CONDUCTIVITY in a Sentence

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For CONDUCTIVITY, below is one of 340 sentences:
Mammy was black, but her code of conduct and her sense of pride were as high as or higher than those of her owners.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONDUCTIVITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
conductivity
 n.  transmission of heat or electricity or sound
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The boys looked uncomfortable, recalling their mother's conduct three months ago when they had come home, by request, from the University of Virginia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Mammy was black, but her code of conduct and her sense of pride were as high as or higher than those of her owners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  Toby, who had handled Gerald's horses for twenty years, pushed out his lips in mute indignation at being told how to conduct his own business.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  This was the answer to Ashley's reticence, to his strange conduct.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  They telegraphed their disapproval of Scarlett's conduct to Hetty Tarleton by delicately raised eyebrows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  "I'm as bad as Honey Wilkes," she thought suddenly, and remembered how everyone, and she more than anyone else, had laughed contemptuously at Honey's forward conduct.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  The conduct of a widow must be twice as circumspect as that of a matron.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  Scarlett, who had hoped for a freer rein when she escaped Mammy's supervision, discovered to her sorrow that Uncle Peter's standards of ladylike conduct, especially for Mist Charles' widow, were even stricter than Mammy's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  Melly sold useless stuff to men who could have no possible use for it as quietly and serenely as a shopkeeper, and Scarlett patterned her conduct on Melly's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  A cold qualm of guilt assailed Scarlett at the thought of Ellen's consternation, should she ever learn of her daughter's scandalous conduct.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  "I was greatly disturbed to hear of your recent conduct," ran Ellen's letter and Scarlett, who was reading it at the table, scowled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  Poor Pittypat had been quaking in her number-three shoes for fear of being blamed for Scarlett's forward conduct and would be the last to notify Ellen of her own inadequate chaperonage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  I hope and pray it was only youth and thoughtlessness that prompted such forward conduct.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  He couldn't be when he's been mentioned in dispatches and when Colonel Sloan wrote that letter to Melly all about his gallant conduct in leading the charge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  She thanked God that everyone, Melly and Pitty included, had been too engrossed in her own worries that morning to notice her conduct.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
16  We condemned him for his bad conduct.
17  The dean tasked me to conduct experiments with new teaching methods.
18  The victim's conduct had involved an element of provocation.
19  Everyone was shocked by his unseemly conduct.
20  His conduct disagrees with his words.
21  I'm fed up with your conduct.
22  I doubt the wisdom of his conduct.
23  Determining how the Democratic challenger would conduct his presidency isn't quite so obvious.
24  She was affronted at his conduct.
25  His conduct vexed her very much.
26  The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct.
27  Tom is suspended from school for a week for bad conduct.
28  Several colleges in our study have rigid rules about student conduct.
29  They favour the self-regulation of the industry, and strict codes of conduct have already been issued by the Advertising Association.
30  He was arrested for disorderly conduct.