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Example sentences for "feel"

Lexicographically close words:
feeding; feedings; feeds; feefty; feeing; feeld; feele; feeled; feeler; feelers
  1. He pressed very hard indeed for your name and address, but I did not feel at liberty to disclose them before seeing you.

  2. I feel that she is entitled to a certain number of shares in the Company, and I want her to accept them.

  3. Don't you know what it is to feel a buzz, buzz, buzzing inside?

  4. He was beginning to feel a very injured person.

  5. He will feel that, in a certain measure, he has betrayed Captain Francis's trust.

  6. Don't attempt it if you feel like that, please!

  7. How else do you suppose she could feel to be told that she had been hoodwinked, and kept from her duty and a man's heart very likely broken, to save the respectability of a worn-out old family.

  8. It was pleasant to be welcomed like this--to feel that one person in the world at least was glad of his coming.

  9. When I think that but for this man my father might still have been alive, might have lived to know how much I loathed those who sent him into exile--well, I feel then that there is nothing in the world I would not do to crush him!

  10. But the boy seemed to feel some of the pathos of the moment and he looked curiously at the little crowd of wailing natives.

  11. Then Trent began to feel that, after all, the struggle of his life was only beginning.

  12. I feel much younger than you--much younger.

  13. I don't feel towards you as I ought, Frederik.

  14. But Catherine's position is certainly unusual; and the strangest part of it all is--she doesn't seem to feel her situation.

  15. Sometimes I feel bitter thinking what I might have done with vegetables, when I was wasting time studying Greek.

  16. They were to feel his influence without seeing him.

  17. It makes you feel differently towards all the rest.

  18. Turns and faces the door leading into the next room, as though he could feel the presence of some one waiting there.

  19. It's only that I want to learn something--I want to feel I can do something when our money has gone, for I know it won't last very long.

  20. Princess, trying not to feel frightened at the prospect before her.

  21. The Fox took the two little Bears on so quickly, that they soon began to feel both cross and tired.

  22. Faster and faster it went, until the country seemed only a flying haze; and just as the Princess began to feel she could endure no more, it stopped abruptly before a small hut.

  23. The clock chimed twelve, and still the poor washerwoman smoothed and folded, though her heavy eyes almost refused to keep open, and the room began to feel the chill of the frosty air outside.

  24. I can feel myself freezing in every hair.

  25. I feel that I have had a call to open the gate of freedom to the slaves in this, Columbia.

  26. Yet somehow we feel that there is something more in this life than simply an illusion, and I guess that our senses do not deceive us.

  27. Then it took about ten minutes for him to express his gratitude for my confidence in him and his protecting power, and he wanted me to feel that Allah loved upright strangers in all the world.

  28. Oh, Ruth, I will come so near that you will feel my presence in your soul.

  29. Then to feel the spell of silence, where tumult once arose, we can but ask, "Is life a reality or a myth?

  30. Well, mother, the Hoyts are all in good standing around here, and I feel mighty proud of you all.

  31. In the excitement she gripped me so hard I can almost feel her hand now.

  32. I brought along some blooded cattle, pigs and hens, and finding many hard maples on the place, which produce sap for sirup, we feel quite independent.

  33. My 75 years does not seem to trouble me, for I feel as well as I did fifty years ago.

  34. I may be too blunt and plain in my remarks concerning soulless advocates but I feel that these teachers are not only swinging to the other extreme from religion, but through selfishness or ignorance they are creating unrest and war.

  35. Yes, Winnie, I feel like Queen Esther, when risking her life for her people.

  36. It is now several years since the ravages of the small pox have been experienced among them, and it is probable they feel an undue degree of security against its future visitations.

  37. He manages his load more easily because he does not feel the weight so heavily upon his back.

  38. Why don't some of you fellows go out there and storm the fort, if you feel that way?

  39. He longed with a great longing, which at the same time he realized to be hopeless, to make these people feel as he felt.

