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Example sentences for "had better"

  • If you will excuse me, sir," she interposed gravely, "I think I had better go back to the cottage.

  • Isabel says he had better not be disturbed," she answered.

  • We had better go back, and establish ourselves comfortably in the parlor.

  • But I had better be silent, Mr. Coverdale.

  • When I inquired who this person was he said with his unpleasant smile that I had better go through the tunnel and see for myself, an invitation which I did not accept.

  • I asked Savage what he thought we had better do, expecting that he would say 'Return to the town.

  • And, Baas, I think we had better be going before he has time to think and comes back with a long stick to knock us out of this tree.

  • Now you will guess the rest, so I had better go to wash the dishes.

  • And now, as a bet has been made here it had better be paid.

  • The former depositions," said Hanky, "had better be destroyed at once.

  • I hope it is not some poacher; we had better be careful.

  • Very well," he said at last, "I suppose we had better go.

  • I think I had better be on the look-out for stones when I return.

  • In our present plight we would like to take you into our counsel as to what we had better do touching your proposals.

  • So I think that we had better go backwards, starting from the end.

  • If you really are not interested you had better begin to polish up, because it appeals to me that the world goes just so far in one direction, and then it whirls to the right-about and goes equally as far in the opposite direction.

  • She was thinking that perhaps she had better return to San Francisco and talk the matter over with Mr. Snow before she said anything to anyone else; by this time she had reached the garage and stood in its wide-open door.

  • Now I'll tell you what I think we had better do," said Linda.

  • I confess I rather like it myself, but Colonel Sherman here says it is not military; and I guess we had better defer to his opinion.

  • I had better information of Price's movements than you had, and I had no apprehension of an attack.

  • Mostly, he said something to keep on talking, but sometimes he saw when he had better quit.

  • He kept on complaining, until father told him before bedtime that he had better rest a day or two, and mother said that would be a good idea.

  • They told us, and said we had better go away, because possibly things might happen that children would sleep better not to see.

  • He has about six hundred a year of his own, and if he chooses to throw himself away, he had better go and live in the south of France, or in Canada, or where he pleases.

  • Mr Thumble considered for a moment, and then made up his mind that he had better wait, and carry back the epistle.

  • I suppose we had better go with you," said Mrs Crawley directly the door was opened; for of course she had seen the arrival of the fly from the window.

  • For the present, perhaps, he had better be guided by Miss Prettyman.

  • Only when I told him that he had better go to you.

  • But when Lady Loring deliberately gives a ball, without a supper, I must hide my head somewhere--and it had better be out of the house!

  • We had better go back to London and make our peace with her.

  • I guess we had better go, if you can break that engagement upstairs," said Drouet.

  • Well," said Drouet at last, "we had better be going.

  • I think we had better go right on through to Montreal," he said to Carrie.

  • It is a subject on which I should never ask advice; it is the sort of subject on which it had better never be asked; and few, I imagine, do ask it, but when they want to be influenced against their conscience.

  • Family squabbling is the greatest evil of all, and we had better do anything than be altogether by the ears.

  • To be sure, I had much rather she had stayed in harbour, that I might have sat a few hours with you in comfort; but as there is a boat ashore, I had better go off at once, and there is no help for it.

  • Well," said he, "if you really think I had better go: it would be foolish to bring the key for nothing.

  • We had better put an end to this most mortifying conference.

  • And I suppose we had better be on the look-out at the Abbey tomorrow night?

  • Well, it's like this, as I understand it--we had better be sure everything is quite clear.

  • I told him he had better shave, but he seems to think a beard suits him best.

  • Perhaps I had better not go at all," said Jane, not a little perplexed.

  • If it fatigues you to go out, my dear Jane, we had better stay at home next time we are asked; but I thought you wished to go this evening.

  • I intended to put it off; sir; but, on thinking the matter over, I find I had better go at once.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had better" 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:
    had also; had before; had better; had brought from the; had decided; had died; had given; had known; had meant; had never; had nothing; had once; had picked; had received from the; had shown; had something; had spent; had spoken; had taken; had the good fortune; had the greatest difficulty; had tried; had written; speculative reason; vegetable marrow; wages will