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Example sentences for "she got"

  • She got a smart little car from somewhere up the road, and the last I saw of her she was smiling back over her shoulder and the car running on the edge of a ditch.

  • She thought if she got a good many skins she could have a fur robe made for her automobile.

  • She got so she could roll them with one hand, and she does it now in the winter evenings, instead of rolling paper spills as formerly.

  • She got up, drew up her blind, and stared out of window at a dawn-cold vision of chimneys for a time, and then went and sat on the edge of her bed.

  • But as she got out of the train at Morningside Park Station she had a shock.

  • She got up, as she had been told to do, at his appearance, and he amazed her by sitting down, according to custom, on her stool.

  • She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger below, sat down and wrenched off her boots.

  • She got a good deal of enjoyment out of her lectures.

  • She got as far, however, as to think scornfully how Helen and Dorothy would welcome and meet a flirtation with this cowboy and then go back home and forget him as utterly as if he had never existed.

  • She went into the little bedroom and, taking up her bag, she got out a number of checks.

  • There was a disposition to wear the hat much too forward, I thought, for a good Parliamentary style.

  • She got rather a reputation for the management of elderly distinguished men.

  • She got quite to the bottom of it,--it must have been a queer duologue.

  • Old Nature behind us may have had such purposes with us, but it is not for us to annex her intentions by a moralising afterthought.

  • One cannot challenge the assault, get it out into the open, separate truth and falsehood.

  • She got in beside Lowther, waved her hand to Devitt and was gone.

  • Just as she got there, two young women flaunted out; they were in evening dress, but Mavis thought the petticoats that they aggressively displayed were cheap, torn, and soiled.

  • She got up and again looked out of the window, when she saw that the men, whom she had previously seen idling in the yard, were now hard at work.

  • Sometimes at night she was quite beside herself with the thought, but when she tried to talk of the matter to the members of the theatrical companies that came to Winesburg and stopped at her father's hotel, she got nowhere.

  • She got a knife from the kitchen and threatened her husband's life.

  • She got to coming in there after there hadn't been anyone in the room for years," said Enoch Robinson.

  • She got into it, and, taking the rude oars, pulled herself into the middle of the swollen stream.

  • By and by she got quiet, rose and went to her bookcase, took down a volume of Coleridge, and read a short time, and so to bed, to sleep and wake from time to time with a sudden start out of uneasy dreams.

  • She got up, and, leaning over him, held him so for a moment, pressing her cheek close to his, and kissing him on the eyes and on the mouth.

  • She got up and stood with Michael near the fireplace.

  • Michael heard the rustle of the nurse's dress as she got up and came to the bedside.

  • It was her habit to leave the two alone together, since she was sure they preferred that; incidentally, also, she got on better with her book, for she found conversation rather distracting.

  • Then he was so crazy to show off his horse he had Shelley ride up and down the lane, while he ran along and led, so she got a lot of exercise, and it made her good and hungry.

  • Why, she couldn't fly to Heaven with wings a mile wide, and what use could they make of her if she got there?

  • She got lots of money for barrels of feathers she'd saved to improve her feather beds and pillows; she said she would see to that later.

  • I asked her how she COULD, and she said there was a place in the Bible that told how a snake coaxed Eve to eat an apple, that the Lord had told her she mustn't touch; and so she got us into most of the trouble there was in the world.

  • But she sat perfectly still, and when the knock sounded, she got up directly and opened the door without hesitation.

  • And if she got on to the roof--well, there was a drop of sixty feet or so on to the pavement.

  • She got up and brought from the dresser a newspaper clipping.

  • She got up and went to the window, first blowing out the candle.

  • And Henri had said she was to go to the Gare Maritime at Calais and make herself comfortable--if she got there.

  • She could not sleep for the heat and her thoughts, and when, towards morning, she heard the nurse stirring, she got up to inquire how he was.

  • If she got a bad cold, a shock to her nerves, perhaps a serious illness, he would never forgive himself.

  • She got up, brushed the leaves from her skirt, and went to her horse.

  • As she got to her feet, she heard her own name called from the platform, in the Bishop's voice.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she got" 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:
    great delicacy; service rules; she and; she appeared; she desired; she felt; she got; she had never known; she hurried; she knows; she might have been; she ought; she protested; she read; she remarked; she resumed; she thinks; she walked; she won; shed blood; sheep and; sheep ranch; shell beads; shell burst; shell holes; sherry wine