ANALYSIS in a Sentence

Learn ANALYSIS from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For ANALYSIS, below is one of 116 sentences:
Clifford was really clever at that slightly humorous analysis of people and motives which leaves everything in bits at the end.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of ANALYSIS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
analysis
 n.  study; investigation; process of breaking down a substance into its constituent parts
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  Deceit, according to him, was an impossibility in the case of one trained to observation and analysis.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  My respect for his powers of analysis increased wondrously.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  Clifford was really clever at that slightly humorous analysis of people and motives which leaves everything in bits at the end.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  Indeed, I have found that it is usually in unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the charm to an investigation.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
5  Those, I think, were the main points of my analysis.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
6  Then perhaps I had better postpone my analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the morning.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
7  There was but one problem before the public which could challenge his powers of analysis, and that was the singular disappearance of the favourite for the Wessex Cup, and the tragic murder of its trainer.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
8  He tossed a sheet of paper upon the table, and turned once more to his chemical analysis.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
9  It is my analysis of the documents found in the Coptic monasteries of Syria and Egypt, a work which will cut deep at the very foundation of revealed religion.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
10  They were full of laughter but there was something else, deep in them, which she had never seen before, a gleam that defied analysis.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
11  That influence, in its last analysis, was simply the power of money: Bertha Dorset's social credit was based on an impregnable bank-account.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
12  She suddenly understood that they could be depended upon to laugh with her at Mrs. Bogart, and she now saw Juanita Haydock's gossip not as vulgarity but as gaiety and remarkable analysis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
13  It is so subtle, so difficult of analysis, that persons who are a little limited, or even simply persons of strong nerves, will not understand a single atom of it.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: III
14  This contradiction occurs because after entering the field of analysis the universal historians stop halfway.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER II
15  Arriving at infinitesimals, mathematics, the most exact of sciences, abandons the process of analysis and enters on the new process of the integration of unknown, infinitely small, quantities.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (92 in 7 pages)
16  His analysis was always shallow.
17  She's been in analysis for three years.
18  His analysis of urban use of agricultural land has been proved essentially correct.
19  His analysis was rooted in a somewhat tendentious reading of French history.
20  They collect blood samples for analysis at a national laboratory.
21  His analysis of the problem showed great perception.
22  I have complete confidence in Mr Wright's analysis of the situation.
23  To illustrate my point I have done a comparative analysis.
24  It's a science in that it can be measured by results and is subject to methodological analysis.
25  You can ask for a chemical analysis of your tap water.
26  I'm on the right track and I think in the final analysis people will understand that.
27  In the final analysis, it is the drug companies that are going to profit from this policy.
28  The analysis of dreams can reveal details of a person's mental state.
29  You can ask the students some questions to lead them to make a careful analysis of the style of the writer.
30  This book is designed to be provocative rather than a watertight piece of economic analysis.