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Example sentences for "that would"

  • Louis Wheeler could have done nothing that would have so lifted him in the estimation of the miners.

  • Geewholliker, that would bust me, and make me a financial wreck as the papers say.

  • If we could find some one that saw a person with a bundle go up the steps, that would give us a clew.

  • They are the fine old sort that would go and capture both places at the point of the bayonet--and find out their names afterward--but it seems that's not what the Army wants nowadays.

  • Oh no, that would be all right," with reviving animation, he declared.

  • That would be quite enough for my purposes.

  • That would be too severe a trial, even for your willing legs,' said Nicholas, with a good-humoured smile.

  • I said, "Kate, my dear, you will only make Mrs Browdie feel uncomfortable, and how very foolish and inconsiderate that would be!

  • I forgot the collector,' said Kenwigs; 'oh no, that would never do.

  • That would make it quite complete, that would: quite.

  • I never saw such a gun in my life,' replied poor Mr. Winkle, looking at the lock, as if that would do any good.

  • But the wise man said, "That would be a careless waste.

  • That would be against everything we know about electricity.

  • Now unsure of what to do with it that would be agreeable to his neighbors, he decided simply to dump it out onto his driveway on the very spot whence he had scooped it up.

  • That would be working miracles," said Samson.

  • That would do if it was the toothache my master had; but it is in the brains, what he has got.

  • That would destroy a lot of the feed and allow rainwater to run in and ruin even more of it.

  • That would be less expensive than trying to keep the mag in repair.

  • That would have a tendency to pull the cars off the rails on sharp curves.

  • That would be too slow and too much work.

  • That would be about nine miles from my home.

  • As to the fifteen hundred crowns--that would be paying too dear for what a little vigilance would procure him for nothing.

  • D'Artagnan, "the division cannot be made by half; that would not be just.

  • The quarter of that would be a treasure; and I swear to you I have no thought of augmenting it.

  • That would be the best thing you could do.

  • THAT would be too dreadful to think of," he added.

  • Wednesday--that would be the seventeenth.

  • That would be good discipline, you know, for a young doctor who has to please his patients in Middlemarch.

  • And if he wished them a skinny fowl," said Celia, "that would not be nice.

  • Sir," saith the Knight, "He that would go before the Saviour of the World ought of right to apparel him as fairly as he may.

  • Perceval lay the night in the castle of the White Tower, and departed thence on the morrow as he that would fain do somewhat whereof he might deserve well of Messire Gawain.

  • That would I fain know," saith she, "presently, and I am fain to pray you that you depart not from me until that it hath been proven.

  • Thirty thousand crowns in alms is not given, as you have done for the last six months, out of pure Christian charity; that would be too grand.

  • That would not be endurable in any case, and is still less so on the part of those who came to bring the queen the message of a liar.

  • I do not suppose you will have the presumption to set it to rights--that would be to accuse Her Majesty, Queen Anne, of falsehood.

  • That would be a misfortune," said De Winter, "and I shall begin to think that we are really doomed.

  • That would be nothing for us four; it is too much for us two.

  • That would be real dishonour, the first you have ever known.

  • That would be real disgrace: the first to touch you.

  • That would show he had no taste, or make one suspect that he had too much.

  • That would be a lie, and I don't want to do business that way.

  • I think, Paul, that would be dishonest," said Mrs. Hoffman.

  • That would be very convenient," said his mother; "but I think it will hardly do to depend on such good luck happening to you.

  • Of course," said Linda, "that would be the thing to do.

  • I think that will have to suffice for the question of dress but you may be sure that I am capable of wearing the loveliest dress imaginable, that would be for a school girl, if I had it to wear.

  • Eleven something is the shortest time it's been made in; that would give me thirteen--more than enough.

  • That would not be customary," he said slowly.

  • That would be a big thing for a girl of your age.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "that 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:
    common parlance; that account; that after; that body; that can; that could; that girl; that government; that had; that head; that instant; that kingdom; that manner; that many; that most; that nation; that not; that portion; that side; that that; that time; that was; that way; that what; that which; that young