ELEVEN in a Sentence

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It was nearly eleven o'clock, when, with almost a shriek, Christian placed Yeobright's last gleaming guinea upon the stone.

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 Meanings and Examples of ELEVEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
eleven
 n.  the number that is the sum of ten and one
 a.  being one more than ten
Classic Sentence: (115 in 8 pages)
1  But for the first time it occurred to him that he was eleven years old and that perhaps his great muscles were not quite what they had once been.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
2  At eleven o'clock Squealer came out to make another announcement.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
3  That night there was the sound of uproarious singing, which was followed by what sounded like a violent quarrel and ended at about eleven o'clock with a tremendous crash of glass.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
4  A maid servant living alone in a house not far from the river, had gone up-stairs to bed about eleven.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
5  By the end of eleven years, however, Mrs. Price could no longer afford to cherish pride or resentment, or to lose one connexion that might possibly assist her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  As John Dawkins objected to their entering London before nightfall, it was nearly eleven o'clock when they reached the turnpike at Islington.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  As the brilliant light of the lamp which burnt before its door, guided her to the spot, the clock struck eleven.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  It was past eleven o'clock, and the door was closed.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  The church clocks chimed three quarters past eleven, as two figures emerged on London Bridge.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
10  It was eleven o'clock when he came in, though he had not been further than the precincts of the garden.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
11  It was nearly eleven o'clock, when, with almost a shriek, Christian placed Yeobright's last gleaming guinea upon the stone.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
12  In Mrs. Yeobright's garden large-leaved plants of a tender kind flagged by ten o'clock in the morning; rhubarb bent downward at eleven; and even stiff cabbages were limp by noon.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 5 The Journey across the Heath
13  At half-past eleven, finding that the house was silent, Eustacia had lighted her candle, put on some warm outer wrappings, taken her bag in her hand, and, extinguishing the light again, descended the staircase.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
14  Between ten and eleven o'clock, finding that neither Fairway nor anybody else came to him, he retired to rest, and despite his anxieties soon fell asleep.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
15  Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Example Sentence:
1  Five and eleven add up to sixteen.
2  Rain before seven; fine before eleven.
3  Our business hours begin at eleven.
4  She breezed in at eleven and greeted everyone with a smile.
5  Annual consumption of wine has risen from five to eleven litres per head.
6  Alan has two children, aged eleven and nine.
7  Mr Brown did not return home until eleven o'clock.
8  A student over sixteen reckons as two under eleven in the calculation of school building costs.
9  A cricket team is comprised of eleven players.
10  The new eleven hour curfew has been brought in by an administration seemingly desperate to stop what has now become a wave of demonstrations against King Gyanendra, his son Crown Prince Paras and increasingly, in favor of a republic.