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Example sentences for "there wasn"

  • I guess your Pa felt that when he got through telling what fools we've been, there wasn't anything left for you to say.

  • Now if the Princess was gleaming and flashing like that, for the same reason, there wasn't any one for her to love so far as I knew, except Laddie.

  • There wasn't one anywhere, short of the city.

  • There wasn't a crumb there except cornbread, and she didn't want that.

  • There wasn't none of the rest of 'em married.

  • But I didn't like to speak to the authorities; there wasn't enough to warrant that, and I should have been laughed out of court for my pains.

  • There wasn't much that he overheard, but what there was of it was so suspicious that I did not hesitate to conclude that the fellow was an undesirable guest.

  • Why, there wasn't a thing the fellow couldn't have imagined from the newspapers, even the clumsy description of Dudley Lawton.

  • An' there wasn't a conthrivance iv any soart or description for makin' money out iv the farm, but he was up to.

  • There wasn't one of them, from Crackit down the line, who could not easily remember some special kindness that marked the old lady's intercourse with him.

  • I wonder if there wasn't a shooting star, also, away back there at New Year's when our other stack of fodder was burned?

  • There wasn't a turkey inside, or thereabout.

  • There wasn't anybody in the Shaw, after all,' he said.

  • There wasn't another chair, so I sat on the button-box.

  • There wasn't a soul in sight in any of the rooms and yet I felt as if some one was there.

  • There wasn't anything on that tray she put before Felicia that hadn't been made from crumbs that fell from the rich man's feast.

  • There wasn't even a stewardess on this steamer to comfort her.

  • There wasn't anything she couldn't do with some parsley, a can of sardines and the cheese that was left from dinner.

  • I saw that Durham was playing her professor of mathematics on first base, and asked him if there wasn't anyone in the faculty who could take Willings's place.

  • There wasn't any use not studying, because he didn't play fair.

  • There wasn't anything particular to do at home, and I could have told him about the other tutors; there's some things that dad doesn't know.

  • There wasn't much room, what with the supplies and the baggage, for the five of us.

  • There wasn't no humour in the situation for him.

  • There wasn't no wild cat or coyote could catch one of my Honk-honks, no, sir!

  • There wasn't many hosses in that country, and what there was the owners hadn't much use for unless it was to work a whim.

  • Said he believed the men chased the thieves so far into the woods that the thieves prob'ly seen a good chance and turned on them at last, and maybe they all killed each other, and so there wasn't anybody left to tell.

  • At last I give in, and went and took a look myself; and it was just as Tom said--there wasn't a sign of a corpse.

  • There wasn't anything more said for a considerable while; the old lady was thinking.

  • We used to sit and look at them for hours; there wasn't much to look at out there.

  • But it came about so; there wasn't any other way for you, it seemed like.

  • There wasn't a tree here when we first came.

  • He was a darling; he was equal to anything; there wasn't anything he couldn't turn his hand to.

  • There wasn't even a bell or a speaking-tube in the castle.

  • There wasn't a rag of his tower left, but I had the government rebuild it for him, and advised him to take boarders; but he was too high-toned for that.

  • No, Sir, there wasn't a sign of eggs in that old nest.

  • There wasn't the least doubt about it, it was the same man.

  • There wasn't a thing to show that anything so dreadful had happened.

  • He went in Snell's saloon, an' as there wasn't no gun play I had to go in, too.

  • An' there wasn't many riders as could beat me ridin'.

  • Jerry couldn't spare even a penny for peanuts this morning and there wasn't really enough stuff in the box for me this noon.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "there wasn" 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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