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Example sentences for "would find"

  • I dreamed that I would find her--my treasure--at the foot of a rainbow.

  • He would find her in the dark, alone, silent, brooding, hopeless.

  • When the door was opened, he would find something to say.

  • Anyone but you, I'm sure, would find more to object to in the way young Guest behaves than Dove.

  • He covered the ground at a mad pace, clinging fast to the belief that he would find her, as he had left her, in bed.

  • She could not bring herself to believe that Patience had no tale to tell, but it might be that Patience, though she was in the hands of the police, would find it to her interest to tell no tale against her late mistress.

  • The police, of course, would find it out, and then horrid words would be used against her.

  • But she would not believe in this separation; she would yet escape this unblessed fate--would find a way to his love, his sympathy, at least to his pity.

  • I would find courage to fall down at her feet and to clasp her to my arms, while pressing my lips to hers, to suppress her cry of terror.

  • He stepped on quietly, and, without being seen, reached the queen's rooms, convinced that he would find them in the boudoir.

  • I had fancied that I was going to visit an angel, that I would find her in a lovely paradise, and I found myself in a large sitting-room furnished with four rickety chairs and a dirty old table.

  • I was in despair, but I gave up the idea of going back, as it was very doubtful whether I would find my money.

  • He persuaded himself that the spring-time charm, which he could not go down to Combray to enjoy, he would find at least on the He des Cygnes or at Saint-Cloud.

  • For the moment I was satisfied with the certainty that I would find aboard of them food in plenty and a comfortable place to sleep in, and that was enough.

  • He told me nothing, except that he would find father.

  • And Watson could feel certain that somewhere, somehow, he would find Dr.

  • He was to meet me and I was certain that I would find him.

  • As he came to inquire for my baggage to inspect, I told him where he would find it, and he would see by my papers what were their probable contents.

  • If it were, no painter, for example, would find anything to occupy him in the foul stream that washes the London wharves--as some critic has said.

  • A new vigor fortified him--he would find an agent for the Guardian who should excel the Osgood connection as the sun outshines the moon.

  • And if they spared me and had not spared that other sacred life interwoven with mine, the time would come when they would find, too late, that they had taken to their bosom a worse devil than themselves.

  • And every time I came back to her I would find her so pale, so sad, crying--crying.

  • In the end I conceived the idea of going on to the Casiquiare river, where I would find a few small settlements, and perhaps obtain help from the authorities there which would enable me to reach the Rio Negro.

  • He would find Lygia, find Linus and Peter; he would take them to a distance, to some of his lands, even to Sicily.

  • Whence did he know that he would find her in Cæsar's house?

  • He would find her, even under the earth, and he would do what he liked with her.

  • And, if his stammering tongue failed in speech with the soft darkness to cover its shyness, how was it likely it would find utterance in the broad light of day?

  • Yet he felt confident he would find one of the two, and had already conceived a strong prejudice against Antony Gray.

  • He might recognize their possible existence, he might recognize the possibility of being called upon to cross them, even recognize to the full all the unpleasantness he would find on the other side.

  • Fate, having so clearly manifested itself, would find a way.

  • If in its flight it should visit this spot where it had laid the burden of the body down, surely it would find, for all there was no carven stone to mark it, a most sweet spot.

  • I believe that, if the plain man were to ask himself how, in walking down a London street, he distinguished one racial type from another, he would find that he chiefly went by colour.

  • He was well aware that his former foe but now firm friend was but a weak and ignorant disciple; and he expected, therefore, that he would find it anything but smooth sailing at first in his Christian course.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would find" 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:
    aged lady; been employed; come for; greatest diameter; like very; would amount; would break; would cause; would create; would endeavour; would form; would grant; would have you know; would hear; would look; would naturally; would not have been; would otherwise; would permit; would remark; would rise; would save; would stop; would suggest; would undertake; would yield