DRAMA in a Sentence

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For DRAMA, below is one of 71 sentences:
The Danes have now taken the top drama award at the Emmys for three out of the past four years with contemporary drama set in Denmark.

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 Meanings and Examples of DRAMA
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drama
 n.  play; literary work intended for theater
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing is left to Fantine of that which she had formerly been.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT
2  Here comes the change of face in this giant drama.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
3  This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, did not make their way in.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
4  This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA
5  From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had followed, all the phases of the terrible drama which he was playing with death.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS
6  of letters who has just sent a drama to the Theatre-Francais.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
7  the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
8  drama and delivered on the stage.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS
9  We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an austere interlude in a mournful drama.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
10  But what the drama would gain thereby, truth would lose.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—MARIUS
11  Everything is in disorder, the star as well as the drama.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
12  He had looked on at his own drama as a piece which one does not understand.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER V—END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE
13  This is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is Progress.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
14  One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is accustomed to turn one's back on the drama as soon as it puts a wedding nosegay in its buttonhole.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
15  This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays in Paris.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  She's involved in many extra - curricular activities, such as music, sport and drama.
17  Her drama teacher is confident Julie is a star in the making.
18  This style of drama is not part of the mainstream.
19  On a quiet little road in upstate New York, resides an older woman whom neighbors describe as friendly, polite, averse to drama or confrontation.
20  All my kinfolks could tell a story, making simple events, encounters, and mishaps of ordinary people come alive with drama and laughter.
21  But a single touch of contrivance spoils it all. Any time we feel the authors creating coincidence or engineering emotion, making melodrama rather than musical drama.
22  His universally acclaimed drama 12 Years a Slave picked up nine nominations in total, including best actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor, but was pipped in the race for total nominations by American Hustle, the 70s-set con caper directed by David O Russell, and Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón's space walk thriller, which both scored 10.
23  The series, which centers on the schemes between Emperor Yongzheng's concubines during the Qing Dynasty, topped the China mainland TV drama ratings chart last year.
24  “12 Years a Slave,” a searing period drama that confronted moviegoers anew with the cruelties of American slavery, won best picture at the 86th Academy Awards.
25  The Danes have now taken the top drama award at the Emmys for three out of the past four years.
26  A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama.
27  The intention is to be a book, and not a radio drama or play, I will rate it here.
28  The Danes have now taken the top drama award at the Emmys for three out of the past four years with contemporary drama set in Denmark.
29  His operas synthesize music and drama in perfect harmony.
30  Through play, children act out in miniature the dramas of adult life.