DETERMINATION in a Sentence

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397 example sentences for DETERMINATION, such as:

1. A team of volunteers set about the task with determination.
2. Every little kindness you show me would shake my determination.
3. Some banks charge if you access your account to determine your balance.
4. To be successful in sport requires hard work and a great deal of determination.
5. They show you to be a person of energy and determination and a good money risk.

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 Meanings and Examples of DETERMINATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
determination
 n.  act of making or arriving at a decision; putting an end to; termination
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The things about him which she could not understand only made her love him more, and his odd, restrained courtship only served to increase her determination to have him for her own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  True, grim determination had taken the place of high-hearted hopes, but people could still find a silver lining in the cloud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  But when he thought of Mammy and the look of grim determination she wore as she cut into the velvet curtains, he was cheered a little.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  She was going to lose everything she had, while Sue-- Suddenly a determination was born in her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  And she was so grateful to Frank for saving Tara she felt a warm affection for him and an equally warm determination that he should never regret marrying her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  For the first time, she felt a kinship with the people about her, felt one with them in their fears, their bitterness, their determination.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  There was an air of command, assurance and determination about her, even when she smiled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  There was the same breakneck, headlong determination in Scarlett's face that Melanie had often seen in Gerald O'Hara's face when his mind was made up.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  She knew that an Irishman with a determination to get somewhere was a valuable man to have, regardless of what his personal characteristics might be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  They show you to be a person of energy and determination and a good money risk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
11  Better have this over now while her determination not to have any more children was hot within her and while Ashley's love was giving her strength.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
12  She had short sturdy legs and wide eyes of Irish blue and a small square jaw that went with a determination to have her own way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
13  Her face was puckered in the sad bewilderment of an old ape but there was determination in her jaw.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
14  Mrs. Peniston disliked scenes, and her determination to avoid them had always led her to hold herself aloof from the details of Lily's life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
15  Selden knew that Bertha would fight to the last round of powder: the rashness of her conduct was illogically combined with a cold determination to escape its consequences.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
Example Sentence: (187 in 13 pages)
16  Wit Wolzek claimed the legislation could impinge on privacy, self determination and respect for religious liberty.
17  So a stallion may respond to punishment from us by trying to kick us with greater determination instead.
18  Every little kindness you show me would shake my determination.
19  To be successful in sport requires hard work and a great deal of determination.
20  A team of volunteers set about the task with determination.
21  If a tenant is too dangerous to be living among the free, the state and only the state should make that determination and restrict his abode.
22  After a series of drug scandals, this was Major League Baseball's chance to demonstrate its determination to crack down on the cheats.
23  My only problem with this determination is the lack of certainty about the date of the questioned photo.
24  In their determination to discover ways to prolong human life, doctors fail to take into account that longer lives are not always happier ones.
25  When challenged by the other horses in the race, the thoroughbred proved its mettle by its determination to hold the lead.
26  Such mega-events have undergirded determination in government and the public alike to move on longstanding issues of housing and infrastructure; a flood of public-works projects have accelerated a profound reshaping of Rio de Janeiro, often in ways that reanimate bitterness over racial and class divisions.
27  Armstrong's once-impressive career is now forever tainted with the stigma of having been achieved by means other than skill, hard work and dogged determination.
28  Plushenko's strong performance in the team event brought wide accolades for his determination to overcome injury.
29  Some banks charge if you access your account to determine your balance.
30  Further information is required to determine the correct answer in any given instance.