ENTRY in a Sentence

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For ENTRY, below is one of 84 sentences:
A tramping of sea boots was heard in the entry; the door was flung open, and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENTRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
entry
 n.  admission; entrance; item inserted in a written record
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
2  The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
3  A tramping of sea boots was heard in the entry; the door was flung open, and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
4  He stood in the little entry hall, the lantern and his fur cap under his arm, shaking hands with us.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
5  The door opened directly into the parlor; there was no side entry.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXI
6  The key was always left in a secret hiding-place in the entry, which Edna knew.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIII
7  She moved cautiously along the entry, paused one moment at her mistress' door, and raised her hands in mute appeal to Heaven, and then turned and glided into her own room.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  "Well, now, that's a fact," said mine host, as he made an entry in his book.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  A crowd of servants now pressed to the entry door, and among them a middle-aged mulatto woman, of very respectable appearance, stood foremost, in a tremor of expectation and joy, at the door.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  Legree stepped out into a large entry, which went up stairs, by what had formerly been a superb winding staircase; but the passage-way was dirty and dreary, encumbered with boxes and unsightly litter.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  He heard her open the entry doors that led to the garret.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
12  Mrs. Shelby ran to the entry door, and was folded in the arms of her son.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  Mr. Enfield and the lawyer were on the other side of the by-street; but when they came abreast of the entry, the former lifted up his cane and pointed.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
14  Yet his attention had never before been so sharply and decisively arrested; and it was with a strong, superstitious prevision of success that he withdrew into the entry of the court.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
15  The lawyer, looking forth from the entry, could soon see what manner of man he had to deal with.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Bill was among the first to gain entry to Buckingham Palace when it opened to the public recently.
2  Each worker has to carry a magnetized plastic entry card.
3  It was dark and their entry into the camp had gone unnoticed.
4  The army made a triumphant entry into the enemy's capital.
5  The reader is cross - referenced to the entry " center ".
6  The winning entry will be selected at random by computer.
7  More keyboarding staff are required for data entry.
8  The data entry terminal is connected to an online database while editing is taking place.
9  The federal authorities deported him for illegal entry.
10  His entry to the party coincided with his marriage.
11  She made her entry to the sound of thunderous applause.
12  Beggars waited just outside the entry way to the cathedral.
13  Thus ideas already in consciousness always repel the entry uncompatible idea and make entry of the congenial idea.
14  I agree entry costs are high, but I disagree that they will remain prohibitively so for much longer.
15  "No exit or entry screening will supplant the need for state and local health departments, for clinicians and for individuals to be aware and to think Ebola."