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Example sentences for "could reply"

  • I could only bow my thanks to the kind gentleman, but before I could reply, the inspector joined us.

  • Before I could reply, my attention was directed to a blaze that suddenly enveloped one of the huts, and which threatened to extend to the others.

  • Before I could reply, Mr. Wright left the house, and hurried towards us.

  • Before we could reply, we heard an answering yell, which appeared to be distant about a quarter of a mile, while near at hand, the rustling of the bushes showed that either an enemy or a wild beast was regarding our movements.

  • Step out, sir," said Mr. Jackson, starting for the door before I could reply.

  • And before he could reply--if indeed he had been able to reply--she had left the office and was running down the stairs.

  • Before I could reply, Gowing said there was nothing so completely uninteresting as other people's dreams.

  • Lupin came in before I could reply, and Gowing unfortunately inquired after Daisy Mutlar.

  • Before I could reply, Gowing said: "Well, I lose nothing, fortunately.

  • We could reply to the Magyar accusations: Not so much is it that Serbia has been making a propaganda to liberate her brothers from your yoke, as that they themselves have made this propaganda.

  • But, oh illustrissime Caesar, we could reply, our first and best custom is to sing.

  • Before he could reply I had swept past him, and meeting M.

  • Before I could reply, the door opened and Miss Ross came in.

  • And then, before the elder lady could utter her gentle reproof or I could reply to her speech, she began to tell her story.

  • A perfect silence prevailed for a time; it was broken by Sonnenkamp's asking whether the court could oblige him to testify on his conscience as to the sum, or whether he could reply, or not, as he saw fit.

  • The Spaniard was gone before Nina could reply.

  • It was some moments ere he could reply, and he did so then with a forced smile and a quivering lip.

  • But before I could reply to her, before Mr. Clavering himself could murmur a word, the guilty wretch before her had started to his feet.

  • Then, before I could reply to this: "Have you seen Eleanore to-day?

  • Before I could reply to any of his many questions, the naval officer I had met at the harbor entered, and delivered his report.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could reply" 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:
    could believe; could count; could devise; could draw; could easily; could finde; could get; could hope; could learn; could like; could look; could make; could not have told; could not help being; could obtain; could read; could readily; could rely; could scarce; could see; could summon; could you; meet them; smoke house; think how; various kinds