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Example sentences for "this very"

  • I shall write to the doctor, Mr. Softly, this very night.

  • This very night my vengeance dire My heart is filled with anguish dire, Shall glut itself in gore.

  • The 35th Dragoon Guards have halted in the village, and are even now on their way to this very spot.

  • A worthy but unhappy gentleman is to be beheaded in an hour on this very spot.

  • He gives me the cold shoulder on this very matter as if he had had nothing to do with it, instead of being the first to propose it.

  • He fell in with my client, Mr Garland, sir, at this very door.

  • He has had five-and-twenty young women locked up in this very cell at one time, and you'd hardly realise what handsome faces there were among 'em.

  • I remarked to those who were with me in this very establishment at Philadelphia, that the criminals who had been there long, were deaf.

  • No; she shall marry the bamboo cane, I'll settle it this very night.

  • I must get up at once, this very minute, take my hat and simply go without a word .

  • Nevertheless, this very sentiment is an evidence that the connexion, which has become an unhealthy one, should at last be severed.

  • Nevertheless, vixenly as she looks, many people are seeking at this very moment to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eiderdown pillow.

  • It would not have been the awkwardness of a moment, it would have been rather a pleasure, previous to the suspicions of this very day; she could have talked to him of Harriet, and the three-quarters of a mile would have seemed but one.

  • He knew just the place, too,--the little cupboard behind the chimney there in this very room!

  • Once he had refused to go on this very trip; but then there had been the girl.

  • Well met, gentlemen; this is lucky that we meet so just together at this very door, Come, hostess, where are you ?

  • Father, I am much beholden to this young clerk, who was of service to me and helped me this very morning in Minstead Woods, four miles to the north of the Christchurch road, where I had no call to be, you having ordered it otherwise.

  • This very day I will send him my cartel and defiance.

  • She was a lovely girl, witty and vivacious, and she stood at this very moment at my elbow.

  • Hundreds were asking the question and at this very moment.

  • And I handed him a drawing which I had made with some care in expectation of this very interview.

  • I have long been thinking of this very thing, Dorothy dear, and often I have had it in my mind to propose it to you.

  • But for fear some one might drink of the water again, and in an instant forget all he had learned, the King put that sign upon the fountain, where it has remained for many centuries up to this very day.

  • So she only said: "If you will promise not to worry a bit about me, I'll go to the Land of Oz this very afternoon.

  • I myself have been thinking of this very idea, and it seems to me there are entirely too many ways for people to get to the Land of Oz.

  • Katie, at length, echoing the words used in this very house, at a similar juncture, on this very day, by another lover of the Duke.

  • But this, you say, was no more than a just return for their behaviour yesterday, when, in this very avenue, so many women were almost crushed to death by them in their insensate eagerness to see Miss Dobson.

  • Judas; and it was here, in this very quadrangle, that he heard from the lips of a breathless and blood-stained messenger the news of Chalgrove Field.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this very" 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:
    las manos; smaller scale; this action; this affair; this body; this branch; this conclusion; this convention; this county; this early; this feeling; this generation; this hour; this instrument; this law; this light; this mountain; this operation; this passage; this planet; this rule; this spirit; this subject; this they; this wonderful; this year