FORMAT in a Sentence

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For FORMAT, below is one of 50 sentences:
Sometimes I endeavoured to gain from Frankenstein the particulars of his creature's formation, but on this point he was impenetrable.

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 Meanings and Examples of FORMAT
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format
 v.  pattern; design; set into a specific pattern
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Touch the leaves lightly or you'll disconsart the formation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
2  Softly, softly, we know our path; but it is good to examine the formation of things.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
3  Hold your head down, and draw in your legs; their formation might tell the truth too early.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
4  He scrambled upon a wee hill and watched it sweeping finely, keeping formation in difficult places.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  Having stirred this prodigious uproar, and, apparently, finding it too prodigious, the brigade, after a little time, came marching airily out again with its fine formation in nowise disturbed.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
6  It is the granite formation, which lies deepest, and rises out, even to the tops of the highest mountains.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  So far as institution and formation with relation to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, questionable in the fifteenth, are detestable in the nineteenth.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
8  He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
9  Fathers, mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
10  All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
11  A profound and unique formation.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
12  D'Artagnan looked at the two women, one after the other, and was forced to acknowledge that in his opinion Dame Nature had made a mistake in their formation.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
13  Sometimes I endeavoured to gain from Frankenstein the particulars of his creature's formation, but on this point he was impenetrable.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
14  The formation went on very slowly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
15  Twelve aeroplanes in perfect formation like a flight of wild duck came overhead.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  Education has for its object the formation of character.
17  My profession had an important influence in the formation of my character and temperament.
18  The slide gave close-up detail of petal formation.
19  We now know a lot more about the early stages of planetary formation.
20  You want to see how defenses align against your particular formation and see how they respond to a particular play.
21  He was flying in formation with seven other jets.
22  The toughness, strength, and translucence of porcelain arise mainly from the formation at these high temperatures of glass and the mineral mullite within the fired body.
23  Crystallization is the natural or artificial process of formation of solid crystals from a uniform solution.
24  The Malaysian leader called for the ten-member Association of South-East Asian nations to sign a formal pact with China, Japan and South Korea to work towards the formation of an East Asian Community, using the European Union as its benchmark.
25  A consideration of the cultural context of such concept formations is largely absent from his work.
26  Clouds are formations of tiny drops of water in the sky.
27  One advantage that the bow has over the sling is that bows can be used more easily in deep formations of troops.
28  But the content is very difficult to locate, and often in obsolete video formats.
29  This validation process ensures that the data conforms to acceptable formats.
30  Victor's upbringing is a formative influence in his early life.