APPLICATION in a Sentence

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For APPLICATION, below is one of 131 sentences:
My uncle is not pleased with the idea of a military career in a distant country, but Ernest never had your powers of application.

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 Meanings and Examples of APPLICATION
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application
 n.  close attention; work of applying something; verbal or written request for assistance
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition; but, with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  Waldman, "to have gained a disciple; and if your application equals your ability, I have no doubt of your success."
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome and almost intolerable.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  My uncle is not pleased with the idea of a military career in a distant country, but Ernest never had your powers of application.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  My imagination was vivid, yet my powers of analysis and application were intense; by the union of these qualities I conceived the idea and executed the creation of a man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
6  This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
7  On the stairs I encountered Wemmick, who was coming down, after an unsuccessful application of his knuckles to my door.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LV
8  When the Sessions came round, Mr. Jaggers caused an application to be made for the postponement of his trial until the following Sessions.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVI
9  I did not quite perceive the application of this fact to myself, but I smiled on Mrs. Crupp, as benignly as was in my power.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
10  I pondered on those words, even while I was studiously attending to what followed, as if they had some particular interest, or some strange application that I could not divine.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
11  Miss Bart, on her way to the station, had leisure to muse over her friend's words, and their peculiar application to herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
12  Miss Bart could shudder at this state of things without the embarrassment of a personal application.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
13  For, with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark's tooth, that miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has cost steady years of steady application.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in She...
14  Therefore, though I am but ill qualified for a pioneer, in the application of these two semi-sciences to the whale, I will do my endeavor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
15  shall make application to the Secretary of Agriculture for.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
16  You could fill in an application form now.
17  Attach a recent photograph to your application form.
18  You should make more of your IT skills on the application form.
19  I attached a photo to my application form.
20  Many loan application forms automatically add on insurance.
21  We should refer our application back to the manager as soon as possible.
22  We have considered your application carefully, but cannot offer you the job.
23  Issues on establishing defendant participant mode to extend the scope of application of summary procedure should be analyzed and resol.
24  The regulation has no application to this particular case.
25  The fact that your application was not successful this time does not preclude the possibility of you applying again next time.
26  I refer to your recent application and interview and am pleased to offer you the post of editor.
27  As finance is a limited resource in any organization, its application should be carefully controlled.
28  The average turnaround for a passport application is six working days.
29  My application was held up by the postal strike.
30  Students learned the practical application of the theory they had learned in the classroom.