CYCLE in a Sentence

Learn CYCLE 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.

For CYCLE, below is one of 37 sentences:
The horse and trap were to have come this week, but for some reason they were not delivered, and again I had to cycle to the station.

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 Meanings and Examples of CYCLE
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cycle
 n.  periodically repeated sequence of events; long period of time; entire round in a circle or a spire
Classic Sentence:
1  And now he had taken the woman, and brought on himself a new cycle of pain and doom.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
2  It was a cycle of aspects, produced by a cycle of visions.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
3  The horse and trap were to have come this week, but for some reason they were not delivered, and again I had to cycle to the station.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
4  An instant later the man emerged from his hiding-place, sprang upon his cycle, and followed her.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
5  Then he mounted his cycle, and rode away from me down the drive towards the Hall.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
6  From this wood the cycle must have emerged.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
7  I thought of the great precessional cycle that the pole of the earth describes.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  The three Marys were the heroines of a cycle of scandalous stories, which the old men were fond of relating as they sat about the cigar-stand in the drugstore.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
9  The vast cycle of starry life bore his weary mind outward to its verge and inward to its centre, a distant music accompanying him outward and inward.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  One hailed another, and they dispersed, across lawns, down paths, past the house to the gravel-strewn crescent, where cars, push bikes and cycles were crowded together.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
11  Its alternation of sad human ineffectiveness with vast inhuman cycles of activity chilled him and he forgot his own human and ineffectual grieving.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  A day will come in the lapse of cycles, when the house of Assaracus shall lay Phthia and famed Mycenae in bondage, and reign over conquered Argos.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
13  I remained in my hiding-place, and it was well that I did so, for presently the man reappeared, cycling slowly back.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  El Niao is a natural phenomenon, but some are worried that climate change could now be altering the cycle in fundamental ways.
2  In this instance, I think a bike lane is better than a cycle track.
3  In the next news cycle or during the next big story, will mainstream media remain inclined to wait for confirmation from the AP or The New York Times?
4  During the tadpole stage of the amphibian life cycle, most breathe by means of autonomous external or internal gills.
5  Now go back to the diagram at the top of the page and trace through the cycle of the alternation of generations.
6  A refrigerant is a compound used in a heat cycle that undergoes a phase change from a gas to a liquid and back.
7  Springtime is seen as a time of growth, renewal, of new life being born, and of the cycle of life once again starting.
8  Do they not understand that the spin cycle is an important part of the washing machine?
9  So, pack your cycle clips and either pick up a brochure from your local travel agent or call us on freephone.
10  There was a cycle path running along this side of the wall, right at its base.
11  Not all doctors truly understand the reproductive cycle.
12  Sometimes the only way to break the cycle of violence in the home is for the wife to leave.
13  The dormant period is another stage in the life cycle of the plant.
14  The business cycle is a series of peaks and troughs.
15  The number of young produced per breeding cycle varies from species to species.