ENHANCEMENT in a Sentence

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For ENHANCEMENT, below is one of 43 sentences:
Instead of being ruined, my good sir, you will find that your reputation has been enormously enhanced.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENHANCEMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
enhancement
 n.  act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Mr. Bounderby was obliged to get up from table, and stand with his back to the fire, looking at her; she was such an enhancement of his position.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
2  The impatience of Cedric had been rather enhanced than diminished by his confinement.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  Novelty in society and adventure were the zest of life to Richard Coeur-de-Lion, and it had its highest relish when enhanced by dangers encountered and surmounted.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  Her long mourning robes and her flowing wimple of black cypress, enhanced the whiteness of her skin, and the beauty of her light-coloured and flowing tresses, which time had neither thinned nor mingled with silver.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
5  Instead of being ruined, my good sir, you will find that your reputation has been enormously enhanced.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
6  I saw few human beings besides them, and if any other happened to enter the cottage, their harsh manners and rude gait only enhanced to me the superior accomplishments of my friends.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
7  Among the men was an Italian prisoner, an officer of the French army; and Nicholas felt that the presence of that prisoner enhanced his own importance as a Russian hero.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV
8  This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and terrible purple.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VI—WAITING
9  He was as radiant, as if his chair, his asthma, and the failure of his limbs, were the various branches of a great invention for enhancing the luxury of a pipe.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
10  She had learned the value of contrast in throwing her charms into relief, and was fully aware of the extent to which Mrs. Fisher's volubility was enhancing her own repose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  Every hour seemed to be enhancing her loveliness.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
12  Rumors of Abolitionist sympathies did not enhance the popularity of the MacIntoshes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  They stimulate him to greater watchfulness, and enhance his power to capture his slave.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  A circumstance which greatly tended to enhance the tyranny of the nobility, and the sufferings of the inferior classes, arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke William of Normandy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XII
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  This is the first time we've been able to document this kind of enhancement associated with exercise.
2  Your life can be enhanced, and your happiness enriched, when you choose to change your perspective.
3  The company will roll out an enhanced version of its operating system in the new year.
4  As a general rule, all muscular effort is enhanced by breathing in as the effort is made.
5  We are all beginning to experience global warming due to the enhanced greenhouse effect.
6  Tablets allow publishers to place these shops in the trustworthy environment of a newspaper, while offering the enhanced functionality of an online store.
7  He warned, however, that the enhanced cooperation programme should not be seen as a magic wand.
8  The possibility of enhancing one's knowledge is limitless.
9  Her sparing use of make-up only seemed to enhance her classically beautiful features.
10  Because friendships enhance our lives,it is important to cultivate them.
11  People believe that computer skills will enhance their job opportunities or promotion opportunities.
12  They hoped that the exhibition would enhance the cultural life of the nation.
13  These scandals will not enhance the organization's reputation/image.
14  We are currently developing a number of best practices to enhance network security.
15  This is an opportunity to enhance the reputation of the company.