DATE in a Sentence

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For DATE, below is one of 221 sentences:
Mentally he was in a provincial future, that is, he was in many points abreast with the central town thinkers of his date.

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 Meanings and Examples of DATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
date
 v.  mark the time of; assign a date to
Classic Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
1  To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
2  On the other hand there were new-comers, the Manresas, bringing the old houses up to date, adding bathrooms.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
3  There was no mirror, at that date, in my room; that which stands beside me as I write, was brought there later on and for the very purpose of these transformations.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
4  My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
5  Yet, though quarter-staff play be out of date, what we can in prose we will do for these bold champions.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  I'm afraid I am a little out of date, and my collieries are like me.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  Noble it stood alone above a great park, but out of date, passed over.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  There is a blank left for the surname; and then follows the date; which is within a year before the child was born.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  The first instinct of an imaginative stranger might have been to suppose it the person of one of the Celts who built the barrow, so far had all of modern date withdrawn from the scene.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
10  Mentally he was in a provincial future, that is, he was in many points abreast with the central town thinkers of his date.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
11  It was a practice well known on Egdon at that date, and one that is not quite extinct at the present day.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
12  You will first make a note, Doctor, of the paper and the date.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
13  There is a date, you see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is rather vague.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
14  All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of them present such singular features as the strange train of circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
15  Let me have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the date of his supposed suicide.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
Example Sentence: (127 in 9 pages)
16  A passport that is out of date is invalid.
17  Please advise us of the date.
18  We need to fix a date for the next meeting.
19  The exact date of the event has escaped me.
20  There's no date on this letter.
21  I can't give you a precise date.
22  She grew increasingly nervous as the date of the audition drew closer.
23  This technology is bang up to date.
24  She suggested an earlier date for the meeting.
25  Let's fix a definite date for the next meeting.
26  Mandy subtracted the date of birth from the date of death.
27  The car is a beauty and quite up to date.
28  They chased up the dress designer to get a delivery date.
29  He's always meticulous in keeping the records up to date.
30  I never hoot my horn when I pick a girl up for a date.