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Example sentences for "constructive"

Lexicographically close words:
construction; constructional; constructionist; constructionists; constructions; constructively; constructiveness; constructor; constructors; constructs
  1. Now, since the forms of expression natural to the young child are those which evoke his practical constructive efforts, all outward expression in its earlier stages must assume a concrete form.

  2. Yet, in terms of constructive employment of atomic resources, we also know that: 1.

  3. In its boundless erudition, its constructive imagination, and its wealth of suggestion, the Golden Bough stands forth as perhaps the most notable contribution of the age to our knowledge of the evolution of the human race.

  4. In fact, it is considered by many to have a destructive rather than a constructive quality.

  5. In its relation to the human system, alcohol is never constructive and always destructive.

  6. Technically, these are the metabolic, or destructive and constructive processes.

  7. But such constructive whole, residing in a part only, is one of the most violent fictions of positive law that ever has been or can be made on the principles of artificial incorporation.

  8. Surely the constructive force of a crystal is due to the chemical composition, and to its material constitution.

  9. As the shape of the crystal and its size are influenced by surrounding circumstances, there is, therefore, an external constructive force at work.

  10. In purely constructive skill he has surpassed all his contemporaries.

  11. His strict training as an architect has been of enormous service to him in the construction of his novels, for skill in constructive drawing has repeatedly proved its value in literature.

  12. Every Jewish community large enough to have a little social life of its own needs a community center where that life can flourish and be guided in desirable and constructive channels.

  13. The failure with our division brought the possibility of a constructive program before the higher command of the army, which inaugurated one just about the time our division left the area.

  14. It was the constructive work of the Renascence anatomists, particularly those of the Italian school, which finally brought Galenism to the ground.

  15. If so, this is opposed to the conception of a constructive and artistic Nature which Erasistratus himself shares with Hippocrates and the writer.

  16. For, if he had assumed this, it would not have been difficult to allow that this constructive nature has powers which attract appropriate and expel alien matter.

  17. At first sight the former seems to be far more in the manner of the Social Contract and to contain views belonging essentially to Rousseau's constructive period.

  18. And in that great art in which, above all perhaps, they expressed themselves, in their great architecture, we see the growth of a constructive genius which is only overshadowed by the superb beauty of its form.

  19. This is a constructive piece of work for women to undertake.

  20. Constructive journalism goes a step further when it insists that everything shall tend to be helpful and constructive.

  21. In many constructive articles of practical guidance, the writer's purpose is so successfully concealed that it may at first escape the notice of the average reader.

  22. Most of them show lack of intelligent constructive thought on the matter in hand.

  23. Constructive criticism of existing conditions may be successfully embodied in the form of a confession article that describes the evils as they have been experienced by one individual.

  24. It is sure to fall; and in its place the South will rear a splendid new leadership of constructive ability and unselfish patriotism.

  25. And that is the attitude of the progressive, constructive Southerner: he is impatient with the talk about the Negro and the Negro problem.

  26. To this constructive point of view I have been able, thus far, to refer only incidentally.

  27. In giving so much space to the words and position of Vardaman, Tillman, Hoke Smith, and others, I have not yet sufficiently emphasised the work and influence of the thoughtful and constructive men of the South.

  28. It is this quiet, constructive movement among the white people in the South which I wish to consider here.

  29. Although it has not yet attained political position, it is a party of ideas, force, convictions, with a definite constructive programme.

  30. The work is still extant, and the technical and constructive features are perfect, since their restoration.

  31. If the article in question is a chair, and is really put together by means of sockets and pegs, let these constructive necessities appear, and do not try to disguise the means by which the result is to be attained.

  32. Relegate them and blur them, to the eye; let their blotches be constructive and their raggedness relative.

  33. The story-teller has, at any rate, the comfort with Mr. Reinhart that his drawings are constructive and have the air of the actual.

  34. It would be the most brilliant, constructive and noble work of statesmanship known to the modern world.

  35. The mutiny, however, failed because the people on the whole had no faith in the constructive capacity of the mutineers.

  36. The mutineers had no doubt agreed to postpone the question of the constructive ends in view, until after they had turned out the British, but the people could not.

  37. Wherever, for some constructive reason, a column is omitted against a wall, the capital becomes a corbel, carrying the arches.

  38. Moreover, their attitude was entirely negative, and they possessed little or no constructive ability of any kind.

  39. In one case the stimulus is presented at once through sense; in the other case, it is indirectly reached through memory and constructive imagination.

  40. Yet it is too easy to utter commonplaces about the superiority of constructive action to destructive.

  41. It is convertible into creative and constructive philosophy.

  42. They paralyze constructive human inventions by a theory which condemns them in advance to failure.

  43. One would rather say that because the locomotive is intermediary in experience, not primary and not final, it is impossible to devote too much care to its constructive development.

  44. But it had no theoretical instrumentalities of constructive power.

  45. Out of this situation emerged, if I mistake not, the entire tradition regarding the function and office of philosophy which till very recently has controlled the systematic and constructive philosophies of the western world.

  46. To such empirical suggestions used in constructive fashion for new ends the name intelligence is given.

  47. This the king was enabled to do, from the property having fallen to the crown by the constructive rebellion of its former proprietor, whose name we have not been able to discover.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constructive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beneficial; conducive; constructive; contributory; creation; descriptive; diagnostic; formative; generative; helpful; implicit; inventive; originative; positive; practical; productive; profitable; remedial; salutary; serviceable; therapeutic; useful; virtual