FOUNDER in a Sentence

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41 example sentences for FOUNDER, such as:

1. The ship foundered in the heavy seas.
2. The platform swayed and should founder very soon.
3. He is a founder member of the Prison Reform Trust.
4. The project foundered as a result of lack of finance.
5. He is the founder of International Sports Management Limited.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOUNDER
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founder
 v.  fail completely; sink below the surface of the water
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Thirteen paternosters are assigned by our pious founder for matins, and nine for vespers; be those services doubled by thee.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is really managed by Miss Stoper.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
3  I must inform you, gentlemen, that the Priory is a preparatory school, of which I am the founder and principal.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
4  The crew had thought she would founder and had made for the Norwegian coast in the dinghy.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
5  The founder of that great emporium proved to be a brisk, crisp little person, very dapper and quick, with a clear head and a ready tongue.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
6  The capacity of a founder is known in two ways: by his choice of a site, or by the laws which he frames.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I.
7  Wherefore, we may see a city or province furnished with free institutions by some great and wise founder, flourish for a while through his merits, and advance steadily on the path of improvement.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LX.
8  It was necessary that Romulus should not remain in Alba, and that he should be abandoned at his birth, in order that he should become King of Rome and founder of the fatherland.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQU...
9  It was a Pierce of Boston who pointed out the way, and thus became in a sense the founder of the Freedmen's Bureau.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
10  Says you, "Joseph, I have this day seen my earliest benefactor and the founder of my fortun's."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
11  Reward of ingratitoode to his earliest benefactor, and founder of fortun's.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
12  Here is Teucer's ancient brood, a generation excellent in beauty, high-hearted heroes born in happier years, Ilus and Assaracus, and Dardanus, founder of Troy.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
13  Nor was the founder of Praeneste city absent, the king who, as every age hath believed, was born of Vulcan among the pasturing herds, and found beside the hearth, Caeculus.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
14  He had sailed away in his ship to founder in some winter sea.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
15  The founder of a sect or party, or an inventor, impresses us less when we know how or by what the way was prepared for his activity.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The founder of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman, would strongly decry the lack of financial and moral support for children in America today.
2  The modern founder of Pantheism, Benedict Spinoza, was a man of pure and saintly character, a gentle recluse from the world, lovable and blameless.
3  Some businesses require very little capital and the founder is able to self-finance the enterprise.
4  The platform swayed and should founder very soon.
5  Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished.
6  He is the founder of International Sports Management Limited.
7  He is a founder member of the Prison Reform Trust.
8  A New York jury brought criminal indictments against the founder of the organization.
9  Bush, along with Walker, Rick Perry, Carly Fiorina and others, has committed to attend a conservative cattle call in Atlanta hosted by RedState founder Erick Erickson that is concurrent to the straw poll.
10  Ballmer is a brash, exuberant, natural-born salesman — especially compared with the cerebral Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
11  Only two months ago, there was much criticism of the founders who organized the floatation and continued to interact with Wall Street.
12  He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty.
13  Teaching computers to read and write has always foundered on the unpredictable human element in language.
14  The ship foundered in the heavy seas.
15  The project foundered as a result of lack of finance.