Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [しかし]

I tried to stop him but he made off in a hurry.

I waited for him at the station for an hour, but he didn't show up.

I want to die, but I cannot.

Don't say 'but' to my suggestion.

We came to the conference knowing this, but it seems that you did not.

He is a good fellow, to be sure, but he isn't reliable.

He is a good fellow for sure, but not trustworthy.

We can know the past, but the future we can only feel.

English is not easy, but it is interesting.

Romans did not want their empire to decline; but it did.

They made huge, grotesque, yet beautiful poles of red cedar.

Dan did it with care but with ease.

She is not pretty, to be sure, but she is very clever.

It's true that there are fewer children due to the falling birthrate, and there are fewer children in the school, but that is all to the good.

The regulation was abolished, but then it was reenacted.

By then Tony was in his middle sixties and still able to work hard, but he had a brand-new truck now, a new mower, a lot of other equipment and three people helping him.

Their influence becomes greater every day, but they are uncreative and can't make value judgements.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time; but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.

Susan may not come, but Betty certainly will.

The current low status of the elderly may be changing, however.