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Example sentences for "then thought"

  • I shall never find so good a master,' was all I could say for the soul of me; for I was quite overcome by his goodness and by sorrow at parting with him, as I then thought, for ever.

  • I then thought it quite necessary to let them know who I was.

  • Reflection and the expence at which I now lived, to the visible and quick consumption of a sum I then thought so ample, had since taught me that I was in imminent danger of being reduced to beggary.

  • Then thought they to subdue him / thus of his shield bereft, But lo!

  • I then thought he was going to spare my life.

  • I then thought it best to say nothing about it.

  • I then thought it a favourable opportunity to press upon her for the state of her circumstances.

  • I then thought of a trick, the effect of which never fails; I feigned a heavy fall, and I uttered a shriek of pain.

  • Such a step, as I then thought, could but strengthen our love, increase our mutual esteem, and insure the approbation of society which could not accept our union unless it was sanctioned in the usual manner.

  • I then thought myself to some extent compelled to say that I might love him at some future time, and to promise that I would not again come near your bed during the absence of my brother.

  • Then thought I, if we have no reward because we love our enemies, how great must our punishment be if we hate our friends!

  • But when they began to jump so that the whole building shook (for they played just then a lively galop), then thought I, "Now is thy life at stake.

  • He then thought it was Frank Knapp, and has not altered his opinion since.

  • Webster saw the prisoner at the bar, as he then thought, and still thinks, walking in Howard Street at half-past nine o'clock.

  • If he then thought it was he, this goes far to prove it.

  • I had heard of Judge Mourning as a sharp political worker, and I then thought he was trying to carry out an electioneering job for his party.

  • I had about fifty dollars to procure things to keep house on, but it was soon gone; yet it procured, about all we then thought we needed.

  • I then thought he would put up with the Bishop, and not with a private person.

  • The patience necessary to any traveller depending on bullocks and bullock drivers, I then thought ought to exceed that of Job.

  • His Excellency, however, then thought it necessary to refer the subject to the Secretary for the Colonies.

  • I then thought how I could leave my birds for so many days, as they would require food.

  • I then thought of felling a tree and hollowing it out by charring the timber.

  • Then thought I with myself, oh, how glad should I have been of a word of encouragement and counsel from him when I was under that weighty exercise of mind!

  • I then thought it right to assume an air of resolution, having found my tameness so greatly triumphed over.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then thought" 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:
    grating sound; hardly worth; then being; then brought; then commanded; then continued; then desired; then expanded; then from; then glanced; then held; then knit; then know; then lift; then make; then nodded; then only; then perhaps; then proceeds; then returned; then said; then spread; then stir; then strain the liquor; then told; then turn