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1. An example is furnished by him.
2. They've furnished the room very simply.
3. The room was furnished in austere style.
4. Tom said he could furnish it, and he did.
5. They furnished their house with red carpets.

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 Meanings and Examples of FURNISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
furnish
 v.  provide; supply; equip with what is needed, especially to provide furniture for
Classic Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  Tom said he could furnish it, and he did.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  He went to the best inn, ordered himself handsome clothes, and then bade the landlord furnish him a room as handsome as possible.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE BLUE LIGHT
3  Danglars, coming out of his cabin, who will furnish you with every particular.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival.
4  He assured me that nothing would be easier than to furnish all I desired.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.
5  The history which he related to me of his lost son touched me to the quick; indeed, his griefs, hopes, and fears on that subject might furnish material for a most touching and pathetic poem.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti.
6  "You should furnish him with some of course," replied Monte Cristo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti.
7  Without the aid of our wealth, they could neither furnish forth their hosts in war, nor their triumphs in peace, and the gold which we lend them returns with increase to our coffers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  If that be all your difficulty, I will furnish you with paper and every other material, and you may write your letter whenever you choose.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  So very fond of you as Miss Crawford is, it is most natural that she should tell you enough of her own feelings to furnish a tolerable guess at mine.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
10  His lameness prevented him from taking much exercise; but a mind of usefulness and ingenuity seemed to furnish him with constant employment within.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  I do not suppose the situation my friend Mrs Rooke is in at present, will furnish much either to interest or edify me.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
12  I do not trouble you with my theories, for you asked me to furnish you only with facts.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
13  And he further directed, that Horatius, one of his colleagues, should furnish supplies of arms, and corn, and of all else needful in time of war.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXX.
14  Brother Dennis, the carpenter, built a new house with six rooms; Josie toiled a year in Nashville, and brought back ninety dollars to furnish the house and change it to a home.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
15  Oglethorpe thought slavery against law and gospel; but the circumstances which gave Georgia its first inhabitants were not calculated to furnish citizens over-nice in their ideas about rum and slaves.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  We propose to furnish our own house according to our own taste.
2  Having bought the house, they couldn't afford to furnish it.
3  It cost $18 million to design, build and furnish, which is about $3 million more than the average for the newly built branches.
4  They've furnished the room very simply.
5  Someone had furnished the place on a tight budget.
6  An example is furnished by him.
7  They're renting a furnished flat on the third floor.
8  The hotel is modern and comfortably furnished.
9  They furnished their house with red carpets.
10  The room was furnished in austere style.
11  Indeed many are still advice workers and are thus constantly furnished with very real on-going practical experience to support their tutoring role.
12  I know a woman whose first-floor rooms are very artistically furnished in blue and gray, whose boudoir is in rose and ivory, and whose sewing room is in softest gray.
13  In large cabinet shops furnished with hi-tech computer-controlled equipment, cabinetmaker may specialize only in one or two of the functions listed.
14  So Bohr gave him a free hand in furnishing the laboratory, despite his youth.
15  Thank you for furnishing me with so many data.