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Example sentences for "she would"

  • She would try to tempt the fagged woman on the bed with bits of this or that from one of the many dishes that dotted the dinner tray.

  • She would come, shivering a little after the fetid atmosphere of the overheated library, into the crisp, cold snap of the astringent Wisconsin air.

  • Usually, after that, she would sit up, haggardly, and take the hairpins out of her short thick hair, and announce her intention of going to bed.

  • She would be able to arrange her life as she pleased, to soar into that empyrean of security where creditors cannot penetrate.

  • She would have to go to church with Percy Gryce every Sunday.

  • Instead of having to flatter, she would be flattered; instead of being grateful, she would receive thanks.

  • Then she returned to her calculations; but figure as she would, she could not conjure back the vanished three hundred dollars.

  • She would be free forever from the shifts, the expedients, the humiliations of the relatively poor.

  • Only think, she would like me to go with her.

  • She had only just dropped behind when the carriage stopped, and to her surprise the coachman asked her, over his shoulder, if she would ride.

  • They who make me wish to appear the most amiable and good in their eyes, must possess in a degree," she would exclaim, "the graces and virtues they call into action.

  • Whatever Henry asked her to sign, she would sign.

  • It was only after Diana had called to ask Stacy if she would be willing to sign an affidavit for the federal court action, that Stacy could see a way to do something.

  • As for legitimate suggestions or ideas, she would certainly, as always, welcome constructive criticism and make the necessary changes herself.

  • He neglected to tell Lyle that she had said she would be willing to do it if the publisher gave written permission.

  • It did, however, confirm that as far as the Belmont administration was concerned, she would be convicted even if they had to move heaven and earth to prove it.

  • She would smile on me, she would say a word to me, would that do any harm to any one?

  • She would like to do so very much indeed; but it was certain she could not afford to pursue such a liberal policy.

  • She would become a little candy merchant.

  • She would make me take it, and said so much, that, at last, I told her if she would lend it to me, I would take it.

  • Her mother had told her that she would be laughed at, and made fun of; that thoughtless people would look down upon her with contempt, and that wicked ones would insult her.

  • She would either accept his suggestion, or she would not: but at least she would waste no time in protestations and objections, or any vain sacrifice to the idols of conformity.

  • As soon as she could, she would try to single out for remembrance the individual things she had liked in him before she had loved him altogether.

  • She sat beside him in frozen misery, wondering whether, henceforth, she would measure in this way his every look and gesture.

  • I observed to Miss Bordereau that if she would entrust me with her property for twenty-four hours I should be happy to take advice upon it; but she made no answer to this save to slip it in silence into her pocket.

  • Miss Tita protested, in a confusion of exclamations and murmurs; but I lost no time in saying that if she would do me the honor to accept the hospitality of my boat I would engage that she should not be bored.

  • I waited to see if she would offer to show me the rest of the house, but I did not precipitate the question, inasmuch as my plan was from this moment to spend as much of my time as possible in her society.

  • That I might be quite sure she was waiting for me she informed me of the fact and told me that Miss Bordereau wished to see me: she would take me into the room at that moment if I had time.

  • But when the elder lady dropped into a quiet sleep, Edith thought that, late as it was, she would go by herself, and see what she could of the performance.

  • The old lady, indeed, was in favor of some delay in the transfer of the establishment, as she would like to clean and dust every shelf and corner and every article in the place.

  • Then Captain Cephas came away, without thinking of the little girl and the pleasure she would have in discovering her Christmas stocking.

  • But I would be just as willing to lend you the milk as she would be, if I had any.

  • Un-happy is the nation whose king is a child," she would say to him gently, "You are a child.

  • She would go first to the Greggorys' and invite them to attend the opera with her that evening.

  • Before that I was always dreaming and wondering what she would be like.

  • She would speak to Mrs. Greggory if ever the opportunity offered.

  • She would be so utterly miserable, not merely at my father's death, but to think of what would become of me; she is so good to me.

  • But still we never spoke of the note; till, all at once, something possessed me to ask Miss Matty if she would think it her duty to offer sovereigns for all the notes of the Town and County Bank she met with?

  • She would so fain have made sacrifices for them, and have lightened their cares, that the original generosity of her disposition added acerbity to her temper.

  • And there is not the slightest doubt but that she would.

  • Tommy's mother writes me that Tommy is not coming on in arithmetic as fast as she would like.

  • Charlie Sloane, sitting bolt upright on Miss Ada's most dearly beloved cushion, asked Anne one night if she would promise "to become Mrs. Charlie Sloane some day.

  • She was very lonely; and she was sad at heart; for she was wondering if she would be able to return to Redmond next year.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "she would" 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:
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