Sentence for could | Use could in a sentence

Sentences with could. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use could in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for could.

  • She could chat. (10)
  • I could not write. (10)
  • He could not say why. (8)
  • Could she not bear that? (8)
  • Yes, I believe I could do it. (9)
  • She could not restrain herself. (10)
  • Who could have told his father? (10)
  • Could they really be going at all? (8)
  • Westover could not suppress a laugh. (9)
  • And he could not make Gyp believe it! (8)
  • He could not wear out all those he had. (8)
  • She could not bring herself to think so. (8)
  • He could not live in such an atmosphere. (10)
  • How could he help staying awake that night? (8)
  • His aunt could not bear to have him leave her. (4)
  • He could not give away that pretty foolishness. (8)
  • Oh, I could see through her from the beginning! (9)
  • She could have hanged him, had it pleased her. (10)
  • He could not induce his son to waver in his resolve. (10)
  • How could we give them as good a start in life as we had? (13)
  • If she says all that, I could kneel to her, French or not. (10)
  • She simply could not help it; all her people had done this. (8)
  • He did not love her walk: could he therefore have loved her? (4)
  • And still more secretly he knew that he could not refuse her. (8)
  • He could not have said sweeter to her ears or more touching. (10)
  • But at last she had come to charity, as he could well believe. (10)
  • If we could only make him murder Sedgett and get hanged for it! (10)
  • If we could only make him murder Sedgett and get hanged for it! (22)
  • I could have believed him to be a fairy prince who had charmed me. (10)
  • If I recollect aright, he could roar; no such relief was allowed to me. (10)
  • Even in her agitation Cecilia did not forget to spare him, all she could. (8)
  • He could not, however, remain indifferent to this new and dangerous scheme. (8)
  • In spite of herself, she could not help half a smile, but she said nothing. (4)
  • He was weak, faint and trembling; he could feel the blood forsaking his face. (1)
  • It only irritated Hilary, whose nerves had already borne all they could bear. (8)
  • We declined his offer of tea, though I fancy we could have gnawed at a bone. (10)
  • Whether they came of an excess of the sprinkling, could not well be guessed. (10)
  • How could one who produced such fresh idyllic sounds have sinister intentions? (8)
  • He says he could drive them to Kingdom-Come and they would not turn their hair. (8)
  • If a man could die from longing and anxiety, surely Lennan must have died then! (8)
  • He might well suppose love alone could pour that profusion of jewels at his feet. (10)
  • Jane was as much gratified by this as her mother could be, though in a quieter way. (4)
  • The father of one now seen through, could hardly fail of being transfixed himself. (10)
  • You will not turn him; had it been possible, could I have kept you from him so long? (10)
  • At last Anne was at home again, and happier than any one in that house could have conceived. (4)
  • As for the daughters of the house, nothing could possibly be more engaging than their manner. (6)
  • He tossed from side to side; he jumped up and sat on the chair, but no repose could he find. (18)
  • He could suspect much: he could even expect to find De Craye at the station. (10)
  • She left London in July, two days before her father could be induced to return to Mount Laurels. (10)
  • And very slowly, one could not say how or when, the sense of joy began changing to a sense of fear. (8)
  • Catherine understood her: the general must be watched from home, before that room could be entered. (4)
  • For him, he could not answer it, though Manx, as leader of the Shipping interest, was influential. (10)
  • She could soon sit upright on the sofa, and began to hope she might be able to leave it by dinner-time. (4)
  • I could name some of them, and some of their assistants, who made large fortunes by their opportunities. (7)
  • She could not tell her friend Agnes of these feelings while her feelings were angered against her friend. (10)
  • It happens to be a thing I could do, and not an Englishman in England except myself; only I did not do it. (10)
  • Through its open window the head and shoulders of Mr. Stone could be seen close to a small green reading-lamp. (8)
  • She felt herself already a wanderer in a land of tombs, where none could say whether morning had come or gone. (10)
  • Shelton, who himself possessed a certain subtlety, could not but observe the complimentary nature of these words. (8)
  • There is something about that which makes me feel he cannot be the sort of man in whom I could feel any confidence. (8)
  • Whatever happened now, the Coreys could not have it to say that the Laphams had tried to bring any such thing about. (9)
  • Nesta listened, inquired, commented, laughed; the ladies could not have a doubt that she was interested and understood. (10)
  • Nor is it possible that such a justice exists in the universe, for if it did, the lives men lead could not be as they are. (12)
  • Save for the plunges into the office of her solicitors, she could seem to herself a woman who had never submitted to the yoke. (10)
  • He wondered what his landlady could mean by sending up to him, that morning of all others, to tempt his appetite after her fashion. (10)
  • The event was so shocking, that there were moments even when her heart revolted from it as impossible: when she thought it could not be. (4)
  • But neither geography nor tranquillity could come all at once, and Emma was now in a humour to resolve that they should both come in time. (4)
  • Two continents of cloud met and exchanged salvos overhead; while all round the horizon we could see sunshine and clear air upon the hills. (2)
  • Before he could reach the fortress, the commandant he had left there had summoned all the loyal citizens together and prepared for battle. (19)
  • The first floorings had been laid throughout the house, and the partitions had been lathed so that one could realise the shape of the interior. (9)
  • Isabella could not be aware of the pain she was inflicting; but it was a degree of wilful thoughtlessness which Catherine could not but resent. (4)

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Definition of could:

  • could, kood, pa.t. of can. (0)

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