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Example sentences for "she spoke"

  • But as she spoke, the tiny face wore the smile of a great, grand woman.

  • As she spoke, her face too faded quite away, only Diamond thought he could still see her eyes shining through the blue.

  • And, as she spoke, a moan of wind bent the tulips almost to the ground, and the creature laid her hand on Diamond's shoulder.

  • As she spoke he could have told by her voice, if he had not seen with his eyes, that she was growing larger and larger.

  • She amazed the man--she spoke to him so timidly: she even apologized for troubling him!

  • She spoke to this man, asking him if he understood French.

  • She spoke (pointing to the police officer) in clear, ringing, resolute tones, audible in the remotest corner of the room.

  • If your ladyship had only heard how she spoke to him!

  • She gently laid her hand as she spoke on Mercy's shoulder.

  • And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice's side as she spoke.

  • She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the distant green leaves.

  • Duchess said to Alice, flinging the baby at her as she spoke.

  • Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke.

  • She spoke of it to nobody; she kept her misery to herself.

  • She frequented them; she spoke of Eastern matters; she found that she had acquaintances whom the Ogdens also knew, and she often brought them into the conversation.

  • She spoke in accents light and well intrenched.

  • She spoke to the baby just to hear herself speak, and to know that she had not lost her voice.

  • Mr. Prince bent his keen, bright eyes upon the young girl, and almost held his breath until she spoke again.

  • And with this last flicker of foolish, weak humanity in her struggling spirit, she spoke no more.

  • I want to be unfair about just this," she said, letting a troubled laughter tremble through her appealing voice as she spoke.

  • However, she seemed not greatly displeased with him, and laughed as she spoke.

  • Eugene was beginning to feel very uncomfortable, but at last the Vicomtesse appeared; she spoke to him, and the tremulous tones of her voice vibrated through his heart.

  • She did not raise her head as she spoke; the words that Mme.

  • Victorine, pointing to her mistress as she spoke.

  • Victorine, clasping her hands as she spoke, "why do you want to kill M.

  • The Vicomtesse glanced as she spoke at the box where Mlle.

  • She looked at her lover with some wondering remonstrance as she spoke, and he readily understood that she might wish to lengthen the sweet time of double solitude.

  • She seated herself in her usual place as she spoke.

  • She spoke with a kind of guarded gentleness.

  • She rose as she spoke, and as she turned to leave the room, she laid her hand, with a curiously caressing gesture, upon Rodney's shoulder.

  • She was carrying plates and cups from the cupboard as she spoke, so that her sentences were more than usually broken apart.

  • As she spoke an expression of regret, which must have come frequently to cause the lines which now grew deep round the lips and eyes, settled on her face.

  • Van Helsing was looking at her fixedly as she spoke, and said, suddenly but quietly, "But dear Madam Mina, are you not afraid.

  • She looked at him meaningly as she spoke.

  • As she spoke, Lucy turned crimson, though it was only momentarily, for her poor wasted veins could not stand for long an unwonted drain to the head.

  • He went on, "I didn't know that she was here till she spoke, and she didn't look the same.

  • Her expression became frantic as she spoke.

  • Her eyes flashed; she looked like her old self once more as she spoke.

  • She lifted her veil as she spoke, and turned so that the moonlight rested on her face.

  • Miss Broadhurst looked at her friend as she spoke, and saw truth in her eyes; saw that she had no suspicion that she was herself the person beloved.

  • To the lady, the count's attention was first directed: he listened to her as she spoke, bending with an air of deference and devotion.

  • She kneeled beside Lord Colambre, as she spoke.

  • Marian has been mother and sister both to me," said the good, affectionate girl, her pretty blue eyes glistening while she spoke.

  • Her frank, fearless face answered for her before she spoke.

  • She spoke those words with a tone and a look which brought the tears into my eyes--she spoke them as if she was bidding me farewell for ever.

  • She spoke to him, but her voice was weak, and failed her.

  • She rose as she spoke, and would have left him; but he detained her with a gentle hand, and besought her in such persuasive accents to hear him but another minute, that she was easily prevailed upon to comply, and so sat down again.

  • It is one,' she answered, rising as she spoke, 'that must remain for ever as it is.

  • As she spoke, she sprang herself into the shallow stream and ran swiftly up the centre of it, with the brown water bubbling over her feet and her hand out-stretched toward the clinging branches of bramble or sapling.

  • She shook her clenched white hand as she spoke, and her lips tightened ominously.

  • Her bonnet lay beside her on the sofa, and she was very busy with the ribbons as she spoke.

  • To prevent which fatal consequence, the buoyant creature skipped out of her seat as she spoke, and squeezed her sister into the place from which she had risen.

  • She spoke as little like her old self now, for certain, as Tom could possibly have wished.

  • Even as she spoke, the box appeared to be in progress of conveyance from the house, but after a brief murmuring of question and answer, it was put down again, and somebody knocked at the parlour door.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she spoke" 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:
    and built; college girl; feed the; good wench; more particularly; she admitted; she ain; she called; she chose; she continued; she felt; she had always been; she left; she sat; she thought; she told; she turned; she was; she went; she would; she wrote; shed blood; sheer force; sheet brass; shell thick; shew himself