ADVERTISING in a Sentence

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For ADVERTISING, below is one of 135 sentences:
The nest which had been advertised had not included feathers for quite so many birds as there were in this family.

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 Meanings and Examples of ADVERTISING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
advertising
 n.  a public promotion of some product or service
 n.  the business of drawing public attention to goods and services
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  She looked doubtfully at the impenetrable reality of yawning trolley conductor and sleepy passengers and placards advertising soap and underwear.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  The Commercial Club issued a booklet prepared by a great and expensive literary person from a Minneapolis advertising agency, a red-headed young man who smoked cigarettes in a long amber holder.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency and have this put in the evening papers.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
4  In the Council of Ministers the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
5  In a few instances I found that the people had gotten hold of some bright-coloured cards that had been designed for advertising purposes, and were making the most of these.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX.
6  The film was a highly advertised and abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair-dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  So he makes the best of it; and when the sailors find him not to be the man that is advertised, they let him pass, and he descends into the cabin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
8  The nest which had been advertised had not included feathers for quite so many birds as there were in this family.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  They were regular alchemists at Durham's; they advertised a mushroom-catsup, and the men who made it did not know what a mushroom looked like.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  The woman who had been advertised by the name of Hagar was a regular African in feature and figure.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
12  I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but without success.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
13  By this time it had gotten to be pretty well advertised throughout the state that every student who came to Tuskegee, no matter what his financial ability might be, must learn some industry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X.
14  And better taste than to wear that veil to advertise a grief I'm sure you never felt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  Rather than have her appear and advertise her shame, her father and brother would have shot her, so lynching the negro seemed a sensible solution to the townspeople, in fact, the only decent solution possible.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
16  The advertising campaign will be supported by a PR and below-the-line promotion.
17  The ultimate cause of what's happened seems to have been the advertising campaign.
18  Commercial television is a medium for advertising.
19  Commercial television is an effective medium for advertising.
20  Our culture is saturated with television and advertising.
21  They are hoping that TV advertising will increase their customer base.
22  The pernicious effect of this advertising on children is a problem that we ignore at our peril.
23  When it is done properly, arts sponsorship can be more effective than advertising.
24  Leo Burnett, an advertising agency, has a far lower employee turnover than its rivals.
25  People were giving out flyers advertising the event.
26  People may be lured into buying tickets by clever advertising.
27  Banning cigarette advertising would be unconstitutional, since selling cigarettes is legal.
28  The magazine misreported its sales figures in order to boost advertising revenue.
29  The advertising manager is the mastermind of our new marketing policy.
30  Television seems to be firmly entrenched as the number one medium for national advertising.