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Example sentences for "said very"

  • I think I've said very plainly, sir, that I wish to be alone.

  • I haven't been sleeping very well lately," he said very dryly.

  • One night I had just persuaded him to lie down, when he sat up again with that dreadful face and said very loud: 'Where is my wife?

  • I'm going to drink myself to death as soon as I can," he said very quietly.

  • He said very quietly: "Eileen, Gerald no longer takes me into his confidence.

  • And that little girl, who is now your mother, said very simply: 'Won't you come home to luncheon with us?

  • Whether or not he divined the interference he said very quietly: "I'd rather have had children than anything in the world.

  • I think she puts bad notions into your head," he said very gravely.

  • He did not speak again for some moments; and then he said very gravely, "I am afraid you read too many of those dull books.

  • I do not ask you to tell me," he said very courteously, "what it may be; but is there no other thing in which you have displeased God?

  • My business down town," he said very slowly, "was with an officer of the Smithsonian Institution who had come on from Washington to see something which I had brought with me from Florida.

  • He said very earnestly: "Sir John Lubbock sat up day and night, never taking his eyes off the little colony of ants which he had under observation in a glass box!

  • The girl, still resting her eyes on the sleeping puppy, said very quietly: "I do not desire to appear selfish, but a girl is twice as lonely as a man.

  • Mr. Thornton," I said very earnestly, "I am afraid you are going to think me very impertinent.

  • I am doing this thing because I feel I have to," he said very slowly.

  • That," he said very slowly, "is what I don't quite know.

  • Now," he said very softly, "I shall get better.

  • Bill Mitchell had scarcely spoken a word since the time they were discovered, but now he said very solemnly, "He's full of brains, that man!

  • I have good reason to remember that night,' he said very sadly.

  • Well," he said very quietly, "our turn may come.

  • Well," he said very quietly, "in that case I'll stay with you.

  • The trouble is that Violet was never in love with--me," he said very slowly.

  • Well," he said very slowly, "nothing can happen to me that I have not deserved.

  • I could see Cyril was pleased, though he said very little, but by and by he asked me what I should do about a piano, and mamma suggested that we should hire one.

  • You will live to repent it,' he said very seriously, 'and then you will remember my warning.

  • Take care, Saint-Eustache," I said very quietly, my eyes fixed on his.

  • I came to Lavedan to win you, Roxalanne, and from Lavedan I shall not stir until I have accomplished my design," I said very quietly.

  • Some day, monsieur," I said very quietly, "I promise you that your behaviour and these gratuitous insults shall cost you your position.

  • I hope you will soon be all right and that you will enjoy your visit to our Tuscany," he said very pleasantly.

  • He is my enemy as well as yours," I said very seriously.

  • In order to--well, to warn you," I said very seriously.

  • I'm in a hole--a desperate hole," he said very anxiously.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "said very" 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:
    plain chant; said above; said also; said bitterly; said bonds; said carelessly; said earnestly; said grandpapa; said grannie; said gruffly; said hoarsely; said lands; said mother; said poor; said quickly; said resolution; said slowly; said the little girl; said the little robber; said the old gentleman; said the old man; said the poor woman; said the young officer; said then; said young; wonderfully beautiful