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Example sentences for "and said"

  • Tip patted it upon the head, and said "Good boy!

  • Then she lifted her right hand, with the thumb pointed upward, and said: "Teaugh!

  • Jack Pumpkinhead stepped back a pace, at this, and said in a reproachful voice: "Don't yell like that!

  • Then he lifted his left hand, with the little finger pointing upward, and said: "Weaugh!

  • Pan Ch`ao summoned his officers and also the King of Khotan to a council of war, and said: 'Our forces are now outnumbered and unable to make head against the enemy.

  • The officers admitted the force of his argument, and said: "These are higher tactics than we should have been capable of.

  • He looked at her steadily for the first time, and said: "Because I hoped you would speak to me.

  • Then he turned to a person behind him, and said, "You hear, M.

  • He said she should have them for ten shillings.

  • He was a young workman in a white blouse, and with stone-dust in the creases of his clothes; and in passing him they did not even see him, or hear him, rather saw through him as through a pane of glass at their familiars beyond.

  • Phillotson mused, and said: "No, I think we ought to be really separate, if we are to be at all.

  • The waggon turned into a cross-road, whereupon Jude thanked the carter warmly for his information, and said he only wished he could talk half as well about Christminster as he.

  • He knew that, and said merely, "At an inn," though it would have been a relief to tell her of his meeting with an unexpected one.

  • Jude told him his name, and said he had come to see him as an old friend who had been kind to him in his youthful days.

  • Fanny struggled for speech, and said, "I am very sorry that anything has occurred to distress you.

  • Miss Crawford listened with submission, and said to herself, "He is a well-bred man; he makes the best of it.

  • Fanny sighed, and said, "I cannot see things as you do; but I ought to believe you to be right rather than myself, and I am very much obliged to you for trying to reconcile me to what must be.

  • D'Urberville pulled up, and said he would get it for her, but Tess was down on the other side.

  • He felt that his parents were right in their practice if wrong in their want of sentiment, and said no more.

  • Lily's blood tingled with the grossness of the rebuff; but she checked the first leap of her anger, and said in a tone of gentle dignity: "I have no one but myself to blame if I gave you the impression that my decision was final.

  • Lily flushed at the suddenness of the attack; then she stiffened under it and said coldly: "And may I ask where you mean me to go?

  • She trembled, turned, and said "Good morning.

  • Why couldn't you have passed by me that night, and said nothing?

  • Boldwood stepped forward, and said something in a low tone, when, after a delay, another man came.

  • Then was Christian glad and lightsome, and said, with a merry heart, "He hath given me rest by his sorrow, and life by his death.

  • Then Christian wept, and said, Oh, how willingly would I have done it!

  • And said I, I am therefore going to yonder gate, to receive further direction how I may get to the place of deliverance.

  • Then, bidding her remember all she had promised them, they led her to the golden arch, and said farewell.

  • He looked at Levi Gorringe, and said to himself that the intuition of women was wonderful.

  • Moved by a common instinct, all eyes were turned upon Levi Gorringe, and he, without the slightest hesitation, stood up and said he would give $100.

  • His wife pursued her little pleasantry about Keturah, the second wife, urging him with mock gravity to scold her roundly for daring to usurp Sarah's place, but Theron scarcely heard her, and said next to nothing.

  • And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is Truth, and mighty above all things.

  • She looked across to me and said: "So it is you who have turned me out of my box; it is a very strange thing for a colt like you to come and turn a lady out of her own home.

  • I put my head up to the iron rails at the top of my box, and said, "How do you do?

  • He seemed to like me, and said, "When he has been well broken in he will do very well.

  • He turned round as far as his halter would allow, held up his head, and said, "My name is Merrylegs.

  • The oldest of the colts raised his head, pricked his ears, and said, "There are the hounds!

  • But his father made a fuss about it and said he wouldn't give Nick any land if he married me, so he's going to marry Annie Iverson.

  • When he took grandmother's hand, he bent over it as he always did, and said slowly, 'Good woman!

  • He seemed to find this case very perplexing, and said if it had not been for grandfather he would have sworn out a warrant against Krajiek.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "and said" 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:
    acting engine; and did; and for; and gave; and his; and let; and looked; and said; and take; and the; and thee; and this; and thou; and took; and was; and went; and while; could guess; easily tamed; little village; premier appointed; rock crystal; setting aside; shot away; speech delivered; woman born