AGREE in a Sentence

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So when she got a situation,' said Mr. Omer, 'to keep a fractious old lady company, they didn't very well agree, and she didn't stop.

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 Meanings and Examples of AGREE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
agree
 v.  be in accord; be in agreement
 v.  go together
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I cannot agree with you there," said Elinor.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
2  YOUR competence and MY wealth are very much alike, I dare say; and without them, as the world goes now, we shall both agree that every kind of external comfort must be wanting.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
3  We never could agree in our choice of a profession.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
4  Edward was the first to speak, and it was to notice Marianne's altered looks, and express his fear of her not finding London agree with her.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35
5  We'll agree, if you please, that I don't understand him at all.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
6  So when she got a situation,' said Mr. Omer, 'to keep a fractious old lady company, they didn't very well agree, and she didn't stop.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
7  My aunt observed, that in a case where both parties were willing to agree to anything, she took it for granted there would be no difficulty in settling this point.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
8  I cannot in any case agree with Keiss that my whole conception of the external world has been derived from perceptions.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
9  Levin often put his views before her in all their complexity, and not uncommonly he argued with her and did not agree with her comments.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
10  I cannot quite agree with that," responded Alexey Alexandrovitch "It seems to me that one must admit that the very process of studying the forms of language has a peculiarly favorable influence on intellectual development.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
11  Every man will agree that in doing the duty of a juryman, a witness, a telegraph clerk, we feel we are performing duties.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
12  Levin did not agree with Pestsov, nor with his brother, who had a special attitude of his own, both admitting and not admitting the significance of the Russian commune.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 13
13  The only question is on what terms you agree to give her a divorce.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 22
14  All he did was to agree entirely with everything suggested to him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
15  Golenishtchev did not agree with this, and confounded Mihailov by his support of his first idea of the unity of the impression being essential to art.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 11
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  It was unwise of you to agree to that.
17  The club members did agree to modify their recruitment policy.
18  Experts cannot agree on the causes of criminal behaviour.
19  I agree things look difficult, but the situation is far from irretrievable.
20  She pulled off a great coup in getting the president to agree to an interview.
21  Arthur has some strange ideas, but on this occasion I'm inclined to agree with him.
22  Changes are being made here which go against my principles and I cannot agree with them.
23  With respect to your proposal, we are sorry to say that we cannot agree to it.
24  I had to use a little gentle persuasion to get her to agree.
25  You are very much mistaken if you think that people will agree to these changes.
26  It is certain that they will agree / They are certain to agree.
27  The chairman agree with me to a certain degree.
28  I don't suppose for a minute that he'll agree.
29  Jack was being perverse and refusing to agree with anything we said.
30  Put a tick in the box if you agree with this statement.