CONSIDER in a Sentence

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Something approaching a lynch mob has been gathering against the Chancellor for even daring to consider higher interest rates.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSIDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
consider
 v.  think carefully about, especially in order to make a decision
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I must own I felt a little proud when my captain offered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1
2  Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  You have left me no power to consider whether I am just to you or not.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
4  As I sat, a train of reflection occurred to me which led me to consider the effects of what I was now doing.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  His father was rendered easy by such an assurance, and Mr. John Dashwood had then leisure to consider how much there might prudently be in his power to do for them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
6  Perhaps," said Marianne, "I may consider it with some surprise.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
7  I hope, Marianne," continued Elinor, "you do not consider him as deficient in general taste.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
8  She could not consider her partiality for Edward in so prosperous a state as Marianne had believed it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
9  Her mother's affliction was hardly less, and Elinor was the only one of the three, who seemed to consider the separation as any thing short of eternal.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
10  My dear fellow,' I should have said, 'consider what you are doing.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41
11  Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it, and certainty itself.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48
12  I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before; but I began to consider them a very indifferent pair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
13  There was not much time to consider the subject, for we were soon in Miss Havisham's room, where she and everything else were just as I had left them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
14  You will please consider me your guardian.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVIII
15  If at any odd time when you have nothing better to do, you wouldn't mind coming over to see me at Walworth, I could offer you a bed, and I should consider it an honor.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  You should consider breaking the journey with intermediate stopovers at airport hotels.
17  There are some people who consider that their task in life is to push others about.
18  People consider foxes as clever but sly animals.
19  I consider myself highly privileged to have this opportunity.
20  We need to consider the merits and demerits of the plan.
21  We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
22  He didn't consider the fitness of the tool.
23  The management did not seem to consider office safety to be a priority.
24  They failed to consider the wider implications of their actions.
25  When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
26  Something approaching a lynch mob has been gathering against the Chancellor for even daring to consider higher interest rates.
27  He put the idea by until he was at leisure to consider it carefully.
28  Employers must consider all candidates impartially and without bias.
29  I consider his remark a gross impertinence.
30  I'd appreciate it if you could consider it.