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Example sentences for "then said"

  • Not the most dexterous keeping of the peace, your Lordship, unless it be more difficult to do than appears!

  • All "revenge" being out of the question, it seems to me the caitiff is unanswerable; and he and the philanthropic platforms have the logic all on their side.

  • No-whither: that was his goal, if you will think well of it; that was a second fundamental falsity in his problem.

  • Then said he: "After all it is a pity- he is a handsome man.

  • Then said he: "If thou wilt not tell me anything, tell thy sorrows to the iron stove there," and he went away.

  • Then said I, 'What of thy foul suspicions, master?

  • I said so Then said he, 'Bon Bec, that square was a warning.

  • Then said Vanucci, "Friends, methinks this has nought to do with him we seek.

  • He then said with an obsequious air, "If that your lordship grudges Heaven full weight, you might set the hawk on your lacquey, and so save a pound.

  • At whom Mr Flintwinch had been looking, and to whom he then said: 'Oh!

  • Then said he, "I ask, first of Allah and then of thee, that thou write me a patent of Syndicate over all the Firemen of the baths in the Holy City, Jerusalem.

  • Then said she to me, "Go now to her whom thou hast married and who grudged me a single night, and the mercy of Allah be on thy cousin Azizah, who saved thy life and never told her secret love!

  • Then said she, "Know that I mean to pass this night with thee, that I may tell thee what talk I have heard and console thee with stories of many passion distraughts whom love hath made sick.

  • The miner investigated me with a calm eye for a while; then said he, "Ah!

  • Then said Olaf, laughing, "Not ten yoke of oxen Have the power to draw us Like a woman's hair!

  • Then said Zebul, "Didst not thou reproach Abimelech for cowardice?

  • He then said that he returned them thanks for coming to him, and still greater thanks to him that sent them; and, above all, to that God whose laws they appeared to be.

  • Then said they: 'There is nothing to be done here,' and they went home and told the cook that they had seen nothing in the forest but a little rose-bush with one rose on it.

  • Then said a straw, 'I will lay myself across, and you may pass over upon me.

  • Then said Fundevogel: 'Neither now, nor ever.

  • Then said Lina: 'Do you become a rose-tree, and I the rose upon it.

  • Then said Lina: 'Fundevogel, never leave me, and I will never leave you.

  • Then said Moore: "Give us your own views of slavery as you see it here and throughout the South.

  • Then said Wool: "Let them remain; we may have use for them.

  • I then said we would drop in, and if we liked his house as well as any other, we would give him our custom.

  • I then said that I was sorry he had seen fit to change the subject so abruptly, because such conduct was very offensive to me; but under the circumstances I would overlook the matter and come to the point.

  • I then said, I believed I would go out and take a walk, as this was a private matter, and I had a delicacy about participating in it further.

  • He lay silent a few minutes, then said in a hesitating, ashamed tone, "My troubles have made me a boor.

  • Lord Ragnall watched him go, then said with a laugh: "I apologize to you, Mr. Quatermain.

  • The man cantered for a time in silence, then said, "I have a brother, a sereno in your service in the San Tome valley.

  • He simply nodded several times regretfully, then said-- "I think we shall be able to mount you in the morning, doctor.

  • Here she paused a while, then said, "I want you to marry me, if you will, before I go.

  • Once he sat looking at her for some time--then said, "I hope I did not hurt you much.

  • Davie thought a little, then said: "I should like to write a book.

  • I reflected a little, then said, "Satan, you have given him a hard life, I think.

  • He took out his watch and sat looking at it a few moments, then said: "Nikolaus has risen to close the window.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "then said" 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:
    fellow like; then also; then answered; then back; then both; then call; then evaporated; then expanded; then fill; then gave; then goes; then indeed; then more; then pass; then passed; then perhaps; then pour; then take; then take off the; then take them out; then taking; then that; then those; then throw; then verily; thence north