DISCIPLINED in a Sentence

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1. She keeps good discipline in class.
2. The teacher was unable to maintain discipline.
3. Children should be disciplined when the need arises.
4. Parents have the authority to discipline their children.
5. de Treville never jested in matters relating to discipline.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISCIPLINED
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disciplined
 a.  trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  I repeat, therefore, that to prevail against well-disciplined infantry, you must meet them with infantry disciplined still better, and that otherwise you advance to certain destruction.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII.
2  But if a cry like this, produce great effect on a well disciplined army, far greater must be its effect on one which is ill disciplined and disorderly.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV.
3  The causes which give it this confidence are its being well armed and disciplined, and the soldiers knowing one another.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
4  I had given in allegiance to duty and order; I was quiet; I believed I was content: to the eyes of others, usually even to my own, I appeared a disciplined and subdued character.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  A million regimented assassins, from one extremity of Europe to the other, get their bread by disciplined depredation and murder, for want of more honest employment.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XX
6  The grave-diggers being thus bound to service in the evening in summer and at night in winter, in this cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
7  He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and there was discipline in this retreat.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE
8  Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau Nasica, the ox of discipline, bos disciplinae, the bloodhound of the password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square exact, rigid, honest, and hideous.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
9  I had to do it, because insurrection must have its discipline.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
10  A barricade before the arrival of danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
11  People were for order in combination with lack of discipline.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
12  In their stead d'Artagnan thought he perceived in an obscure corner a discipline cord suspended from a nail in the wall.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
13  de Treville never jested in matters relating to discipline.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 28 THE RETURN
14  Felton's orders were, for the rest, executed with a silent rapidity that gave a good idea of the way in which he maintained discipline.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY
15  Whippings are necessary sometimes, for a peasant often plays the fool, and discipline ought to be maintained.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Children should be disciplined when the need arises.
2  The football team was disciplined by a professional trainer.
3  The beautiful coordination of his disciplined muscles was shown in that picture.
4  Parents have the authority to discipline their children.
5  The soldiers showed perfect discipline under the fire of the enemy.
6  With children, it is important to achieve the right balance between love and discipline.
7  She keeps good discipline in class.
8  Traditional quilts combine the discipline of pattern with the artistic freedom to choose color and scale.
9  This is the academic discipline which is the intellectual concept of both theories and methods.
10  The discipline of studying music can help children develop good work habits.
11  Lack of discipline at home meant that many pupils found it difficult to settle in to the ordered environment of the school.
12  Running a kitchen involves a great deal of discipline and speed.
13  The school will use all available sanctions to maintain discipline.
14  The teacher was unable to maintain discipline.
15  The tribunal is unique because Mr Jones is not subject to the normal police discipline code.