CHARTER in a Sentence

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For CHARTER, below is one of 19 sentences:
In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is but a poor expedient of civilization.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHARTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
charter
 v.  license; authorize; hold under a lease or rental agreement of goods and services
Classic Sentence:
1  granting and conforming to the charter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
2  On arriving in Paris, it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a charter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
3  In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is but a poor expedient of civilization.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
4  I refuse your charter point-blank.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
5  A charter is a mask; the lie lurks beneath it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
6  A people which accepts a charter abdicates.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
7  He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
8  While you looked so, I should be certain that whatever charter you might grant under coercion, your first act, when released, would be to violate its conditions.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  The old steam ferry-boat was chartered for the occasion; presently the gay throng filed up the main street laden with provision-baskets.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  None of these things will interfere with my chartering a few thousand tons on my own account.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
11  He arranged dining and funeral lodge meetings, enrolled new members, and busied himself uniting various lodges and acquiring authentic charters.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence:
1  As a result we decide to charter the school to use bigger writing for the French version.
2  I should be certain that whatever charter you might grant under coercion, your first act, when released, would be to violate its conditions.
3  If your interest lies in killing the agency, then eliminating this from our charter is the quickest and surest way to achieve that goal.
4  The charter clearly sets out children's rights.
5  This new law amounts to a tax evader's charter.
6  The charter should serve as a blueprint for cooperation.
7  The government chartered a new bank in the capital.
8  He chartered a jet to fly her home from California to Switzerland.