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Example sentences for "would follow"

  • He said, as I knew the ground and he did not, I might go on and he would follow.

  • He suggested that if Lee was going that way we would follow him.

  • If therefore Christ was the Head of men as to their bodies, it would follow that He was the Head of brute animals; and this is not fitting.

  • Hence, if the soul of Christ could understand without turning to phantasms, which arise in the senses, it would follow that in the soul of Christ the senses were useless, which is not fitting.

  • Therefore if Christ as Man is a person it would follow that in Christ there are two persons--one temporal and the other eternal, which is erroneous, as was said above (Q.

  • It was highly probable that the savages would follow me, if only to get hold of my fine horse; hence I was obliged to calculate my next steps.

  • He now proposed to inspect the land, then return and send on John with fifty negroes, so as to get a maize crop ready, while he would follow in autumn with his family and five hundred slaves.

  • I therefore saddled and rode, accompanied by Tiger, one of my colonists, and Trusty, out to the Indians, and told them they could ride on and I would follow.

  • The skipper had friends to see in New York, and agreed that he would follow me to the yacht in a couple of hours, and that he would meet the others in the hotel after they had come from their excursion.

  • I would follow him to Plymouth, losing no moment in the act; and I resolved then to go farther if the need should be, and to search for him in every land and on every sea, for he was a brave man whose like I had not often known.

  • Indeed, my mind was made up in a moment: I would follow Paolo, at any risk, even of my life.

  • For should we say, that a concern for our private interest or reputation is the legitimate motive to all honest actions; it would follow, that wherever that concern ceases, honesty can no longer have place.

  • Sometimes, however, he would follow at our heels as faithfully and instinctively as Bruno himself.

  • When he saw me rushing into the water, he would follow at my side barking and yelling like a mad thing, until he actually made me forget the dreadful object I had in view.

  • I told Manua Sera I felt very much for him, and I would do my best if he would follow me to Kaze; but I knew that nothing could ever be done unless he returned to the free-trade principles of his father.

  • Bombay said his arguments were, that Bana knew better than anybody else what he was about, and he would follow him, trusting to luck, as God was the disposer of all things, and men could die but once.

  • Besides, if all else than absolute spirit were unreal, then all being non-existent, it would follow that by one cognition all cognition would be sublated.

  • Now the seed in taking on the additament takes it on with the need of (ulterior) subsidiaries; otherwise, as there would always be subsidiaries, it would follow that a germ would always be arising from the seed.

  • We would follow up all the spring runs until we found the trail of a coon, then follow it up until it went into a tree.

  • Bill said that we would follow so "dash-darn" close that we would be up in time to attend the funeral.

  • I had to climb a high ridge, then my route was for some distance on a long ridge, which I would follow for a distance of a mile and a half, when I dropped off the right hand side of the ridge into a ravine where I had a bear trap set.

  • I would follow him up and build the trap, make the bait pen and have the trap all ready to set when the right time came.

  • If the slave construction be put upon this clause, still another difficulty, in the way of making an apportionment, would follow, viz.

  • I then, pretending to have a little courage, asked him if he would follow provided I would lead, whereupon he declared most emphatically that under no conditions would he again attempt to swim across that river.

  • Evans gave me most of his money and all of his gold specimens to take to his wife, and when he got well he would follow us.

  • A new company with wagons was soon to start out to break the road, and when they crossed the east end of the valley he would follow them.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would follow" 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:
    filial piety; fundamental importance; musical career; would burst; would carry; would certainly; would ever; would fall; would hardly; would have thee know; would hold; would like; would listen; would meet; would necessarily; would never; would perhaps; would require; would result; would seek; would suffer; would tend; would thou; would turn; would wait; would willingly