Sentence Examples

1. Some laughing and shoving, some silently moving on to their next class, lost in the background of popularity.
2. Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married.
3. Its covert ridicule of rulers, courts, statesmen, and political organizations was so severe and cut so ruthlessly and cruelly deep, that only its diabolical cleverness prevented its suppression and instead lent it an unprecedented popularity.
4. I would like you to meet him someday, provided you do not gush over his well-deserved popularity.
5. But it was soon made plain to me that to hope for even a moderate popularity for Shelton was vain.
6. How completely they failed is manifest from the fact that with all his sanguine temperament and indomitable perseverance he was unable to maintain the struggle to gain a livelihood as a dramatist for more than three years nor was the rising popularity of Lope the cause, as is often said, notwithstanding his own words to the contrary.
7. The visit afforded her many pleasant recollections the next day and all that she might be supposed to have lost on the side of dignified seclusion, must be amply repaid in the splendour of popularity.
8. What, then, is the secret of this unparalleled popularity, increasing year by year for well-nigh three centuries?
9. He was proud, too, of the popularity and success of the book, and beyond measure delightful is the naivete with which he shows his pride in a dozen passages in the Second Part.
10. The visitor was about fifty-two years of age, dressed in one of the green surtouts, ornamented with black frogs, which have so long maintained their popularity all over Europe.