ENUMERATE in a Sentence

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Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENUMERATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
enumerate
 v.  list each one; mention one by one
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Permit me, I say, to inquire why you enumerate the talents of the deceased, seeing that they are all of them dead, and that therefore there can be no sense in doing so.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
2  It would take a dozen pages to enumerate all the reproaches the historians address to him, based on their knowledge of what is good for humanity.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER I
3  I shall enumerate them by their fore-castle appellations; for possibly such a list may be valuable to future investigators, who may complete what I have here but begun.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
4  Stephen began to enumerate glibly his father's attributes.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  "Pride and honor and truth and virtue and kindliness," he enumerated silkily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
6  And if you descend into the bowels of the various leviathans, why there you will not find distinctions a fiftieth part as available to the systematizer as those external ones already enumerated.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
7  He enumerated the warriors of the party; their several merits; their frequent services to the nation; their wounds, and the number of the scalps they had taken.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
8  Then the voice of the speaker fell, and lost the loud, animated tones of triumph with which he had enumerated their deeds of success and victory.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
9  When he had enumerated the many different occasions on which the Hurons had exhibited their courage and prowess, in the punishment of insults, he digressed in a high encomium on the virtue of wisdom.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
10  Behold, then, the candles lighted, the fire stimulated to the burning point in the grate, and our three worthies seated round a table, well spread with all the accessories to good fellowship enumerated before.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  Thus he avoided the quadruple trap which was set for him in the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
12  The love with which his young wife had inspired him was a secondary sentiment, and was not strong enough to contend with the primitive feelings we have just enumerated.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
13  Roger Chillingworth possessed all, or most, of the attributes above enumerated.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
14  I enumerated in my own mind all the various points upon which he had shown me that he was exceptionally well-informed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
15  Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII(*) — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SH...
Example Sentence:
1  Huck hung his head in shame as Miss Watson began to enumerate his many flaws.
2  Let me enumerate many flaws in your hypothesis.