COMPLEX in a Sentence

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For COMPLEX, below is one of 95 sentences:
You apprehend it as complex, multiple, divisible, separable, made up of its parts, the result of its parts and their sum, harmonious.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLEX
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complex
 a.  complicated in structure; a whole structure, as a building, made up of interconnected or related structures
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  Now and again a case turns up which is a little more complex.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  This case of yours is very complex, Sir Henry.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
3  Holmes himself had said that no more complex case had come to him in all the long series of his sensational investigations.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
4  It fills up a gap which I had been unable to bridge in this most complex affair.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
5  A minute examination of the circumstances served only to make the case more complex.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
6  I have no desire to make mysteries, but it is impossible at the moment of action to enter into long and complex explanations.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
7  Now, Watson, I think that we shall find that we have a long and rather complex day's work before us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
8  Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
9  Yet these people were clothed in pleasant fabrics that must at times need renewal, and their sandals, though undecorated, were fairly complex specimens of metalwork.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
10  And during these few revolutions all the activity, all the traditions, the complex organizations, the nations, languages, literatures, aspirations, even the mere memory of Man as I knew him, had been swept out of existence.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
11  Dublin was a new and complex sensation.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  You apprehend it as complex, multiple, divisible, separable, made up of its parts, the result of its parts and their sum, harmonious.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  His questions showed me how complex and mysterious were certain institutions of the Church which I had always regarded as the simplest acts.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
14  They are the last refuge of the complex.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
15  There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences, yet it was not a simple, but rather a very complex passion.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
16  It is impossible to understand the complex nature of the human mind.
17  Our new apartment complex has a tennis court, swimming pool, playground - the whole nine yards.
18  An Oedipal situation between one child and its parent may disrupt the whole complex of relationships within the family.
19  The structure of this protein is particularly complex.
20  He had not a particularly complex mind.
21  Photosynthesis is a highly complex process.
22  The mechanics of the process are quite complex.
23  The reality is rather more complex.
24  She had an amazing memory and could recall verbatim quite complex conversations.
25  Rather they should refer complex enquiries to government agencies.
26  Political cultures to refer to those in which there are significant proportions of both the simpler and more complex patterns of orientations.
27  It is important however to clarify some of the points made in relation to this often complex issue.
28  Social security law and procedure remain a jungle of complex rules.
29  The Council plans to knock the library down and replace it with a hotel complex.
30  Today's complex buildings require close teamwork between the architect and the builders.