  40. I feel like a bad little boy stealing jam!

  41. Bob could feel an electric thrill run through the crowd, and every one sat up a little straighter in his chair.

  42. But if testifying would land you in danger of prison, you might feel differently about it.

  43. Nothing's worse for a boy than to feel that everything's cut and dried for him.

  44. The next thing he seemed conscious of was the flicker of a camp-fire, and the soft feel of blankets.

  45. Now, in the event that you were not personally in charge of the case would you feel it necessary to volunteer testimony unsuspected by anybody but you three?

  46. It's just some news that made me feel sorry.

  47. That isn't going to cost much, and we'll feel safe.

  48. There are plenty who feel as I do, but they don't say so.

  49. I seed a room with a loft over a stable and I took it, and I shall feel strong like bein' agin you, and shan't be near my pals as gets me to drink.

  50. I often feel that I am getting used up, and think of a saying a foreman of mine had for men who asked for a day off the box: 'Rest indeed!

  51. Now you feel how bad you are, you must look to the dear Jesus.

  52. And they who have heard the call of Divine compassion, and feel themselves sheltered in the covenant of love, are commanded to say "Come," or for ever bear the reproach of being unfaithful servants.

  53. I feel all right toward you, so never mind," was the kind reply, enforced with a friendly touch of the arm.

  54. Now I feel I am a sinner, and have no good works, and that it is through the righteousness of another that I must be saved.

  55. I have been thinking very much about our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, and I feel that it condemns me, for I used to think that I was not so bad as others, and that through my own good works I should go to heaven.

  56. It makes me feel sad to see this come down; but it is only an accident; nothing of him will ever fall out of my heart.

  57. When we renounce self in anything we have reason to hope for God's blessing; and so I feel assured of a peaceful life in the course I have taken.

  58. No; it is now he shall feel the deadly venom in his heart, that has so long banqueted on mine.

  59. Never did I feel half the pleasure in surveying it I do at this moment.

  60. But no sooner did Wacousta feel the soft pressure of her hand, and meet her eyes turned on his with an expression of interest, than the most rapid transition was effected in his feelings.

  61. I have never seen this friend of my brother, how then can I possibly feel more than the most ordinary interest in him?

  62. Another would have been discouraged at the difficulties still remaining; but with these I was become too familiar, not to feel the utmost confidence in encountering them, even with the treasure that was equally perilled with myself.

  63. Can they then feel surprise, that having lost not only her, but my brother and my friend, I should be the miserable thing I am.

  64. I pity Halloway from my soul, and feel the deepest interest in his pretty and unhappy wife; but that is no reason why one should attach importance to the incoherent expressions wrung from her in the agony of grief.

  65. I feel a little sad to think that my brief holiday is over.

  66. When I see their beauty, as they grow by the stream-side, I feel again as though I lived in the hills, And many a time on public holidays Round their railing I walk till night comes.

  67. Do not say that their roots are still weak, Do not say that their shade is still small; Already I feel that both in garden and house Day by day a fresher air moves.

  68. He who has found such manifold delights Shall feel his cheeks aglow And the blood-spirit dancing through his limbs.

  69. But the things I feel when wine possesses my soul I will never tell to those who are not drunk.

  70. After pointing out to him how grateful he should feel to our Almighty Father for his preservation from an early and dreadful death, I begged him to tell me how he had contrived to keep himself so long afloat.

  71. There was a silence on board, but no answer, and I did begin to feel that there was a chance of being lost after all.

  72. I am not much of a swimmer, and I don't feel as if I could ever get to shore.

  73. No report from musketry or ordnance could ever make a man's heart feel so small as mine did at that horrid yell.

  74. She screwed her lips up to the kissing point with this, and looked at me so tenderly that I began to feel nervous--upon my word I did.

  75. And I'm no more than human, all said and done, and the sight of the food she took out of the basket made me feel well-nigh desperate.

