EPISODIC in a Sentence

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The old woman confirmed the fact regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode of the thousand-franc bill.

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 Meanings and Examples of EPISODIC
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episodic
 a.  loosely connected; divided into incidents; occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  They had not met since their Sunday afternoon walk at Bellomont, and that episode was still so vivid to her that she could hardly believe him to be less conscious of it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
2  Under ordinary circumstances, there would have been nothing surprising in an invitation from Bertha Dorset; but since the Bellomont episode an unavowed hostility had kept the two women apart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
3  Carry had in fact come dangerously near to being involved in the episode of Mrs. Norma Hatch, and it had taken some verbal ingenuity to extricate herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4  The episode of Nettie Crane's timely rescue from disease had been one of the most satisfying incidents of her connection with Gerty's charitable work.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  As she reached the street she realized that she felt stronger and happier: the little episode had done her good.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
6  We went on our way up stairs after this episode; and, as we were going up, we met a gentleman groping his way down.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
7  The episode of the elections served as a good occasion for a capital dinner.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 31
8  He was reading a brown-backed volume, but as the crowd approached he laid it aside, and listened attentively to an account of the episode.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
9  There was, however, gradually evolved from its transformation scenes a less extravagant episode, in which the heath dimly appeared behind the general brilliancy of the action.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
10  The episode ended well, for both Heron and Wallis laughed indulgently at the irreverence.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  Now I shall learn something pleasant, I am sure; for it will tell me the other side of a true love episode of which I know one side already.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  He narrated that episode so persistently and with so important an air that everyone believed in the merit and usefulness of his deed, and he had obtained two decorations for Austerlitz.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI
13  Before Sonya and her mother, if Boris happened to be mentioned, she spoke quite freely of that episode as of some childish, long-forgotten matter that was not worth mentioning.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XII
14  The old woman confirmed the fact regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode of the thousand-franc bill.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
15  de Treville, who had received the account of the adventure from the mouths of the heroes of it, related it in all its details to his Eminence, not forgetting the episode of the napkin.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  John found the novel too episodic; he enjoyed individual passages, but had trouble following the work as a whole.
2  Volcanic activity is highly episodic in nature.
3  The final episode will be shown tonight.
4  She decided she would try to forget the episode by the lake.
5  It makes you want to watch the next episode to find out what's going to happen.
6  This episode is bound to be a deep embarrassment for Washington.
7  She has only told you about the latest episode in a long history of mental illness.
8  Listen to the next exciting episode tomorrow night.
9  This latest episode in the fraud scandal has shocked a lot of people.
10  Oh, the whole episode was entirely his fault.
11  The Rockefeller episode vividly demonstrates the Republican appetite for strife.
12  The premiere is going to air on Wednesday, but NBC released the first episode online already.
13  My uncle got into the back of the car, scratching his head in confusion, having missed the episode completely.
14  But Mr Chissano said he respected the views of others in the Commonwealth and didn't think the episode should bring about enmity between member states.
15  Weather forecast said there are early signs that this continent risks entering another El Nino episode.