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Sentences starting with can

Can you put yourself in the man's place and tell me what he felt and what he thought? [5]
Can you get your rights now, without obstructing the war? [9]
Can I see your husband a moment, madam? [5]
Can I tell you?--I almost had five minutes of envy that evening. [4]
Can we help you? [5]
Can I help you, my brother'? [6]
Can nothing teach you, Carnac? [11]
Can any of you tell what those two words are? [6]
Can any of you tell any reason why it should not have come into the Union at once? [7]
Can you, if you swear to support the Constitution, and believe that the Constitution establishes a right, clear your oath, without giving it support? [7]

Sentences ending with can

As long as you travel with us, keep as near me as you can. [12]
Papa requires nothing, you know, but plain beef and mutton, tea and bread and butter; but a nurse will probably expect to live much better; give me some hints if you can. [14]
Well, Phil, if you do ever happen to see that Evelyn in the opera, or anywhere, tell me how she looks and what she has on--if you can. [4]
Win it if you can. [11]
Forgive me, if you can. [11]
I hope, however, you can spare me half an hour on one of those days, as I like to get as much of this bracing air as I can. [6]
Loosen the bandages with your hands--then you can. [5]
I always travel with clergymen when I can. [5]
Our notions empower wisdom, her let's afford while we can. [5]
I am most willing to apply such salve as I can. [5]

Short sentences using can

You can take your time. [10]
You can pay your debt. [11]
What can trouble you? [9]
I can tell you. [4]
I can trust you. [11]
And so can you, George. [9]
We can give you these. [9]
I can tell you that. [9]
I can spare you that! [10]
How much can you raise? [11]

Sentences containing can two or more times

You can forgive your wife, and take her back, or you can say to both, Go! [11]
Nothing has befallen your father's younger son; and if I were a philosopher, like Philip, I should be moved to wonder why a man can only be wet when the rain falls on him, and yet can be so wretched when disaster falls on another. [10]
The tidings of your death can some day repeat the misery I felt in that moment, but nothing else can ever do it. [5]
I will thank you, therefore, to inform me, if you can, by what day, at the earliest, you can promise to have ready to be mustered into the United States service the eight thousand men. [7]
I will show you, that there is only one man in Persia who deserves the name of king;--only one who can venture to take the field against the Ethiopians;--only one who can bend this bow. [10]
She has vexed you, of that there can be no doubt; how, I can only guess. [10]
I can assure you, Miss Carvel," added Stephen, speaking with a force which made her start and thrill, "I can assure you from a personal knowledge of the German troops that they are not a riotous lot, and that they are under perfect control. [9]
I can give you this, at least, and I can promise to protect and cherish you. [9]
Tell me, can you think of anything like it?--the strange light, the white bear of the Pole, that has no friends at all except the shooting stars, the great ice plains, the quick night hurrying on, the silence--such silence as no man can think! [11]
We can get you some garter-snakes, and you can tie some buttons on their tails, and let on they're rattlesnakes, and I reckon that 'll have to do. [5]

