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Example sentences for "think only"

  • I think only of the happiness of your recovery,' said Glastonbury.

  • My Ferdinand, think only of your health; and happiness, believe me, will yet be yours.

  • I think only of the morning, for it brings me your letters.

  • Rochester seemed only to live for her--to think only of her.

  • My former pursuits are abandoned, and I think only of you.

  • He was an universal favorite, and his ingenuity in little things was transcendant.

  • In the evening, sometimes, I went and sat with Peggotty in the kitchen.

  • I had never been brought up to any profession, and at first I was at a loss what to do for myself.

  • Nothing, indeed, can seem more narrow in extent, if we think only of the small number of our senses, by which alone the communication can be carried on.

  • Think only, that my own daughter--has raised her hand against me!

  • Think only, I have to sit here and see disaster stalking you like a cat--I point at it, but you cannot see it.

  • Yes, think only if I had remained on the stage!

  • Think only of the pleasure of greeting him, and remember always the name of the gallant youth, to whom you will owe that pleasure--for without him your father would have been killed in India.

  • As you told me to think only of the knapsack, I can only remember what concerns the knapsack.

  • In order to think only of healthy conditions and functioning, man must perform the voluntary acts of life in a perfectly healthy way.

  • While you are eating, as at all other times, think only of healthy conditions and normal functioning.

  • But on that account I am, to be sure, no fitting company for the Franks--think only!

  • Think only if the mythology of our youth should present itself again in the system of the Candidate!

  • Think only how it has already afforded you pleasure to look up to heaven when the clouds separated themselves, and you said, 'see how bright it will be!

  • Footnote 260-8: Think only of the project of the Belgian East Indian Company, which Austria could not carry out at the beginning of the preceding century.

  • Think only of large cities as compared with the country.

  • However, let us think only of my cousins and the d'Hauteserres; you must catch up with them, no matter what it costs.

  • Think only of sitting firm," he said, "and of saving your head from the branches of the trees which might strike you in the face.

  • The man of God walked quietly up and down the silent avenue, striving to think only of the blue sky into which it seemed to open.

  • Think only of the state of affairs for a moment.

  • Think only of prime ministers and princes, to say nothing of princesses; nay!

  • Free to think only of the cause I've enlisted in, free to do what it commands.

  • They'd think only of how ungenerous and ungrateful he was.

  • Think only if your husband could see us now!

  • As if speaking to himself] Think only, that I could let myself be fooled so completely.

  • Think only: the manager believes that I may count on no less than one hundred thousand francs.

  • If we take our revenge, it will be ferocious in the last degree; and, mark my word, we are going to think only of that, of avenging ourselves on Germany.

  • If we take our revenge, it will be ultra-ferocious, and observe that one is going to think only of that, of avenging oneself on Germany!

  • I think only of that, and if you break your word we shall be in despair here.


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