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Example sentences for "seemed about"

  • There was a sudden gleam in Mr. Hamilton's eyes; he seemed about to speak; impetuous words were on his tongue, then he checked himself.

  • He was sorry that I was going; he seemed about to speak; his lips unclosed, then a sudden frown of recollection crossed his brow, and with a curt good-night he left us.

  • From the other's lips fell an oath; he seemed about to say something but checked himself; the seconds went by.

  • Casting over his shoulder the swift glance of an entrapped animal, he seemed about to leap backward to escape by a rear entrance when the voice of the intruder arrested his purpose, momentarily held him.

  • Joe looked at the other, seemed about to speak on the impulse, but did not; then his hand slowly ceased its motion.

  • He seemed about to speak but with an effort checked himself and looked down.

  • For a moment he seemed about to fall, then the blood came surging back; his cheeks grew purple with its weight.

  • Then he rose and took up the papers which he had been preparing, and as he went over them again he came to profounder realization than ever before of the mighty tragedy whose final act he seemed about to witness.

  • And the long shudders shook her frame again, and she dropped her head and seemed about to fall into her old abstraction when her eye encountered that of the District Attorney, and she hurriedly aroused herself.

  • He seemed about to speak, but checked himself.

  • He seemed about to say something, but changed his mind.

  • He seemed about to say something, but checked himself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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