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For CANON, below is one of 18 sentences:
Yes, it was the same flesh, the same chair a canon, the sight of which had even then filled him with horror, as by a presentiment.

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 Meanings and Examples of CANON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
canon
 n.  law or rule; decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority; books of the Bible officially accepted; a group of literary works
Classic Sentence:
1  A Bishop is a very busy man: he must every day receive the secretary of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his vicars-general.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
2  He was Des Roches le Masle, canon of Notre Dame, who had formerly been valet of a bishop, who introduced him to his Eminence as a perfectly devout man.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
3  The bucket travelled across a box canon three hundred feet deep, and about a third full of water.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
4  Yes, it was the same flesh, the same chair a canon, the sight of which had even then filled him with horror, as by a presentiment.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVII
5  Six was the rigid, the canonical supper-hour, but at half-past six he had not come.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  She cried to the party, with the canonical amount of sprightliness, "Good-by, everybody."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  It may be the office has helped to cover some of his canonical irregularities.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
8  The sprinkling, and, indeed, the immersion of adults is a perfectly canonical practice.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In SECOND ACT
9  It is the canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
10  It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  The mincer now stands before you invested in the full canonicals of his calling.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 95. The Cassock.
12  Like a levite's robe of plain linen the faded worn soutane draped the kneeling figure of one whom the canonicals or the bell-bordered ephod would irk and trouble.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
Example Sentence:
1  Other people ascribe his exclusion from the canon to an unsubtle form of racism.
2  She kept the durable canon of American short fiction.
3  Scholars have long argued about the inspiration for Shakespeare's canon; now a piece of software, used for detecting plagiarism among university students, may have the answer.
4  The Church's canon law forbids remarriage of divorced persons.
5  It should be included in the canons of a polite society.