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Example sentences for "you couldn"

  • You couldn't make anything out of the face, but you didn't need to.

  • When you could crush a whole nation with one blow of your fist, you couldn't conduct war on equal terms.

  • You couldn't have given my father a more acceptable present!

  • You couldn't give me a chance now, you couldn't let me go now, not if I swore on a thousand Bibles.

  • If you couldn't control your temper I wouldn't blame you, because you've a villainous temper and you were born with it.

  • Everybody got solemn; nobody talked; you couldn't get anybody to do anything but set around moody and look at the bar'l.

  • You couldn't have growed this much in five year, and you was a baby when you come out of the bar'l, you know, and dead at that.

  • You couldn't persuade Dodgson to consider it.

  • You couldn't, boy, not until you're older.

  • You couldn't understand if I told you," replied she.

  • You couldn't have got either doctor or room without payment in advance.

  • You look as if you couldn't decide whether to laugh or cry.

  • Oh, you couldn't be impolite," said Mabel.

  • The river was very wide, and was walled with solid timber on both sides; you couldn't see a break in it hardly ever, or a light.

  • You couldn't a got drunk in that time, so of course you've been dreaming.

  • NO, Jim; you couldn't understand a word they said--not a single word.

  • You couldn't find one empty bench in the whole meeting house that night; in fact, a good many had to stand.

  • If you stop to think about it, you couldn't prove who put the squirrel in his pocket.

  • Son, you couldn't run all the way from here to your papa's store.

  • He could not have stopped Tom; you couldn't, when you came home to do it.

  • It seems as if you couldn't think of anything else--that and the new house.

  • You couldn't have fallen asleep between the door and the bed.

  • You couldn't tie him up, not in a cart no bigger'n this.

  • You couldn't have got it ready-made for that price, could you?

  • You couldn't have beaten me at a plain ordinary game of old-maid with a stacked pack of cards, much less in the game of war, if you hadn't had the elements with you.

  • If there were a hundred of you upon deck with ten eyes apiece, you couldn't see anything.

  • You couldn't move without stepping on the toes of genius.

  • You couldn't look in the face of those photographs of your mother in her youth and not realize that somewhere hearts were aching and breaking, and brains were busy in a search for her.

  • You couldn't be making sport of me," she said, "but Man!

  • She wanted you to come there and see if you couldn't make them at least respect you.

  • You couldn't do anything," she said, coldly.

  • You couldn't help it," said Boyne, and the words suggested a question to him.

  • Oh, you couldn't have let him think that we didn't want him for her!

  • You know an Indian can keep his face as still as an iron dog's when he wants to, so when High Jack froze his features you couldn't have told him from the other one.

  • You couldn't have told her from any of the girls shopping in the swell Third Avenue stores.

  • She looked back at him and said, "You couldn't scare anything.

  • You couldn't scare anything," said the girl.

  • Baartock, you couldn't scare anything," she said.

  • Because you were laughing, you couldn't hear me, and I had to shout.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you couldn" 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:
    asked leave; sweet prince; you could; you ever; you for; you had; you intend; you know; you never; you said just now; you solemnly swear the testimony you; you talk; you wouldn; young heart; young lady; young lord; young madam; young maiden; young officers; your best; your correspondent; your eyes; your old; your place; your way; youth and