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Example sentences for "read that"

  • This is the first time we read that God appeared to men.

  • In the first verses of the next book, that of Exodus, there is a remarkable juxtaposition of ideas, when we read that 'Joseph died and all his brethren and all that generation.

  • To read that passage a couple of times would make a man dizzy; to read it four times would make him drunk.

  • He said: "When I read that review of yours, I felt like the woman who was so glad her baby had come white.

  • I couldn't think, when I read that letter, what in the nation the man meant, but shaving somehow has a tendency to release thought, and just now it all came to me.

  • They still used the Jewish liturgy, for we read that 'they continued daily with one accord in the Temple.

  • We read that in 1500 they summoned from Troyes three master glass painters, Lyenin-Varin, Jean Verrat and Balthazar Godon, and turned a large part of the work over to them.

  • And he had coupled these with those other words uttered by Winnie as she confronted Alan, with that farewell note in her hand: "Read that; see what your cruelty has done.

  • Read that, sir," she says, going straight up to Alan and extending to him the letter.

  • Then, turning to Leslie: "Read that paper, gal.

  • Among the earliest instances of homage paid to him, I read that “a curious Indian bow and arrows were sent to the prince from his father’s faithful subjects in New York”.

  • He read that to himself, which only said, “Burn the papers in the cupboard, burn this.

  • But this hatred was to be intensified by the display of Christ's glory at the tomb of Lazarus; for we read that "from that day forth they took counsel to put Him to death.

  • We read that "when Jesus heard that Lazarus was sick," "he abode two days still in the same place where he then was.

  • Under the date of 1405 we read that McRannal, or Reynolds, chief of Muntireolais, died of a surfeit of it, about Christmas.

  • Read that, thou hard old man, that didst imprison thy son, read, and see what monsters thou hast brought into the world.

  • He had little to do now, and no princess to draw, so he set himself resolutely to read that deed of Floris Brandt, from which he had hitherto been driven by the abominably bad writing.

  • Then she would write an illegible scrawl with a cabalistic letter, and bring it down, reverentially, and show it the patient, and "Could he read that?

  • We read that announcement, so confidently uttered, with no slight amount of misgiving as to the opinions we have already chronicled, but the next half column put us right.

  • If your shocking eddication permits, I'll trouble you to read that there.

  • We read that "he was not, for God took him.

  • Accordingly we read that Adam, in his hundred and thirtieth year, "begat a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth.

  • After an account of one of the bloody wars of Jehovah's bandits we read that "Balaam also the son of Beor, the sooth-sayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.

  • We are not surprised to read that, when high in the air, there was an awful explosion and the brave aeronaut fell to the earth and was dashed to death.

  • It says much for the progress of aviation at this time, when we read that, only a year before, it was difficult to find but two pilots to compete in the much easier race described in the last chapter.

  • Hoffman, we read that Manabush [the great culture-hero] and a twin brother were born the sons of the virgin daughter of an old woman named Nokómis.

  • But it is far more to my purpose to read that he had not always got himself off without wounds that left lasting scars both where they were seen of all, and where they were seen and felt only by Self-denial himself.

  • How long Undine takes to read that letter!

  • But when I read that story, and thought of all the people and things there are in the world that I've never seen, it was just a little bit hard to feel cheerful.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "read 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:
    agreeable companion; answered very; come forward; come where; food production; give thee; glass darkly; read aloud; read prayers; read some; read that; read the; read what; reader will; readers will; readily imagined; readily obtained; readily soluble; readily understood; reading room; ready money; silence fell; this very; true philosophy; would only; yards apart