Wondering how to use Can't in a sentence? Below are 7 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Can't in a sentence
Can't meaning
- Cannot (negative auxiliary); be unable to; not have the ability to (whether due to lacking relevant strength or skill or knowledge or supplies, or due to logical impossibility, etc).
- To be forbidden to; to be not permitted to.
- To be unwilling to; to not have the desire of; to don’t want to.
Using Can't
- The main meaning on this page is: Cannot (negative auxiliary); be unable to; not have the ability to (whether due to lacking relevant strength or skill or knowledge or supplies, or due to logical impossibility, etc). | To be forbidden to; to be not permitted to. | To be unwilling to; to not have the desire of; to don’t want to.
- In the example corpus, can't often appears in combinations such as: can't be, can't can't, you can't.
Context around Can't
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 0 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Can't
- Common combinations in this set include can't be, can't can't and you can't.
- By corpus frequency, "can't" sits close to words such as aaaaaaaaaa, aaaaaaaaab and aaaid, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with can't
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sadly, my lawyers told me that I can't say what it is, but I can think it, and so can all of you. (24 words)
This genius-level penguin can McGuiver together all sorts of inventions that can warp time and space but can't seem to master reading. (24 words)
I can't control the outcome of the disease, I can't control the prognosis, but I can control them having some bright moment in their day," Dill reasoned. (29 words)
With everything that's going on, music can still get handed in, but we can't promote it the way we need to promote it: can't go on tour, it's hard to do interviews if it isn't FaceTime or phone things, can't be in certain places. (50 words)
On the basis of what the clinical trials say that it can do, you can't, you know, you can't be investing in that based on the idea that it'll still work out somehow. (36 words)
He has one pair inscribed with a Christian-inspired message "Can't, Can't, Can't, Can" - with a cartoon of Jesus taking the T away and planting it atop a hill like a cross. (35 words)
Example sentences (7)
He has one pair inscribed with a Christian-inspired message "Can't, Can't, Can't, Can" - with a cartoon of Jesus taking the T away and planting it atop a hill like a cross.
With everything that's going on, music can still get handed in, but we can't promote it the way we need to promote it: can't go on tour, it's hard to do interviews if it isn't FaceTime or phone things, can't be in certain places.
If a pastor can't be rich then all Christians can't be rich either, if a pastor can't own a jet then no christian can own a jet.
I can't control the outcome of the disease, I can't control the prognosis, but I can control them having some bright moment in their day," Dill reasoned.
On the basis of what the clinical trials say that it can do, you can't, you know, you can't be investing in that based on the idea that it'll still work out somehow.
Sadly, my lawyers told me that I can't say what it is, but I can think it, and so can all of you.
This genius-level penguin can McGuiver together all sorts of inventions that can warp time and space but can't seem to master reading.
Common combinations with can't
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- can't be 6×
- can't can't 4×
- you can't 3×
- can't wait 3×
- we can't 2×
- it can't 2×
- pastor can't 2×
- can't control 2×