APTITUDE in a Sentence

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20 example sentences for APTITUDE, such as:

1. My son has no/little aptitude for sport.
2. That student has an aptitude for mathematics.
3. Evidently she had great natural aptitude for her work.
4. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
5. But no special aptitude in any branch of learning did he display.

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 Meanings and Examples of APTITUDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
aptitude
 n.  inherent ability
 n.  quickness in learning and understanding
Classic Sentence:
1  If they showed no aptitude for any of these trades, they became field hands and, in the opinion of the negroes, they had lost their claim to any social standing at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the picturesqueness of things seems to be peculiarly evinced in what paintings and engravings they have of their whaling scenes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
3  Evidently she had great natural aptitude for her work.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
4  She handled her brushes with a certain ease and freedom which came, not from long and close acquaintance with them, but from a natural aptitude.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
5  Certainly they will, in their gentleness, their lowly docility of heart, their aptitude to repose on a superior mind and rest on a higher power, their childlike simplicity of affection, and facility of forgiveness.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  But no special aptitude in any branch of learning did he display.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
7  But these fears proved groundless, for Paul Ivanovitch displayed an extraordinary aptitude for accommodating himself to his new position.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
8  Or, should you feel a yearning to leave behind you posterity, take in marriage a good woman who shall bring you, not money, but an aptitude for simple, modest domestic life.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
9  Tikhon, who at first did rough work, laying campfires, fetching water, flaying dead horses, and so on, soon showed a great liking and aptitude for partisan warfare.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER V
10  The fact is, count," answered the mother, agreeably flattered, "he has great aptitude, and learns all that is set before him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
11  It is from this aptitude, perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and infantry at one and the same time.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
12  An honest man, with too much faith in human nature, little aptitude for business and intricate detail, he had had large opportunity of becoming acquainted at first hand with much of the work before him.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
13  It could not be that one conscious of such aptitudes for mastery and enjoyment was doomed to a perpetuity of failure; and her mistakes looked easily reparable in the light of her restored self-confidence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
Example Sentence:
1  Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
2  I had to take an aptitude test before I began training as a nurse.
3  An aptitude for computing is beneficial for students taking this degree.
4  My son has no/little aptitude for sport.
5  We usually ask interviewees to perform a few simple tasks on the computer just to test their aptitude.
6  That student has an aptitude for mathematics.
7  The counselor gave him an aptitude test before advising him about the career he should follow.