CHAPTER in a Sentence

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For CHAPTER, below is one of 104 sentences:
I was reading to Tom, this afternoon, that chapter in Matthew that gives an account of it, and I have been quite struck with it.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHAPTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chapter
 n.  division of a book
 n.  organized branch of some society
Classic Sentence: (68 in 5 pages)
1  The murderous rages of the Fontaines had made County history long before this chapter had opened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore.
3  A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
4  But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo, Ishmael.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
5  In the previous chapter Colnett and Cuvier have been referred to.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
6  All Beale's drawings of this whale are good, excepting the middle figure in the picture of three whales in various attitudes, capping his second chapter.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
7  A word concerning an incident in the last chapter.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. The Dart.
8  Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in the preceding chapter.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded.
9  The previous chapter gave account of an immense body or herd of Sperm Whales, and there was also then given the probable cause inducing those vast aggregations.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
10  Of all the pre-adamite whales yet exhumed, by far the largest is the Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter, and that was less than seventy feet in length in the skeleton.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He...
11  My Lincoln chapter closed abruptly.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
12  I was reading to Tom, this afternoon, that chapter in Matthew that gives an account of it, and I have been quite struck with it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  Of our other characters we have nothing very particular to write, except a word relating to Miss Ophelia and Topsy, and a farewell chapter, which we shall dedicate to George Shelby.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
14  But, before I proceed to narrate it, and before I pass on to all the changes it involved, I must give one chapter to Estella.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVII
15  That matter of Herbert's was still progressing, and everything with me was as I have brought it down to the close of the last preceding chapter.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  This chapter will examine a range of theories which attempt to explain such behaviour.
17  The final chapter crystallizes all the main issues.
18  They find each other in the final chapter of the book.
19  I'll just finish the chapter then I'll come.
20  The first chapter describes the strange sequence of events that lead to his death.
21  Her return to France ended a particularly unhappy chapter in her life.
22  This chapter deals with the problem of inflation.
23  Freud had not dared to publish the third chapter of his book in Vienna.
24  In a later chapter, he will tend to represent those qualities which are too spiritual to be found in this world.
25  The textbook has a Q and A section at the end of each chapter.
26  I read as far as the third chapter.
27  The cession of Alaska to the United States is discussed in this chapter.
28  My favorite illustration is in chapter 13, when Peter eats stew at Leo's house.
29  A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.
30  Two grown men joined in a vicious hazing in the name of their college-fraternity chapter, beating a 45-year-old pledge so badly that he landed in the hospital.