ESTABLISHMENT in a Sentence

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Mr. Bounderby being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend.

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 Meanings and Examples of ESTABLISHMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
establishment
 n.  act of establishing; ratifying or ordaining; settlement; arranged order or system, especially a legal code
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  No argument or persuasion could ever induce him to set up a female establishment after the manner of his companions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2  The clashing and banging band attached to the horse-riding establishment, which had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion, was in full bray.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
3  Mr. Bounderby being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
4  He held the respectable office of general spy and informer in the establishment, for which volunteer service he received a present at Christmas, over and above his weekly wage.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
5  The robbery at the Bank had not languished before, and did not cease to occupy a front place in the attention of the principal of that establishment now.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
6  This establishment of the Templars was seated amidst fair meadows and pastures, which the devotion of the former Preceptor had bestowed upon their Order.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  I dare say she would not; but she would be introduced into the society of this country under such very favourable circumstances as, in all human probability, would get her a creditable establishment.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  I admire your little establishment exceedingly; and as soon as I am gone, you will empty your head of all this nonsense of acting, and sit comfortably down to your table.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  And they are quite in the light, for it would be a very pretty establishment for them.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  How they might be benefited, how they must rejoice in such an establishment for you, is nothing to you.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  It had had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  The Three Cripples, or rather the Cripples; which was the sign by which the establishment was familiarly known to its patrons: was the public-house in which Mr. Sikes and his dog have already figured.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  He is the master of this establishment; his death will cause a wacancy; that wacancy must be filled up.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  Well," continued Mrs Smith, triumphantly, "grant my friend the credit due to the establishment of the first point asserted.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
15  Her high gods were William the Conqueror, Strafford, and Napoleon Buonaparte, as they had appeared in the Lady's History used at the establishment in which she was educated.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
Example Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
16  Though some Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower favored the establishment of a theocracy in New England, many of their fellow voyagers preferred a nonreligious form of government.
17  UN recently passed a resolution welcoming the establishment of the Iraqi Governing Council, a council appointed under US supervision.
18  Through some combination of political skill, fortuitous timing, well-tuned messaging, and sheer luck this has become the Summer of Sanders — in which an unkempt 73-year-old man who isn't even a member of the Democratic Party is mounting the strongest challenge to the Democratic establishment.
19  In 2012, the GOP establishment anointed Mitt Romney as the next Ronald Reagan, the only man who could defeat Barack Obama.
20  Hollywood actor and UN special envoy Angelina Jolie is accorded one of the highest accolades granted by the British establishment as she is made an honorary dame in the Queen's birthday honours.
21  If I were the president of a university I should establish a compulsory course in "How to Use Your Eyes".
22  The exhibition helped her establish herself as an artist.
23  He could not get a single witness to establish independent corroboration of his version of the accident.
24  The police are still trying to establish the cause of the fire.
25  The firm required a reference to establish the bona fides of the client.
26  The director tends to establish his relatives in the best jobs.
27  The two countries agreed to establish full diplomatic relations.
28  Recommendations from two previous clients helped to establish her credibility.
29  On Tuesday the country's parliament voted to establish its own army.
30  It is important to establish the chronology of the events.