DESCRIPTION in a Sentence

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The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account, and persecutors of the most terrible description.

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 Meanings and Examples of DESCRIPTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
description
 n.  sketch or account of anything in words
 n.  act of describing
Classic Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1  It is true that the description of this man tallies with your idea of the second party in this mystery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  Well, I went to Underwood, and asked him if he had sold a hat of that size and description.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3  I telegraphed to Liverpool, giving a description of the man, and warning them to keep a watch upon the American boats.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
4  I glanced at Holmes on hearing the description of the murderer, which tallied so exactly with his own.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
5  The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account, and persecutors of the most terrible description.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
6  Lucy laughed through her tears at her father's description.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
7  He looked round for an object corresponding to this description.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
8  "By description," was the reply.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
9  If there is any Ology left, of any description, that has not been worn to rags in this house, all I can say is, I hope I shall never hear its name.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
10  Meanwhile, spectators of every description thronged forward to occupy their respective stations, and not without many quarrels concerning those which they were entitled to hold.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  But it would be cruel to put the reader to the pain of perusing the remainder of this description.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  Groups of every description were to be seen devouring the food and swallowing the liquor thus abandoned to their discretion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  But also, it seems to me a perfect description of the whole of the industrial ideal.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  He would have sent you a description of everything and everybody.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  Others had their hour; and of lesser matters, none returned so often, or remained so long between them, as Mansfield Park, a description of the people, the manners, the amusements, the ways of Mansfield Park.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  She was barely able to stammer out a description of her attacker.
2  Police have issued a description of the man who was aged between fifty and sixty.
3  His description of the smells from the market added a touch of local color.
4  There was a degree of exaggeration in his description of events.
5  The brochure tries to give a fair and accurate description of each hotel.
6  The same description might be used to indicate the power of political doublespeak.
7  That's a marvellous description, Mrs Drummond.
8  The catalogue gives a full description of each product.
9  The beauty of the scene defies description.
10  This report offered the most specific and accurate description of the problems.
11  Police have stressed that this is the most accurate description of the killer to date.
12  The police noticed an obvious discrepancy in his description of the crime and did not believe him.
13  They went in to the Facebook advertising page and changed the title description from "Advertising" to "Lying".
14  The house finch is detailed including nesting information, incubation time, egg identification along with picture and description.
15  I can find no appreciable differences in the witnesses'descriptions of the accident, they seem the same.