DETAILS in a Sentence

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I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

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 Meanings and Examples of DETAILS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
details
 n.  true confidential information
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  If you are unable to come I shall give you fuller details, and would esteem it a great kindness if you would favour me with your opinion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  All these details I observed afterwards.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  On the same day it was given out that fresh documents had been discovered which revealed further details about Snowball's complicity with Jones.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
5  The details were few and startling.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
6  I hear these details from Linley and the doctor: the latter being amused.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  He remembered nothing of its details; but the shape and aspect of the building seemed familiar to him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  There is always something offensive in the details of cunning.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
9  Some wearing apparel and other articles were collected anew for Thomasin, and remarks on domestic details were frequently made, so as to obscure any inner misgivings about her future as Wildeve's wife.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
10  The details of this choice of a business for him it is not necessary to give.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
11  The inner details of her life he had only conjectured.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
12  I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
13  Old as is the idea, however, there were one or two details which were new to me.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
14  Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
15  There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said yesterday, some of the details are of interest.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The police are seeking independent confirmation of certain details of the story.
17  Please check that these details are correct.
18  He didn't concern himself with the details.
19  It is normal practice not to reveal details of a patient's condition.
20  The records contain the bank details of all employees.
21  Tomorrow's papers will contain full details of the case.
22  It was a private conversation and I don't want to go into details about what was said.
23  The details about the data suffix the text.
24  Other recommendations relate to the details of how such data is stored.
25  Briefly describe the product, but do not give any technical details at this stage.
26  Give me all the details of the accident — tell me what happened in detail.
27  The documentary went through all the graphic details of the operation in unsparing detail.
28  We really should meet sometime soon to discuss the details.
29  She does not enjoy the details of housekeeping.
30  The scientist's observant eye noticed the slightest details.