Here you’ll find examples of “So” taken directly from published works. These real-life uses highlight how writers put the word into action and provide insight into its place in everyday writing.
Real Sentences for So
So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
17 words, 74 characters
Blank and dreary on retrospection I call them; they were not so to me then.
Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
15 words, 75 characters
He seemed to say it was not so simple as that; to be really at a loss how to qualify it.
Source: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
21 words, 88 characters
I had always been his favorite among the younger generation of Carters and so I hastened to comply with his demand.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
21 words, 115 characters
I quite agree—in regard to Griffin’s ghost, or whatever it was—that its appearing first to the little boy, at so tender an age, adds a particular touch.
Source: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
29 words, 154 characters
For some reason this news did not surprise me, but I hurried out to his place as quickly as possible, so that I could take charge of the body and of his affairs.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
33 words, 161 characters
I had several reasons, however, for declining to do so, some of which were of a nature altogether private, and concern no person but myself; others not so much so.
Source: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
30 words, 163 characters
At this time he desired that I should write, not so much with the idea that I could produce anything worthy of notice, but that he might himself judge how far I possessed the promise of better things hereafter.
Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
39 words, 210 characters
I am the more willing to comply, because I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so very frequently asked me—“How I, when a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?”
Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
42 words, 212 characters
I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
52 words, 239 characters
I know that the average human mind will not believe what it cannot grasp, and so I do not purpose being pilloried by the public, the pulpit, and the press, and held up as a colossal liar when I am but telling the simple truths which some day science will substantiate.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
51 words, 268 characters
The younger of the other men, it afterwards appeared, was most in his element at the piano; so that they had coffee and comic songs upstairs—the gentlemen, temporarily relinquished, submitting easily in this interest to Mrs. Lowder’s parting injunction not to sit too tight.
Source: The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
45 words, 276 characters
The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasion—an appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her not to dissipate his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also, herself, before she had succeeded in doing so, the same sight that had shaken him.
Source: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
81 words, 415 characters
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