Example Sentences

Their dog likes to play fetch in the park every afternoon.

i pried open the painted window. it was so hard

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Lindsey vollied the ball across the tennis court as a strategic way to win the game. In the sentence volley refers to how Lindsey hit the ball.

The antibiotic was prescribed by his physician in the hopes that the medication would inhibit the growth and expansion of the infection .

Spite means hatred or ill will. Here's an example:

Seeing him holding the teddy bear she had wanted to win filled the girl with spite.

Intersperse is a word used to describe something that is scattered between other things. A good sentence would be, the dirt was intersperse and only in the living room.

Immigration is the process of moving from one's homeland to another place. A sentence using the word immigration is: Immigration has become an issue in the U.S. because many people want to start a new life in America, but American born citizens worry about overpopulation and diminished opportunities.

The Actor Felt like a Downright fool when he got his Lines.

Some good speech starters can include asking a thought-provoking question, sharing a relevant quote or statistic, telling a personal anecdote, or opening with a powerful statement that grabs the audience's attention. It's important to consider your audience and the context of the speech when choosing a speech starter.

To mediate refers to having a neutral third party come in and help two disputing people or groups to settle an argument. For example: When the union and the management could not agree on a new contract, the government sent a mediator to help them find a compromise.

Chesterfield was selfish, calculating and contemptuous; he was not naturally generous, and he practiced dissimulation till it became part of his nature. Richelieu, therefore, passed his time in safeguarding himself from his rivals and in spying upon them; his suspicious nature, rendered still more irritable by his painful practice of a dissimulation repugnant to his headstrong character, making him fancy himself threatened more than was actually the case. If he refrained from actual invective, he accomplished his purpose, according to Guizot, by "omission, palliation and dissimulation." He says of himself, and justly, "that he was incapable of dissimulation" xxvi. He was, however, full of vindictiveness, dissimulation and treachery, and there can be little doubt that in his historic conflict with Warren Hastings unworthy personal motives played a leading part. Dissemble federalists in Brussels, London and elsewhere worked on with stealth, guile, dissembling, dissimulation, half-truths and often lies. It is true that in addressing the Christian people he used different language from that which he employed to the cultured; but there was no dissimulation in that - on the contrary, it was a requirement of his system. His personal morality was irreproachable, except that he inherited the Plantagenet taste for crooked courses and dissimulation in political affairs; even in this respect the king's reputation has suffered unduly at the hands of Matthew Paris, whose literary skill is only equaled by his malice. Adept as she was in the most exquisite delicacy of dissimulation, the most salient note of her original disposition was daring rather than subtlety. The interference of the state with his education, when he was quite a child, was, however, doubly harmful, as his parents taught him to despise the preceptors imposed upon him by the diet, and the atmosphere of intrigue and duplicity in which he grew up made him precociously experienced in the art of dissimulation.

To be germane, essentially, means to be relevant. An example sentence would be: His argument was actually very a germane one.

Tree octupi will eat you and your scantlings.

She had the wherewithal to start her own business after saving money for years.

the boy dawdle playing with is pencil instead of doing his work

This shrub can become quite unkempt if not pruned well back.

The sentence with the word 'alluvial': Alluvial soil is formed by the deposition of clay, silt and gravel carried by the rushing water stream which is deposited in the plains where the stream slows.

I was very distracted from my work with the chaos outside

Racial means to be relating to race. An example sentence would be: She did not like their racial remarks at all.

Here is a sentence with the word relegate, "It was unfair for the board to relegate Jim to a cleaner." Relegate means to demote or transfer to an inferior rank.