SPHERE in a Sentence

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48 example sentences for SPHERE, such as:

1. You are not in your true sphere.
2. He rounded the clay into a sphere.
3. The Earth is not a perfect sphere.
4. He and I moved in totally different social spheres.
5. It was the consciousness of a new sphere of liability to pain.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPHERE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sphere
 n.  ball; globe; a particular aspect of life or activity
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  I learned from Werter's imaginations despondency and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
2  It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
3  Pearl looked as beautiful as the day, but was in one of those moods of perverse merriment which, whenever they occurred, seemed to remove her entirely out of the sphere of sympathy or human contact.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
4  They now felt themselves, at least, inhabitants of the same sphere.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
5  The very contiguity of his enemy, beneath whatever mask the latter might conceal himself, was enough to disturb the magnetic sphere of a being so sensitive as Arthur Dimmesdale.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
6  Wretched and sinful as I am, I have had no other thought than to drag on my earthly existence in the sphere where Providence hath placed me.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
7  Before Mr. Dimmesdale reached home, his inner man gave him other evidences of a revolution in the sphere of thought and feeling.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
8  It was the consciousness of a new sphere of liability to pain.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 16
9  It's not to be denied that one of 'em has left her sphere, has shot, has eloped, to put it plainly, with the entrails of a time-piece, the mere pendulum of a grandfather's clock.'
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
10  It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
11  Arriving at the conclusion that it certainly was, he turned his back upon the scenes of the past, resolved to amend it in some new sphere of action.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
12  She was a stranger to all such local gatherings, and had always held them as scarcely appertaining to her sphere.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
13  In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
14  You are not in your true sphere.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
15  I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
Example Sentence:
1  Rome's sphere of influence extended across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
2  He rounded the clay into a sphere.
3  The Earth is not a perfect sphere.
4  I feel more inclination to put you in the way of keeping yourself, and shall endeavor to do so; but observe, my sphere is narrow.
5  We are doing this work in the context of reforms in the economic, social and cultural spheres.
6  The minister said that the government planned to develop exchanges with other countries, particularly in cultural, scientific and economic spheres.
7  He and I moved in totally different social spheres.
8  With 'go green' becoming the hottest mantra in all spheres of life, some conscientious Vizagites are giving their Diwali festivities too an eco-friendly twist this year.