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Example sentences for "cannot express"

  • Miss Newville," said General Howe, "I cannot express my thanks to you for your entertainment.

  • I cannot express my obligation to you, Mr. Walden.

  • I cannot express it, but I can only declare, living as I do in a day like this, that to me there is a kind of colossal naked poetry in what Pierpont Morgan has done which I cannot but acknowledge with gratitude and hope.

  • I cannot express to you what a weight is removed from my mind by the success of Pitt's journey.

  • Though I cannot express my affection in such charming language as this, yet, believe me, no mother was ever fonder of a child.

  • I cannot command my temper sufficiently to be coherent when I speak of her; I cannot express in words what I feel.

  • I had such good treatment and nice care at your institution that I cannot express in my testimony the thanks that I owe you.

  • I cannot express half my feelings of gratefulness to you.

  • Gentlemen--Your kindness to me I can never forget, I cannot express half my feelings of gratefulness to you.

  • I cannot express my high praise of your Institution.

  • Really, I long to see you again, and I cannot express to you the pleasure it will afford us to welcome you all to our suburban home.

  • We cannot express it unto you; but you may perceive it well enough, both by the Lord’s frequent obtesting, and protesting to us in his word, and the experience of the great barrenness of all such means.

  • It is true that I cannot express it precisely.

  • The cleverness and animation as well as affection of her letters I cannot express; certainly women are superior to men in letter-writing.

  • I cannot express to you how deep and painful an interest I take in the history of this man.

  • What effect it had upon me I cannot express by words.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    armed men; been formed; beyond dispute; cannot answer; cannot avoid; cannot come; cannot conceive; cannot endure; cannot escape; cannot expect; cannot explain; cannot forbear; cannot have; cannot imagine; cannot know; cannot leave; cannot love; cannot remember; cannot speak; cannot stay; cannot take; cannot understand; cannot well; deep reverie; three fingers; warm milk