COMMENTARY in a Sentence

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For COMMENTARY, below is one of 16 sentences:
You have said enough, Major Heyward," exclaimed the angry old man; "enough to make a volume of commentary on French civility.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMMENTARY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
commentary
 n.  written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material
Classic Sentence:
1  Mr. Wickfield said not one word, though the old lady looked to him as if for his commentary on this intelligence; but sat severely silent, with his eyes fixed on the ground.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
2  You have said enough, Major Heyward," exclaimed the angry old man; "enough to make a volume of commentary on French civility.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
3  After this internal commentary on the Prior's speech, he raised his eyes, and replied to the question which had been put.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Aramis pleaded as his excuse a commentary upon the eighteenth chapter of St. Augustine, which he was forced to write in Latin for the following week, and which preoccupied him a good deal.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 19 PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
5  The bulletins are confused, the commentaries involved.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
6  There has come into fashion a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing facts and all gloomy questions.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
7  It is possible," said Morcerf; "my father has in his study a genealogical tree which will tell you all that, and on which I made commentaries that would have greatly edified Hozier and Jaucourt.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41. The Presentation.
8  But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
Example Sentence:
1  Mr Rich will be writing a twice-weekly commentary on American society and culture.
2  Our reporters will give a running commentary on the election results as they are announced.
3  Irving set up lots of avenues for employee commentary and recommendations on how the change was going.
4  Please refer to the Policy commentary for details of what items should not constitute part of the breakdown account.
5  In a recent commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine, he says it would be easier to approve a drug based on blood tests rather than the more arduous and expensive tests that show a drug actually improves a person's health.
6  "It must have been accreting gas at close to the maximum rate for most of its existence," writes Bram Venemans in an accompanying commentary in Nature.
7  William H. Gross, the co-founder of the mutual fund giant Pimco who abruptly quit last month to join a much smaller mutual fund company, has in the past peppered his market commentary with upbeat and zany humor.
8  There are no hard and fast rules about writing a commentary.