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Example sentences for "who could"

  • Before he was drawn in the conscription he was an awkward youth, but he returned a swaggering braggart, who could hardly be recognized with his moustache and beard.

  • He was a confirmed gambler, who could lose or win without change of expression.

  • He declared he would see no doctor but his old attendant Dowster, yet all the time was longing for the young man to appear: he might--who could tell?

  • He sent for his son and cautioned him over and over to do nothing to offend her, but wait: what might come, who could tell!

  • Yet she was embarrassed by recollecting, that she was a visitor in the house of the Count, who could not be pleased by the return of Valancourt.

  • I thought I was opening my heart to a person, who could sympathize in my distress, but I find, that your people of sensibility can feel for nobody but themselves!

  • After the destruction of his hopes, and the loss of many thousands of his bravest soldiers, Gainas, who could no longer aspire to govern or to subdue the Romans, determined to resume the independence of a savage life.

  • The shops and the gates of Constantinople remained shut during seven days; and the loss of a foreign prince, who could neither be esteemed nor regretted, was celebrated with loud and affected demonstrations of the public grief.

  • His brother Paul was slain in an action near Ravenna; and the helpless Augustulus, who could no longer command the respect, was reduced to implore the clemency, of Odoacer.

  • Again Henry thanked God that it was summer, and that these were people of the frontier, who could sleep in the open.

  • Henry had never seen another man, not even an Indian, who could remain so long in one position contented and happy.

  • The scouts were well in front, searching everywhere among the thickets for the Indian sharpshooters, who could scorch so terribly.

  • Perhaps he had really forgotten it--who could tell, with the many things he had upon his mind?

  • With her there would be a strange flash of recognition; it was a sort of intuition, perhaps a psychic thing--who could tell?

  • Who could help it, when things come about like this!

  • If Mr Jonas chose your sister in preference to you, who could help it, I should wish to know?

  • Yet I think I've a rich uncle, Tigg, who could buy up the uncles of fifty strangers!

  • So the treasure went back again from Athens, to prove to Greece, by a signal example, that he who could afford to give so magnificent a present, was yet not so rich as he who could afford to refuse it.

  • The God Wish; who could give us all that we wished!

  • Among those who suffered by his craft and infidelity was Mr. Jumble, his own tutor, who could not at all digest the mortifying affront he had received, and was resolved to be revenged on the insulting author.

  • Some kind friend, who could challenge a nearer interest than the curious strangers into whose hands the book might fall, at last claimed it, and I was glad that it should be henceforth sealed to common eyes.

  • It was not merely the careful speech but something lacking when the perfect mouth moved--spirit, sensibility, who could say?

  • It was characteristic of this man, who could be so hot over the lost causes of others, that, sitting there within half an hour of the final loss of his own cause, he could be so calm, so almost apathetic.

  • It was almost disconcerting; he had so long felt like the cab horse who could not be taken out of the shafts lest he should fall down.

  • The worship, which had made a hero of the distinguished-looking Englishman, twelve years older than herself, who could lead up the Cimone della Pala, had not been passion.

  • The Squire, who could see in, flung down his axe, and covered his eyes with his hands.

  • Who could not in ONE of your looks Read more than in millions of pages!

  • In haste, with imprecations dire, I threw the volume in the fire; When (who could think?

  • Who could surmise a man ever could rise Who'd been thus carbonado'd, out up, and dissected?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "who could" 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:
    came forth; damn good; dear parents; final cause; who appeared; who died; who knows; who used; whoever they; whole month; whole number; whole people; whole skin; wholly different; whom she; whom they; whom you; whose hands; whose head; whose land; whose like; whose presence; whose soul; whose territory; whose words; whosoever believeth