CONNECTION in a Sentence

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For CONNECTION, below is one of 276 sentences:
They think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes and scanty food: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONNECTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
connection
 n.  relation between things or events; shifting from one form of transportation to another
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The connection between the two places was by a hilly turnpike-road, and the travelling on that road was very slow.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
2  She looked down very decidedly upon the Hayters, and thought it would be quite a misfortune to have the existing connection between the families renewed--very sad for herself and her children.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  If Elizabeth and her father did not deceive themselves, had been taking much pains to seek the acquaintance, and proclaim the value of the connection, as he had formerly taken pains to shew neglect.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
4  He, who had ever boasted of being an Elliot, and whose feelings, as to connection, were only too strict to suit the unfeudal tone of the present day.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
5  Kindly tell us now all about your connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
6  I have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in connection with my wedding.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
7  I have heard your name mentioned in connection with that of your friend.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
8  And yet, my dear Watson, there is so very close a connection that the one is extracted out of the other.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
9  But now we have to prove the connection between the man and the beast.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
10  Again, there was no direct connection between the hound and the man's death.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
11  But I think that we shall succeed in establishing a connection, after all.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
12  Montpensier from the charge of murder which hung over her in connection with the death of her step-daughter, Mlle.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
13  His connection with the Stapletons can be traced for several years, as far back as the school-mastering days, so that he must have been aware that his master and mistress were really husband and wife.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
14  Though most of the facts were familiar to me, I had not sufficiently appreciated their relative importance, nor their connection to each other.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
15  Simple as the case is, there have been one or two very instructive details in connection with it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Example Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
16  When you have that spiritual connection to the meal, there is more of a reason for families to sit together, to talk, to laugh and to reminisce.
17  When your heart is full of longing, you desire a moonlight serenade for connection with the beloved.
18  Those speed tests that are available all over the Web help to see how zippy your Internet connection is?
19  The connection established in Chinese legend between the hare and the moon is probably traceable to an Indian original.
20  It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.
21  In this connection, the agreement can be seen as a step toward peace.
22  They speak reverently about this connection in private, but rarely talk about it to the press.
23  They think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes and scanty food: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.
24  Respondents were shown two products in succession and asked whether they were somehow connected.
25  The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray.
26  Granby, one of the best connected and most estimable residents in S-, grandson and heir to Sir Frederic Granby: I had the intelligence from her father yesterday.
27  A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature, film, or video games that are connected and can be seen as a single work, as well as three individual ones.
28  The data entry terminal is connected to an online database while editing is taking place.
29  Centrifugal machines are connected to the motor drive directly instead of through a gearbox.
30  Downstairs toilets were connected directly to the drains.