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Example sentences for "alteration"

Lexicographically close words:
alten; alter; altera; alterable; alteram; alterations; alterative; alteratives; altercation; altercations
  1. This instrument may be put upon the wrists and head, for instance, and it may be observed, when a person is subjected to certain influences whether, there is any alteration in blood supply in either region.

  2. All thought that, while Massachusetts might not be driven with safety, she could probably be persuaded to admit some alteration in her methods of government by tactful representatives.

  3. It would require a very slight alteration in the Hebrew text.

  4. The admission of these facts is only avoided in 1 Esdras by an alteration of the text.

  5. These are my reasons in brief, for the alteration of my style.

  6. If, upon perusal of them, you think any alteration necessary, it shall be made.

  7. She made a small alteration in it; but with an air so cold and so solemn, as added to my emotions.

  8. And for me to have hinted at an alteration in his behaviour to my brother, was an advantage I knew he would have been proud of; and which therefore I had no mind to give him.

  9. In fact the whole description in Mr. Borland's book of the feuds prevalent three centuries ago on our own Border might be applied to those now actually raging among the Afghans, with the simple alteration of time, places, and names.

  10. Such a system, by its nature and aims, is evidently practical; it is directed towards a change of laws and an alteration of the prevailing methods of government.

  11. I am afraid," I answered, with a wholly wasted sarcasm, "that the affair has gone too far now for us to consider an alteration in the date.

  12. As he crossed the room a little hesitatingly toward us, it was almost sad to notice the alteration in his appearance.

  13. The facts are admitted, so far as the alteration of this cheque and counterfoil by the prisoner.

  14. How strange is the alteration which has occurred within so short a space of time!

  15. I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it.

  16. Once the scientific conception of the universe is grasped, the marvel is not that the present order exists, the marvel would be that any other "order" should be, or that any radical alteration in it should occur.

  17. In other parts an alteration of the rainfall may crush out a civilisation, and leave a handful of nomadic tribes as the sole denizens of lands where once a lofty civilisation flourished.

  18. It could produce no other result than the one that actually emerges without an alteration in the means employed.

  19. And one simply cannot conceive an alteration in these results without thinking of some alteration or modification of the causes of which they are the expression.

  20. It was found that no alteration of temperature of the water of the calorimeter that could be observed was produced.

  21. The assumption on which this calculation is founded is that there is no alteration of the internal energy of the gas in consequence of expansion.

  22. The exact relation has been the subject during the last twenty years of much refined experimental work, but without any serious alteration of the number indicated above.

  23. As regards the Native Law, I advocate as little as possible alteration in the laws already in force.

  24. In en, with or without alteration of vowel and contraction.

  25. Rarely and irregularly, by the alteration of the root vowel as well as by the change of initial.

  26. But in the investigation of place-names in any language one must always allow for corruption and alteration in the course of centuries, and in a Celtic country for the Celticising of names of non-Celtic derivation.

  27. The alteration is most flat, and un-Shakspearian.

  28. Warburton's alteration of is into in is needless.

  29. And yet, she touches my brother's face, and fails to discover any alteration in it.

  30. If I had noticed no other alteration in her than this welcome change for the better, my record of the day would have ended here, as the record of unmixed happiness.

  31. He was, naturally enough, in miserable spirits, under the sudden alteration in all his prospects.

  32. When sleep set in, in these cases, no alteration was noted in the arterial tension, but the pulse was markedly diminished.

  33. The admission of kinsmen of the half-blood into the chain of descent is an alteration made by the Inheritance Act.

  34. The alteration of the works or faces of watches or clocks is not required.

  35. The one alteration will be in the notation of the hours, so as to secure uniformity in every longitude.

  36. He appreciated how great the alteration really was, a difference so marked that he had lacked the courage to carry out his first intention of exhibiting the new canvas to Celia.

  37. Without abrupt or definitely marked alteration the pillar was modified in shape until more and more plainly was evident a resemblance to the human form.

  38. It is well, however, to bear in mind the possibility of later addition or alteration in such lists.

  39. The principal mode of voluntary alteration is an assignment either by the tenant of his term or by the landlord of his reversion.

  40. Some rents are still payable in England at Lammastide, and in Scotland it is generally observed, but on the 12th of August, since the alteration of the calendar in George II.

  41. The changes in the mucous membrane are more permanent than in the acute variety, and there nearly always accompanies this a chronic alteration of the membrane of the pharynx (granular pharyngitis).

  42. As all lamprophyres are prone to alteration by weathering a great abundance of secondary minerals is usually found in them; the principal are calcite and other carbonates, limonite, chlorite, quartz and kaolin.

  43. The day after the operation is performed, though it takes effect, little alteration is discoverable.

  44. Nay, sometimes on the fifth, and even the sixth-day, the alteration is so little, as to make it doubtful whether the infection has taken place.

  45. These kinds of feelings were complained of that whole day, and towards night her head ached; but she had no increase of heat, or alteration in the pulse.

  46. He had had more rest; but though most of his complaints were relieved, yet the fever still continued, and he expectorated with difficulty some very dark-brown phlegm, so that no alteration was made in his medicines.

  47. The corruption lay in the alteration of the quality and the object of the worship.

  48. No alteration has been made in the matter of interpunctuation which was not warranted either by the poet's ordinary practice, or by the primary necessity of making his meaning clear.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alteration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodation; adaptation; adjustment; alteration; amelioration; amendment; analysis; apostasy; betterment; break; change; conversion; defection; degeneration; demarcation; deterioration; deviation; difference; differentiation; discontinuity; discrimination; disjunction; distinction; divergence; diversification; diversion; diversity; division; fitting; improvement; innovation; mitigation; modification; modulation; move; mutation; overthrow; passage; permutation; qualification; realignment; reform; reformation; remaking; renewal; reversal; revival; revolution; segregation; separation; severance; shift; specialization; switch; tack; transformation; transit; transition; translation; turn; twist; upheaval; variation; variety; vicissitude; worsening