ACADEMY in a Sentence

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The article reproached the government and the academy for letting so remarkable an artist be left without encouragement and support.

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 Meanings and Examples of ACADEMY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
academy
 n.  an organization intended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc.
 n.  a school that teaches a particular subject or trains people for a particular job
Classic Sentence:
1  The author permitted to see the grand academy of Lagado.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
2  This academy is not an entire single building, but a continuation of several houses on both sides of a street, which growing waste, was purchased and applied to that use.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
3  I was received very kindly by the warden, and went for many days to the academy.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
4  The projector of this cell was the most ancient student of the academy; his face and beard were of a pale yellow; his hands and clothes daubed over with filth.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
5  We crossed a walk to the other part of the academy, where, as I have already said, the projectors in speculative learning resided.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
6  A further account of the academy.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI.
7  Holberg, Denmark's Moliere, founded here an academy for the sons of the nobles.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
8  The article reproached the government and the academy for letting so remarkable an artist be left without encouragement and support.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 9
9  As teachers, they have given the South a commendable system of city schools and large numbers of private normal-schools and academies.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
Example Sentence:
1  The mission of our academy is actually to ensure the health and the well-being of all children.