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Example sentences for "you know"

  • As if I wouldn't take his hand Without a golden glove -- Oh!

  • And if he does his very best he mostly worries through, And while there is a wrong to right, and while the world goes round, An honest man alive is worth a million underground.

  • Yarns that would fall flat from others He can tell; How he spent his 'stuff', my brothers, You know well.

  • And it is rather quiet for him here, you know.

  • I haven't a great many spare moments, you know.

  • That is what our School Management professor at Queen's told us, you know.

  • A moonglade is the track the full moon makes on the water when it is rising from the sea, you know, teacher.

  • You know I hadn't any till you took me in hand.

  • Well, I have fairly steady nerves, as you know, Mr. Holmes, but I give you my word that I got a shake when I put my head into that little house.

  • You know that he was once refused by McFarlane's mother?

  • If you know anything, you can surely say it without all this tomfoolery.

  • As to the stick, Mr. Holmes, you know as well as I do that a criminal is often flurried and does things which a cool man would avoid.

  • You know so much, you see, and we know only our own land.

  • The whole country is interested, you know--how can we help it!

  • You know my stupidities by heart, and I do not want to show them to Ellador--she thinks me so wise!

  • We're not so sure about those ladies, you know," drawled Jeff.

  • This place is just like an enormous anthill--you know an anthill is nothing but a nursery.

  • Orphan myself, you know," said Bartley, with a smile of cynical good-comradery.

  • You know," he explained to Lapham, "that we have to look at all these facts as material, and we get the habit of classifying them.

  • You know we couldn't afford it, and you oughtn't to have done it!

  • And when Ben Gunn is wanted, you know where to find him, Jim.

  • Dead men don't bite, you know," I added with a chuckle.

  • As to the stick, Mr. Holmes, you know as well as I do that a criminal is often flurried, and does such things, which a cool man would avoid.

  • Do you know, I think if you sat up and folded your arms, you'd look exactly like her.

  • You know I'm saving up all your punishments for Wednesday week--Suppose they had saved up all MY punishments!

  • The Unrecognizable continued, with vivacity: "Do you know, George married Mary, after all?

  • You know I told you what he said about my algebra, mother.

  • Hasn't she always done just as she chose so far as you know?

  • But Uncle Wesley, if I said anything last night, you know it was the merest whisper, because I'd have been so afraid of waking mother.

  • If we put right things to eat into your stomach that will do away with the sores, and if you know that I don't like bad words you won't say them any oftener than you can help, will you Billy?

  • At length they did consent, and waited for the issue of the thing, living for some days with the Spaniards; for their own habitation was destroyed.

  • After a pause he said, "But you won't have enough money for this lively scheme without help, you know?

  • You can have some home-brewed if you want to, you know.

  • You know we may have trouble in getting it if we don't go soon.

  • You know how I feel such things, Maister Farfrae, and how forlorn thoughts get hold upon me.

  • Dear Clifford," said Hepzibah sadly, "you know it cannot be!

  • You know I have not been brought up a Pyncheon.

  • D'you know, Miss Vinrace, you've made me think?

  • D'you know, I can never work without a kettle on the hob.

  • My suit, as I do understand, you know, And therefore know how far I may be pitied.

  • For us, you know Whose he is we are, and that is Caesar's.

  • Why, we are still handling our ewes; and their fells, you know, are greasy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you know" 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:
    other considerations; quarterly meeting; ready for; this event; you are; you intend; you keep; you little; you never; you not; you only knew how; you was; young birds; young brother; young feller; young gentlewoman; young gents; young officers; young women; younger brother; your age; your best; your business; your last; your mother; your power