CORRESPONDENT in a Sentence

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It sent a correspondent to Colorado, and printed pages describing the overthrow of American institutions in that state.

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 Meanings and Examples of CORRESPONDENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
correspondent
 a.  one who communicates information, especially, by letter or telegram to newspaper
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1  francs, payable at his correspondent's in Paris at the end of this month.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 66. Matrimonial Projects.
2  I present them; but my correspondent has disappeared.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 66. Matrimonial Projects.
3  A correspondent at Yanina informs us of a fact of which until now we had remained in ignorance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 78. We hear From Yanina.
4  A white correspondent of the Baltimore Sun declares that the Afro-American who was lynched in Chestertown, Md.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  Meanwhile he held on to his modest position in a mercantile house in New Orleans, where an equal familiarity with English, French and Spanish gave him no small value as a clerk and correspondent.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In II
6  It sent a correspondent to Colorado, and printed pages describing the overthrow of American institutions in that state.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
7  Mr. Eyre has been the Funchal correspondent of his house for some years.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory correspondent; but at such a time they had hoped for exertion.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48
9  Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
10  I found, on glancing at the remaining contents of the newspaper, that Mr. Micawber was a diligent and esteemed correspondent of that journal.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 63. A VISITOR
11  Yet there must have been some marked display of attentions to her cousin, there must have been some strong indiscretion, since her correspondent was not of a sort to regard a slight one.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
12  The lady was a charming correspondent.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
13  It is a good way round from the West Cliff by the Drawbridge to Tate Hill Pier, but your correspondent is a fairly good runner, and came well ahead of the crowd.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  By the courtesy of the chief boatman, I was, as your correspondent, permitted to climb on deck, and was one of a small group who saw the dead seaman whilst actually lashed to the wheel.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  As to how my address at Atlanta was received by the audience in the Exposition building, I think I prefer to let Mr. James Creelman, the noted war correspondent, tell.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  For a long time he had been in correspondence with the chief banks in Shanghai and Macao.
17  Because the insurgent forces had occupied the capital and had gained control of the railway lines, several of the war correspondents covering the uprising predicted a rebel victory.
18  In the meantime, Nigerian security agencies have been investigating what they call subversive activities by some foreign correspondents.
19  They said foreign correspondents who stayed too long in a place went blind.
20  Your account of events corresponds with hers.
21  The money I've saved corresponds roughly to the amount I need for my course.
22  The diameter of the pore is so small that it corresponds to that of a single ion.
23  The war, and the corresponding fall in trade, have had a devastating effect on the country.
24  All rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities.
25  "I think that to transfuse emotion," he writes, "to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer's is the peculiar function of poetry."
26  The two halves of the document did not correspond.
27  His story of what happened that night didn't correspond with the witness's version.
28  Her expression is concerned but her body-language does not correspond.
29  Racegoers will be given a number which will correspond to a horse running in a race.
30  Reflexology is based on the principle that specific areas on the feet correspond to different parts of the body.