Sentence Examples

1. The most important result for farmers had been the certainty and regularity of income.
2. The pendulum beat the seconds, which each player eagerly counted, as he listened, with mathematical regularity.
3. He stationed himself in a room commanding a view of the street, pacing the chamber with restless steps, stopping merely to listen from time to time for the sound of approaching wheels, then to cast an anxious glance on Ali but the regularity with which the Nubian puffed forth the smoke of his chibouque proved that he at least was wholly absorbed in the enjoyment of his favorite occupation.
4. But I was not prepared to find them, upon close examination, evidently enjoying a high degree of health, breathing with the greatest ease and perfect regularity, and evincing not the slightest sign of any uneasiness whatever.
5. With serene regularity, as if controlled by a schedule, bullets buffed into men.
6. Phileas Fogg was looking for a servant, and that his life was one of unbroken regularity, that he neither travelled nor stayed from home overnight, he felt sure that this would be the place he was after.
7. The same night, such a man of regularity was the patron of La Jeune Amélie, the profits were divided, and each man had a hundred Tuscan livres, or about eighty francs.
8. Her lips were slightly parted, and her breast rose and fell with the regularity of a pendulum.
9. In the middle was a large rack, with angles answering to every partition of the manger so that each horse and mare ate their own hay, and their own mash of oats and milk, with much decency and regularity.
10. Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it invests all things of the mind with forgetfulness, seemed to have respected these signs, which apparently had been made with some degree of regularity, and probably with a definite purpose.