DICTATE in a Sentence

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For DICTATE, below is one of 89 sentences:
Do not suppose, however, that I wish to dictate happiness to you or that a delay on your part would cause me any serious uneasiness.

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 Meanings and Examples of DICTATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dictate
 v.  prescribe; rule as a dictator
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  Do not suppose, however, that I wish to dictate happiness to you or that a delay on your part would cause me any serious uneasiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
2  But it is your happiness I desire as well as my own when I declare to you that our marriage would render me eternally miserable unless it were the dictate of your own free choice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
3  Marianne assented most feelingly to the remark; and her mother was led by it to an enumeration of Colonel Brandon's injuries and merits, warm as friendship and design could unitedly dictate.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47
4  I resorted to Traddles for advice; who suggested that he should dictate speeches to me, at a pace, and with occasional stoppages, adapted to my weakness.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
5  Wert thou now in thy treasure-chamber at York, and were I craving a loan of thy shekels, it would be thine to dictate the time of payment, and the pledge of security.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  So now Clifford would sometimes dictate a letter to her, and she would take it down rather slowly, but correctly.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
7  The being left with her sister and nephew, and all the house under her care, had been an advantage entirely thrown away; she had been unable to direct or dictate, or even fancy herself useful.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
8  Since the idea had been started in the very quarter which ought to dictate, he had no scruple," he said, "in confessing his judgement to be entirely on that side.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
9  Now she was the beggar and a beggar in no position to dictate terms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  He silently and expeditiously encased himself in the covering of the beast, and then awaited such other movements as his more aged companion saw fit to dictate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
11  I extended my hand, and was about to pledge myself by any promise he would dictate, but he stopped me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
12  My dear Jane, I am in such a flutter, that I am sure I can't write; so I will dictate, and you write for me.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 49
13  Yes, it is my turn to dictate terms, Alan.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
14  However, he told her to dictate them.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
15  And more particularly they accused the dictator himself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V.
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  Dealing with this dictator wasn't an option.
17  In arming the dictator, the US was creating a Frankenstein who would threaten their influence in the region.
18  She won't allow herself to be dictated to.
19  The teacher dictated a passage to the class.
20  The teacher dictated to the whole class.
21  The approach to development is dictated by paperwork requirements as opposed to the needs and opportunities which actually exist.
22  Federal funds have to be used as dictated by Washington.
23  The president has dictated some letters to his secretary.
24  In his will, he dictated the epitaph he wanted placed on his tombstone.
25  The French teacher dictates to the class every other week.
26  You should check each item off as she dictates the list.
27  It is the force which subjects producers and resource suppliers to the dictates of buyer or consumer sovereignty.
28  Convention dictates that a minister should resign in such a situation.
29  Although I am an aspirant for public office, I am not willing to accept the dictates of the party bosses.
30  I agree with Yooper; wool is a good compromise but I still dress in layers with cotton, nylon, or whatever the weather dictates.