EQUIPMENT in a Sentence

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At that the fleet of boat-shaped bodies paused; poised; equipped; mailed; then with a waver of undulation off they flashed.

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 Meanings and Examples of EQUIPMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
equipment
 n.  apparatus, the set of necessary tools, clothing, etc. for a particular purpose
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  For this purpose her equipment, though varied, was inadequate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  In the beginning, the Troop had been recruited exclusively from the sons of planters, a gentleman's outfit, each man supplying his own horse, arms, equipment, uniform and body servant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  If the educational equipment which Gerald brought to America was scant, he did not even know it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  But I used the ten dollars to put a roof on an old store down by Five Points and I moved the hospital equipment in and started selling it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  Presently a horseman with jangling equipment drew rein before the colonel of the regiment.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  The porter had easily found in the neighborhood the wherewithal to complete his equipment.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER III—WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP
7  "That's well," said he to Planchet, when the latter added the portmanteau to the equipment.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
8  Athos and d'Artagnan, with the activity of two soldiers and the knowledge of two connoisseurs, hardly required three hours to purchase the entire equipment of the Musketeer.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT
9  M Dessessart, who esteemed d'Artagnan, made him offers of help, as this change would entail expenses for equipment.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
10  The Guards had already left Petersburg on the tenth of August, and her son, who had remained in Moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to Radzivilov.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
11  They had moreover brought most of their own furnishings and equipment with them.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In III
12  At that the fleet of boat-shaped bodies paused; poised; equipped; mailed; then with a waver of undulation off they flashed.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
13  The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
14  In place of these, he was equipped with a sword of lath, resembling that with which Harlequin operates his wonders upon the modern stage.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  That night, and the next, and the next again, the spy sat booted and equipped in his carter's dress: ready to turn out at a word from Fagin.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
16  Check that the equipment is operating in a safe manner.
17  The high cost of borrowing is inhibiting investment by industry in new equipment.
18  You will be employed to assist in the development of new equipment.
19  It took them about one month to figure out how to start the equipment.
20  The company had to dip into a reserve fund to pay for all the new equipment.
21  The oil company will ship out the heavy equipment.
22  We had enormous difficulty in getting hold of the right equipment.
23  To buy all the recommended equipment is expensive, but as an investment for the future it is cheap at the price.
24  Gage proposed cutting costs by using volunteers for the labor and corporate sponsors for the equipment.
25  The ship is loaded with military equipment.
26  The top secret documents had to do with the most advanced military equipment.
27  They used to be a leading supplier of military equipment.
28  With normal usage, the equipment should last at least five years.
29  Its radar equipment was powered by a nuclear reactor.
30  Undercover officers found drug-making equipment used to impregnate paper with LSD.