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Example sentences for "under her"

  • When, however, under her husband's wing she had blossomed out into a lovely womanhood, of which any man might be proud, then she had found favour in his eyes.

  • For all her pleasurable excitement Polly did not let the grass grow under her feet.

  • Now is my time," she said, under her breath.

  • She looked like a slender boy in the soft riding-shirt and smart-cut breeches, one slim foot in a long brown boot drawn up under her, and the other swinging idly against the side of the divan.

  • Then she was conscious of a crashing blow on her head, the ground heaved up under her feet, everything went black before her eyes, and without a sound she fell senseless.

  • Under her direction, Ida began a mauresque border for a tawny plush curtain which was to be a triumph of art when completed, and which was full of interest in progress.

  • Not for worlds would Sarah Pew have encouraged a spy, according to her own view of her own character; but she liked people with keen eyes, who could tell her everything that was going on under her roof.

  • She went down to tea with such a triumphant light in her eyes that the smaller pupils who sat at her end of the table, so as to be under her surveillance during the meal, exclaimed at her beauty.

  • The girl clung to her bonnet Will you like her any the less when you know that it was a shovel bonnet, with long red ribbons that tied under her chin?

  • And Dorothy Manners's gown is under her arm.

  • With these words, clasping tightly the precious little bundle under her arm, she stepped into the carriage.

  • She did not like to be under her aunt's roof, eating bread, wearing clothes, and studying books provided by her, and dislike her so heartily all the time.

  • He is excommunicated,' said Lucy, under her breath.

  • The world borne on the outspread wings of an eagle is under her feet, and under that is a foundation of solid gold.

  • If I hadn't thought so, I would a-histed up my umbrell and hit that septer of hern, and knocked that globe out from under her feet.

  • Under her apron,' was altered in subsequent editions to 'in her arms.

  • The stranger was hove to, under her fore-topsail, and appeared to be making what seamen call very fine weather of it.

  • At four o'clock in the morning, the wind freshened, and at nine blew a storm; so that we were obliged to bring the ship to under her mainsail.

  • Portia went back presently to the shop, and it wasn't long after that that her mother came down-stairs clad for the street, with her Modern Tendencies under her arm in a leather portfolio.

  • Well, this girl, whose own life must have collapsed under her in a peculiarly cruel and dramatic fashion so that she had had to come to him and ask him for a job in the chorus--she had the hall-mark.

  • She said it under her breath in the hope that Portia wouldn't hear.

  • She had about two thousand French under her command, with a few Scottish troops; and being assisted by such of the nobility as were well affected to her, she pitched her camp within ten miles of Perth.

  • Before the captain had descended from the summit of the northern barrier, the vessel came in under her jib, the wind being nearly aft, and she dropped two anchors in suitable spots, making another flying moor of it.

  • So far from being in danger of such a calamity, the little basin in which she lay had expanded, instead of closing; and it would have been possible to handle a quick-working craft in it, under her canvass.

  • Little, however, did he understand the character of the Widow White, if he flattered himself with holding any discourse under her roof, in which she was not to participate in its subject.

  • Seraphia kissed it, and put it under her cloak.

  • Magdalen was totally beside herself from grief, and her hair was floating loosely under her veil.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "under her" 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:
    children will; public trust; under color; under colour; under conditions; under construction; under control; under count; under guard; under heavy; under his; under normal; under pain; under sail; under surface; under the; under those; under what; understand that; understand thee; understand them; understand what; understand you; understood only; undertake the; white enamel