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Example sentences for "she sat"

  • Her hands, clasped over her knee, were brown and somewhat work-hardened; but the skin of her throat and cheeks was as white as cream.

  • Such a power has a bit of divinity in it--whether of a good or an evil divinity who shall say?

  • She sat in her favorite rocker in unusual idleness.

  • Instead, she sat down on the boulder beside the girl.

  • She sat down on the stairs and had a long, bitter cry.

  • With a nod, Miss Bishop turned to the piano, sweeping aside her white draperies as she sat.

  • She sat forward, her hands crossed on her lap, a fire smouldering deep beneath the cool surface lights of her eyes.

  • She sat up straight from the depths of her chair, her white, delicately tapering forearms resting lightly on her knees.

  • She sat down on the top of his table and watched him.

  • She sat down in a low chair beside him and leaned forward, drawing her shoulders together.

  • She sat down on the piano bench and leaned her elbow back on the keyboard.

  • After shutting her door and locking it, she sat down on the edge of her bed.

  • She sat down, bending over the cat and teasing his whiskers.

  • She sat down on it for a few minutes and let her head drop in her hands.

  • She sat up, resting on her elbow, and her breathing came short and fast.

  • She sat down on the floor in her favorite attitude, holding her knees.

  • As she sat down in one of the stiff mahogany chairs, Sara cast one of her quick looks about her.

  • She sat at her desk now, very interested, very bright-eyed, very calm.

  • The telegram came to Emma as she sat in her office near the close of a busy day.

  • She sat there, in the sunshiny dining-room, in her fresh, white morning gown.

  • She sat down in the sofa-corner by the fire and he drew an armchair close to her.

  • She sat silent, drumming the table with her hand.

  • Now and then, as she sat there, the sense of his presence enveloped her as in her dream, and she shut her eyes and felt his arms about her.

  • She sat up laughing and apologizing for her laziness.

  • She thanked him, and as he went out, closing the door, she sat down in considerable relief.

  • As she sat down to wait she reviewed the causes which accounted for the remarkable situation in which she found herself.

  • She sat down in one of the old rocking-chairs and looked and looked, and knew that she was not grasping the reality of what stretched wondrously before her.

  • Miss Bart did not cry out: she sat silent, gazing thoughtfully at her friend.

  • She sat quiet, her lips parted by the stress of the ascent, her eyes wandering peacefully over the broken ranges of the landscape.

  • As she sat, on the Saturday afternoon, on the terrace at Bellomont, she smiled at Mrs. Trenor's fear that she might go too fast.

  • She sat up, bewildered by the strangeness of her surroundings; then memory returned, and she looked about her with a shiver.

  • She sat talking in low murmurs with Selden, and turning a contemptuous and denuded shoulder toward her host, who, far from resenting his exclusion, plunged into the excesses of the MENU with the joyous irresponsibility of a free man.

  • She sat on the wooden step of the porch, looking out on the melancholy sweep of meadow and hill range growing cool and dimmer in the dun twilight, not hearing what they said, until the sharpened, earnest tones roused her.

  • Sometimes, late at night, when he had gone to bed, she sat alone in the door, while the moonlight fell in broad patches over the square, and the great poplars stood like giants whispering together.

  • She sat down by the lamp and began to read to her father, as usual.

  • Determining to wait, she sat down on a chair.

  • She sat down, and leant with her head in a corner.

  • Sitting on the hedge as she sat now, her eyes commanded a view of both sides of it.

  • Mimi did not know how long she sat there.

  • She sat on the floor with her arms round the body of the girl whom she loved.

  • So she sat down in the window-seat and enjoyed the pleasure of a full view, from which she had been so long cut off.

  • I took the spade away from Mrs. Harling, and while I loosened the earth around the tree, she sat down on the steps and talked about the oriole family that had a nest in its branches.

  • She sat down in her favourite rocking-chair and settled a little stool comfortably under her tired feet.

  • When Sally got back from school, she sat down in her hat and coat and drummed the plantation melodies that Negro minstrel troupes brought to town.

  • She sat down in the chair Frances pointed out, carefully arranging her pocket-book and grey cotton gloves on her lap.

  • Sensible and resolute woman as she was, Mrs. Norbury shuddered with terror as she sat at the window of her room, watching the sunrise, and thinking of her dreams.

  • Without knowing why, she sat up suddenly in the bed, listening for she knew not what.

  • She sat down by the table, and took up a guide-book.

  • She sat down in her little rocking-chair before the fire, swaying thoughtfully to and fro.

  • She sat at the table and held the photograph before her.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    here you; she added; she admitted; she begged; she believed; she caught; she could; she desired; she died; she don; she got; she held; she knew; she left; she might; she now; she said; she seems; she spoke; she were; she would; she wrote; shed abroad; shell hole; shell holes; worship thee