BENCH in a Sentence

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For BENCH, below is one of 183 sentences:
He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple.

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 Meanings and Examples of BENCH
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bench
 n.  the reserve players on a team
 n.  a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
Classic Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
1  I was chained to the very same galley and the same bench as the young Baron.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVIII
2  He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes of his fruit-trees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
3  Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down on a stone bench which stands at the doorway of this printing office.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
4  Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep on a stone bench.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
5  The mother raised her head and thanked her, and bade the wayfarer sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the threshold.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
6  In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a bottle of wine and a glass.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
7  He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he perceived, still on the same bench, that well-known couple.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
8  But when the invariable habit of his stroll brought him, for the second time, near the bench, and he had examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
9  He passed near the bench where the young girl sat, five or six times, but without even turning his eyes in her direction.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
10  He passed very near the bench where she sat, because such was his habit.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
11  As he approached the bench, he held fast to the folds in his coat, and fixed his eyes on the young girl.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY
12  On arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself why he retraced his steps.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY
13  He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he approached a little nearer to the bench.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY
14  He went beyond the bench as far as the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel and passed once more in front of the lovely girl.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY
15  As he went further from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, he fancied that she was gazing after him, and that made him stumble.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY
Example Sentence:
1  His lawyer turned to address the bench.
2  He was sitting alone by a window with a weird contraption on the bench in front of him.
3  They have several top players on the subs' bench.
4  The bench gave me the foothold I needed to climb into the tree.
5  A boy and a girl were sitting on a bench.
6  Bill has been warming the bench for three football seasons, he hopes that the coach will let him play this year.
7  She has recently been appointed to the bench.
8  Some of the Government front bench still believe our relationship with the US is paramount.
9  He was injured, and spent the last few weeks of the season on the bench.
10  He did his best to legislate from the bench and we'll be living with his opinions for the rest of our lives.
11  In the center of the kitchen was a large pine table, bleached by age, with benches on either side.
12  The benches were empty except for a single solitary figure.
13  Chairs, stools, sofas and benches are different types of seat.
14  Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible.