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Example sentences for "felt that"

  • I had never heard her speak of her husband before, but I felt that we were friends now since she had brought me to this place.

  • He felt that he ought to go out and visit her.

  • I felt that I was cruel to a whole neighborhood in curtailing her liberty in this most important season for harvesting the different wild herbs that were so much counted upon to ease their winter ails.

  • For years we trod together Life's unequal pathway--at times I felt that I stayed his falling steps, and my own feet have strayed oft and again has his firm hand led me back into the light.

  • With the death of Thomas, I felt that a climax had come in affairs at Sunnyside.

  • Somehow I felt that whatever we found would be in the card-room or on the staircase, and nothing but the fear that Halsey was in danger drove me on; with every step my knees seemed to give way under me.

  • He felt that he had gained a certain knowledge of Lord Mount Dunstan.

  • He who had raged and clenched his hands in the face of his knowledge of the aspect his dream would have presented if he had revealed it to the ordinary practical mind, felt that a point of view like this was good for him.

  • He wore his London suit of clothes and he felt that he looked pretty decent.

  • There were times when he felt that Betty's summing up of things was well worth listening to.

  • As a child she had thought it ridiculous and tiresome, as she had grown older she had felt that only a remarkable individuality could surmount a fact so ever present.

  • I felt that no words of condolence availed, and I let him lie there quietly.

  • He seemed really to be possessed of a devil, and I felt that it might suddenly turn and rend him.

  • I felt that I was not carrying out my embassy with any great skill.

  • I was vexed, for I felt that I had been made a fool of, and I nearly turned away without making an enquiry.

  • I felt that my object in visiting the library was answered the moment I set eyes on them.

  • But I saw one of his feet, softly, quietly, incessantly beating on the carpet under the table, and I felt that he was secretly as anxious as ever.

  • I felt that I must cast off the oppression under which I was living, at once and for ever--yet how to act for the best, or what to say first, was more than I could tell.

  • How I was, in a grudging way I have no words for, envious of her grief.

  • And, in a very little while, the Murdstone and Grinby life became so strange to me that I hardly believed in it, while my present life grew so familiar, that I seemed to have been leading it a long time.

  • A waiter showed me into the coffee-room; and a chambermaid introduced me to my small bedchamber, which smelt like a hackney-coach, and was shut up like a family vault.

  • I felt that I made them as uncomfortable as they made me.

  • But I felt that we should not have had those old wanderings, even if it had been otherwise.

  • He was only a few days' march from home and he felt that he could see her and get back before he was wanted.

  • This made a difference in her position for which even the bullets in her wheels did not wholly atone; even Harris, the sergeant of her detachment, felt that.

  • Bold thought that the performance was soon over, for he felt that he had a somewhat difficult task, and he almost regretted the final leave-taking of the last of the old men, slow as they were in going through their adieux.

  • Yet here was her father himself, as it were, clearing away those very obstacles, and still he felt that he could not go to the house any more as an open friend.

  • For to-day he felt that he had earned opportunities for contemplative repose.

  • He felt that he was regarding a procession of chosen beings.

  • He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless.

  • A few more degrees and I felt that I should lose consciousness.

  • I felt that I was a fool ever to have attempted to escape alone, especially in view of the fact that our plans were already well formulated to make a break for freedom together.

  • Gradually I worked it toward me until I felt that it was within reach of my hand and a moment later I had turned about and the precious thing was in my grasp.

  • Here I sank panting and trembling upon the matted grasses beneath the giant trees, for I felt that I had escaped from the grinning fangs of death out of the depths of my own grave.

  • His head swain round, and he felt that in another instant he might faint.

  • He felt that he had come very badly out of it.

  • As evening closed in, I could no longer disguise the fact that the scourge was upon me, and I felt that I should have medical advice without delay.

  • He felt that he was a stronger and a deeper man.

  • He felt that he would have said as much if the positions had been reversed.

  • He felt that he was on the brink of a horrible danger.

  • He, too, felt that we were destined to know each other.

  • When Dorian had finished the letter, he felt that he had been forgiven.

  • When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale.

  • One thing, however, he felt that it had done for him.

  • He felt that it would be wise to have the delegates assemble where all the surroundings would be favorable and where his ablest and confidential men could do their work in peace and quiet.

  • He felt that he was fully entitled to the rights of the regenerate; he went to Colonel Gardiner's law office boldly to claim them.

  • When he awoke again he felt that a long time had passed, that he was much better, that he was hungry.

  • But ever since the first month I knew you, I felt that I could trust you, that you were a real friend.

  • And, long before the summer was over, I felt that I was an ambassador of education to those eager people.

  • He felt that he should never have a better chance.

  • He felt that he was in the midst of friends, and friends were not so plentiful as not to be valued.

  • He felt that he hated the padrone with a fierce hatred.

  • Phil played his best, for he felt that he was playing for friends.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "felt that" 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:
    felt assured; felt better; felt certain; felt disposed; felt himself; felt inclined; felt myself; felt obliged; felt quite; felt rather; felt ready; felt somewhat; felt that; felt very; felt when; formal dinner; forty guns; gallic acid; great portion; her presence; life interest; living faith; other saints; returned again; simple sentence; three bays