ESTATE in a Sentence

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That is to say, I am the owner of three hundred peasant souls, a badly administered estate, and a fool of a bailiff.

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 Meanings and Examples of ESTATE
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estate
 n.  extensive landed property; everything you own; all of your assets
Classic Sentence: (178 in 12 pages)
1  But, unfortunately, neither money nor real estate, whether improved or non-improved, can purchase such a stomach.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  I myself managed to sell everything from my estate at a good price.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  Sobakevitch's country house and estate were of very fair size, and on each side of the mansion were expanses of birch and pine forest in two shades of green.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
4  Among commissions entrusted to him was that of placing in the hands of the Public Trustee several hundred peasants who belonged to a ruined estate.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
5  That is to say, I am the owner of three hundred peasant souls, a badly administered estate, and a fool of a bailiff.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
6  And for long afterwards he would feel as though his man's intellect and estate were a burden.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
7  There is nothing for me to do at home, since the management of the estate is in my brother's hands, and my going would cause him no inconvenience.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
8  Again, everything on his estate is made to perform at least three or four different functions.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
9  I cannot let you go, for, in addition to my honour having become involved, it behoves me to show my people how the regular, the organised, administration of an estate may be conducted.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
10  Yes, no sooner does a man get a little education into his head than he becomes a Don Quixote, and establishes schools on his estate such as even a madman would never have dreamed of.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
11  He is a man who, were he not the director of an estate, might well be a director of the Empire.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
12  All, that is to say, except Chichikov, whose thoughts remained wakeful, and who kept wondering and wondering how best he could become the owner, not of a fictitious, but of a real, estate.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
13  And another project which was occupying Chichikov's mind was the project of purchasing the estate of a certain landowner named Khlobuev.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
14  Next day, with Platon and Constantine, Chichikov set forth to interview Khlobuev, the owner whose estate Constantine had consented to help Chichikov to purchase with a non-interest-bearing, uncovenanted loan of ten thousand roubles.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
15  Also, the village in Khlobuev's estate had about it a deserted air, and as for the proprietor himself, he was discovered in a state of drowsy dishevelment, having not long left his bed.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  The new housing estate stretches beyond the playing - fields.
17  The new government expropriated his estate for military purposes.
18  I left my parents' house, relinquished my estate and my patrimony.
19  The family owns a large estate in the north of the country.
20  Dozens of families on the estate have been give notice to quit.
21  It's a typical country estate with a large house for the owner, farm buildings and estate workers' houses.
22  I naturally took him to be the owner of the estate.
23  In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come, the estate agent from Sudbury.
24  The government levies taxes on real estate and personal property.
25  The estate is holding an auction to raise money.
26  Frankly speaking, I don't think it any good to invest in real estate.
27  By investing in real estate, he was one of the richest men in the United States.
28  The estate passed undivided to his only son.
29  The wood lies on the southern extremity of the estate.
30  She made a bundle selling real estate.