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Example sentences for "you say"

  • As you say," he replied with a smile and shrug.

  • You are my master; it shall be as you say," she replied simply, but there was a note of sadness in her voice.

  • If the lady is hurt as bad as you say, who was it that wrote this note?

  • So, although, as you say, there are many hundreds of statues in London, it is very probable that these three were the only ones in that district.

  • As you say, there appear to be grains of sawdust in it.

  • I think I see how things worked, and I can understand how this message would, as you say, bring them to a head.

  • This is a man, old and wrinkled, faded and withered, and not a maiden, as you say he is.

  • As you say, they are very small,' and he shook his head.

  • But as for contentment, why, sir, you see, it smarts, as you say.

  • If a rascally highwayman comes up to me with a confounded pistol, do you say that I've deserved it?

  • LESS THAN ONE-HALF of the island,' you say, 'is devoted to the lepers.

  • Exactly, of tragic memory, as you say; a tragedy that has never been fathomed.

  • As you say, they are almost the only pair known to be breeding in the whole of Great Britain; and now their nest is going to be harried by a guest staying under my roof.

  • What d'you say, gentlemen,--shall I serve it out?

  • You say in your last, that what you cannot understand is how he got his hold of the public in so short a time.

  • As you say, however, it is not a change but only a modification, since the root idea is the same in each.

  • It is notorious, as you say, that an unbeliever may be as bigoted as any of the orthodox, and that a man may be very dogmatic in his opposition to dogma.

  • What do you say to throwing up your job and coming to Chicago with me?

  • He reflected in silence a moment, then in a tone that made her heart leap and her blood tingle, he said: "You say you're free?

  • You say we don't love each other," Rod went on, a becoming brightness in his strong face.

  • But there's no chance at all, keeping straight, you say.

  • Perhaps it would have been better if I had killed him, for he must, as you say, have lent a hand.

  • Didn't you say it was adventures you were after?

  • Besides, as you say, men ought to MAKE their own chances, and not wait until they are given.

  • As you say, my dear, it's always one thing after another; and in another ten or fifteen years I suppose I shall have the pleasing duty of looking about for a new doctor.

  • Thrown perhaps from an upper window: you say it was buried deep.

  • However, if you say no, we will try to get along without her.

  • What do you say, Burke, to taking a ride with me to Stuart's rooms, and having a talk there with the President and Mr. Langham?

  • If you know these roads as well as you say you do, you want to keep us out of the way of soldiers," he said.

  • You say that," said the older man, "because you have not yet reached the end of your tether.

  • You say you'll come round and settle later?

  • It's not that I care what any of you say.

  • And what do you say, Roberto, if I should give them the fine house on the Plaza that my brother Perfecto left me?

  • As you say; and I wish to show you that I am capable of a great thing.

  • This brutal massacre was on the morning of the sixth, you say, Navarro?

  • You say true," saith the damsel, "But for the King's name have I despite of yours.

  • Damsel," saith the King, "Sore pity is it and it be so as you say; and I pray you tell me who is the King?

  • You say true," saith Messire Gawain; "A good knight was he.

  • Another time, Cassander would have said something in defense of Antipater to those who accused him, but Alexander interrupting him said, "What is it you say?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you say" 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:
    continue the; political agitation; you bet; you give; you had better take; you imagine; you live; you must have been; you need; you needn; you the; you thought; you would have thought; young again; young friend; young gentleman; young gents; young horse; young leddy; young mistress; young person; younger brother; your hand; your honour; your house; your right