FEAT in a Sentence

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For FEAT, below is one of 43 sentences:
But it is no such marvelous feat to exhibit the feats of so dull a beast; though, for that matter, too, a bear may be overacted.

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 Meanings and Examples of FEAT
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feat
 n.  an achievement that requires great courage, skill, or strength; accomplishment
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  It was the greatest feat of the war, and Atlanta took pride and personal satisfaction in the thought that its railroads had made the victory possible.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  They had learned retreating under Old Joe, who had made it as great a feat of strategy as advancing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  Gerald's letter was so full of brag and bluster as to how the Yankees had been driven from the railroad that one would have thought he personally had accomplished the feat, single handed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  Tis but to help strike a fin; no wondrous feat for Starbuck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
5  This particular feat of the shark seems all but miraculous.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
6  Now, the beheading of the Sperm Whale is a scientific anatomical feat, upon which experienced whale surgeons very much pride themselves: and not without reason.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
7  But it is no such marvelous feat to exhibit the feats of so dull a beast; though, for that matter, too, a bear may be overacted.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
8  No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
9  This feat of horsemanship again attracted the applause of the multitude.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  The gentleman walked on with them by the officer's side; and as many of the crowd as could achieve the feat, got a little ahead, and stared back at Oliver from time to time.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  With an area beneath, it was no mean feat to reach that window ledge and open that window.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
12  The waiter had just time to accomplish this feat before Paul Ivanovitch Chichikov set forth to inspect the town.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
13  So Chichikov made the attempt; and in very truth the veal was beyond all praise, and room was found for it, even though one would have supposed the feat impossible.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
14  He examined the bullets with which Monte Cristo performed this dexterous feat, and saw that they were no larger than buckshot.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 90. The Meeting.
15  Phemius," she cried, "you know many another feat of gods and heroes, such as poets love to celebrate.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK I
Example Sentence:
1  For a leading Democrat to chastise his own party at its own nominating convention was a remarkable political feat.
2  Crossing the North Pole on foot was an amazing feat of human endeavour.
3  Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.
4  It is no mean feat to perform such a difficult piece.
5  My favorite seat was a smooth and broad stone, rising white and dry from the very middle of the beck, and only to be got at by wading through the water; a feat I accomplished barefoot.
6  Not only are you showing your naivete regarding moviemaking, but you are seriously insulting the brave stuntman who actually performed the feat.
7  The Chinese people have performed great historic feats.
8  She's performed remarkable feats of organization for the office.
9  He used to astound his friends with feats of physical endurance.
10  The evil sorcerer performed feats of necromancy, calling on the spirits of the dead to tell the future.
11  It is the repertory of the supposed feats of mesmerism.