ENTRANCE in a Sentence

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For ENTRANCE, below is one of 240 sentences:
Only the entrance of Melanie stopped one of those swift hot quarrels which seemed to spring up so easily between them these days.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENTRANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
entrance
 n.  a door, gate, etc. by which you can enter a building or place
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Gerald's face had brightened as if by magic at her entrance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  She had carefully avoided the back entrance, for Mammy's sharp eyes would certainly have seen that something was greatly amiss.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  But Scarlett, watching the pallbearers' difficulty in getting the coffin through the narrow entrance into the burying ground, had no thought of trouble to come after the funeral.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  We went in through a private back entrance that opens on the railroad tracks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
5  Once her sudden entrance abruptly terminated a conversation about what had happened to the members of Quantrill's band of guerillas, and she caught the names of Frank and Jesse James.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
6  Only the entrance of Melanie stopped one of those swift hot quarrels which seemed to spring up so easily between them these days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
7  The room was full of women and girls, all too much engaged in the rapid absorption of tea and pie to remark her entrance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
8  She hid her eyes with a shudder, beholding herself at the entrance of that ever-narrowing perspective down which she had seen Miss Silverton's dowdy figure take its despondent way.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
9  But at the entrance of Guy Pollock she discovered a personality.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
10  It was the entrance to a Chippewa Indian reservation, a sandy settlement among Norway pines on the shore of a huge snow-glaring lake.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  Even before the entrance of the coffee and hot rolls Carol seized on Mrs. Champ Perry, the kind and ample-bosomed pioneer woman who gave historic dignity to the modern matrons of the Thanatopsis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  The door did not once open after the awkward entrance of the first guests.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  He sat up at the entrance of Mrs. Dave Dyer.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  This savage was the only person present who seemed to notice my entrance; because he was the only one who could not read, and, therefore, was not reading those frigid inscriptions on the wall.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
15  The cabin entrance was locked within; the hatches were all on, and lumbered with coils of rigging.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
Example Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  The audience oozed toward the entrance.
2  While the front door is being repaired, please use the side entrance.
3  He made a surreptitious entrance to the club through the little door in the brick wall.
4  A tunnel entrance was found within the precincts of the prison camp.
5  Go through the main entrance into the yard.
6  The college entrance examination is a real challenge.
7  Beside the entrance to the church, turn right.
8  Congratulations on your success in the national college entrance examination.
9  A dozen or so cars were parked near the entrance.
10  He realized his dream when he passed the entrance examination.
11  He was punctilious about being ready and waiting in the entrance hall exactly on time.
12  Cars must not park in front of the entrance.
13  The car waited at the front entrance.
14  A broad avenue of lime trees led up to a grand entrance with huge oak doors.
15  We had to stoop to pass through the low entrance.