CONSORT in a Sentence

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For CONSORT, below is one of 15 sentences:
When a man consort much with a people," continued Hawkeye, "if they were honest and he no knave, love will grow up atwixt them.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSORT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
consort
 v.  associate; join
Classic Sentence:
1  Yet the next afternoon she was pouncing on Mrs. Lyman Cass, the hook-nosed consort of the owner of the flour-mill.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  For, as it eventually turned out, he cared not to consort, even for five minutes, with any stranger captain, except he could contribute some of that information he so absorbingly sought.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
3  There are thousands of such cases throughout the South, with the difference that the Southern white men in insatiate fury wreak their vengeance without intervention of law upon the Afro-Americans who consort with their women.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
4  When a man consort much with a people," continued Hawkeye, "if they were honest and he no knave, love will grow up atwixt them.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
5  Mr. Bumble turned, and encountered the face of his interesting consort, who, imperfectly comprehending the few words she had overheard of his complaint, had hazarded the foregoing remark at a venture.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  Mr. Brownlow merely nodded to Mr. Grimwig, who disappearing with great alacrity, shortly returned, pushing in Mrs. Bumble, and dragging her unwilling consort after him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
7  For the son she bore, the tears of Nereus' daughter, of Tithonus' consort, could melt thine heart.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
8  His consort knew, rejoiced in her wiles, and felt her beauty.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
9  Now you're a tower of strength: a consort battleship.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
10  So Rhett consorted with that vile Watling creature and gave her money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  One of those creatures Rhett consorted with, probably that Watling woman.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
13  Connie did a mild form of war-work, and consorted with the flannel-trousers Cambridge intransigents, who gently mocked at everything, so far.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  Mikhail Gorbachev was the rising star of the Politburo, she, a politically aware consort with a doctorate of her own in Marxist philosophy.
2  Thieves and other criminals often consort together.