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Example sentences for "says the"

  • What's your boon,' says the King, 'now let me understand?

  • Now,' says the pedlar, 'it lays to my good will, Whether my name I chuse to tell to thee.

  • A tavern, or an alehouse, they adore, And will not come within the church before They're brought to lodge under a silent tomb, And then who knows how dismal is their doom!

  • To follow the plowing of the land; There is neither king, lord, nor squire, nor member for the shire, Can do without the husbandman.

  • Whose collar is flourished with gold; Why hadst thou not wakened me out of my sleep, When thou didst my lady behold?

  • From whence you come, and whither I must go?

  • You carry,' says the stranger, 'this jealousy and distrust into every transaction of public life.

  • About four acres of ground," says the journal, "was covered with small holes.

  • So we think," says the earl, "but what makes thee think about that, or what is the matter with it?

  • How came they," says the earl, "to fall upon thee?

  • Then thou wilt never come back to us," says the king.

  • It shall be as thou choosest," says the earl, "thou hast already taken them so much by the hand.

  • We were born on the same night," says the earl, "and the time will be short between our deaths.

  • Why art thou so pale," says the earl, "and now again black as earth?

  • Says the man; ‘I will drive them there for nothing, for as my way lies past that same public-house I can easily afford to do so.

  • Says the farmer, ‘What do you ask for the bull?

  • Says the colleen: ‘If any more come, can’t ye give them something else?

  • Says the farmer, ‘I could swear that this is my bull but for the tail.

  • Oh yes,’ says the man; ‘I do remember that well enough.

  • So large an increase in bank deposits and cash balances," says the Report, "is highly satisfactory.

  • The American Government," says the editor of Scribner, "will not appropriate the money to pay it, and that is all.

  • All right," says the General, being only too glad to get him back at all.

  • She don't know any pieces," says the Jew.

  • Interdooce me," says the drummer in a kind of a way that made them all laugh a heap.

  • Whip him out' says the third; 'Hang him up' says the Duke.

  • Ay, his breast- So says the bond; doth it not, noble judge?

  • So says the Prince, and my new-trothed lord.

  • Then there is another thing: we must have a wall in the great chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby, says the story, did talk through the chink of a wall.

  • For the heavens, rouse up a brave mind' says the fiend 'and run.

  • Says the Pilot, who must have his grievance, "Just observe where I managed to stop the machine.

  • And a very good result too," says the Aeroplane, complacently, as he is carefully wheeled into his shed.

  • Never," says the Pilot, who has seen it many times, but to whom it is ever new and more wonderful.

  • As I am not to hear the matter," says the laird, "I will not take upon myself to qualify its weight.

  • When you are come to more discretion you will understand such talk in not to be listened to, how much less repeated," says the Advocate.

  • I think Prestongrange is gane gyte," says the second.

  • A little, slight-limbed lad,' says the historian of Sheppard.

  • She has the spirit of four great parishes,' says the wit in the comedy, 'and a voice that will drown all the city.

  • And with that, says the record, "she ran away by herself as she came.

  • She spake," so says the record, "many tongues and was replete with piety.

  • Upon which occasion sir," says the Major, "Jemmy Jackman takes your hat off.

  • Says the Major "Have you any commands for me, Mr. Buffle?

  • Madam" says the Major "my advice is that you board and lodge him in a Powder Mill, with a handsome gratuity to the proprietor when exploded.

  • Because I have before noticed you" says the Major "apparently looking for a spectre very hard beneath the roof of my respected friend.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "says 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:
    also good; being turned; clear profit; deeply moved; faut pas; large room; only surviving; parliamentary vote; runaway slave; rural communities; said vnto; says again; says another; says elsewhere; says one; says poor; says that; says the; says they; set forth; should prefer; slave territory; smiling again; will secure; woman must; your mind