ARTICLE in a Sentence

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For ARTICLE, below is one of 297 sentences:
The teacher divided the class and took one section to the library and left the other to write an article.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARTICLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
article
 n.  essay, a piece of writing
 n.  individual thing or element of a class
Classic Sentence: (150 in 11 pages)
1  But that's my character: if I want a thing I'm willing to pay: I don't go up to the counter, and then wonder if the article's worth the price.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
2  She knew from some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  As for Bildad, he carried about with him a long list of the articles needed, and at every fresh arrival, down went his mark opposite that article upon the paper.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
4  It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as "whale oil," an inferior article in commerce.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
5  He wrote a furious article, attacking the musical taste of the town, and asked me to do him a great service by taking it to the editor of the morning paper.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
6  Jokubas had recently been reading a newspaper article which was full of statistics such as that, and he was very proud as he repeated them and made his guests cry out with wonder.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  In the beginning he had been fresh and strong, and he had gotten a job the first day; but now he was second-hand, a damaged article, so to speak, and they did not want him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
8  But, alas, it was again the case of the honest merchant, who finds that the genuine and unadulterated article is driven to the wall by the artistic counterfeit.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
9  The woman, more in terror than through love of the ornament, wrapped her child in the coveted article, and folded both more closely to her bosom.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
10  "Well, Tom's got the real article, if ever a fellow had," rejoined the other.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  "Now for the cake," said Mas'r George, when the activity of the griddle department had somewhat subsided; and, with that, the youngster flourished a large knife over the article in question.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  He was listening, with a good-humored, negligent air, half comic, half contemptuous, to Haley, who was very volubly expatiating on the quality of the article for which they were bargaining.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  The dealers in the human article make scrupulous and systematic efforts to promote noisy mirth among them, as a means of drowning reflection, and rendering them insensible to their condition.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
14  With a deadly sickness at her heart, she remembered how he had looked at Emmeline's hands, and lifted up her curly hair, and pronounced her a first-rate article.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  "Why, this article," I said, pointing at it with my egg spoon as I sat down to my breakfast.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
Example Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
16  She's just had an article published in their weekend supplement.
17  Your article brought back sad memories for me.
18  The article was a savage attack on her past actions.
19  He denied that the article had been in any way prurient.
20  The article describes the chronological sequence of events.
21  The libel claim followed an article which insinuated that the President was lying.
22  The article accurately reflects public opinion.
23  A leading article in "The Times" accused the minister of lying.
24  A tag was attached to each article.
25  Every article on the breakfast table was fetched away with a hideous crash.
26  The article embodied all his opinions on the incident.
27  The article is rather technical in places.
28  Fake designer watches are sold at a fraction of the price of the genuine article.
29  The teacher divided the class and took one section to the library and left the other to write an article.
30  The editor said a lot of readers would be incensed by my article on abortion.