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Example sentences for "she began"

  • She began to bewail herself, and to sob convulsively: "O Silas!

  • When he had made his way with his guest through the crowd, she began to speak to her father before she noticed Corey.

  • She began to ask herself excitedly why he should be away from his office when she happened to come; and she had not the strength at the moment to reason herself out of her unreasonableness.

  • She began to wish that Irene and her father would go and excuse her too.

  • She began to feel her way cautiously toward this.

  • She began to talk intently, as he rowed: "Erik, you've got to work!

  • She began to think with unpleasant lucidity.

  • She was loyal enough but not ardent, and without ever quite intending to, she began to neglect the task as heat sucked at her strength.

  • She began to call him "Ray," and to bounce in defense of his unselfishness and thoughtfulness every time Juanita Haydock or Rita Gould giggled about him at the Jolly Seventeen.

  • She was saved from self-pity as she began to think through Erik's mind.

  • She began to give up at last; she had finished.

  • But after a day or so she began to change her tune.

  • After vain efforts, she began to shiver, partly from contact with the stone, and from exhaustion.

  • She began to have a kind of horror of him.

  • I thought the house we live in--" she began.

  • She began talking to old Broderson, making inquiries as to his wife, who had been sick the last week, and Osterman turned to the company, shaking hands all around, keeping up an incessant stream of conversation.

  • She began to mention him in her prayers every night, adding a further petition to the effect that he would become a good man, and that he should not swear so much, and that he should never meet Delaney again.

  • She began to be hungry, and, at length, yielding to the demand that every moment grew more imperious, bought and eagerly devoured a five-cent bag of fruit.

  • The reason I asked you was--" she began, and then herself paused.

  • She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone.

  • But the moment he began to bully her and to be unjust, she began to draw away; at first in tearful amazement, then in quiet, unspoken disgust.

  • When there was nothing more to preserve, she began to pickle.

  • She began to shuffle her cards furiously.

  • In February, 1895, she began to suffer from headache, usually behind the left ear, and often preventing sleep.

  • The patient was a young lady who for several months could neither sing nor speak, but on hearing her sister sing a favorite song, she began to sing herself; but, although she could sing, speech did not return for several weeks.

  • Then they never think of anything but a place to run," she finished laughingly, as she began to arrange on a stand the quantity of little white boxes waiting for her.

  • I'm so glad he wants--just puddings and stockings," she began a little breathlessly.

  • She began to tell us of your adventures, most likely supplementing the gossip of society with observations of her own.

  • He went on to insist; she began to tremble and weep.

  • Then, observing that he appeared to be so occupied with a bunch of iced grapes upon his plate that he had not heard her, she began to talk to her husband, asking him what was "going on down-town.

  • Out of her fancies the desire for flowers to wear that night emerged definitely and became poignant; she began to feel that it might be particularly important to have them.

  • When she had turned twice more, and still saw doors and only doors about her, she began to get frightened.

  • But all at once, to her dismay, it vanished, and the terror of the beast, which had left her the moment she began to return, again laid hold of her heart.

  • But as she stood, she began to hear a curious humming sound.

  • By and by she began, still mechanically, to poke her finger in after it between the stones as far as she could.

  • So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.

  • So she began: 'O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool?

  • But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about her, to pass away the time.

  • When she saw that she could no longer dress her hair, she began to hate every one about her.

  • And then, without stirring, without even moving her head, she began to stare all about her with wide-open eyes and a joyous air, and she said nothing more.

  • She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned twelve sous a day.

  • She began it with one hundred reals (one pound sterling) lent her by a devotee, and it was completed in fourteen years by voluntary gifts.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she began" 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:
    each boat; poor fellow; she admitted; she ain; she broke; she called; she could; she did not know; she found; she kept; she ran; she repeated; she replied; she responded; she rose from her; she said under her; she talked; she thinks; she wasn; she were; she whispered; she wrote; sheer weight; sheet metal; sheltered spot; sherry wine