Sentence examples for shall we not from inspiring English sources

"shall we not" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you wish to make a suggestion that implies a suggestion of agreement, such as suggesting that a group of people do something together. For example: "Shall we not go for a walk in the park?"

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Shall we not find fascination in the earth's daily doings?

Shall we not do that cute pseudo-archaism thing?

It wasn't a question of whether shall we or shall we not.

Shall we not?' And we decided to give it a week or so.

Shall we not torture the man who knows where the dirty nuclear bomb is hidden in the city centre?

And now, having determined these points, shall we not be better able to decide about the first and second place, which was the original subject of dispute?

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And the same may be said of the patient, or effect; we shall find that they too differ, as I was saying, only in name-shall we not?

We were in good heart and sang "We shall not, we shall not be stopped" and "We shall overcome".

It is, shall we say, not always heeded.

10.49am: Shall we just not bother playing the game then?

May Shall we perhaps not think about it?

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