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Example sentences for "she remained"

  • She could be quite as true to her vocation as if she remained single.

  • She remained staring at the dark wall across the sea, and spiritually confronting her own responsibility, no atom of which she rejected.

  • She remained helpless in the middle of the road; the horses came to a stand-still a few paces from her, and the driver ceased from the high key of conversation, and turned to see what was the matter.

  • She remained constant in her relations with this faithful friend--at least by letter--who was a prudent and wise adviser.

  • She remained a recluse for almost a year, given over utterly to her grief, refusing the consolations of the Church offered her by the old cure of the village of Saint-Lange.

  • Nevertheless, though once more in respectable society, she remained bound, by a secret compact, to the terrible Vautrin and his sister.

  • She remained standing as I had often before seen her, perched on the river's banks, her face as red as her purple shawl.

  • She remained gazing at Lise, who paid no attention to her entrance, but stood with her back turned before an old-fashioned bureau with a marble top and raised sides.

  • For a long time, however, she remained wakeful, turning first on one side and then on the other, trying to banish from her mind the episode that had excited her.

  • I've never met a woman like you," he went on, as she remained silent.

  • She remained silent "I have decided," he found himself saying abruptly, "to continue in the Church.

  • While the children were at dinner, and while the lord was sitting at lunch, she remained up in her own room.

  • Fancying that he might call, she remained up-stairs all day, and Mrs. Fenwick was obliged to say that she was unwell.

  • She remained motionless, and was minded so to remain till he should tell her that it was time to move, that they might return home.

  • She remained so quiet that it might have been thought she did not even hear him, but for the convulsive movement of her lips, and of the fingers of her tightly clasped hands.

  • Shrugging her shoulders at her husband's last words, she remained motionless, noticing nothing except his sufferings.

  • She remained a moment longer, watching him with an air of pity, and then left the room.

  • Meanwhile, she remained like a statue on the spot where she had taken her stand, and her eyes, which in her former examination had met the court with the unflinching gaze of an automaton, were lowered till the lashes swept her cheek.

  • She remained silent, her candid gaze on him.

  • She remained a moment in the same attitude--leisurely inspecting the throng below, then turned to him, her calm preoccupation changing to a shyly engaging smile.

  • She remained in the carriage, while Basil visited the various points of view on Luna Island with the boy and girl.

  • She remained unique, solitary; and this not merely on account of her vivid raiment.

  • She remained so, even though her sympathies had become imperfect, and she moved in regions which his sane young imagination failed to penetrate.

  • Besides, in spite of her greediness, she remained so nice and good!

  • That evening when Gervaise found herself at home again, she remained in a stupefied state on a chair.

  • She remained seated on the edge of the bed, under the strip of faded chintz, which hung from the rod fastened to the ceiling by a piece of string.

  • She felt stifled; she remained at the window for hours, squeezed between the wall and the drawers and getting a stiff neck.

  • She remained a very short time in Wales, and then proceeded by sea to Scotland, where her party, and she herself personally, had powerful friends.

  • She remained at this court, as we have seen, under the assumed name of Miss Sanders, until the death of the dauphiness.

  • It was all very well for a woman if she stood behind such a man for protection as long as she remained quiet; but Heaven help her if she ever undertook to beat him with her fists.

  • She remained indoors in all sorts of weather save when she had marketing to do, and then she looked neither to left nor right.

  • She remained silent so long that he became impatient again.

  • She remained dumb at one or two points where he clearly hoped for a word, and she was unable to thank him when he had finished.

  • She remained in the machine while he went in, and as she sat there a train passed on its downward eastward run, and a feeling of loneliness, of helplessness, filled her heart.

  • His voice entreated, and as she remained silent, he continued: "Roaring Fork is one of the worst towns in the State, and a girl like you needs some one as a protector.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    actual life; great crowd; quite easy; she added; she and; she became; she begged; she faltered; she fell; she goes; she got; she had always been; she hadn; she heard; she knows; she might have been; she only; she put; she replied; she sent; she won; shed tears; sheep raising; sheet iron; shew himself; shew them