noun
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A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.
verb
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To pronounce.
example
Please say your name slowly and clearly.
definition
To recite.
example
Martha, will you say the Pledge of Allegiance?
definition
To tell, either verbally or in writing.
example
He said he would be here tomorrow.
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To indicate in a written form.
example
The sign says it’s 50 kilometres to Paris.
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To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
example
They say "when in Rome, do as the Romans do", which means "behave as those around you do."
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Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
example
A holiday somewhere warm – Florida, say – would be nice.
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To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
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(of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
noun
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A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
noun
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Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
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Tried quality; temper; proof.
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Essay; trial; attempt.
verb
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To try; to assay.
noun
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A strainer for milk.
Examples of says in a Sentence
Daddy says I look just like Mom.
He says it's only a few miles away and we'll be right back.
In any case, as the song says, The times, they are a-changin'—and they are changing in a manner that governments probably can't keep up with.
Sofi says his path is dark.
She's okay and says thanks.
He says he prefers to come here for the present.
Uncle Henry says 'Eureka' means 'I have found it.'
I keep telling him that as long as he gives her money, she'll never get out of trouble, but he just says she's the only sister he has and he has the money.
The doctor says he is better.
He says he's self employed.
That's when I knew what everyone says about old mines being dangerous is true.
It was the basis for the movie War Games in which the military's computer finally figures out it can't win in a nuclear launch scenario and says of such a war, Strange game.
I should like to send a kiss to Vittorio, the little prince of Naples, but teacher says she is afraid you will not remember so many messages.
She says He (meaning God) is my dear father.
I know of no case in history that says otherwise.
He says the gentleman was not particularly interested, but said he would see if anything could be done.
The doctor says her mind is too active; but how are we to keep her from thinking?
He laughs at me for being unwilling to hurt anyone else, but he says no one should feel shame about who they are.
In a prefatory note which Miss Sullivan wrote for St. Nicholas, she says that people frequently said to her, "Helen sees more with her fingers than we do with our eyes."
Yes. Savelich says I must!
A beekeeper, seeing the bee collect pollen from flowers and carry it to the hive, says that it exists to gather honey.
So I say the horses and chickens are mine and Alex says the other animals are his.
Who says there's a spider?
Dr. Bell writes that Helen's progress is without a parallel in the education of the deaf, or something like that and he says many nice things about her teacher.
She even enters into the spirit of battle; she says, "I think it is right for men to fight against wrongs and tyrants."
So who says pants are men's clothing?
Why, one might just as well say that a two-year-old child converses fluently when he says 'apple give,' or 'baby walk go.'
He says, "That's good."
Is there a logical end to that—a physical or economic law of some kind that says only 10 percent or 20 percent or 30 percent of people can ever be this wealthy?
One historian says that an event was produced by Napoleon's power, another that it was produced by Alexander's, a third that it was due to the power of some other person.
He wants us to do everything he says without question.
His mother says there was a lot of experimental stuff done on him while he was out of it.
He says it's urgent!
If she wants water she says, "Give Helen drink water."
Why not, says Miss Sullivan, make a language lesson out of what they were interested in?
In one of his letters, speaking of how God in every way tells us of His love, he says, "I think he writes it even upon the walls of the great house of nature which we live in, that he is our Father."
He says the count was the last representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as possible.
No, she is not stupid, she is an excellent girl," he sometimes said to himself "she never makes a mistake, never says anything stupid.
A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers.
Your boss says you're the best thing that ever happened to the diner.
From what Fred says after snooping on the Internet, Mr. Westlake is quite wealthy.
Now, Brother Felix says I can read almost as well as he.
This is because history repeats itself—at least, as the great historian Will Durant says, "in outline form."
So the master of words is master of thoughts which the words create, and says things greater than he could otherwise know.
Of this, he says, every man shall judge for himself.
And Fedya, with his noble spirit, loved him and even now never says a word against him.
Karl Ivanich always says that sleep is more important than anything, whispered Princess Mary with a sigh.
So he was brought, quite blind, straight to her, and he goes up to her and falls down and says, 'Make me whole,' says he, 'and I'll give thee what the Tsar bestowed on me.'
Another says clever things and one doesn't care to listen, but this one talks rubbish yet stirs an old fellow up.
He says she's moved them into the Otradnoe enclosure.