CONTRACT in a Sentence

Learn CONTRACT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

182 example sentences for CONTRACT, such as:

1. Bad habits are easy to contract.
2. I won't discuss the minutiae of the contract now.
3. We won the contract in the face of stiff competition.
4. The contract was not signed and has no binding force.
5. The firm tendered for the contract to build a new hotel.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONTRACT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
contract
 v.  constrict; make smaller; compress or concentrate
Classic Sentence: (93 in 7 pages)
1  His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp nothingness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
2  Whoever buries himself in the opposite of day feels his heart contract.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
3  Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract himself to fit the diameter of the escape.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
4  All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing whatever to Grantaire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
5  He had endured everything in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
6  Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
7  Some say social contract; which is the same thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a bond.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
8  My friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
9  Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
10  A spasm made the ribs contract; blood oozed.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
11  Dresses were made, jewellery was made, cakes and gloves were made, settlements were made, and an extensive assortment of Facts did appropriate honour to the contract.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
12  In other respects, his profession and situation had taught him a ready command over his countenance, which he could contract at pleasure into solemnity, although its natural expression was that of good-humoured social indulgence.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  Matters being thus amicably and satisfactorily arranged, the contract was solemnly ratified in another teacupful of the peppermint mixture; which was rendered the more necessary, by the flutter and agitation of the lady's spirits.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  Before his removal, he had managed to contract a strong friendship for Mr. Grimwig, which that eccentric gentleman cordially reciprocated.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
15  The contract completed, she raised between them a barrier impenetrable as a wall.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
Example Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
16  The firm tendered for the contract to build a new hotel.
17  Companies are moving away from outright purchase of company cars to contract hire.
18  If the contract is cancelled, it'll be a catastrophe for everyone concerned.
19  They took their landlord to court for breaking the contract.
20  The director wanted Olivia de Havilland, then under contract to Warner Brothers.
21  I won't discuss the minutiae of the contract now.
22  Bad habits are easy to contract.
23  They have added/deleted/amended a clause in the contract which says the company can make people redundant for economic reasons.
24  I'm not a permanent employee; I'm working here on a fixed-term contract.
25  You shouldn't enter into/make a contract until you have studied its provisions carefully.
26  Read the small print in your contract to find out exactly what you are insured for.
27  The contract gives a female executive maternity leave rights.
28  We won the contract in the face of stiff competition.
29  The contract was not signed and has no binding force.
30  We are in competition with four other companies for the contract.