Sentence examples for cannot from high-quality English sources.

• We cannot troll.

• "This cannot be the future of America.

• “You cannot, girl; you cannot?

• “I cannot thank him enough for all that he has taught me.

• He cannot control the public disapproval of US allies.

• "If a truck doesn't have the right document we cannot board him.

• You cannot preach about human rights while practising mass surveillance.

• You cannot feed your family, you cannot pay house rent.

Use cannot in a sentence.

• You cannot say that to the press because I cannot negotiate under those circumstances.”

• So they said, “If you select then you cannot be comprehensive, if you teach you cannot convey all of it.

• That is, the ‘cannot’ in “there cannot be an A-difference without a B-difference” comes in different strengths.

• Part of its impressiveness is that I cannot think about my existence without affirming it, yet I cannot doubt my existence without thinking about it.

• Nationalisation cannot be the answer to everything; anti-austerity speeches cannot explain everything; corporate taxation cannot pay for everything.

• Motion is a property of bodies because something cannot have motion unless it has a location and so cannot have motion unless it is extended (Descartes 1644, II.25–27).

• One obvious implication is that reason cannot be the motive to moral action; if reason cannot motivate any sort of action, it cannot motivate moral action.

• “Without democracy and pluralism we cannot guarantee human rights, for human rights cannot be protected without the safeguards of democratic institutions and the rule of law.”

cannot sentence examples

• Trump’s favorite instruments of power: It cannot be cowed by Twitter posts, it cannot be shot down by drones, it cannot be overcome by party solidarity, it cannot be overpowered by campaign rally chants.

• This, he argues, is “an abysmally low” view of the divine nature, as “If God is not a person or agent, then God does not know anything, cannot act, cannot choose, cannot be morally good, cannot be worthy of worship” (401).

• “You cannot fight a fire blindfolded, and we cannot stop this pandemic if we don’t know who is infected,” the UN agency’s director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, warning that without testing cases cannot be isolated and the chain of infection will not be broken.

• Research by the World Bank in seven sub-Saharan African countries, for instance, has found that half of Grade 4 students cannot read a simple word; almost three-quarters cannot read all the words in a simple sentence; 12% cannot recognise numbers; 24% cannot add single digits; and 70% cannot subtract double digits.