DISCOURSE in a Sentence

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Each participant also behaves as if there exists only one presupposition pool shared by all participants in the discourse.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISCOURSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
discourse
 n.  formal, lengthy discussion of a subject; verbal exchange; conversation
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  I listened to this discourse with the extremest agony.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  If she entered a church, trusting to share the Sabbath smile of the Universal Father, it was often her mishap to find herself the text of the discourse.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
3  The next day, however, being the Sabbath, he preached a discourse which was held to be the richest and most powerful, and the most replete with heavenly influences, that had ever proceeded from his lips.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
4  Next in order to the magistrates came the young and eminently distinguished divine, from whose lips the religious discourse of the anniversary was expected.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
5  By this time the preliminary prayer had been offered in the meeting-house, and the accents of the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale were heard commencing his discourse.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
6  On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
7  Elinor took no notice of this; and directing her attention to their visitor, endeavoured to support something like discourse with him, by talking of their present residence, its conveniences, &c.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
8  And then to turn the discourse, she began admiring the house and the furniture.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
9  Such a thought would never enter either Sir John or Lady Middleton's head; and therefore very little leisure was ever given for a general chat, and none at all for particular discourse.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
10  After very little farther discourse, it was finally settled that the invitation should be fully accepted.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
11  And thus ended their discourse.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
12  Some doubts always lingered in her mind when they parted, which could only be removed by another half hour's discourse with himself.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50
13  He immediately began to talk to Drummle: not at all deterred by his replying in his heavy reticent way, but apparently led on by it to screw discourse out of him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
14  I thanked him for his friendship and caution, and our discourse proceeded in a low tone, while I toasted the Aged's sausage and he buttered the crumb of the Aged's roll.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLV
15  Having availed herself of it, she resumed her toast and her discourse together.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
Example Sentence:
1  No amount of discourse is sadness for the prelude.
2  Reading makes a full amn, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
3  He was hoping for some lively political discourse at the meeting.
4  Each participant also behaves as if there exists only one presupposition pool shared by all participants in the discourse.
5  Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.
6  Gates responds with a lengthy discourse on deployment strategy.
7  The young Plato was drawn to the Agora to hear the philosophical discourse of Socrates and his followers.
8  Most rational people don't enjoy that kind of opinionated discourse since it achieves nothing but elevated blood pressure.
9  Meantime, while I thought only of my master and his future bride -- saw only them, heard only their discourse, and considered only their movements of importance -- the rest of the party were occupied with their own separate interests and pleasures.
10  The point here is that institutions define the discourses and narratives through which aesthetic experience is received.
11  The speaker discoursed knowledgeably on a variety of subjects.
12  My girl friend discoursed on a topic she had grown greatly interested in.
13  The professor discoursed at length on how students from different language backgrounds make the same kinds of mistakes in the use of articles.
14  The scholar discoursed on the poetic style of John Keats.