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Example sentences for "you can"

  • You can't imagine what the winters are like in those countries, so long and dark and cold.

  • If you want to do something for me, you can get me some milk," he said at last.

  • At all events, you can be forced to support your wife and children," I retorted, somewhat piqued.

  • And at the end of a month, if you decide you want to marry her, you can just go and settle down on her property.

  • You can go on and find something to do and earn some more money, and THEN we'll talk.

  • You can't make small of me," he called back a last time, wagging his head and shaking his fist.

  • But you can't keep it up--you can't keep it up!

  • She is a creature of moods; you can't count upon her; she keeps observation on the stretch.

  • David, the boy David, is rather an exception; you can think of him and treat him as a young Greek.

  • But, my dear young friend, you can't keep this up.

  • And I want to care with a certain ardor; even, if you can believe it, with a certain passion.

  • If you are clever and know your business you can fake a bone as easily as you can a photograph.

  • You can say, among other things, that if he sends anyone else to intrude upon me I shall call upon him with a riding-whip.

  • If any remark should occur to you, you can reserve it for some more opportune time.

  • You can't, as a man of science, defend such a position as that.

  • If after our long and intimate friendship you can for a moment deem me capable of so base a treachery--" "Tut, tut!

  • You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

  • You can't hit anything unless you take aim and fire from the shoulder; but these chaps fired from the hip with their eyes shut.

  • You can't judge Mr. Kurtz as you would an ordinary man.

  • I am going out shopping to fetch you all the things that you can need.

  • You must work at it as seldom as you can,' I said.

  • I told her about it; and she at once said, 'It must be the Angel; at any rate, you can do no harm by asking him.

  • Say, Anne, Milty Boulter says his mother says you're going to college to see if you can catch a man.

  • But when I grow up you can't do that, and there'll be nobody to tell me not to do things.

  • Mrs. Lynde says there are some folks you can't kill with a meat-axe.

  • Now, if you and Priscilla agree to it, wouldn't it be a good idea for you, who are on the spot, to look around and see if you can find a suitable house this spring?

  • Just about twice as much more, as near as you can come at it.

  • You can't see a snag in one of those shadows, but you know exactly where it is, and the shape of the river tells you when you are coming to it.

  • You can go up inside the old sycamore-snag, now.

  • You can go through that part of the State and buy more farms than you can shake a stick at for less money than it cost to build the barns on 'em.

  • You can cover a brick wall with it, or a railroad car, or the deck of a steamboat, and you can't do a better thing for either.

  • I guess you want to keep that as free from paint as you can, if you want much use of it.

  • But they are too much on the move, you can't get the picture of them the way Dickens could of his types.

  • You can't catch that sort of thing in a snapshot, you know: you have to have a time exposure.

  • You can't help loving your country," she said.

  • If you can direct me to his lodgings I shall appreciate it.

  • Walk back to the desert as rapidly as you can.

  • Scatter through the forest, picking up as many stragglers as you can find, and at night, if you think that you have been followed, come by roundabout ways to the spot where we killed the elephants today.

  • If you can love me say so, Miss Everdene.

  • I want as good a one as you can give me for twenty- seven pounds," It was all the money he possessed.

  • You can inquire at my aunt's -- she will tell you.

  • You can bring up some reed-sheaves to me, one by one, ma'am; if you are not afraid to come up the ladder in the dark.

  • And that leads to another fundamental thing to remember: You can't break the Net!

  • You can no more break the Net than you can the phone system.

  • You can subscribe to the electronic equivalent of magazines and newspapers.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you can" 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:
    you came; you come; you did; you ever; you hadn; you said; you should; you that; you was; you won; young artists; young chief; young heart; young lord; young men; young miss; young poet; young prince; young trees; younger sister; your aunt; your friend; your hand; your hands; your son; your time