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Example sentences for "when people"

  • When people trust me, I can be as silent as the grave; but if they show a want of confidence, I know how to match them.

  • And hereby I may note a thing which some one may explain perhaps in the after ages, when people come to look at things.

  • When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things from it.

  • When people laugh at their own jokes, their= 5 =wit is very small beer, and is lost in its own froth.

  • When people have a Conservatoire of Music, and the Academy School of Painting, why should the art of Literary Composition be allowed to struggle on as best it can without instruction or advice?

  • When people say 'I hope you may be happy, my dear,' they mean that they wouldn't give much for my chances.

  • When people talked of Mr. Clifton they invariably alluded to him as a long-headed fellow.

  • When people are so excessively nervous about being seen, I can't help feeling a little suspicious.

  • When people no longer have a home, how hard it is to forget that blessed home which sheltered them in the early years.

  • I just followed my instinct, when people told me I was unreasonable, and of course it led me right.

  • When people in America liked my dancing I got an offer from London, and I accepted it and made all the arrangements about going over.

  • They curl up when they're scolded, or not noticed, just as I do when people aren't nice to me.

  • All the same, however, when people won't make restoration, things must be taken from them.

  • Tito, you lazy fellow, can't you get up when people come to see you?

  • When people make so much fuss, and bring so many agonising sick to a place like that, they surely ought to send the dead ones home again, ought they not?

  • When people engage in a thing to which they are unaccustomed the necessity must be urgent.

  • When people once go away from home for a time, there is always a feeling among those left that the bond which binds them to home is weakened, and very little persuasion is required to take them away again.

  • When people deal in rigour with us we think ourselves but little obliged to them.

  • Spoken," says Kelly, "when people lose a considerable thing for not being at an inconsiderable expense.

  • It became deeper in hue, as it were, when people were in ruddy health.

  • When people undereat it is the digestive organs that, in my experience, always suffer the most.

  • When people wish to communicate their thoughts to others, then it may be different.

  • When people are in depressed states the heart is apt to beat more slowly than usual, while when in states of exhilaration, even those dependent merely on mental factors, the pulse is more rapid.

  • I cannot reproach myself with having ever deceived or flattered any one; when people please me, I tell them so at once.

  • Besides, when people are so poor, they have no right to have children.

  • When people presage a remark by saying that they only say it because they love you, you may lay long odds that it's going to be disagreeable!

  • When people live in flats, it is essential that they show some consideration for their neighbours.

  • When people set to work to vex you, nothing makes them more angry than to take it quietly, and show no vexation.

  • When people have to risk their lives to hear a sermon is not the time when they cry out to have sermons cut shorter.

  • When people say "I guess" now, we set them down at once as Americans; but in 1556 everybody in England said it.

  • He had seen her rarely, it is true; but he had heard enough, when people in Warsaw spoke more of her than of any one else.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when people" 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:
    being sensible; further proof; when anyone; when boiling; when compared; when considered; when death; when from; when fully; when going; when growing; when life; when next; when possible; when presently; when referring; when riding; when served; when she; when some; when that; when the time came; when they; when they were come; when thou; whenever possible