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68 example sentences for DEN, such as:

1. Beard the lion in his den.
2. Miss Melly, den Ah know he los' his mine.
3. He thought of New York as a den of iniquity.
4. An den he say, Tell Miss Scarlett ter res' easy.
5. That was the last night he should spend in that den.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
den
 n.  a room that is comfortable and secluded
 n.  a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  "Well, twouldn do no hahm ef you wuz ter faint now an den," advised Mammy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  An den he say, Tell Miss Scarlett ter res' easy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Ah thought Ah'd try ter git home ter Tara, but den Ah hear dat all de country roun Tara done buhnt up.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
4  De Cunnel, he tell her ter call me Sam an den she do it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  Miss Melly, den Ah know he los' his mine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
6  Come along to the den; it's the only comfortable place in the house.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
7  Above it was a loft which Cy Bogart and Earl Haydock, young brother of Harry, used as a den, for smoking, hiding from whippings, and planning secret societies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  If a girl really kissed him, he'd creep out of his den and be human.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  Most of them were against it; but at length, in obedience to Steelkilt, they preceded him down into their dark den, growlingly disappearing, like bears into a cave.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
10  That was the last night he should spend in that den.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
11  You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
12  The bear growled frequently at his heels, and once or twice its enormous paws were laid on his person, as if disposed to prevent his further passage into the den.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
13  I suppose I looked like a man who had escaped a den of wild beasts, and barely escaped them.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  In writing to a dear friend, immediately after my arrival at New York, I said I felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only the most indispensable articles of furniture.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
Example Sentence:
1  The jail was a little brick den that stood at the edge of the village, and no guards were afforded for it.
2  The jail was a trifling little brick den that stood in a marsh at the edge of the village.
3  I should have been a careless shepherd if I had left a lamb so near a wolf's den.
4  He thought of New York as a den of iniquity.
5  Then he says: "Well, den, I reck'n I did dream it, Huck; but dog my cats ef it ain't de powerfullest dream I ever see."
6  If you don't enter a tiger's den, you can't get his cubs.
7  Beard the lion in his den.