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Example sentences for "felt like"

  • She had her hand on my shoulder the whole time, and it felt like an anvil there to my dopey muscles.

  • The light or the air, the latitude or the smog, it felt like home.

  • I felt like I had bricks dangling from my limbs and one stuck in my brain.

  • He couldn't simply shrug off his duties just because he felt like he'd been torn into contaminated shreds, however much he might prefer to.

  • For a month before each election I felt like a giddy young squirrel running races with myself around a wheel.

  • Sometimes, after a couple of weeks of extra hard work, I've taken my mind off invoices long enough to wag it around a bit and I've felt like a swimmer coming up after a long dive.

  • That knocked us silly--wife gave us rats, and I felt like a yellow dog.

  • The week at Wabacog had widened their horizon--widened everybody's horizon--as for himself he felt like a Western prairie with limitless possibilities ending in mountains of accomplishment.

  • It felt like winter, and the captains rolled more than ever as they walked, as if they were on deck in a heavy sea.

  • I felt like rowing, and took the oars while Kate was mending her sinker and the cap'n was busy with a snarled line.

  • But his outburst had only made Elinor feel the sorrier for him--he felt like a burglar as he saw the kindness in her eyes.

  • By fighting, Daoud thought, they held off, not only their enemies, but the despair that he felt like a dark tide within him, and that he knew Manfred must feel too.

  • He felt like a fox who had thrown a pack of slavering hounds off the scent.

  • It felt like a mace blow to his chest every time he remembered the fight in the blackness of the spice pantry.

  • My little son shivered with the light chill which comes at daybreak in those tropical countries: we were hungry and tired and miserable: my bones ached, and I felt like crying.

  • I felt like jumping up onto the table, climbing onto the roof, dancing and singing and shouting for joy!

  • Letters were dispatched to the East, in various directions, for every sort and description of clothing, but it was at least two months before any of it appeared, and I felt like an object of charity for a long time.

  • If she was beautiful before, now that she had started her tear mill, she was ravishingly radiant, and I felt like a villain.

  • When he came towards me, I was mad and desperate, and when he spoke kind words to me, my chin trembled, and I felt like a baby.

  • He said he would obey, if he felt like it.

  • He felt like a hunter setting out on a hunting expedition.

  • I couldn't make you happy if I felt like that.

  • I felt like a beetle-browed brute with a dripping knife and hands imbrued with innocent gore.

  • I cannot tell you what it felt like to be really there--to walk down the street, up the path, up the steps to the veranda.

  • He, because he felt like smiling; she, because she felt nervous.

  • Did you ever guess that I felt like that, Esther?

  • He felt like a tramp, though, if to feel like a tramp is to feel hot and sticky and hungry.

  • He was angry, humiliated; he felt like laughing, and he felt like sobbing.

  • The dramatic instinct was strong in him; he felt like a playwright who has constructed a strong melodramatic plot, and has the Drury Lane stage suddenly offered him to present it on.

  • When she did, it felt like something he'd been missing there had been finally found.

  • I had the knife, and I felt like I had to use it.

  • He'd felt like he was in charge of this interaction, like he understood what was going on.

  • I felt like I should *do something* for the old lady, but I didn't know what.

  • He could not handle a hammer or a chisel when he felt like a real gentleman, and when he felt like an artisan he must enjoy the liberty of being able to tuck up his sleeves and work with a will.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "felt like" 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:
    barium chloride; black and white marble; euery thing; felt ashamed; felt better; felt disposed; felt happy; felt inclined; felt like; felt more; felt much; felt myself; felt rather; felt ready; felt satisfied; felt some; felt very; felt when; little butter and flour; may say; must pray; public ministry; speak not; stipules small; thee would; tropical vegetation