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Example sentences for "many words"

  • The lady refers to your friend, in so many words, as her husband.

  • Your friend refers to a certain lady, in so many words, as his wife.

  • Do you tell me, in so many words, that I sha'n't be able to do it?

  • Senator Davis declined to invite him, and said so in so many words.

  • Gresham did not like it, and he almost told me in so many words that he did not think much of me or any one else who thought well of Harrison.

  • Mr. Frye came at once to my house and to my study and asked me, in so many words, if I had desired to be president of the Senate.

  • Many of my young correspondents have told me in so many words, "I want to be famous.

  • Yet I should not have devoted so many words to it, did I not recognize the light it has thrown on human actions by its study of congenital organic tendencies.

  • So I brought him back to the point by asking him the question in so many words.

  • She did not say in so many words, "I too am a beauty," but she could mot help seeing that she had many of the attractions of feature and form which had made the original of the picture before her famous.

  • Motherhood had been too strong for her; in her maternal flutter she had committed the solecism of touching in so many words on "things.

  • I'd never have seen it if you hadn't told me in so many words, like this.

  • There was nothing, except his scrupulous sense of honor, he managed to imply without saying it in so many words, to prevent his going off to Chicago all by himself and leaving them stranded here.

  • It was the determination to stay there until he should tell her in so many words that he hadn't any use for her and under no conceivable circumstances ever would have.

  • But the limp young man didn't seem disconcerted, and inquired in so many words, what her business was.

  • It did not even gain the abolition of impressment in so many words.

  • Unfortunately he tried to change the spelling of many words.

  • He defined words so that they could be understood, and he gave the American meaning of many words, as "congress.

  • If the same word has been employed to denote several things somewhat different from each other, that does by no means appear a sufficient reason why the writers of the language should make as many words of one[89].

  • From the former of these circumstances, most of the words in the language appear loaded with superfluous vowels; from the latter, the orthography of many words appears, in some respects, arbitrary and unsettled.

  • Brede Olsen had fairly threatened him when he went down to fetch the apparatus and tools; ay, had said to him in as many words: "You don't seem like remembering how I saved your life last winter!

  • He ended by saying, in so many words, that after the testimony of the witnesses in the case, he on his part did not call upon the court to convict the accused.

  • You don't say it in so many words, but you are always looking it at her.

  • If you must know, mama, he said so, in so many words.

  • He did, Mr. Gibbon, he said it in so many words.

  • For letters are yet in the possession of various branches of the family, from which it distinctly appears, being stated in so many words, that one Diggory Chuzzlewit was in the habit of perpetually dining with Duke Humphrey.

  • The Swiss governess, true to her general principles, would have found it impossible to deny it, if the children had asked the question in so many words.

  • It is true, more ambitious hopes had been secretly entertained for Johann Albrecht's daughter, and all the critics could say was that the marriage could not be called a mésalliance in so many words.

  • One Grimmburger had been christened "the luxurious" in so many words,--they had almost all deserved the nickname.

  • The Swiss governess referred in so many words to him in matters of comme il faut as a model.

  • Robin had never heard Allison say so many words at a time before.

  • And where was the use of so many words about it?

  • She had never been a woman of many words, and even to her son she rarely spoke of these things.

  • The names of old Greeks and Romans have given us many words.

  • Many words relating to the dress and habits of our soldiers have curious origins.

  • Some people think that it is a pity that we have borrowed so many words, and say that we should speak and write "pure English.

  • Mrs. Yorba was detained by Mrs. Cartright, who was delivering herself of many words.

  • Then she admitted it in so many words: she could not write, she never could write.

  • For a few years--he confessed it in so many words--he was one of the maddest men in Europe.

  • Why, then, could I not write it at once to Catherine in as many words?

  • She doesn't say so in so many words, but I can see it's that.

  • Not in so many words," he said, "but I am afraid I did tell her in effect.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "many words" 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:
    many ages; many believed; many branches; many days; many directions; many individuals; many insects; many libraries; many lives; many men; many miracles; many passages; many peoples; many persons; many pictures; many pieces; many prisoners; many proofs; many questions; many rows; many sections; many sorts; many stamens; many thousands; many ways; waste time