ORIGINAL in a Sentence

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The ashes of the original British pyre which blazed from that summit lay fresh and undisturbed in the barrow beneath their tread.

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 Meanings and Examples of ORIGINAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
original
 a.  not second hand; not copied or translated from something else
Classic Sentence: (208 in 14 pages)
1  I had the good fortune to seize upon that, and everything which has occurred since then has served to confirm my original supposition, and, indeed, was the logical sequence of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  Lucy had been carried back by their terrible pursuers to fulfil her original destiny, by becoming one of the harem of the Elder's son.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  Henceforward the farm was to be known as "The Manor Farm"--which, he believed, was its correct and original name.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
4  All things therefore seemed to point to this: that I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
5  An obstacle occurred to this his favourite project, in the mutual attachment of his ward and his son and hence the original cause of the banishment of Wilfred from the house of his father.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  The physician was at first inclined to ascribe this sudden and violent emotion to the effects of insanity; and, adhering to his original purpose, began once again to handle his implements.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  He gave it to me, and with the necklace I make over to you all the duty of remembering the original giver.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  "Here is a nut," said he, catching one down from an upper bough, "to exemplify: a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  He was clothed throughout in a tight-fitting suit of corduroy, excellent in quality, not much worn, and well-chosen for its purpose, but deprived of its original colour by his trade.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
10  The ashes of the original British pyre which blazed from that summit lay fresh and undisturbed in the barrow beneath their tread.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
11  "Well, I can't understand a quiet ladylike little body like Tamsin Yeobright caring to be married in such a mean way," said Susan Nunsuch, the wide woman, who preferred the original subject.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
12  Thus she was a girl of some forwardness of mind, indeed, weighed in relation to her situation among the very rearward of thinkers, very original.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
13  Like in form, it had the added softness and finish of a Raffaelle after Perugino, which, while faithfully reproducing the original subject, entirely distances the original art.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
14  That he would be successful in an original way, or that he would go to the dogs in an original way, seemed equally probable.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
15  All the known incidents of their love were enlarged, distorted, touched up, and modified, till the original reality bore but a slight resemblance to the counterfeit presentation by surrounding tongues.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
Example Sentence: (184 in 13 pages)
16  The original findings conflict with more recent findings.
17  His plan was such a success that even his original critics could scarcely forbear from congratulating him.
18  The Court of Appeal overturned the original ruling.
19  To always negate is not the way to create what is new and original.
20  Three of the original five candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have now thrown in the towel.
21  We've made one or two modifications to the original design.
22  He duplicated a few copies of her letter and handed her the original.
23  He asked Strathclyde police, which carried out the original investigation, to make fresh inquiries.
24  The original orders were cancelled and I was given fresh instructions.
25  The house retains much of its original charm.
26  The appeal judge agreed that the original sentence was unduly lenient.
27  Hitler's original plan was to kill off all the German Jews.
28  They settled the land, dispossessing many of its original inhabitants.
29  At the end of the lease, the land will be returned to the original owner.
30  The land was returned to its original owner.