so kindly and magnificently of me, that I could hardly have endured to say what I now think.

  • Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not.

  • This man is always willing to say what he has to say.

  • He did not attack me violently till he found I did not like his poetry; and his attack on me shall not prevent me from continuing to say what I think of him, from an apprehension that it may be ascribed to resentment.

  • The woman was very attentive and civil to me; she pressed me to fix a day for dining with them, and to say what I liked, and she would be sure to get it for me.

  • He obstinately refuses to say what he will do in that case.

  • I can't pretend to say what I may feel as I grow older; but if I could be sure to be as I am now, I could ask nothing better.

  • He has rendered me great services in past times, and it will be for himself to determine whether he should do or say what should in any way bar our future relations together.

  • I thought you were going to say what it might be, when I stopped you.

  • Who is to say what blood of Pericles she had not in her veins?

  • Once a week I was permitted to go out; it is not necessary to say what use I made of this liberty.

  • I knew how to complain, but not how to act: they suffered me to say what I pleased, and continued to act as they thought proper.

  • I don't think I need fear to say what I mean, but I know there are always two ways of saying things, and perhaps I chose the roughest.

  • She thinks it is for my happiness; she is offended if I try to say what I suffer.

  • Let a man support himself by his own work, then he's got a right to say what he likes.

  • If I hear it repeated, you may be sure I'll up an' say what I think.

  • It did not occur to her to sit down, and Will did not give a cheerful interpretation to this queenly way of receiving him; but he went on to say what he had made up his mind to say.

  • It is difficult to say what Mr. Ladislaw is, eh, James?

  • I don't pretend to say what is the truth.

  • T is impossible to say what we owe to him.

  • T is the dev--'t is beyond me to say what he is.

  • Because if you won't," continued the groom, "I shall have to say what I want now.

  • I say what I do because of the change in the old man's manner this last few weeks.

  • Yet he found it hard to say what precisely he had lost that so greatly mattered; unless indeed it were so simple a thing as his high spirits.

  • I prefer not to say what I think,"--I replied, gently.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "say what" 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:
    but they were not; can get; come upon; considered them; give notice; human wants; like sort; long shot; mouthed bottle; poor soul; say anything more about; say truth; say what; sayd before; sayde vnto; saying nothing; saying that; saying thus; saying unto; says again; says she; says that; says the; shall want; stand aside; will get