CONSIST in a Sentence

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For CONSIST, below is one of 277 sentences:
And thus we see how natural freedom and subjection to parents may consist together, and are both founded on the same principle.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSIST
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consist
 v.  be made up or composed; be comprised or contained in
Classic Sentence: (200 in 14 pages)
1  The access to the upper apartments in the tower which consist in all of four stories, is given by stairs which are carried up through the external buttresses.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
2  These stairs are a part of the bridge; they consist of three flights.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
3  His household used to consist of an elderly housekeeper, Mrs. Marker, and of a maid, Susan Tarlton.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
4  At dinner the conversation did not cease for a moment and seemed to consist of the contents of a book of funny anecdotes.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVIII
5  The whole family, whom he had formerly judged severely, now seemed to him to consist of excellent, simple, and kindly people.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIX
6  The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I
7  , in the recent war of Urbino; and yet, in every one of these instances, the victory remained with him who held the sinews of war to consist, not in money, but in good soldiers.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X.
8  And thus we see how natural freedom and subjection to parents may consist together, and are both founded on the same principle.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  The croquet party to which the Princess Tverskaya had invited Anna was to consist of two ladies and their adorers.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 17
12  That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Aeschylus, Dante, Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may consist.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
13  Especially in a court like this that seems to consist of nothing but woman-chasers.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
14  This idea tickled Jo's fancy and put her in good spirits, but Meg didn't brighten, for her burden, consisting of four spoiled children, seemed heavier than ever.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
15  we had another meal, consisting of a small mug of coffee, and half-a-slice of brown bread.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
16  The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries.
17  This pleasure consisted in prospect of noble summits girdling a great hill-hollow, rich in verdure and shadow; in a bright beck, full of dark stones and sparkling eddies.
18  It consisted in a peculiar bird-like turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short intervals in the midst of the music -- the reader probably remembers how to do it, if he has ever been a boy.
19  Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws.
20  Too often, picnic preparation consists of throwing together some sandwiches and grabbing an apple.
21  In Britain, the traditional Sunday lunch consists of roast meat, potatoes and other vegetables.
22  Routine maintenance of the garden consists of keeping weeds under control.
23  Soil consists of various chemical substances.
24  Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
25  Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by law.
26  The excellence of a wife consists not in her beauty, but in her virtue.
27  Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
28  The board consists of vertical and horizontal lines.
29  Current feminist theory consists of several different trends.
30  Sunlight consists of different wavelengths of radiation.