  76. The excessive gravity of the American in khaki has astonished the men of the other armies who feel that, life being uncertain, it is well to make as genial a use of it as possible while it lasts.

  77. I feel the elated certainty, as never before even in the moment of the most successful attack, that the Hun's fate is sealed.

  78. Their voluntary presence made the captured Belgian feel that he was earning the thanks of all time--that the eyes of the world were upon him.

  79. It is fitting that they should feel this way, seeing themselves as they do perpetually frescoed against the sky-line of sacrifice; but I am glad that our English boys can laugh while they die.

  80. They were so afraid that their Allies might feel disappointed.

  81. The great thing was to make the demoralised Italians feel that America was on the spot and helping them.

  82. I have often been asked the question; in answering it I always feel that I am giving only a partial answer.

  83. Many of us, if we are alive when peace is declared, will feel an uneasy reproach that perhaps we did not give enough.

  84. Your army doesn't feel that way towards us; at least, if it ever did, it doesn't now.

  85. Of course, I'll go with you, and feel everlastingly obliged to you for the chance, besides.

  86. Without it I should feel ashamed to look my friends in the face.

  87. Japan already is uplifted by the flood, and China, now at the lowest ebb of her fortunes, will soon feel the life-giving influence of the rising tide.

  88. Now, for the first time, Jo began to feel nervous and wish that he had not ventured out among these barbarians unprotected.

  89. Believing Jo to feel even more bitterly than himself concerning foreigners, this officer did not hesitate to give him the very latest news.

  90. I felt blue myself this morning, but now, after a day's sleep and a good stuffing of mule, I feel all right.

  91. He, of course, was glad to pay the difference in price, and so I am able to refund half the cost of your ticket, if you feel that you cannot wait for our next ship.

  92. That is the way I used to feel when I was a boy.

  93. No amount of weeping over sin, and saying that you feel sorry, is going to help it unless you are willing to confess and make restitution.

  94. Sometimes I feel as if I would rather be the mother of John Wesley or Martin Luther or John Knox than have all the glories in the world.

  95. I felt very homesick and miserable, and about midnight, when everything was very still, I was beginning to feel very weary and thought that I would comfort myself by praying and singing a hymn.

  96. You could feel it throbbing like the beat of a distant drum.

  97. And now, Madam, I feel sure we have kept you much too long," he said.

  98. She felt as a traitor might feel who was seeking audience of his sovereign.

  99. And you feel kind of strong--soft spots eradicated?

  100. When the same poets break out into honest Paganism, in the frank verses written by Bembo for Priapus, in Beccadelli's epigrams, or in the elegies of Acon and Iolas, we feel that they are more artistically justified.

  101. Countess, "as well may you ask a hungry lion to feel compassion, as a prejudiced and furious people to do justice.

  102. It is indeed an awful tempest; and, remote as we lie from its sphere, we must expect soon to feel its effects.

  103. Reverend and dear friend," answered Bridgenorth, "I feel that you speak the truth.

  104. My mother queens it at such a rate as may cost me not only my crown, which I care little for, but perhaps my head, which, though others may think little of, I would feel it an inconvenience to be deprived of.

  105. In desperate circumstances men look to strange and unusual remedies; and although unable to calculate the chances of advantage which this singular communication opened to him, Julian did not feel inclined to let them at once escape from him.

  106. This is a long digression, but it will be forgiven by those who feel how much of beautiful and pathetic there is in the memory of this mute nightingale dying with her passionate music all unheard in the silence and shadows.

  107. I am glad I am not writing a guide-book, and do not feel any responsibility resting upon me of advising the gentle reader to stop at Aranjuez or to go by on the other side.

  108. There is a most amiable and praiseworthy class of travellers who feel a certain moral necessity impelling them to visit every royal abode within their reach.

  109. Yet even those who most stoutly defend the bull-fight feel that its glory has departed and that it has entered into the era of full decadence.

