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Example sentences for "would you"

  • Ghost, "would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?

  • Or would you know," pursued the Ghost, "the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself?

  • He turned upon the Ghost, and seeing that it looked upon him with a face, in which in some strange way there were fragments of all the faces it had shown him, wrestled with it.

  • He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger despatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention.

  • Joe went down on his knees for the greater convenience of opening it, and having unfastened a great many knots, dragged out a large and heavy roll of some dark stuff.

  • So would you if your only pleasure was in cruising about to find some new Cannibal Islands, and you had to stick on this muddy little rockery in a sort of rustic pond.

  • Would you be ashamed, wouldn't you be a little proud, if the heir of the Glamis horror called you his friend?

  • You would imply, Socrates, would you not, that if we want to win the love of any good man we need to be good ourselves in speech and action?

  • Would you rob me of my last vestige of self-respect?

  • The answer was very close now:-- "Would you stay at home?

  • Would you--don't you think a cup of coffee would set you up a bit?

  • You wouldn't treat me like that, would you, Miss Brandeis?

  • You wouldn't call Winnebago, Wisconsin, Germany, would you?

  • If you were carried from this country, for which you seem so wholly suited, where the very rains and winds seem to become you like ornaments, would you regret, do you think?

  • Would you be so condescending as to share a pot with me?

  • And you wouldn't object to talking them over with me--would you?

  • You'd see the whole--the whole scheme come to nothing, would you?

  • I don't know--would you call it quite ruined?

  • My lord, would you have a good cloak for the rain; leave me off your wolf and badger-skin mantle; let Panurge but be flayed, and cover yourself with his hide.

  • Yea but, quoth Panurge, would you have me so solitarily drive out the whole course of my life, without the comfort of a matrimonial consort?

  • Excuse me, monsieur; but if it is all the same to you, would you do so this evening?

  • Would you be willing to swear that you never helped him in his designs?

  • Would you like me to give you the address of my business man?

  • Would you postpone my happiness till after your death?

  • Would you let me die of hunger and despair for the chimera of nobility, which has no reality to-day unless it has the lustre of great wealth?

  • Would you be willing to let me have the use of him--at so much per?

  • You--you wouldn't expect me to help you put on your make-up, would you?

  • Do you want to go over and stay at Carl's, or would you rather go back to town?

  • You wouldn't allow me to offer you one, would you miss?

  • Would you allow me to get it filled for you?

  • Would you be so kind as to allow me (as I may say) to file a declaration--to make an offer!

  • My dear Mr. George," says Grandfather Smallweed, "would you be so kind as help to carry me to the fire?

  • And now, Ned, would you like to know what I think of your project?

  • And if," he added, "the offer made you this day was never to be renewed, would you accept it?

  • Would you like to know the opinion of a chronicler of the fourteenth century?

  • Sir," said Conseil, "would you give us some details of the pearl fishery?

  • Would you have to go to prison if you stayed?

  • Would you have to go to prison right away if they caught you?

  • Would you mind my asking you to read a bit with me, some little thing of Daudet's if you care for him, in the original?

  • Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited?

  • Would you like to drink, or could you eat anything?

  • If you had such, would you like to go to them?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would you" 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:
    proper degree; rare books; would advise; would appear; would bring; would burst; would carry; would desire; would guess; would haue; would have been the; would have you know; would hold; would not live alway; would permit; would play; would please; would prefer; would present; would show; would sometimes; would stand; would suggest; would suit; would think; would yield