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Example sentences for "suggested that"

  • Afterward, she and Mrs. Hastings talked with the housekeeper for a while, and an hour had slipped away when Wyllard suggested that he should show her the slough beyond the bluff.

  • This idea brought the blood to her face since it suggested that he believed that he had merely to urge her sufficiently in order to make her yield.

  • Fortunately it was late already and Cronshaw's pile of saucers on the table, each indicating a drink, suggested that he was prepared to take an independent view of things in general.

  • Philip, seeing that she was tired and that her eyes were heavy from want of sleep, suggested that he was working her too hard.

  • The expression upon his face and the glare in his eye caused us to move farther away before offering any further advice, when I suggested that he should stop this fooling and strike a light.

  • At this I suggested that as I was their Moses to lead them out of the wilderness I could scarcely be blamed for a visit to my birthplace while the opportunity offered.

  • Then we suggested that we were even then quite hungry, and asked for something to eat.

  • One of us suggested that it might be necessary to strike a more careful blow on the edge of the flint, and the captain struck such a blow, the result being a shower of sparks that flew all around, but not into the gourd handle.

  • Finally I suggested that he turn over the clipping which he had in his hand.

  • On the way to New York he suggested that I take up residence in his house--a privilege which I had no wish to refuse.

  • He suggested that I come back in the evening and play some more.

  • At last, in desperation, I suggested that I retire from the game and let the visitor have my cue.

  • It suggested that at the time of the firing the window as well as the door of the room had been open.

  • He inquired how we were left, and on finding that we were very poor he suggested that I should come and teach music to his only daughter, aged ten.

  • I said that I did not like to leave my mother, on which he suggested that I should go home to her every week-end, and he offered me a hundred a year, which was certainly splendid pay.

  • He suggested that we should turn homewards.

  • He did not seem much surprised at our news, and in answer to my inquiry as to what on earth we were to do, he suggested that we should take the barrow back to Slater's Mews, and then resume our search for a shop.

  • So, I called our board member back and conferred with him and he suggested that we go down and see about it at the police department, in person, to get further assurances.

  • When I suggested that some of the singers of this very theatre should undertake to sing three of the numbers which had been already translated by Dumersan, I was refused on the plea that all these artists were far too busy.

  • With this manuscript I sent a letter to the famous operatic poet, in which I suggested that he might make use of my plot, on condition that he would secure me the composition of the music for the Paris Opera House.

  • Remembering that I had seen, when seeking to water my horse, a partly burned barn with some fresh-looking hay in it, I suggested that we lodge there.

  • He suggested that if Lee was going that way we would follow him.

  • I, being referee, suggested that "perhaps it was his UNCLE.

  • They were astonished at my falling away on this food, but they yielded to my argument when I suggested that a "lion would starve where a donkey grew fat.

  • I suggested that I might have brought up at Pocahontas.

  • As we were about to start he suggested that I had better take off my coat, vest, boots and stockings, and roll up my pants.

  • I suggested that we do so, and I would turn that amount over to him, which would leave us each just five hundred dollars out of pocket for the winter's work.

  • I suggested that it might also be a good idea to paint me, or at least my auburn hair.

  • The spontaneity and verve with which his adventurous heroes are drawn have suggested that in his favourite type he was describing himself.

  • It is suggested that he had made much money in the war by the hire of troops, and in his later days he showed himself a grasping man of business.

  • Letitia boiled the tea in a saucepan, and in an ecstasy of originality, suggested that we cook the eggs in that receptacle at the same time.

  • Then her sister came, and I suggested that if Anna liked, the girl could remain and wait at table.

  • At first she was indignant when I suggested that we call her Mary, and she actually asked me how you would like it if she called you Tom.

  • I suggested that it was a pity somebody couldn't torpedo this benighted continent.

  • I suggested that if the Pennsylvania Railroad Company would trust me with securities upon which the Union Pacific could borrow money in New York, we could control the Union Pacific in the interests of the Pennsylvania.

  • It seemed to me a pity to disturb him, knowing how overworked and overanxious he was; but he awoke and I suggested that I should go up and attend to the matter.

  • I suggested that he (the Emperor) was free from constitutional barriers and could sail over and see the President.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suggested 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:
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