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Example sentences for "term"

Lexicographically close words:
tergiversation; tergiversations; tergo; tergum; teris; termagant; terme; termed; termes; termeth
  1. I heard him more than once and was able to judge for myself of the magical effect--the term is by no means too strong--which he produced on the Italian crowd.

  2. He was not especially intimate with Ivory Boynton, who studied law with his father during all vacations and in every available hour of leisure during term time, as did many another young New England schoolmaster.

  3. He knew that "several" meant more than one, but he was too stunned to define the term properly in its present strange connection.

  4. He therefore was preparing calmly to spend the winter term under the paternal roof.

  5. The two months' salary the Baron von Kletzingk gave you would have been enough to live on for a whole term if you had not squandered it.

  6. He calls conscience 'the categorical imperative'; but that term in no wise explains either the origin or authority of the moral law.

  7. The librarian (four years' term for forgery) told me it was the result of liquor and bad company.

  8. I feel to-day the isolation consequent upon my long survival of the threescore and ten apportioned as the term of human life.

  9. For so long, the body can perform its functions and hold together, but what term is set for the soul?

  10. In 1869 he was elected secretary of state, but before his term of office expired resigned to accept the appointment of land agent of railway corporations, which enabled him to spend four years abroad.

  11. Thompson, Evans, and a man named Shields were arrested by the civil authorities on suspicion; their trial was continued from term to term and they were at last dismissed.

  12. Hamlin held the first term of court under the state organization.

  13. During his first term in the house he represented nineteen counties, nearly one-half the territory of the State.

  14. In 1882 it was organized for judicial purposes, Judge Crosby holding the first term of court at Brunswick.

  15. The second term was held at Mora in 1884, in the new court house.

  16. At the conclusion of his term he was re-elected for the ensuing term.

  17. In 1868 he was elected representative to Congress and at the close of the term was re-elected.

  18. In 1857, at the close of his term of office as governor, he was elected a member of the constitutional convention, and was also an unsuccessful candidate for the United States senatorship.

  19. Early in the morning the madrina arrived at the convent with her two little girls of six and eight years old dressed in white as bridesmaids, or, as the Italian term angiolini has it, little angels.

  20. We have them in this country; also the term "osier-cars.

  21. Down to a period within the past few years the term invention has been considered almost synonymous with the word chance.

  22. Within six months before the end of that time, the author or designer, or his widow or children, may secure a renewal for the further term of fourteen years, making forty-two years in all.

  23. United States patents are granted for a term of seventeen years, and cannot be extended.

  24. Each copyright secures the exclusive right of publishing the book or article entered for the term of twenty-eight years.

  25. Blake won't be able to hold up his head among respectable people when his term has expired.

  26. When a fellow has taken off a dozen or two lower extremities, he can afford to be conservative; but if I let this go, I may complete my term of office without another chance of doing anything half so good.

  27. He acquired this epithet from a mispronunciation in his early days at the hospital of the term "molecular," and the nickname stuck to him even when he became house surgeon.

  28. The very term has become the symbol for rollicking rowdyism that would be tolerated in no other class.

  29. The almanack tells us this is the feast of St. Remigius, the day on which Cambridge term begins and pheasant shooting commences.

  30. Tom was a splendid specimen of the muscular student, if student it were correct to term him.

  31. This change, however, makes it possible to end the term on the weekend of July 2.

  32. Mr. Brown did use the term had she been interviewed.

  33. We were, as the term is applied, window shopping.

  34. And his general appearance, his face, and most particularly his eyes to me had what I would term a distant look to them, and that he wasn't really looking at you when he was.

  35. There is a Russian term for "wedding ring" noted in there.

  36. Well, that is a term of conclusion, Mr. Oswald.

  37. Yes, sir, he was what I would term an assiduous reader.

  38. His handshake was very weak and what I might term a live fish handshake.

  39. It was discussed not in the term of Soviet officials.

  40. Not so long ago a German prince thinking that in France one never pronounced the term Auguste otherwise, called King Auguste of Poland King Août.

  41. The word soul corresponds to the Latin anima, to the Greek +pneuma+, to the term of which all nations have made use to express what they did not understand any better than we do.

  42. Cases of what we may term wedlock, arising in this way, occur sporadically among apes; its thorough establishment, however, was not achieved until after the genesis of Humanity had been completed in most other respects.

  43. The world of the fresh-water alga was its tiny pool during its brief term of existence; the world of civilized man comprehends the stellar universe during countless æons of time.

