ADMIRABLE in a Sentence

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It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms with the night.

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 Meanings and Examples of ADMIRABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
admirable
 a.  deserving of the highest esteem or admiration
 a.  inspiring admiration or approval
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain cares may be put under constraint.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
2  Once, when they were repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was on the point of falling.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
3  Her admirable golden hair fell to her knees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
4  The counsel for the defence rose, began by complimenting Monsieur l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from under his feet.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
5  He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, really admirable.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LAC...
6  He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
7  Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted for his skill in shooting.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
8  These words possess the mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following day.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
9  He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
10  The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning flash.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON
11  An admirable sentiment breaks forth in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
12  He is good at times even to the point of being admirable.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
13  It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms with the night.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATIO...
14  The law of all is liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to Robespierre's admirable definition.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
15  Universal suffrage has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
16  Everyone admired the delicacy of her features.
17  Out on the cape is a fine lighthouse which we had admired as we came up the coast on the ship.
18  They chattered all the time about Tom's plan and admired the genius of it.
19  She admired the iridescent hues of the oil that floated on the surface of the water.
20  We greatly admired her well-bred, patrician elegance.
21  Looking in the pantry, we admired the plenitude of fruits and pickles we had preserved during the summer.
22  We admired his intellectual providence to acquire vast stores of dry information.
23  Her open admiration should not abash him at all.
24  At school the children made so much of him and of Joe, and delivered such eloquent admiration from their eyes, that the two heroes were not long in becoming insufferably "stuck-up."
25  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.
26  He received years of praise and admiration from the public that he did not deserve, and now he is exposed as a fraud.
27  He felt more than simple admiration for Miss Euston; he experienced a kind of veneration for her.
28  Her handling of the crisis fills me with admiration.
29  His courage and skill compel our admiration.
30  Your cleverness and skill has compelled our admiration.