Example Sentences

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He drew back haughtily, ejaculating: "Nein!" and jerked his head towards a kind of letter-box on the counter.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Laboriously the good woman stepped from door-stone to threshold, and voluminously filling the wooden rocker which Mrs. Weston offered her, she fanned herself with her handkerchief, ejaculating between gasps 151 for breath, “Lor’ me!

From Randy's Summer A Story for Girls by Brooks, Amy

The Swede said a word or two at once, never more than that; and Albert contented himself with ejaculating at intervals: "Mon Dieu! what an opera glass! it is dazzling!"

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de

But at that very instant Goldwater's voice returned to the bureau, ejaculating complacently: 'They're loving it, Kloot; they're swallowing it like ice-cream soda.'

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel

"Ah, you know shorthand," he could not help ejaculating with manifest pleasure.

From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton