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Example sentences for "what you might call"

  • I said in what you might call a tearful tone, for I was near to crying with vexation because of having wasted a goodly part of the afternoon loitering about the town when I might have had everything in readiness for a hasty flight.

  • I'm tryin' to set up what you might call a frame; but can't find a place to put it.

  • I reckon it does sway a bit, for we're gettin' what you might call a full-sized nor'east gale.

  • I'll chock you off with a pillow; but sleepin' in a torpedo-boat's what you might call an acquired habit.

  • They're what you might call more or less vaccinated.

  • I'm what you might call officer of the deck at present.

  • There is what you might call a minority report in regard to the situation.

  • He wasn't what you might call found, sir.

  • I get a condition of what you might call inharmony.

  • You kind of wonder if it does any good for you to go to all the trouble you do to sacrifice yourself and try to do your duty, when it ain't what you might call appreciated.

  • Oh no--it ain't what you might call bad!

  • What is better still, he is a fighter from the word go--what you might call a joyous fighter.

  • Why, that's what you might call a low-down, tin-horn sort of a game.

  • I thought I would talk matters over with you, and, what you might call, put the case.

  • With regard to that conversation, you can, if you think it advisable, what you might call sound your grand-daughter.

  • It couldn't be looked on in the light of what you might call an opening.

  • You see I find, in a general way, that talk--what you might call, branches out so.

  • That's a--what you might call a pretty large order, Miss Cheffington.

  • Concerning the situation we spoke of, I think I can promise to keep you on as my--what you might call business secretary.

  • To be ashamed of the wrong things, does belong to--what you might call a cad.

  • She was rather heavy set--what you might call egg-shaped.

  • What you might call outre, so to speak?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what you might call" 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:
    blue line; come into; what applies; what are you going; what avail; what befell; what condition; what course; what estate; what evidence; what had; what had taken place; what importance; what matter; what relates; what remains; what respects; what seemeth; what thing; what time did you; what used; what wilt; what wouldst; whatever cost; whatever happens; whatever you