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Example sentences for "little apart"

  • Lady Sarah was speaking passionately and vehemently, as she did when she was excited; Raban was standing a little apart in the shadow.

  • Frank Raban stood a little apart talking to Rhoda, whose wonderful liquid eyes were steadily fixed upon him.

  • Roll up the crust, and put the rolls in a dripping-pan just a little apart; put a piece of butter on each roll, spices if you like.

  • Winnie stood a little apart, pale, and with her delicate curved nostril a little dilated.

  • Only the father stood a little apart, sorrowful and stern.

  • There we halted, for no message had yet come from the King; but upon the Maid's face was a look of awe and radiant joy as she stood a little apart, gazing upon the goal of her toilsome journey.

  • We gazed at her in wonder as she stood a little apart, her face full of power and calm certainty.

  • I had lost thought of Dante in my merry-makings and lost sight of him in the hurly-burly, and now suddenly I saw him leaning against a pillar a little apart, and looking at the eager crowd of youths and Simone that was its central figure.

  • Guido plucked him a little apart, and whispered him hurriedly.

  • It was easy to see that the worthy couple had married for love; they were as little apart as they could help it.

  • Hold curved 5 hands, palm to palm, a foot apart; swing down together and up face high, closing them; swing a little apart at the finish.

  • With both L hands a little apart, index fingers pointed down, make a large incomplete circle to left of left breast.

  • He rose at once, and she drew him a little apart.

  • He stood a little apart, and she noted his traveling clothes and the various signs of a journey about the room.

  • Yet from the transition he had remained always a little apart.

  • At first they showed merely in dim outlines standing a little apart, with the sunlit branch of a sweet gum tree dropping between them.

  • I say nothing, boys,' said the serjeant, who sat a little apart, drinking his liquor.

  • The weeds and grass were soon plucked and cut from an area of sufficient extent, and a bed for Inez and Ellen was speedily made, a little apart, which for sweetness and ease might have rivalled one of down.

  • True to the signals, Middleton and Paul had drawn a little apart, and now stood ready, by every appearance, to commence their flight at the third repetition of the cry.

  • The young Pawnee made a significant gesture of assent and followed the other a little apart, in order to be removed from all danger of interruption from the reckless Paul, or the abstracted naturalist.

  • Paste the three strips together at the upper end like ribbons, letting them spread a little apart at the lower end.

  • Place so that the lower ends touch and the upper ones are a little apart, suggesting a tulip.

  • Hold in the left hand, and with sharp pointed scissors cut the worsted at the edge of the circles, spread the circles a little apart, and tie a strong thread firmly around the worsted between the two cardboard circles.

  • Assured that there was no shadow of hope, he withdrew, having looked closely at Emma, who now stood a little apart, her hands held together before her.

  • Emma rose to her feet and drew a little apart.

  • Giving a hand to each, she drew them a little apart.

  • I was standing a little apart, leaning on my sword, hardly able to believe my ears, and wondering at the ways of womankind.

  • He beckoned him a little apart with a look of inimitable chagrin.

  • A little apart he stood as they made ready to march out of the presence of the Carlist general.

  • Cardono, therefore, still attached himself unreproved to the party of Rollo, which camped a little apart.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little apart" 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:
    cash payments; feverish excitement; little ashamed; little below; little bit; little bundle; little bush; little church; little cousin; little figures; little forward; little friend; little golden; little gravy; little ground; little inclination; little library; little melted; little picture; little plant; little shiver; little too; little volume; little while; little world; mural painting