DOCUMENT in a Sentence

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Corporate bodies Numbers in brackets indicate that a corporate body or its activities are discussed in the document concerned.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOCUMENT
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document
 v.  provide written evidence; record in detail
Classic Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  I could not help smiling at the document when I had completed it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Giles slit the flap of an apparently business document.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
3  There he opened his safe, took from the most private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as Dr. Jekyll's Will, and sat down with a clouded brow to study its contents.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
4  This document had long been the lawyer's eyesore.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
5  I have a document here in his handwriting; it is between ourselves, for I scarce know what to do about it; it is an ugly business at the best.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
6  The knights heard this uncommon document read from end to end, and then gazed upon each other in silent amazement, as being utterly at a loss to know what it could portend.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  Many of the crowd would have dissuaded him from touching a document so suspicious; but Higg was resolute in the service of his benefactress.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  Here it is; I would not burn it, because being even then very little satisfied with Mr Elliot, I was determined to preserve every document of former intimacy.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
9  It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
10  We will confine ourselves for the present with your permission to this very interesting document, which must have been put together and posted yesterday evening.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
11  Two days later he received a bulky envelope, which contained a short note from the detective, and a typewritten document, which covered several pages of foolscap.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
12  It was at once clear to me that it formed part of a very remarkable document.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
13  Of course, it instantly occurred to me that they had broken into your library with the intention of getting at some document which might be of importance in the case.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
14  Phelps thrust away the precious document into the innermost pocket of his coat.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
15  A glance showed him that chance had put in his way a State document of immense value, and in an instant he had thrust it into his pocket and was gone.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Example Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
16  Corporate bodies Numbers in brackets indicate that a corporate body or its activities are discussed in the document concerned.
17  Their report on the plans for nuclear war is a chilling document.
18  The document carried the seal of the governor's office.
19  I sent him the original document, not a photocopy.
20  The document expressed some ambivalence over the doctrine of predestination.
21  The stolen document was soon restored to the owner.
22  He particularly criticized the terminology in the document.
23  That's only someone's personal opinion, and we don't have to write it into the document.
24  Please submit the document to me.
25  He was unable to produce the document that he claimed would prove his case.
26  The deadline to publish the document is a week tomorrow.
27  The Labour party's draft document, which it did not dare to publish, refers to London policing functions.
28  The document sets out the government's new strategy.
29  She kept all the receipts from her business trip in order to document her expenses for the firm.
30  Archaeologists are amazed that such a fragile ancient document could have survived for so long.