DEFECT in a Sentence

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In this way the people were contented, and had no occasion from any defect in the solemnities to desire the return of their kings.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEFECT
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defect
 v.  abandon or turn against; cease or change one's loyalty
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
2  I fancy, Lizzy, that obstinacy is the real defect of his character, after all.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52
3  And these people thought it a prodigious defect of policy among us, when I told them that our laws were enforced only by penalties, without any mention of reward.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
4  Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.
5  For nothing is more true than that where a country, having men, lacks soldiers, it results from some fault in its ruler, and not from any defect in the situation or climate.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI.
6  In this way the people were contented, and had no occasion from any defect in the solemnities to desire the return of their kings.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV.
7  For often, from defect of judgment, men take upon them to defend others, when they have neither skill nor ability to defend themselves.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI.
8  Their great defect as laborers lies in their lack of incentive beyond the mere pleasure of physical exertion.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
9  But that is not all, that is not his worst defect; his worst defect is his perpetual moral obliquity, perpetual--from the days of the Flood to the Schleswig-Holstein period.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VIII
10  If his odor is really a congenital defect, as he says, then there are ways of remedying it.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
11  The men of this party had both the quality and the defect of frankness in their opinions.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
12  Certainly there was no physical defect.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
13  Do not think yourself excused by any weakness, any natural defect of understanding on her side, in the wanton cruelty so evident on yours.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44
14  All his good qualities had a defect.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
15  In the meantime, they remedy this defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  The defect detracts greatly from the value of the vase.
2  The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
3  He was born with a hearing defect.
4  Most of people are looking forward the crystal-like love—pure without any defect.
5  Pakistani terrorists regularly defect to another terrorist group with a totally different political platform.
6  Jaguar recalled 67,798 cars in April after discovering a defect in an electronic module that could cause cars to slip into reverse gear.
7  A congenital heart defect is a problem with the structure of the heart.
8  Boeing said Friday that discovery of a 787 Dreamliner manufacturing defect by wing-maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan means 43 of the jets have to be inspected for small hairline cracks inside the wings.
9  Once I have the chance to witness his worst moment, but u still can accept his defects and keep this as secret.
10  In almost every face and every person, they may discover fine feathers and defects, good and bad qualities.
11  They were not blinded to the defects of Western society.
12  Property should come under the Trades Description Act and contracts should allow buyers to back out if they discover undeclared defects.
13  Every man has the defects of his qualities.
14  Other people's defects are good teachers.
15  Such small defects count indeed for nothing.