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Example sentences for "probation"

Lexicographically close words:
probably; probat; probate; probated; probates; probationary; probationer; probationers; probative; probatum
  1. Daley told me Durkin was on probation and stood a pretty fair chance of losing a scholarship he was after.

  2. Probation was awarded to Penny and Dreer, while Clint was unmercifully lectured.

  3. You might have been put on probation Thayer, and that would have kept you off the football team.

  4. Fillmore made his announcement, stating that Joe had been on probation under a misapprehension, and that now the ban was removed he could play ball.

  5. He can put me on probation for I won't tell, but it doesn't matter, for I don't play ball.

  6. Then you're going to remove the probation ban, Dr.

  7. Joe's absence was at once noted, and of course it was guessed why he was not there, though being on probation did not bar one from chapel or classes.

  8. After having his long period of probation rendered useless by her decision, he had shown no anger, and had philosophically taken her words as if he deserved no better ones.

  9. Probation is ended a short time before the appearing of the Lord in the clouds of heaven.

  10. It appeared to them to be taught in the Bible, that man’s probation would close a short time before the actual coming of the Lord in the clouds of heaven.

  11. The period of probation is granted to all to prepare for that time.

  12. The events connected with the close of probation and the work of preparation for the time of trouble, are clearly presented.

  13. All this confirmed them in the belief that probation had ended, or, as they then expressed it, “the door of mercy was shut.

  14. While probation continued they were blinded by Satan’s deceptions, and they justified their course of sin.

  15. Such a case was that reported by a probation officer of the Juvenile Court, of a girl of fifteen who slept in the same room with her father, two brothers and a lodger.

  16. The probation officer reported that on investigation, she found Harry had scarcely been in school for a year.

  17. Men pass through such superhuman loves and outlive them: they are the probation subduing the heart to human joys.

  18. She knew the hour of her probation had come, and her poor heart beat wildly against its destiny.

  19. Happily, the party collected in the Montauk had the good fortune to abridge the usual probation in courtesies, by the stirring events of the night on which they sailed.

  20. All this could John Effingham do at need; and he could do it well, too, for few had clearer perceptions of this state of probation than himself.

  21. All these years of probation then, which might have soured a love less holy, changed into weariness a love less intense, had only served to wed them more intimately soul to soul; and in that spotless union what happiness there was!

  22. Not until they are initiated into the mysteries for which they are undergoing probation can their love be justified or its enjoyment assured.

  23. The chords suggest to the musical mind only the solemn warning sound calling attention to what is to follow, but to the initiated they recall the probation which must be undergone by those who engage in the search for a higher light.

  24. Then my experiment has been a success, and your year of probation has done you good.

  25. The money he had earned in his year of probation he devoted to helping the needy members of his class to obtain an education.

  26. His situation was agreeable enough--it was paradise to what he had experienced; yet the three months of his probation seemed longer than twelve.

  27. After the usual term of probation at Addiscombe, Sandford obtained an appointment in the engineers, and I a cadetship of infantry, and we sailed from England together.

  28. If there is another alternative, it must be some system of probation which God has never intimated, and man, in all his inventions has never devised.

  29. Now God, in the plenitude of his wisdom and grace, saw fit to make provision for a new probation for man, on the basis of a covenant of grace, the different parts of which are all to be viewed together, in order to judge of their character.

  30. Now before profession a year of probation is allowed, according to the rule of the Blessed Benedict (lviii) and according to the decree of Innocent IV [*Sext.

  31. Innocent IV, a year's probation is granted to those who enter religion, so that probation may precede the obligation of the vow.

  32. Those who are induced to enter religion have still a time of probation wherein they make a trial of the hardships of religion, so that they are not easily admitted to the religious life.

  33. The four on probation didn't attend that meeting, nor were they able to see the efforts that Coach Cade put forth to repair the team in the few days remaining, but they heard of each, and each was affected in his own fashion.

  34. At noon the next day it was known pretty well all over school that Bob Newhall, Calvin Grainger and Willard Harmon were on probation as a result of the black paint episode over at Hillsport.

  35. Willard returned to Haylow too relieved over his escape from the extreme penalty to let the matter of probation trouble him for the time.

  36. It was decided that you are to go on probation for the balance of the term, a penalty which you will, I think, realize is far from extreme.

  37. At the end of the second year of probation this promise was fulfilled, and early in 1877 "E.

  38. But the situation is bound to recur, and now, though the time of probation (probation very much tempered!

  39. If placed on probation he is more likely to fail, because of his own weaknesses and his unfavorable environment.

  40. But of one thing I always feel sure: probation does not end with this present life; and the number of the saved may therefore be infinitely greater than the world's history leads us to suppose.

  41. For if it were the case, that probation in all cases begins and ends here, God's example would surely be one that could not be followed, and He would seem to be far less persevering than even human beings in efforts to save.

  42. Now, as no passage of Scripture limits probation to this life, and as one passage in Peter certainly unequivocally asserts that Christ preached to the spirits in prison while His body lay in the grave, I am clear upon this point.

  43. It is understood that a year of probation is to be allowed to those victims who have agreed to their own immolation.

  44. You may well say what was I thinking of, to stand there grinding and filing away the whole month at my probation work, and then let you go up there among that pack of wolves.

  45. Only Nikolai went on undisturbed; he cared more about a screw-hole in the hinge on his probation work than all their Midsummer Eve outings, and if he only worked away now, it would be finished by the end of the month.

  46. And he had stood there quite alone, filing with all his might at his journeyman's probation work, the whole of St. John's day yesterday.

  47. The three months' interval of Frank's probation in London passed less cheerfully than usual in the household at Combe-Raven.

  48. I am sure, the wisest thing for him and Menie both, is to permit me to spend this short time of probation in the land of cowries.

  49. The period of probation is usually seven years, but may be either shortened or lengthened at the discretion of the Master.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "probation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assay; criterion; crucible; determination; essay; ordeal; probation; proof; standard; test; touchstone; trial; try; verification