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Example sentences for "would say"

  • He had pondered long before deciding what he would do, and what he would say, and how he would begin the decisive struggle.

  • Sometimes, with a singular look, he would say to his wife and children, "This time it is indeed a liquidation.

  • He doubted whether to embrace him, kiss him, and tell him all about his having come home, or whether he should first question him and see what he would say.

  • My dear Holmes," he would say, "why do you break your heart about me?

  • No more prison for me," he would say; he brought his wife and children to see me, feeling sure that they would form a passport to my sympathy and pocket.

  • If there is any difficulty in finding such families, I would say apply to the head mistress or master of a big school in a poor neighbourhood, they can find them for you.

  • And if a word of mine can reach the toiling sisters in the netherworld, I would say to them: Be hopeful!

  • Your exquisite orchids," he would say; or, "that perfectly charming basket.

  • He's all right," he would say to the boys gathered at noon in the mill yard.

  • I tell thee I will take the blame on myself with King Richard in behalf of thy fair Northern friend--thine acquaintance, I would say, since thou own'st him not as a friend.

  • Keep it--keep it as a mark of my regard--my regret, I would say.

  • He would say, with a significant look and decisive tone, 'It is not so.

  • I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: "Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  • You are to exercise your own judgment, Loudon," he would say.

  • Just drop it, here and now," he would say.

  • There is good stuff in you, Loudon," he would say; "there is the right stuff in you.

  • But now that I know you are a human being," he would say, "I can take the trouble to explain myself.

  • Mackellar, you might live a thousand years and never understand my nature," he would say.

  • I am anxious for news of my brother," he would say.

  • But what a woman you have grown," he would say, staring at her and shaking his head.

  • Your ladyship has made of me a happier man than I ever dared to dream of being, even when I was but thirty," he would say to her, with reverent devotion.

  • There is no managing of the little shrew," he would say.

  • Sancho shrugged his shoulders, obeyed, and sat down, and all the duchess's damsels and duennas gathered round him, waiting in profound silence to hear what he would say.

  • He would say, "They've a street up there in 'Roaring' that would lay over any street in Red Dog.

  • Me and that ass," he would say, "has been father and mother to him!

  • Then I would say, 'Toute suite, Madame la Comtesse!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would say" 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:
    free government; would accompany; would afford; would begin; would better; would choose; would fain; would follow; would hardly; would have been glad; would have been the; would laugh; would leave; would like; would lose; would marry; would propose; would say; would still; would succeed; would suffice; would take; would tell; would they; would wish; would work