  44. He summed it all up in one abstract term and personified it as "The Infamous," and the watchword of that life of tireless vigilance was "Crush the Infamous!

  45. More notably yet does the hand--and in this as a technical term I include the other bodily powers which go to form technical skill,--more notably yet does the hand come in play with the painter.

  46. Seven hours' ride in what the Austrians are bold enough to term an express-train covers the distance between Vienna and Pesth, yet there seems to be an abyss somewhere on the route which the inhabitants are afraid of.

  47. The term "gantry" is applied to the movable scaffold or frame, which in this case rests upon a pair of rails twenty-three feet apart, one of them being close to the edge of the quay.

  48. For the facility with which the term "atheist" has been applied from the early Aryans down to believers in evolution, see Tylor, Primitive Culture, vol.

  49. In the Old Testament stood various texts condemning usury--the term usury meaning any taking of interest: the law of Moses, while it allowed usury in dealing with strangers, forbade it in dealing with Jews.

  50. For this reason the term Pianola was used in the paragraph referred to and now is employed in this book; and, for the same reason, this book is called "The Pianolist.

  51. For if any musical compositions are human documents that term is applicable to the "Second Rhapsody" and to the "Tannhäuser" overture.

  52. Remember too that the term "loud pedal" as applied to the sustaining pedal, as it properly is called, is incorrect.

  53. I confess that before I started that paragraph I was puzzled to know what term to use in designating the instrument I had in mind.

  54. President to a short-term monarchist aspect of Class II.

  55. The opposite term to it was oligarchy, in which a small council of men controlled the affairs of the state.

  56. Bearing in mind that for such substances the term specific resistance has no very definite meaning, M.

  57. Explain what is meant by the term "central nervous system.

  58. There are probably, three distinct ferments in the pancreatic juice acting respectively on starch, fat, and proteid, but they have not been isolated, and the term pancreatin is sometimes used to suggest the three together.

  59. It is evident that in these two latter cases the term "gland" is somewhat of a misnomer.

  60. The term pre-caval vein is sometimes used for superior cava.

  61. That the sister sciences of Botany and Zoology fall under one discipline, is expressed in the English usage of the term "Biology.

  62. Planaria is displaced by Canaria, which term first applied to the great central island, now gives the name to the whole group.

  63. In regard to the term Goe, Groenland's Historiske Mindesmaerker (vol.

  64. Smith in his Dialogues, has even gone so far as to suppress the term six altogether, and substitutes, "by a number of days sail unknown.

  65. The disease, if so I may term a depressed state of the nervous system, is caused by the habits of the patient, and can only be cured by changing those habits.

  66. This was at a time when Dick, Tom and Sam had returned to Putnam Hall for their final term at that institution.

  67. A term at school was followed by a trip on the ocean, and then one into the jungles of the Dark Continent in search of Mr. Rover, who had mysteriously disappeared.

  68. The term at Putnam Hall Military Academy was at an end, and the school days of the three Rover boys at that institution were now a thing of the past.

  69. The term primate was at once substituted for that of metropolitan, since the archbishops of Canterbury did not claim the right to exercise an administrative authority within the see of York.

  70. But William was now rapidly approaching the term of his life.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "term" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    annum; articulation; baptize; bound; boundary; bourn; call; catastrophe; ceiling; century; cessation; christen; chronology; circumscription; clause; coda; compass; conclusion; condition; confine; construction; consummation; continuity; culmination; curtain; curtains; cutoff; day; deadline; death; decade; decease; define; delimitation; denomination; denouement; designate; destination; destiny; determinant; doom; dub; duration; effect; end; ending; enlistment; entitle; epoch; era; eschatology; exception; expiration; expression; extremity; fate; finale; finality; finis; finish; floor; fortnight; frontier; goal; hedge; hitch; hour; icon; identify; idiom; interface; label; last; length; limen; limit; limitation; line; locution; luster; march; mark; millennium; minute; moment; monosyllable; month; moon; name; nickname; nominate; paragraph; past; period; peroration; phrase; present; provision; proviso; qualification; quarter; quietus; reservation; resolution; season; second; semester; sentence; session; sign; space; span; specify; spell; stamp; start; stint; stipulation; stoppage; stretch; string; style; sun; syllable; symbol; synonym; tense; tenure; term; terminal; termination; terminus; threshold; tide; title; token; tour; type; usage; utterance; vocable; week; while; word; year


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    term applied; term growth; term used; termed the; terminal clusters; terminal moraine; terminal moraines; terminal racemes