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Example sentences for "you was"

  • If you was to like my friend, could you do better than join him?

  • Come in, you sneaking warmint; wot are you stopping outside for, as if you was ashamed of your master!

  • I wouldn't go free, now, if you was to fall down on your knees and ask me.

  • You was out to save, and not to lose, a life; that was proved to the satisfaction of the court.

  • You never got really possessed that you was a sinner.

  • You was a tough, but who's goin' to judge you!

  • You was talkin' of them rapids, and I've got to say there ain't a man that could have done it and come through like you.

  • Cassy," she said gently, "you was right to come here.

  • I heard 'em speaking of you last night as if you was a reg'lar angel.

  • But he's got it into his nut that she wouldn't look at you either if you was disfigured or your back was smashed or something like that.

  • You'd find that out if you was with 'em a bit.

  • I could have you killed at any time--even if you was in your own bed at home.

  • But you was right to come if you was tuckered.

  • Callate you couldn't hev beat that if you was to take a week to it.

  • Father's more pleased to see you than if you was a customer, for he dearly loves a gossip; and when it turns upon Miss Dorrit, he loves it all the more.

  • I shouldn't tell you, if you was by yourself; much less with your old sweetheart here.

  • You was always at it--if not with your right hand, with your left.

  • If you was to put your own lips to it, I think you wouldn't be the worse, for you look but poorly, sir.

  • I am not a child, and I am not Amy, and I must speak.

  • If you seen her, even if you was locoed or drunk, you--you couldn't do it.

  • Now, Ed, stand up and don't sling your club as if you was ropin' a steer.

  • You was roarin' about it a little while ago.

  • YOU was changin' it," he answered, savagely.

  • If you was a friend to the girl, you wouldn't want the whole congregation a-pointin' fingers at her.

  • Not but what if you was sold up, and other folks bought your furniture, it's a comfort to think as you've kept it well rubbed.

  • I said, Sir, I know my dear father will want to be at home: and as you was so good to give me a fortnight from last Thursday, I should be glad you would be pleased to indulge me still to some day in the second seven.

  • Ay, that's pure, said I; and I shall have good rest this night, I hope.

  • Why, said I, as if I had known nothing of the matter, how can he make up matters with him?

  • Whom do you think I have seen since I have been out?

  • You was once a sailor, they tell me, old Tom?

  • Keep the beast that you had forgotten to give back to me, as you was about to start, and which I forgot to ask for, on account of consarn at parting in anger.

  • If you was handsome, or ever like to be, I'd be one of the first to tell you of it; and that ought to content you.

  • And you've a right to feel that, and not to go about as gaping and as thoughtless as if you was beholding to nobody.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you was" 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:
    beautiful white; half calf; you don; you find; you know nothing about; you know very well; you must come and; you seem; you suppose; you would; you would have thought; you young; young courtier; young orchard; young reader; young state; younger daughter; your correspondent; your family; your great; your letters; your love; your people; your service; your sister; your work