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Example sentences for "with something"

  • With something like a considerate regard for my emotion, he turned away.

  • I hope and trust I have not been indiscreet," she cried, eying me with something like an incipient distrust.

  • His eyes rested, with something of the vanity of an author, upon the yellow leaflet which Mary held in her hand.

  • She saw a tall figure outside, with something ominous to her eyes in the look of it.

  • All this time I was regarding the small tan pumps with something akin to pain in my eyes.

  • Afterwards I recalled, with something of a shock, that it was the first time I had ever heard my valet laugh aloud.

  • With something of a shudder I computed the distance from my eerie perch to the rocks at the bottom of the cliff.

  • I know that others of your colleagues look back on the inertia of your Church, and the intrusive and decisive heroism of Damien, with something almost to be called remorse.

  • But if it is to come, we may as well have some notion of what it will be like; and the first thing to grasp is that our new polity will be designed and administered (to put it courteously) with something short of inspiration.

  • Jonathan, with something like a groan; and thereupon his teeth clicked to, and he sat silent with the tankard in his hand and staring straight before him.

  • After a moment he sprang up and said, with something of her own brusqueness, "You had better follow your own heart.

  • If a young man is weak and bad enough to gamble, he will do it with something else, if not cards.

  • Had she been less fearless, she would have shrunk from it, however, with something of the superstitious dread that many have of jesting in a church, or a graveyard.

  • With something of a child's wonder and pleasure, she looked around upon a scene more wild and strange than any she had ever seen, even in pictures of gypsy encampments.

  • And I am a woman," she said, with something of her old piquant style.

  • But there was one spot in the area of white, on which Mab's eyes were fixed now, with something different in them from what had been there.

  • Jasmine had no inkling as to what the meaning of the words was; and, with something of her old desire to conquer those who were alien to her, she smiled winningly.

  • Blest Madman, who cou'd ev'ry flour employ, With something New to wish, or to enjoy!

  • Hyaena can loll in her Coach, with something so fixed in her Countenance, that it is impossible to conceive her Meditation is employed only on her Dress and her Charms in that Posture.

  • I am guiltless of that, at least," Arthur said, with something of a sigh.

  • Fanny wishes you joy, too," he added, with something of a blush.

  • He hesitated a moment; and then Camilla declared, with something perhaps of imperious roughness in her manner, that he had better face it all at once.

  • When people are married, they must put up with something;--at least, most always.

  • I thought it was poor Bella," she said, with something of a piteous whine in her voice.

  • Now you can tell him the truth," said Mrs. Trevelyan, with something of indignation in her tone, as though she thought that Stanbury had taken upon himself a task of which he ought to be ashamed.

  • I could do with something myself," observed Pratt, who, in his anxiety, had only made a light breakfast that morning.

  • They went to the giant; and, after cordial salutations, Tom propounded his question carelessly, with something like a white lie.

  • With something that he finds by experience does him good; and so learns to like it, because he knows that he needs it, as my patients do my physic.

  • Frank, with something of that lazy Oxford tone, which is intended to save the speaker the trouble of giving his arguments, when he has already made up his mind, or thinks that he has so done.

  • I do hope we can do some motor boating down there," said Jack, with something like a return of his former interest.

  • You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something--with something that is a little like love.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "with something" 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:
    capture the; church dedicated; know whether; legislative bodies; one occasion; our author; with instructions; with its; with more; with one; with orders; with our; with pleasure; with respect; with some; with such; with that; with thee; with them; with thy; with water; with you; without delay; without further; without looking; without which