CONSCIOUSNESS in a Sentence

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China's fashion conscious urban young are developing a growing appetite for the cool white look of platinum jewellery.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSCIOUSNESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
consciousness
 n.  having knowledge of ; special awareness or sensitivity:
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
2  And it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly toward the mystic and the transcendental, re-acted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
3  It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous fagots were thus bound together that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
4  Even this imperfect consciousness faded away at last, and he dreamed a long, troubled dream.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
5  As she softened with the quiet, and the consciousness of being so watched, some tears made their way into her eyes.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
6  It was not until evening was nearly closed that Ivanhoe was restored to consciousness of his situation.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  She took it off accordingly; and, partly from the consciousness of beauty, partly from bashfulness, she blushed so intensely, that cheek, brow, neck, and bosom, were suffused with crimson.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
8  She would never forgive Connie for ousting her from her union in consciousness with her brother.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
9  Real knowledge comes out of the whole corpus of the consciousness; out of your belly and your penis as much as out of your brain and mind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
11  She wanted to be clear of him, and especially of his consciousness, his words, his obsession with himself, his endless treadmill obsession with himself, and his own words.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
12  Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of the great desert tracts in his consciousness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  It can inform and lead into new places the flow of our sympathetic consciousness, and it can lead our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
14  Yet it was curious how everything disappeared from her consciousness while she played it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  Half-corpses, all of them: but with a terrible insistent consciousness in the other half.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  The invading force, conscious of their numerical inferiority at sea, decided on an airborne attack.
17  It was not a conscious choice to retreat from public life.
18  We have made a conscious effort to devolve responsibility.
19  Teenagers are very fashion conscious, especially girls.
20  He's never been especially politically conscious.
21  To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
22  He is hurt but still conscious.
23  She's very conscious of the problems involved.
24  It affects the audience at a deeper, less conscious level.
25  She was conscious that her memory was failing.
26  The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
27  I became conscious of someone watching me.
28  Adam put a hand nervously through his thick black hair, suddenly conscious of the lawyer's stare.
29  China's fashion conscious urban young are developing a growing appetite for the cool white look of platinum jewellery.
30  I was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.