EQUIPPED 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 EQUIPPED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
equipped
 v.  provide with abilities or understanding
 v.  provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  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
2  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
3  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
4  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
5  The man is a striking-looking fellow, very well equipped to steal the heart of a country girl, so that this theory seemed to have something to support it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
6  For such a life, what we should call the weak are as well equipped as the strong, are indeed no longer weak.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
7  Better equipped indeed they are, for the strong would be fretted by an energy for which there was no outlet.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
8  It anchored near the Arsenal; it was fully equipped, and repairs were begun.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
9  At the door stood two horses, fresh, strong, and fully equipped.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
10  These horses are equipped for the field.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
11  D'Artagnan related to Athos all that had passed at the church between Porthos and the procurator's wife, and how their comrade was probably by that time in a fair way to be equipped.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN
12  The two men followed the company, and on leaving the Faubourg St. Antoine, mounted two horses properly equipped, which a servant without livery had waiting for them.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 40 A TERRIBLE VISION
13  Yes, sir, there'd be two million fully equipped Spanish soldiers fighting with us in France in one month now.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  But no wonder; there was a good deal to be done, and there is no telling how many things to be thought of, before the Pequod was fully equipped.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
15  The family were now fairly equipped to begin their struggle with the soil.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
16  The farm lacks even basic equipment.
17  The school is always having to get out the begging bowl for books and basic equipment.
18  Better driv-ing equipment will improve track adhesion in slippery conditions.
19  They supply us with latest equipment.
20  The climbers strapped on a variety of equipment.
21  They strapped on a variety of equipment.
22  He has a stack of computer equipment he's knocked off from various shops.
23  I'm having difficulty using my video editing equipment and can't fathom out the various connections.
24  This equipment has saved the lives of a number of new born children.
25  The hospital has set up a special fund to buy new equipment.
26  You'll be able to reclaim the tax on all equipment that you buy.
27  The equipment was extremely sophisticated and was monitored from a central control-panel.
28  Check that the equipment is operating in a safe manner.
29  The high cost of borrowing is inhibiting investment by industry in new equipment.
30  You will be employed to assist in the development of new equipment.