Synonyms

1. resolution

Sentence Examples

1. She might have been unconsciously sucking in the sad poison, while a sharer of his conversation with her friend and from the best, the purest of motives, might now be denying herself this visit to Ireland, and resolving to divide herself effectually from him and his connexions by soon beginning her career of laborious duty.
2. When I was a little refreshed, I went up into the country, resolving to deliver myself to the first savages I should meet, and purchase my life from them by some bracelets, glass rings, and other toys which sailors usually provide themselves with in those voyages, and whereof I had some about me.
3. While he was thus reasoning and resolving with himself, a slardral, or gentleman usher, came from court, commanding my master to carry me immediately thither for the diversion of the queen and her ladies.
4. Black blocks loomed up out of the fuzzy green world, eventually resolving themselves into old lockers or torn-up chairs, scarred desks and gaping cabinets.
5. The general came into the same opinion, so that for a long time there was a majority against you but his majesty, resolving, if possible, to spare your life, at last brought off the chamberlain.
6. Meanwhile Passepartout, who had perched himself on the lower branches of a tree, was resolving an idea which had at first struck him like a flash, and which was now firmly lodged in his brain.
7. Finally she decided upon what was the worse course for her, to remain, resolving not to fly from the presence of Lothario, that she might not give food for gossip to her servants and she now began to regret having written as she had to her husband, fearing he might imagine that Lothario had perceived in her some lightness which had impelled him to lay aside the respect he owed her but confident of her rectitude she put her trust in God and in her own virtuous intentions, with which she hoped to resist in silence all the solicitations of Lothario, without saying anything to her husband so as not to involve him in any quarrel or trouble and she even began to consider how to excuse Lothario to Anselmo when he should ask her what it was that induced her to write that letter.
8. The night-lamp threw out countless rays, each resolving itself into some strange form to her disordered imagination, when suddenly by its flickering light Valentine thought she saw the door of her library, which was in the recess by the chimney-piece, open slowly, though she in vain listened for the sound of the hinges on which it turned.
9. Opening the patio door, I recognise the source of my resentment, the attention my mother never gave me, and I pull myself up, resolving to fix the child in me one of these days.
10. He had just resolved to go outside and search his garden when the shadow appeared again, this time resolving itself into a form that slithered into his room.