Use I FEEL LIKE to Building English Sentences

This sample lesson will help you improve your English, especially those who are learning English as a second or foreign language. Also, it will be a great way to practice your spoken English as well.

Using "I feel like" to describe something you will enjoy. Here are some examples:

1. Could we take a walk? I feel like a little exercise.
2. Exercise is great. I feel like there's a new bounce in my step.
3. I feel like a bomb about to detonate.
4. I feel like a drink.
5. I feel like a good cry.
6. I feel like a martyr to this vacuum cleaner.
7. I feel like a million dollars.
8. I feel like a nerd in these shoes.
9. I feel like a nice cool glass of lemonade.
10. I feel like a real drudge — I've done nothing but clean all day!
11. I feel like a small child on the shore of the ocean who has picked up a pretty shell.
12. I feel like a swim.
13. I feel like a warmed Up corpse, but I wanted to get to you before the police thought of it.
14. I feel like an intruder when I visit their home.
15. I feel like chucking it all in and going back to Africa.
16. I feel like dancing.
17. I feel like doing something completely frivolous today.
18. I feel like going back to bed.
19. I feel like going for a bike ride.
20. I feel like going out and getting completely bombed.
21. I feel like going to the beach.
22. I feel like having a snack.
23. I feel like having friends over to my house.
24. I feel like I can move more freely constantly moving with my partners, changing my role as needed.
25. I feel like I have a corpse in the passenger seat.
26. I feel like I'm being watched.
27. I feel like I've been cooped up in this flat for days.
28. I feel like I've been offered a new beginning .
29. I feel like I've died and gone to heaven.
30. I feel like sleeping 24-7.
31. I feel like splurging on a new dress.
32. I feel like staying in tonight.
33. I feel like such a failure.
34. I feel like talking.
35. I feel like throwing up.
36. I feel like watching TV.
37. I look around me, I feel like this is a foreign country.
38. Sometimes I feel like I'm living with a stranger.
39. Sometimes I feel like packing it all in and going off travelling.
40. That holiday did me the world of good - I feel like a whole new woman since I came back.
41. Whenever I go to London I feel like a provincial.

 

See: Using I AM VERY to Build Sentences

 

By adding "don't" you can change what you say to express something you wouldn't enjoy or express your concern about. Here are some examples:

1. All of these items are unisex but I don't feel like drawing them twice.
2. But you know I don't feel like dressing up to go some place fancy.
3. Eugenia: You're the kind I'd sleep with rather than explain why I don't feel like it.
4. I do not feel like we are going in the right direction.
5. I don't feel like cooking tonight, it's too much hassle.
6. I don't feel like dealing with such touchy problems.
7. I don't feel like doing anything today.
8. I don't feel like doing anything very energetic this evening. I've had a tiring day.
9. I don't feel like doing much of anything.
10. I don't feel like eating anything.
11. I don't feel like explaining.
12. I don't feel like going out tonight.
13. I don't feel like going to bed.
14. I don't feel like it.
15. I don't feel like leaving yet.
16. I don't feel like myself today - I'm so grouchy.
17. I don't feel like work today.
18. I love to cook, but I don't feel like spending the energy every evening.
19. Sian: Let's eat out tonight, I don't feel like cooking.
20. The restaurant's supposed to be great but I don't feel like schlepping all the way out there.
21. When I've got a cold, I don't feel like eating.
22. Why do I have to break this news to him, I don't feel like doing it.
23. Yeah, I've got a pretty good case of the blahs. I don't feel like doing much of anything.