  110. I kiss thy hands When I feel their blows, In the place of caresses Thou givest me woes.

  111. I feel no desire to push capital into extensive manufactures faster than the general progress of our wealth and population propels it.

  112. But this grief was purely personal, and will not be shared by posterity, who feel only the errors of those last years coming after so much glory, and who care very little for the defeat of the ambition which went with them.

  113. He believed thoroughly every word he uttered, but he did not feel it, and in things spiritual the heart must be enlisted as well as the head.

  114. I feel some little interest in this matter, sir.

  115. The leading Federalists were aroused everywhere, so that the judges might be made to feel their opinion.

  116. President Polk replied to the call of the House by saying that he could not feel justified, either morally or legally, in revealing the uses of the secret service fund.

  117. Mr. Webster was then of an age to feel fully the glow of a great success, both at the moment and when the cooler and more critical approbation came.

  118. We cannot but feel that Mr. Webster's lost passages, embodying this political appeal, did the work, and that the result was settled when the political passions of the Chief Justice were fairly aroused.

  119. The legal argument in support of that right was excellent, but the Northern people could not feel that it was necessary for Daniel Webster to make it.

  120. Excommunication he feared, if indeed his brutal nature could feel fear.

  121. So far the search had been in vain, and Jack and Molly were beginning to feel very tired, as the lane had been long and difficult.

  122. They trotted along in silence for a time, until a particularly loud crack behind a bush close by startled Molly and made her feel that she could not bear the silence any longer.

  123. I--I feel quite ashamed of myself for being so scared just now.

  124. Who could feel sad at heart on a day like this!

  125. Both Jack and Molly remembered the matches, but they did not feel quite sure whether this was the proper time to use them, as they were afraid of offending their guide if they suggested that his lantern did not give enough light.

  126. Jack and Molly began to feel as if they were a sort of show or entertainment.

  127. I feel as if somebody wants us, through that door on the other side .

  128. You know what I mean--I feel a little bit lost by myself.

  129. I don't feel at all satisfied about the Orange Wood, do you, Jack?

  130. Poor Molly, she could not feel very happy about the bracelet, of course, as the weight of Jack's misfortune still crushed her down; but she was certainly pleased to possess such a bracelet.

  131. Won't old Timothy feel sold when he hears what his Black Leaf really was!

  132. I am not used to being blind yet, and feel so helpless.

  133. But I don't remember anything--only feel as if I've been shut up somewhere and been to sleep.


  134. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aim; air; appear; appreciation; apprehend; art; assume; atmosphere; aura; believe; breath; brush; caress; climate; conceive; conclude; conjecture; consider; contact; credit; daresay; deduce; deem; delicacy; detect; distinguish; divine; dream; encounter; endure; expect; experience; fancy; feel; feeling; fiddle; finesse; finger; finish; flair; flavor; flick; fumble; gather; glance; grain; grant; graze; grip; grope; guess; handle; hang; have; hear; hold; imagine; indentation; infer; instinct; judiciousness; kiss; knack; know; lap; let; lick; look; manipulate; meet; milieu; mood; nap; nicety; note; opine; overtone; palate; palm; paw; pay; perceive; perception; pile; pit; pity; ply; pock; poke; prefigure; presume; presuppose; prod; protuberance; quality; reckon; refinement; repute; respond; rub; say; see; seem; semblance; sense; sensibility; sensitivity; smell; sound; spend; spirit; stroke; structure; subtlety; suffer; suppose; surface; surmise; suspect; sustain; tact; take; tap; taste; texture; think; thumb; tone; touch; trick; twiddle; undergo; understand; undertone; wale; way; weave; whisper; wield; woof


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    feel about; feel ashamed; feel assured; feel better; feel bound; feel confident; feel convinced; feel good; feel inclined; feel just; feel like; feel more; feel myself; feel obliged; feel ourselves; feel pain; feel sure; feel that; feel the; feeling rather; feeling sure; feeling very; feelings towards; feelings were; feels himself; feels like