More example sentences with the word can in them

I can trust you--you are with me in all? [11]
And so if you've got 51 cents about you, or can borrow it--" "Tell me: who gets this corruption? [5]
You can judge yourselves whether the tottering reason ever recovered its throne. [5]
You can settle yourselves in a hundred different ways in New York, that is one merit of the place. [8]
You can educate yourself--or rather reeducate yourself. [9]
You can see, yourself, that there isn't anything more to be reported--invention is exhausted. [5]
Have you not yourself seen, even in your short life, that what is highest and greatest can in its excess, be all that is most hideous? [10]
And maybe, when you're a long way off from things you once lived, you can see them and understand them better. [11]
You can do your work just as well here as in Cambridge, can't you? [5]
Wishing to make your visit here as pleasant as we can, we wish you to notify us as soon as possible whether you come this way, how many, and when you will arrive. [7]
I can read your soul through your eyes, and it seems to me that things have gone wrong with you since the keeper of your stud arrived here. [10]
If Zminis searches your premises he will certainly go into the cellar; for what can he not do in Caesar's name? [10]
Then you value your place in heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can, with the offer I make, get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' work. [7]
I can save your peasants if you will yield now. [11]
Your mouths are your own, and you can blow off to suit your fancy, but if any one thinks I'm a tame coyote to be poked with a stick--! [11]
You can take your own time, stop when and where you choose--at the more stations the better. [4]
I know from your own lips that there is no passion which can betray Caesar into perjury. [10]
You can make your own comment; I am fanciful, you know. [6]
Still, if in your own clear judgment you can renew the attack successfully, I do not mean to restrain you. [7]
Will you perform your old office of escort, and join a party, which we can make up here, to go there to-morrow? [11]
If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. [5]
Keep that in your mind and you can make a popular newspaper. [4]
You will have your lifetime to reckon with it, free from any interference on my part; for, if I can help it, we shall never meet again in this world--never. [11]
Will you trust your life and happiness with one who can offer you so little beside his love? [6]
I can endure your lies, but not your love. [5]
Ulrich yonder, at your head, can bear his nickname of Lowing with honor. [10]
You can hold your head high enough and look cool enough. [10]
If you let your hand tremble so, we can never get away from them, but if you're only quiet now, we shall do so, easily. [12]
But you hold your grip, and we'll see what can be done. [5]
You can thank your Gentile friends for that. [13]
The honeysuckle in your garden needs a support, that it may grow and put forth flowers; let these poor songs be the espalier around which your memory of the absent one can twine its tendrils and cling lovingly. [10]
You can use your eyes, too, and how effectually! [10]
You must keep your eyes open in a passado with him, but if I can once get to my quarte, tierce, and side-thrust, I have him. [10]
You can leave your donations in the big room outside. [5]
You can lengthen your days if you do not brood on fatal things --fatal to you; if you do not worry yourself into the grave. [11]
You cannot help your company in this matter --nobody can help them. [5]
You shall have your chance to live, but I shall throw you in the river, and you can then fight the river. [11]
You can run your car sixty miles an hour in exciting passages, everything will work into it. [4]
No one but your brother himself can possibly explain the strange way in which he disappeared. [10]
He can make your bed hard or soft at the citadel. [11]
You are very young: you can afford to wait. [6]
Because you are young yourself, and can still cope with the bear and wild boar, you like the motto, which will probably lead to new wars, and thereby to fresh renown. [10]
Now, I ask you, what joys can I look forward to, and what certain happiness am I justified in hoping for? [10]
I'm sorry for you, Timothy, but I don't see what I can do. [9]
I can tell you, Mr. Burnett, and when you are over this delusion you will thank me for being so plain with you, my daughter would laugh at the idea of such a proposal. [4]
I can see you, in your heart's blood, as red and pure as the blood of a lamb! [10]
I can assure you, however, that the paper. [10]
I can destroy you, but my name is Clementine and so I will grant you mercy. [10]
I can tell you, as one who knows, that there is no corporation in this country which, in the struggle to maintain itself, is not forced to adopt the natural law of the survival of the fittest, which you condemn. [9]
Yet I'm glad you wrote me; it gave me time to think, and I can tell you the truth as I see it. [11]
That each of you will, in his sphere, do all he can to have the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the army and navy, while engaged in the effort to suppress the rebellion, paid, fed, clad, and otherwise well provided for and supported. [7]
