Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "you only"

  • Oh, Queenie," she exclaimed, "if you only would go away from here without speaking to him!

  • I love you so well that I could not help winning your love in return if you only gave me the privilege to try.

  • By Jove, you only make me more determined!

  • Julia would fly back to you, if you only held up your finger.

  • We were talking of you only a few minutes ago, Dr.

  • This fever of wretchedness will pass, as mine has done, if you only pray.

  • But if you only knew--ah, if you only knew!

  • Oh, Marie, if you only knew; if you only knew how wretched I am!

  • If you only knew, Monsieur l'Abbe," she continued.

  • You didn't care for me, you only--wanted me.

  • It's a queer thing about inspiration, you only find it when you're not looking for it.

  • I relinquish the prize to you, and to you only.

  • She wouldn't mind slackin' her pace if you only attended to that.

  • When you write a book of your own, leave out both if you like, but as you only edit my Journal, if you leave them out, just go one step further, and leave out Sam Slick also.

  • If you only would, dear soul, you might bring your husband back to you yet.

  • But stop a minute; to put your man in prison is not the only point to be considered; you only want to indulge in that legal luxury in order to get your money.

  • The defence is perfectly in order; you only have to sign that you accept it.

  • You only want a moustache," and he looked at Raby's smooth-shaven face critically.

  • I see you to-day for the first time; I know nothing of you but what I have heard from your opponents; but what I have heard of you only makes me take your side.

  • If you only hope to have your assertion contradicted, as I must suppose to be the case, you ought to recollect that I am the last person in the world to do it.

  • You only carried me as far as Red Bridge, in a position the most comfortable for yourself and the most undignified for me.

  • If you only knew it, there's nothing that you will ever do that's lovelier than your own womanhood.

  • You are too good to me; but--if you only knew!

  • You can conquer anything if you only try, and pray to God to help you.

  • Never fear for the result, if you only do right.

  • No, you only walked by me, and held it up.

  • No, you only meant to go on in your own sweet, modest way of kindness and goodness; but you have done it, you see.

  • If this is too fanciful, don't read it, but I go rambling on as the notions come into my head, and if you only get a laugh at my dreamings, they will have been of some use to you.

  • You only threw me over because of a fancied unworthiness.

  • My dear fellow, your brother is the biggest blackguard of you all, if you only knew it.

  • Oh, if you only knew--how much harder--your interference makes things!

  • But--oh, Lord, if you only had a little more money!

  • I'll remember it to my dying day, if you only will.

  • Oh, if you only won't die I'll forgive you anything.

  • I have never paid so much to any workwoman, and I offer it to you only because I chance to like your style of work.

  • Now, if you only wanted a watch, or a diamond ring, or some trifle like that, I'd be glad to give your father a hint.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you only" 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:
    equatorial regions; you again; you all; you haven; you know anything about; you little; you may depend upon; you must; you need; you never; you only; you that; you want; you would have been; young girls; young horse; young lassie; young lion; young ones; young widow; your age; your correspondents; your cousin; your face; your part; your word