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Example sentences for "cannot describe"

  • I cannot describe, though it was only employed in giving orders to a servant as he came down stairs.

  • I cannot describe it adequately to you, though I shall see it vividly to the end of my days.

  • I cannot describe to you how I was affected.

  • I cannot describe my sensations when I beheld her, but this I knew, that my love for her was dead past resurrection.

  • And then, with an earnestness I cannot describe, he said, "I worship Him I know not, the Unknown God.

  • But I cannot describe what I suffered; the sight of Eugenie had revived all my pain.

  • I listened to her for some time without speaking; I cannot describe my sensations.

  • What I had heard caused me such intense pleasure that I cannot describe it; I had to lean against the window; for joy often takes away all our strength.

  • I cannot describe to you, my friend, what patience I devoted and how I toiled during the six months my voluntary retreat lasted; but I was more than compensated for it, as my success was complete.

  • Oh, I cannot describe to you all that then passed in my mind, for a dizziness attacked my brain, and I felt as if I were going mad.

  • They continued to question me; but I became distressed in a degree I cannot describe, hardly knowing what I did.

  • I did not move, expecting to die there, and in a state of distress which I cannot describe, from the tight bandage about my hands, and the gag holding my jaws apart at their greatest extension.

  • So I sat on, and what passed through my mind I cannot describe to you.

  • We cannot describe him as a preacher of profound convictions, who has power to carry home his ideas; or as a critic capable of describing a work, or a composer, in a few delicate or striking words.

  • Yesterday was terrible; I cannot describe how I was torn to pieces, nor how exhausted I felt afterwards.

  • I retired below to my berth with a loathing and contempt, a self-abasement, which I cannot describe.

  • For a few moments, I felt a horror which I cannot describe, and contemplated the object in awful silence; while my blood ran cold, and I felt a sensation as if my hair was standing on end.

  • I felt a dejection of spirits, a sense of destitution and misery, which I cannot describe.

  • I cannot describe to you my sensations on the near prospect of my undertaking.

  • I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.

  • These were wild and miserable thoughts, but I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me and how I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.

  • I cannot describe what I felt, as my eye glanced, in the dim light of the cell, over these articles; yet they added nothing to my pain.

  • Graham was next seized; and, after the manner of the times, was tortured before his execution in a manner which we cannot describe.

  • I said nothing, but I cannot describe my sensations.

  • I cannot describe my sensations; I felt huge drops of perspiration on my forehead, my mouth was parched.

  • I cannot describe my feelings when I heard the man who had eloped with me speak of me as a little fool whose head he had turned without difficulty.

  • I cannot describe what I mean better than by saying that his face was not like the face of any ordinary mortal whom I have met in my limited experience.

  • I cannot describe it, but it was awful to listen to, yet most entrancing.

  • I cannot describe to you the astonishment as well as delight of the now happy pair as they went from room to room, and beheld the well filled closets, and every convenience for house-keeping.

  • I cannot describe to you the intense grief of mother, as hour after hour passed away, and we still heard nothing from the fugitive.

  • I cannot describe to you the variety of conflicting emotions struggling for mastery during the hours of that never to be forgotten Sabbath.

  • I cannot describe my feelings when we were coldly informed that she did not wish to see us.

  • Every few hours the priest came in, and gave the rollers a turn, when her joints would crack and--but I cannot describe it.

  • But the sight that met my eyes when my blinder was removed, I cannot describe, nor the sensations with which I gazed upon it.

  • There was another that I cannot describe, for I never saw anything that looked like it.

  • As my eye came back to the busy scene beneath the chestnut tree it seemed to me, how vividly I cannot describe--that beside or behind the energetic and perspiring Mr. Harpworth there stood Another Auctioneer.

  • I slipped in the ruts of the roads or ploughed through the drifts in the fields with such a sense of adventure as I cannot describe.

  • It being a mild and sunny day, the door of the fruit cellar was open, and as I came around the corner I had such of whiff of fragrance as I cannot describe.

  • I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me: I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.

  • These were wild and miserable thoughts; but I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me, and how I listened to every blast of wind, as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about nine; analogous cases; assume command; cannot abide; cannot afford; cannot answer; cannot bear; cannot call; cannot come; cannot consent; cannot even; cannot find; cannot forbear; cannot help; cannot here; cannot hope; cannot omit; cannot pretend; cannot recollect; cannot refuse; cannot think; distinction from; fairly common; long rest; neutral port; solution containing