I am sure you will join me in the hope for their further success; while yourself, and other good mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters, do all you and they can, to relieve and comfort the gallant soldiers who compose them. [7]
Take care, or you will have to drink that bitter brown stuff you sent yesterday; then you will know for once how nasty it can be. [10]
Now, sir, if you will be so kind as to look at these maps and plans in my portfolio, I am sure I can sell you an echo for less money than any man in the trade. [5]
It is not you who can look ahead two short years and see the ship of Democracy splitting on the rocks at Charleston and at Baltimore, when the power of your name might have steered her safely. [9]
I can tell you what it means, if you--if you--" "Oh, all right! [5]
Now I'll tell you what he can do. [5]
And what can you want with that wretched, pale-faced, innocent creature? [10]
You can if you want to. [9]
We can put you up, Mr. Mallow," said the old man. [11]
And I tell you truly, you may quite believe me: it is a pain no doubt, but I can be glad of it too. [10]
It is for you to say whether that can be done. [7]
It won't commit you to anything; and you can be as anonymous as anybody. [8]
And Davy, do you think you can sing that song you gave us the other night? [9]
I can take you there, and he will meet you with open arms. [10]
I can offer you the position of the wife of a man with a public career--for which you are so well fitted. [9]
I can show you the passage. [10]
I can show you the paper. [6]
Yet I tell you that, heavy as your losses may seem, Spargapises, Tomyris and fifty thousand Massagetae can never outweigh the spirit of one king of Persia, least of all of a Cyrus. [10]
I believe with you that our love can bring all that is sweetest into our lives. [10]
It's lucky for you that from what she let fall, I've got the clue I want, for if I hadn't, I'd have visited the failure upon you, I can tell you. [12]
He soon convinces you that even these matters can be handled in such a way as to make a person low-spirited. [5]
I can tell you that circumstances have occurred which will determine Hadrian to punish any insolent person who may choose to neglect the respect due to me and to my daughters. [10]
Where better can you take your pleasure for the last time? [11]
E'fin, the door you shut you can open now, and you can go from the house of Jean Touzel. [11]
No, by Heaven, you shall not do it, even if it can be done! [11]
The rest of you shall march for Kentucky," he cried, "as soon as Captain Bowman's company can be relieved at Cahokia. [9]
I can see you sewing for us, I can hear you praying for us. [9]
I can make you see--I can show you--Why, confound the old Dutch beer-buzzer! [8]
And, indeed, if you see what a hopeless tangle our present situation is, where else can the mind logically go? [4]
No doubt, as you say, where power is supreme, one can do as one likes and suffer no injury; but we poor magicians are not so situated. [5]
Well, what do you say, friends, to being our own Victualling Board out in the open sea, if we can get there? [11]
It is as you say, dear old friend, "the pathos of it" yes, it was a piteous thing--as piteous a tragedy as any the year can furnish. [5]
What use can you put it to? [5]
Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or John Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? [5]
I can give you only a brief abstract of my own opinions on this delicate and difficult subject. [6]
I will tell you of my prowess and exploits, and what I can perform. [5]
We can spare you now. [6]
I can see you now, your tiny finger plunged into the pot of paint, and then carefully printing off the round pattern all over the white linen. [10]
I cannot tell you now what my trouble is; but I can say that no other living woman has a claim upon me. [11]
I can see you now almost as vividly as I saw you that night when you sat flashing and beaming upon those sombre swallow-tails. [5]
Eef you say you not care a dam to go to jail, so you can put him there, too, becos' you have not'ing, an' so dam seeck of everyt'ing, he will t'ink ten t'ousan' dollar same as one cent to Nic Dupont--ben sur! [11]
And, Jane, neither you nor Lassiter, can brag. [13]
You must live, you must not die; for see, Publius here asks me to be his wife, and the Immortals only can know how glad I am to go with him, and Irene is to stay with us, and be my sister and his. [10]
I can show you much more amusing things. [11]
I can tell you more when I have had a chance to talk with Dr. Pindar. [9]
Well, how can you mistake that insect for dried leaves? [6]
From its summit you look south into a vast wilderness basin, a great stretch of forest little trodden, and out of whose bosom you can hear from the heights on a still day the loud murmur of the Boquet. [4]
I can save you little longer, even were it my will so to do. [11]
My, it fits you like it was made for you, and it's just your style--and you can see it wants a lady to wear it. [9]

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