CURE in a Sentence

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Thus it was said in the town, when the Bishop does not indulge in the cheer of a cure, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist.

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 Meanings and Examples of CURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cure
 n.  medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; removal of disease or evil
Classic Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1  In the cure Pangloss lost only an eye and an ear.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Incensed at the behaviour of his wife, he one day gave her so effectual a remedy to cure her of a slight cold, that she died two hours after, in most horrid convulsions.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
3  Every cure furnished the pretext for a good meal: the Bishop did not interfere.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
4  Thus it was said in the town, when the Bishop does not indulge in the cheer of a cure, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
5  "Monseigneur," murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
6  He is the cure who rules over the other cures, you understand.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
7  The cure was, it was said, a worthy, respectable, and sensible man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE
8  The cure thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for the poor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
9  The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the cure, and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
10  This caused the cure to regard him with veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond of the cure.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
11  The doctor had been summoned, and the cure.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
12  The servant-woman was lamenting in a corner, the cure was praying, and his sobs were audible, the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
13  He lived at Vernon, where I have a brother who is a cure, and his name was something like Pontmarie or Montpercy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOM...
14  To study evil amiably, to prove its existence, then to cure it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
15  This morning you had one from the cure, this evening you shall have one from your grandfather.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
Example Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
16  The magic cure for inflation does not exist.
17  The federal government isn't doing enough to find a cure.
18  Doctors are now able to cure people of many diseases which in former times would have killed them.
19  I couldn't run the program because it contained a computer bug I could neither identify nor cure.
20  I can't promise a miracle cure, but I think we can improve things.
21  She tried to cure the pain in my knee by putting manual pressure on the joint.
22  The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.
23  In the past the root of this plant was thought to possess magical powers which could cure baldness.
24  Years of research work have failed to produce a cure for the disease.
25  There is no cure for the disease, although drugs can slow down its rate of development.
26  The only real cure is rest.
27  This scientist thinks he's on the scent of a cure for heart disease.
28  How to diagnose a sick fish by their behavioral changes and what you can do to cure the illness.
29  The cats proved to be a good cure for our mouse problem.
30  One strong proof of my wretchedly defective nature is, that even her expostulations, so mild, so rational, have not influence to cure me of my faults.