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Example sentences for "you put"

  • You put a terrible responsibility upon me," Chris said, slowly.

  • I know--you put a little cornstarch in, to give it body!

  • Couldn't you put it to Mrs. Craigie, Miss?

  • Neither am I convinced of the absurdity of my course, as you put it then.

  • You put him in my charge, then go home, and I'll visit you as soon as I can.

  • Madam," he said, "you put it in a way that we hadn't realized before.

  • But you'll find your sister Hua's costumes in here, and why don't you put one on, and take some hot wine and spurt it over yours and iron them out?

  • I simply brought you along with me to look at things; and lo, you put on airs;" and she beat Pan Erh until he burst out crying.

  • We've always enjoyed some little consideration, and do you put on the airs of a mistress on an occasion like the present, when there's such a crowd of people standing by?

  • But now that you've become a big girl, you assume the manner of a young mistress towards me, and as you put on these airs of a young mistress, how can I ever presume to be on a familiar footing with you?

  • You put on more airs than ever," She Yüeh laughed.

  • Suppose I don't 'run you in,' as you put it?

  • Why don't you put a better pair of shoes on?

  • Why don't you put a chartered accountant on his track?

  • Well, I hope you have lost every penny you put on the table!

  • You put it very well just now; I was attending to you, though you said I was not.

  • You put me off my guard, and then you took it!

  • If you put in raisins you must let it boil till they are quite soft.

  • If you put a knife under the bone of a ham, and it comes out clean, the meat is good; but quite the contrary if the knife appears smeared and slimy.

  • Place it on hot coals, and have the butter boiling when you put in the beaten egg.

  • There should be plenty of sugar strewed among the fruit as you put it into the pie.

  • You put me in Mind of the Joke of the three Months Lying in.

  • Have the water boiling, and look at your watch as you put them in; two minutes and a half will cook them to please most persons; if you want them very soft, two minutes will be sufficient, or if less soft three minutes.

  • The water should always boil before you put in your meat or poultry.

  • And said, at last, Why, Mrs. Pamela, you put me half out of countenance with your witty reproof!

  • You put yo' pennunce in Brer Rabbit en yo' won't be fur out er de way.

  • You know w'at you put in it, but you dunner w'at you got in it.

  • You put yourself on the wrong side, you give people a wrong idea of yourself.

  • Why don't you put in for a head-mastership?

  • I said, 'You made me, You put me here, You sent me love, You sent me prosperity.

  • You put me on my mettle, and I flatter myself that I see your kindly drift.

  • Well, you're not compelled to read them; but if you put one of them in the fire, your stupid treatises will follow, if they are not too solid to burn.

  • The boy might find it if you put it among the oats--feedin' the horses, ye know.

  • If you put in five more pails of water, I will tell you about it.

  • I will act on your advice, and, as you put it, see how it feels.

  • You must remember vegetables put in cans will come out just as you put them in.

  • Some of them came to me and said: "Crosby, why don't you put it in the house, and we will show you how we will vote.

  • Mrs. Glenzke: Do you put a canvas over the tree or leave it uncovered?

  • He was trying to bore a beetle head and could not hold it; a foolish boy came along and said, "Why don't you put it in the hog trough?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you put" 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:
    here because; little maiden; yet more; you ever; you fellows; you imagine; you know nothing about; you might; you please; you saw; you the; you will have the; young bird; young folks; young leddy; young madam; young reader; young shoots; young squire; younger days; your children; your daughter; your friends; your home; your lordship; your wife