DEPARTMENT in a Sentence

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326 example sentences for DEPARTMENT, such as:

1. The department store was thronged with people.
2. The police department was a hotbed of corruption.
3. The department deferred the decision for six months.
4. There is very little storage space in the department.
5. The firm has an excellent customer service department.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEPARTMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
department
 n.  the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
 n.  a specialized division of a large organization
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  At Christmas time Frank Kennedy and a small troop from the commissary department jogged up to Tara on a futile hunt for grain and animals for the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  "What with Yankees and our commissary department," they finished and she flushed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  Just as soon as the commissary department was safely on its way, she'd start Pork for Macon and take the chance of having the precious horse picked up by the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  Everybody gave parties in celebration and the fire department was kept busy fighting the flames that spread from the bonfires of jubilant small boys.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
5  She went to Minneapolis, to scamper through department stores and small Tenth Street shops devoted to ceramics and high thought.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  Either I'm your partner, in charge of the household department of our business, with a regular budget for it, or else I'm nothing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  In those days, the captain's authority was restricted to the navigation and general management of the vessel; while over the whale-hunting department and all its concerns, the Specksnyder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
8  The Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
9  The packers used to leave the creek that way, till every now and then the surface would catch on fire and burn furiously, and the fire department would have to come and put it out.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  It seemed as if every time you met a person from a new department, you heard of new swindles and new crimes.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  For a long time Ona had seen that Miss Henderson, the forelady in her department, did not like her.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  At the end of it the girl who had carried the red flag went downtown and got a position in a great department store, at a salary of two dollars and a half a week.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  The men and women who worked in this department were precisely the color of the "fresh country sausage" they made.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  It was only when the whole ham was spoiled that it came into the department of Elzbieta.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
15  The wife of the prisoner had been employed in a department near him, and had been discharged for impudence to him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
16  Every government department has its own particular culture.
17  The firm has an excellent customer service department.
18  Complaints are dealt with by the customer services department.
19  I got no satisfaction from the customer complaints department.
20  The customer services department is reassessing its procedures for handling customer complaints.
21  The department store was thronged with people.
22  The fire department is still pumping floodwater out of the cellars.
23  I'm only a number-cruncher in the accounts department.
24  The police department was a hotbed of corruption.
25  The department provides a congenial atmosphere for research.
26  The department deferred the decision for six months.
27  The responsibility for doing this rests with the department managers.
28  There is very little storage space in the department.
29  The department store is auctioning off the remaining inventory.
30  The company president has devolved decision-making to the department managers.