Sentence Examples

1. I was trying hard to remain calm, and even though my body was totally paralyzed, random thoughts zipped through my head a mile a minute.
2. She managed to throw herself into an empty guest room as the servant rounded the corner, and she had to remain hidden within for a full five precious minutes, until her pulse and breathing slowed enough for her to move again.
3. For an inexplicable reason, Richard chooses to hold Celestino responsible for what he conceives a personal snub, which allows him, conveniently perhaps, to remain on cordial terms with me.
4. I keep moving, hoping the momentum will help me remain on my feet, and quickly slip the camera into my jacket pocket for safe keeping.
5. Some farmers chose to remain at the mountaintop, building their homes on the crest, or at the edge of the cliff, anywhere the soil was tillable and the mists rolled in.
6. Kieran would be coming after me anyways, so I just needed to remain elusive until it was my time to link.
7. I remain in the doorway with an ear cocked to the road outside.
8. Blackmail was a much better reason to remain anonymous with his donation, so it looked like two vastly different transactions.
9. It was a moment of intense chagrin, having to stand there and remain polite to a man I felt like slapping.
10. Now, clutching my coffee like a lifesaver, I remain in that fog, unable to focus on what our historian is saying.