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Example sentences for "reflections"

Lexicographically close words:
refitting; reflect; reflected; reflecting; reflection; reflective; reflectively; reflectiveness; reflector; reflectors
  1. The sky was an opal-grey, touched here and there with blue, and with certain faint russets that looked as if they were reflections of the colour of the autumnal woods below.

  2. And he adds a description of Court morals which may well suggest further reflections on Chaucer's married life.

  3. Well, well, if any one does cast reflections of that sort upon us, we shall at least have a precedent to plead.

  4. When you will have given a satisfactory solution to these reflections and questions, it may become possible for me to think of assenting to your proposal.

  5. So absorbing were his reflections that he did not hear John announcing a visitor.

  6. Seraphin sauntered through the walks of the garden, absorbed in gloomy reflections on the leaders of progress.

  7. The "Essentials of Economic Theory" are the essentials of the hedonistic theory of distribution, with sundry reflections on related topics.

  8. Now the above reflections constituted just about as full and complete a tribute as Aletta De la Rey could have given to any man.

  9. And at this point Mynheer's reflections were suddenly and somewhat unceremoniously interrupted, for a quick knock sounded on the door-panel, followed by the entrance of its perpetrator almost before he had time to call out "Come in!

  10. He started, and put down the paper he had pretended to read, while the above reflections were coursing through his brain.

  11. There have appeared few other reflections as yet, upon this great event, the Russian declaration.

  12. Americans will make their own reflections on this speech.

  13. These, Sir, are the principal reflections occasioned by the resolution of Congress of the 18th of March.

  14. Now they furnished food for the gossiping of Kajsa and Dame Greta, and even occupied the thoughts of Erik himself; and his reflections were often very melancholy.

  15. Such were the bitter reflections of Mr. Hersebom, while he lay upon his bed of pain; and he felt still worse when he was able to get up, and occupy his accustomed seat in his arm-chair.

  16. So directed, the poet gazes again upon the faint forms appearing like reflections seen in a plate of glass or in a dark, shallow pool.

  17. No reflections cast upon the late Sammy, my dear Barnard!

  18. From such reflections as these, I was aroused by the order from the officer, ``Forward there!

  19. To a man who has been accorded the honour of a monument in Westminster Abbey these reflections do not, of course, apply.

  20. For not far away, flashing and quivering in reflections from the precipice wall on his left, there was a light which kept rising and falling.

  21. The sun was growing hotter minute by minute, and the reflections from the pure white ice almost painful.

  22. This is brought out when he gives us his own reflections on the results of his public ministry.

  23. In the fifteenth chapter we have our Lord's own reflections on the evidences which he had afforded of his Messianic character, during his entire ministry.

  24. My lord's observations and reflections came to one conclusion: she pricked and challenged him to lead up to her desired stormy scene.

  25. Admit no reflections in regard to the good you have accomplished, so that all that nourishes self-complacency may die.

  26. Whether it was the words I uttered too precipitately, or the reflections that followed, which caused this suffering, I could not determine.

  27. Living for years in an opulent and loving repose, she had carefully put aside all reflections which might annoy or sadden her.

  28. The great lightning flashes threw for an instant their livid reflections into her room, and she saw herself in the mirror of her wardrobe, with her wet and disheveled hair, looking so strange that she did not recognize herself.

  29. The reflections from the horizon reddened houses, objects, and persons.

  30. But now, aroused from his reflections by the entire cessation of talk, he glanced about him, summoned a waiter, settled the score.

  31. They deal in the main with Hieronimo; his irony is increased and made more effective; his reflections become more elaborate and pregnant; above all, his madness gains enormously in reality and intensity.

  32. Its influence on popular drama may well have been considerable; though, on the other hand, its adherence to sources and its looseness of structure may have been reflections from the public stage.

  33. A thin vapour still softened the reflections from above and hung about the water, and a scurf of ice lay round the edges of Crazywell.

  34. They soothed her; but they did not advance her reflections or help to solve the gathering difficulties that conscience cast into her path.

  35. He uttered exhilarating reflections until the severity of the hill reduced him to silence.

  36. Then she bathed, breasting the full flow with delight, making the sundered and broken water flash myriad reflections of the moon and stars.

  37. All the reflections of that last evening on Hastings pier lived and re-lived in his mind; outcome of the cynicism which was a marked feature in his development, and at the same time tending to confirm it.

  38. Yet the little girl with difficulty kept a cheerful countenance; as often as a moment's silence left her to her own reflections she was reminded of the heaviness of heart which made speaking an effort.

  39. This was the last of the reflections that came to him with the sound of the green seas choked in the narrows of the lough.

  40. Unfortunately, however, they were as ignorant of what had taken place to induce these reflections as he was of the conspiracy between them to keep him apart from Beatrice to secure his happiness and the happiness of Beatrice.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reflections" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.