You would have thought, had you been passing by the crowd that gathered around Tiny, you would have thought an angel had been promising some good thing to them.
Hunger, you would have thought, came out of the east like the sun, and the evening was made of edible gold.
You would have thought we were to land upon a cannibal island.
Mankind, you would have thought, might have remained content with what Prometheus stole for them and not gone fishing the profound heaven with kites to catch and domesticate the wildfire of the storm.
They were miserably clad; and the pavement was so cold, you would have thoughtno one could lay a naked foot on it unflinching.
So lifelike and natural did they look, you would have thought, as you looked at them, that one was going to bark, the other to leap forward.
You would have thought it was Diana herself, had you seen her in her hunting dress, only that her bow was of horn and Diana's of silver.
He took an apple from the tree; you would have thought he had robbed the garden of the Hesperides.
You would have thought it was a real bull, so naturally was it wrought, and so natural the water in which it swam.
You would have thought, to look at him, that he was a stranger to this serious affair.
You would have thought we were Italians ourselves, poor wisps of nothing, not his rescuers, but slaves, compelled to do his lordly bidding.
You would have thought at the time that it was his own life that had been spared.
You would have thought it was a real bull so naturally was it wrought, and so natural was the water in which it swam.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you would have thought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
