DESTINATION in a Sentence

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For DESTINATION, below is one of 128 sentences:
We had hardly alighted at North Walsham, and mentioned the name of our destination, when the station-master hurried towards us.

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 Meanings and Examples of DESTINATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
destination
 n.  ultimate goal; place to which one is going or directed
Classic Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
1  I gave him a short sketch of my adventures, and had hardly concluded it by the time that we reached our destination.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  Eleven, and the more stately tread of the landlady passed my door, bound for the same destination.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
3  Lestrade mounted the box, whipped up the horse, and brought us in a very short time to our destination.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  The doctor had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon; and his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical, had changed the destination of the block at the bottom of the garden.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
5  A train for Coketown would come through presently, Mrs. Sparsit knew; so she understood Coketown to be her first place of destination.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
6  The tremendous rain occasioned infinite confusion, when the train stopped at its destination.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
7  The destination of the Thrush must be now preeminently interesting.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  He had diminished the distance between himself and London by full four miles more, before he recollected how much he must undergo ere he could hope to reach his place of destination.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  But Charley Bates, at this moment, calling his attention by a perfectly terrific howl, he suddenly altered its destination, and flung it full at that young gentleman.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  The letter never reached its destination; but that, and other proofs, she kept, in case they ever tried to lie away the blot.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
11  We had hardly alighted at North Walsham, and mentioned the name of our destination, when the station-master hurried towards us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
12  Macon was their destination and many of those who took the train that night had already refugeed five and six times before, as Johnston fell back from Dalton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  Their destination was one of the little restaurants overhanging the boulevard which dips steeply down from Monte Carlo to the low intermediate quarter along the quay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
14  She was still half a mile from her destination, and she decided to walk across to Madison Avenue and take the electric car.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
15  She had known that she would gladly leave Gopher Prairie, leave Main Street and all that it signified, but she had had no destination.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  Allow plenty of time to get to your destination.
2  Life is a journey, not the destination, but the scenery along the should be and the mood at the view.
3  The town is a popular destination for art lovers.
4  A wanderer who is determined to reach his destination does not fear the rain.
5  The tension grew in inverse proportion to the distance from their final destination.
6  Spain is still our most popular holiday destination.
7  Spain was cited as the most popular holiday destination.
8  It took us a whole day to reach the destination.
9  It's an ageing coaster and reportedly in poor condition, but even so, it should have got back to Benin - its declared destination - by now.
10  In the late nineties the government realized that its complacence and feeling that the states talent and infrastructure would automatically make it a preferred destination was actually resulting in a large loss for the city.
11  If you send a letter and misspell the street name, a sharp-eyed postal worker can still make sure it reaches its destination.
12  The Thomas Cook debacle should jog policymakers into realizing that few travelers merely sign up to a package based on a destination's climate or vibes.
13  Teso demonstrated his ability to glean information from an airplane's onboard computer, change the intended destination, play around with the interior lights in the cabin.
14  I wouldn't care success oilure, for I will only struggle ahead as long as I have been destined to the distance.
15  His parents destined him for a career at the Bar.