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Example sentences for "cannot stand"

  • I think I could face any danger if the danger were a silent one, but I cannot stand noise.

  • In fact, he cannot stand noise of any sort.

  • I am not afraid of bullets, Doctor; it's the horrible, fiendish noise that I cannot stand.

  • But I cannot stand to enlarge upon these glorious things, the Lord enlarge them upon your hearts by meditation.

  • The consequences are--God forsaketh the person charged, and being left, if he cannot stand, he falleth under the power of guilt and horror of the same.

  • He will not strictly mark what is done amiss, because if he should, we cannot stand (Psa 130:3).

  • It cannot stand in the light of the parable of the prodigal son.

  • This church, one of the most intelligent in the country, cannot stand where it now is.

  • I cannot stand Mrs. So-and-so; she gets into a rocking-chair and rocks and rocks until I feel as if I should go crazy!

  • She gazed about her wildly, exclaiming, "I cannot stand it, and there is no one to help me!

  • The Earth shakes; We totter up and down; we cannot stand, Sir; Me thinks the mountains tremble too.

  • Allow Maximinian all, Honour, and Empire, absolute command; Yet being ill, long great he cannot stand.

  • You are fortunate, I cannot stand to tell you more now, meet me Here soon, and you'l be made a man.

  • The Prussians stagger; cannot stand it; bend to rightwards, and get out of shot-range; cannot manage it this bout.

  • His cavalry is, for most part, shaken into ragged clouds; infantry, steady enough men, cannot stand everything.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been having; brown fricassee; cannot afford; cannot attempt; cannot bear; cannot bring; cannot but; cannot endure; cannot expect; cannot have; cannot help; cannot love; cannot possibly; cannot read; cannot save; cannot sleep; cannot speak; cannot tell; cannot tell you how; cannot well; cannot write; chronic disease; large baking; little difficulty; our men; the age