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Example sentences for "something very"

  • It came at last on Paul's side to amount to something very like a possession.

  • I won't give him a case of murder to read,' muttered Sir Mulberry with an oath; 'but it shall be something very near it if whipcord cuts and bludgeons bruise.

  • The brothers interchanged a glance, and looking at Kate for a little time without speaking, shook hands, and nodded as if they were congratulating each other on something very delightful.

  • It must be something very serious, I am afraid.

  • There is something very pleasant in the thought of these two sages playing at jackstraws with the letters of the alphabet.

  • There is something very odd, though, about this mechanical talk.

  • And yet by the crimes to which that false belief led them they almost proved the truth of something very like it.

  • Yet, curiously enough, it is represented in our tradition by something very like a mere void.

  • It professes to be a revival, or rather an emphatic realization, of something very old.

  • Ay, ay; something very like it,--but glad to see the wind is changed from that corner.

  • There is another, striving, by an air of elegant hauteur, to prove she is something very great, when really she is nothing at all.

  • I think it likely that she has been doing something very thoughtless, and I am quite sure that that man Egremont has been doing something for which he deserves to be thrashed.

  • I hope it is something very practicable,' Annabel resumed, looking with expectancy at Egremont.

  • I did not see Lydia before the interview, because it was repugnant to me to do so; their love for each other is something very sacred, and a stranger had no right to come between them before they met.

  • There is something very pathetic in the oblivion that swallows up world- resounding deeds.

  • There is something very impressive in the abrupt bursting in of this second voice, all unnamed.

  • There is something very grand in these august and mysterious voices which call one to another in the opening verses of this chapter.

  • There is something very beautiful in the prophet's abandoning the attempt to find any adjective of quality which adequately characterises the peace of which he has been speaking.

  • I told my man to put up something very good, because I was certain that you would be very hungry.

  • This is coming now to something very queer," thought Pet; "after all, it might have been better for me to take my chance with the hatchet man.

  • I am sure that there is something very wrong.

  • There is something very solemn in the stern refrain at the end of each of three consecutive verses,--'with fire.

  • There is something very impressive in that long-drawn-out accumulation of geographical names, and in their being all massed in the one sad description of their inert darkness, and then equally massed as seeing the great light that springs up.

  • Something very akin to pandemonium takes place; it is amusing, no doubt, but it is not comfortable.

  • This, or something very near to it, would be the very best possible course for a series of reliability trials, and certainly nothing quite so suitable or enjoyable for the participants could otherwise be found.

  • To an eye used to northern Gothic there is something very new in such a building.

  • There is something very bright, very unlike other people about him,' said Miss Alston.

  • She was a very fine woman, handsomer at two-and-thirty than in her early bloom; her height little less than that of her tall brother, and her manner and air had something very distinguished.

  • There is something very enticing in the son of an exiled Prince, come to win back what he conceives to be the inheritance of his fathers.

  • Depend upon it, Popery would never have the hold it has if there were not in it something very palatable to human nature.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "something 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:
    butter over; had anticipated; had learnt; paper birch; something about; something akin; something analogous; something better; something between; something different; something done; something else; something extraordinary; something foreign; something more; something quite; something resembling; something similar; something very; something which; something wrong; specific type; suppose you; this extraordinary; through grace; well disposed