Sentence examples for i could extract from inspiring English sources

"The only promise I could extract from her was that we not live in Manhattan," he said.

I wanted to pulverize them, treat them with acid, roast them, reduce them — whatever was necessary — so I could extract their metals myself.

But the voices around me were unrelaxingly shrill — I could concentrate on what I was reading, just about, but I could extract no pleasure from it.

Similarly, there's no way I could extract nutrients from the wet sand as the common buckeye butterflies were doing.

I inserted my hand past his not-so-tight sphincter, right up to the wrist until I could extract a bolt, trying to stop the blunt edges causing too much pain.

I inserted my hand past his not-so-tight sphincter, right up to the wrist until I could extract the bolt, trying to stop the blunt edges from causing him too much pain.

"The next day, I went out to the garage and saw that the man had taken the axe used to split wood and slammed it so hard into the chopping block that no one could extract it.

I rang ConfiVin-Paillard in Taissy, and rang and rang, but I couldn't extract so much as a reply.

"The only thing I couldn't extract was the end of my left foot, so I ended up with a fractured toe".

The Code-38's single-hinge, though, is so precisely engineered that I have yet to meet the cork I could not extract effortlessly, while (in my would-be sommelier's imagination) bantering wittily with the table in front of me and simultaneously surveying the rest of the dining room for trouble.

Yet as Tuesday wore on, despite much prodding and calling of Conservative press officers, I could not extract details of any campaign event involving the visiting development secretary (who is only the second minister to campaign for the Tories to date).