COMPOSITE in a Sentence

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Galton devised a method of creating composite pictures in which the features of different faces were superimposed over one another.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPOSITE
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composite
 a.  made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  This rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being comfortably astride of both frontiers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
2  A composite individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the past with the future.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
3  The composite monster which had caused the other troops to flee had not then appeared.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  To find component forces equal to the composite or resultant force, the sum of the components must equal the resultant.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER II
5  My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
6  They talked and wrestled in the throes of composition, and felt as if something were happening, really happening, really in the void.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  It is more difficult to speak well than to compose well; that is, the rules and trick of composition are oftener an object of study.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  Wine-stains, fruit-stains, beer-stains, water-stains, paint-stains, pitch-stains, any stains, all come out at one rub with the infallible and invaluable composition.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
10  It was the sickening feeling which, if the changed heart has any generosity at all in its composition, accompanies the sudden sight of a once-loved one who is beloved no more.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
11  At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a textbook, which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
12  The nature of Mr. Tostoff's composition eluded me, because just as it began my eyes fell on Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  They were her countrywomen: and the beef and ale of their native land, with a moral diet not a whit more refined, entered largely into their composition.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
14  "There is no law, nor reverence for authority, no regard for human ordinances or opinions, right or wrong, mixed up with that child's composition," remarked he, as much to himself as to his companion.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
15  "I will not ask your opinion of it as a composition," said Edward.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The author builds up a useful composite picture of contemporary consumer culture.
2  The main character in her latest novel is a composite of several public figures of that era.
3  The child's character was a composite of two girls I knew.
4  Galton devised a method of creating composite pictures in which the features of different faces were superimposed over one another.
5  The Living area is a rectangular space with a polished concrete floor, eighty percent enclosed by retractable glass walls, and single-span composite timber beams supporting the sub-roof ceiling.
6  Wood is a composite material, its fibres are embedded in a matrix of lignin, an organic polymer that provides woody plants with their rigidity.
7  Television has transformed the size and social composition of the audience at great sporting occasions.
8  Make an outline before trying to write a composition.
9  His composition is good, yes, very good.
10  The Journals contain accounts of literary composition.
11  The overall composition of the picture is good but some of the detail is distracting.
12  The composition of the group that is studied depends on the interests of the researcher.
13  The correction of composition took a large part of the teacher's time.
14  I'm glad to learn that you won first prize in the composition contest held at your school.
15  The majority always turn an unfavorable attitude towards atonal composition.