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Example sentences for "upon reflection"

  • Then, upon reflection, few things have ever puzzled me more than the fact of people liking me because I pretended to be a pack of Juliets and Belvideras, and creatures who were not me.

  • Mr. LYMAN hoped that the member from Pennsylvania would, upon reflection, withdraw his amendment.

  • But perhaps, sir, it will appear, upon reflection, that even this method needs not to be practised.

  • If soldiers are necessary, they must necessarily be supported, and it appears, upon reflection, that their pay will not support them by any other method.

  • Upon reflection, I direct this letter to Paris; I think you must have left Montpelier before it could arrive there.

  • By the way, upon reflection, I am not sure that anybody but a knight can, according to form, be employed to make a knight.

  • And yet, upon reflection," said Lady Anne, "the heart has nothing in common with a rosebud.

  • He cannot, upon reflection, conscientiously say that he has; but is yet disingenuous enough to allow a speaking silence to imply acquiescence.

  • Upon reflection, he was disposed to be ashamed of himself.

  • Even more, upon reflection, he wondered whether she was very fond of her father; would she be extremely grateful to one who should render him securely comfortable for life?

  • Upon reflection, he perceived that he felt as if he were a boy again--a boy excited by pleasure.

  • Indeed, upon reflection, he found that they frightened him.

  • It brought tears to his eyes; but, upon reflection, it was grateful and warming.

  • Upon reflection, that hardly amounted to a reason.

  • He realized now, upon reflection, that the tone of other people, his own parishioners and his casual acquaintances in Octavius alike, had always had a certain note of reservation in it when it touched upon Miss Madden.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been talkin; hope and; individual independence; the side; throwing herself; tropical cyclones; trout stream; under fire; upon account; upon being; upon earth; upon either; upon hearing; upon her; upon him; upon himself; upon inquiry; upon landing; upon our; upon some; upon that; upon the; upon their; upon which; upon whose; you must have been