EMBRACE in a Sentence

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The newly-transformed Superior Iron Man has very ambitious plans for the city that some of its residents embrace, but not all.

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 Meanings and Examples of EMBRACE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
embrace
 v.  hug; adopt or espouse; accept readily; hold close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection
Classic Sentence: (195 in 14 pages)
1  He soon took his leave of the two foreigners after a most tender embrace.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXII
2  Their very mothers did not obtain permission to embrace them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES
3  The young girl wept, for she wished greatly to embrace her sister.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES
4  Nevertheless, let him who can explain these antique mysteries of innocence, she allowed an officer of the Lancers, her grand nephew, named Theodule, to embrace her without displeasure.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
5  The range of his embrace was immense.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
6  It was the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
7  That "then" signified: If you do not come to embrace me.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
8  From the embrace of all desolations faith leaps forth.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
9  That great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
10  The branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to embrace.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
11  A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on the sloping slates of the roof, and, as they would not release each other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
12  In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
13  Pale and trembling, Milady repulsed d'Artagnan's attempted embrace by a violent blow on the chest, as she sprang out of bed.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 37 MILADY'S SECRET
14  These two women held each other for an instant in a close embrace.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
15  Bonacieux would never have left that embrace alive.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  We hope these regions will embrace democratic reforms.
2  Sally found it difficult to disengage herself from his embrace.
3  We must embrace the opportunities presented by the new media.
4  I want to spend the rest of my life,to embrace the beauty of nature.
5  She saw them embrace on the station platform.
6  They were locked in a passionate embrace on the station platform.
7  We allowed the warm water to embrace us.
8  This decade is the time to fully embrace diversity and demonstrate equal rights to all Americans in this country.
9  He enfolded the child in an affectionate embrace.
10  But yet quiet and lonely hills enough, and seeming to embrace Thornfield with a seclusion I had not expected to find existent so near the stirring locality of Millcote.
11  The captured knight could escape death only if he agreed to forswear Christianity and embrace Islam as the one true faith.
12  The newly-transformed Superior Iron Man has very ambitious plans for the city that some of its residents embrace, but not all.
13  Some jurors even embraced the residents and congratulated lead plaintiffs' attorney George Chandler after the proceedings.
14  They embraced and wept and promised to keep in touch.
15  They have clearly embraced Western consumerism.