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Example sentences for "cannot answer"

  • I cannot answer whether he could have marched down.

  • I cannot answer that, because I was at Twenty-eighth street, almost all day on Friday.

  • That is a question I cannot answer--I cannot tell.

  • I was not in the vicinity of the depot when the property on the other side was fired, and I cannot answer that, nor when the elevator was fired.

  • At this question of Dagobert, Gabriel started and reddened so visibly, that the soldier said to him: "If you ought not or cannot answer my request, let us say no more about it.

  • Sir," he replied at length, "I cannot answer yes or no to that question.

  • I cannot answer till I understand matters a little better," I returned at length.

  • The whole of the questions in them I cannot answer to-night, but will do so presently, when I obtain the full information.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannot answer" 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:
    cannot answer; cannot believe; cannot call; cannot describe; cannot expect; cannot explain; cannot forbear; cannot here; cannot love; cannot pretend; cannot recall; cannot recollect; cannot represent; cannot stop; cannot take; cannot tell; cannot tell you how; cannot think; each page; found great; plus ultra; she gazed; sodium hydroxide; this region; three wire; young lady