ALPHABETICAL in a Sentence

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These beings had been fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and loaded hap-hazard on those carts.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALPHABETICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
alphabetical
 a.  arranged in customary order of the letters of a language
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  One day, in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list of the Constituent Assembly.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
2  These beings had been fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and loaded hap-hazard on those carts.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
3  After he had left me, I placed all my words, with their interpretations, in alphabetical order.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
4  We name our fondlings in alphabetical order.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the alphabet.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
6  The right to the alphabet, that is where the beginning must be made.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
7  Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a watch.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
8  No law in that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only of two and twenty.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
9  I plainly observed that their language expressed the passions very well, and the words might, with little pains, be resolved into an alphabet more easily than the Chinese.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I.
10  Clover learnt the whole alphabet, but could not put words together.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
11  He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
12  Behind the mists of ruin and rapine waved the calico dresses of women who dared, and after the hoarse mouthings of the field guns rang the rhythm of the alphabet.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
13  In some way, within a few weeks, I mastered the greater portion of the alphabet.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
14  He pointed to each letter of the alphabet.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 75. A Signed Statement.
15  I can faintly remember learning the alphabet at her knee.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
Example Sentence:
1  There doesn't seem to be any system to the books on these shelves - they're certainly not in alphabetical order.
2  The files are arranged in alphabetical order.
3  The books are listed in alphabetical order and are as follows.
4  If I could rearrange the alphabet,I'd put Y and I together.
5  The alphabet is usually ascribed to the phoenicians.
6  Q comes between P and R in the English alphabet.
7  Alphabetic systems possess an inventory of symbols, called an alphabet, to represent the individual phonemes.