Sentence Examples

1. When the mirth of the rest of the company had subsided, and silence was restored, he leaned one arm on the elbow of his chair, and sticking the other akimbo, demanded, with a slight, but exceedingly sage motion of the head, and contraction of the brow, what was the moral of the story, and what it went to prove?
2. As Danglars approached the disappointed lover, he cast on him a look of deep meaning, while Fernand, as he slowly paced behind the happy pair, who seemed, in their own unmixed content, to have entirely forgotten that such a being as himself existed, was pale and abstracted occasionally, however, a deep flush would overspread his countenance, and a nervous contraction distort his features, while, with an agitated and restless gaze, he would glance in the direction of Marseilles, like one who either anticipated or foresaw some great and important event.
3. He felt the current hit him again, and his muscles contracted even more tightly than before his back and legs began to quake from the contraction.
4. Behind every steel-like contraction of a muscle, lay another steel-like contraction, and another, and another, apparently without end.
5. Her sunny yellow skirt was cotton yet it clung to every wondrous swell, contraction, and ripple.
6. One might by the fearful swelling of the veins of his forehead and the contraction of the muscles round the eye, trace the terrible conflict which was going on between the living energetic mind and the inanimate and helpless body.
7. The third section, Reaction Contraction, will help us understand our reactions to our thinking and how those reactions can lead to even more destructive beliefs.
8. After waiting for another contraction to pass, she rose and made her cautious way up the stairs.
9. Halfway down she had to stop and sit on one of the steps while she waited out another contraction.