SECTION in a Sentence

Learn SECTION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

169 example sentences for SECTION, such as:

1. This section of the road is closed.
2. The baby was born by Caesarean section.
3. A section of the Bay Bridge had collapsed.
4. He won first prize in the woodwind section.
5. He works in the embassy's political section.

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 Meanings and Examples of SECTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
section
 n.  a part that is cut off or separated
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  Here in north Georgia was a rugged section held by a hardy people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  This was a section that knew the chill of winter, as well as the heat of summer, and there was a vigor and energy in the people that was strange to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  And, quickening all of the affairs of the section, was the high tide of prosperity then rolling over the South.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  Cotton was the heartbeat of the section, the planting and the picking were the diastole and systole of the red earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Atlanta was humming like a beehive, proudly conscious of its importance to the Confederacy, and work was going forward night and day toward turning an agricultural section into an industrial one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  Finally the business section fell behind and the residences came into view.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  In that section, the Confederate sympathizers were in the minority and the hand of war fell heavily upon them, as it did on all the border states, neighbor informing against neighbor and brother killing brother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  The interior section was what counted, if the South was going to win the war, and Atlanta was now the center of things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  Farther down the street the business section was quiet and many of the stores and offices were locked and boarded up, while their occupants were somewhere about the countryside with rifles in their hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  Why, Miss Melanie," Frank was startled and reproachful, "General Hood hasn't been down in that section at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  I've been all up and down this section since we retook Atlanta and there isn't enough to feed a jaybird.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  This whole section, this whole state can go back to woods if it wants to, but I won't let Tara go.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  They all ran out to the front porch and saw the tall grizzled old despot of Aunt Pitty's house climbing down from a rat-tailed nag on which a section of quilting had been strapped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
14  The Yankee soldiers garrisoned throughout the section and the Freedmen's Bureau were in complete command of everything and they were fixing the rules to suit themselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  They kept the negroes stirred up with tales of cruelty perpetrated by the whites and, in a section long famed for the affectionate relations between slaves and slave owners, hate and suspicion began to grow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
16  I had arrived at the heart of the gay section.
17  He works in the embassy's political section.
18  The head of the research section was a formidable old professor.
19  This bizarre combat is a very dangerous one - refer to the Profiles section.
20  He won first prize in the woodwind section.
21  A section of defeat's sentiment most abstains from is,never forgets.
22  This section of the road is closed.
23  A section of the Bay Bridge had collapsed.
24  The plane's tail section was found in a cornfield.
25  The contestants are drawn from a cross section of society.
26  Highlight the section that you want to delete.
27  The back section of the plane had broken off.
28  The opening of this section of the road is delayed until September.
29  Farm workers make up only a small section of the population.
30  The baby was born by Caesarean section.