Sentence examples for liked to put from inspiring English sources

"We would have liked to put in a better showing".

Sometimes he liked to put his ear to Marcia's chest and listen.

He liked to put on his camping gear and sleep under the stars.

Dumbledore liked to put Hagrid's more foolish acquisitions back where they belong - not the forest.

A certain sort of Englishman has always liked to put on lipstick.

("Partition broke Bengal's heart," as he liked to put it, "but then it broke Calcutta's spine").

"I've always had an eye for fashion and always liked to put colors and different patterns together," Mr. Freeman said.

Or as Stein liked to put it, "These were stories about characters who just happened to be Jewish".

"Aspirin," as a professor of mine liked to put it, "does not particularly care about your medical history".

Borges liked to put on and take off masks, to play with labyrinths and mirrors, but always with a smile.

Here too the range of reference is not, as the feminine hygiene ads liked to put it, so fresh.