ATMOSPHERE in a Sentence

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For ATMOSPHERE, below is one of 152 sentences:
Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.

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 Meanings and Examples of ATMOSPHERE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
atmosphere
 n.  air, the mixture of gases around the earth
Classic Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
1  The effect produced on Frome was rather of a complete absence of atmosphere, as though nothing less tenuous than ether intervened between the white earth under his feet and the metallic dome overhead.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The atmosphere had somehow changed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  There was an exciting atmosphere about the place that uplifted her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  If Charles had inherited any of the qualities of the stern, fearless, hot-tempered soldier who had been his father, they had been obliterated in childhood by the ladylike atmosphere in which he had been reared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  When Scarlett first opened the door the thick atmosphere of the room, with all windows closed and the air reeking with sick-room odors, medicine smells and stinking grease, almost made her faint.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  He came to call every night, for the atmosphere of Pitty's house was pleasant and soothing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  In this atmosphere, as nerve straining as watching a slow fuse burn toward a barrel of gunpowder, Scarlett came rapidly back to strength.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
8  They clung close to Prissy, for even to their childish minds there was something frightening in the cold, impersonal atmosphere between their mother and their stepfather.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
9  Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  There was nothing new to Lily in these tokens of a studied luxury; but, though they formed a part of her atmosphere, she never lost her sensitiveness to their charm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  The surrounding atmosphere was propitious to this scheme of courtship.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
12  All this was in the natural order of things, and the orchid basking in its artificially created atmosphere could round the delicate curves of its petals undisturbed by the ice on the panes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
13  She was startled to find how the atmosphere of her old life enveloped her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
14  Carol did not quite know why she was uncomfortable in this talcum-powder atmosphere, but she hastened to get into the fresh air of her plans.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  But owing to his marked internal structure which gives him regular lungs, like a human being's, the whale can only live by inhaling the disengaged air in the open atmosphere.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  I can well imagine the atmosphere at home at this moment.
17  This gesture of goodwill did little to improve the tense atmosphere at the talks.
18  Inside the jeep the atmosphere was glacial.
19  These factories are releasing toxic gases into the atmosphere.
20  Pesticides can kill wildlife and pollute the atmosphere.
21  His main problem was the extremely smoky atmosphere at work.
22  Maybe it was the trees that gave this place its atmosphere of mystery and timelessness.
23  Even a casual observer could hardly have failed to notice the heightening of an already tense atmosphere.
24  Meteors produce streaks of light as they burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
25  I find the atmosphere there rather impersonal.
26  The accident caused the release of radioactivity into the atmosphere.
27  The restaurant has a very intimate atmosphere.
28  There was a supercharged atmosphere during the debate in the House of Commons last night.
29  Cosmic rays derive their name from the fact that they bombard the earth's atmosphere from outer space.
30  By killing the sharks we are in turn killing plankton and destroying out atmosphere.