FURNITURE in a Sentence

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For FURNITURE, below is one of 199 sentences:
Of course, her doctors bills were so much, and then the books and furniture Ashley ordered from New York did run into money.

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 Meanings and Examples of FURNITURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
furniture
 n.  movable articles in a room, which make it fit for living or working
Classic Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
1  With the exception of the dark-eyed woman's chair, which looked like a soiled relic of luxury bought at a country auction, the furniture was of the roughest kind.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  The street was crowded with army wagons and ambulances filled with wounded and carriages piled high with valises and pieces of furniture.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  The man crashed backwards to the floor, sprawling into the dining room with a violence that shook the furniture.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Upstairs she could hear heavy boots trampling, the protesting screech of furniture pulled across the floor, the crashing of china and mirrors, the curses when nothing of value appeared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  When he was able to totter about the house, he turned his hands to weaving baskets of split oak and mending the furniture ruined by the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  Tommy and Hugh Elsing and the little monkey-like Rene Picard stood talking with her while the chairs and furniture were pushed back to the wall in preparation for the dancing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  Secondhand furniture, ranging from cheap gum to mahogany and rosewood, reared up in the gloom, and the rich but worn brocade and horsehair upholstery gleamed incongruously in the dingy surroundings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  The upstairs, so rumor said, was fitted out with the finest of plush upholstered furniture, heavy lace curtains and imported mirrors in gilt frames.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  Ashley sat on Ellen's little writing chair, his long body dwarfing the frail bit of furniture while Scarlett offered him a half- interest in the mill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  Of course, her doctors bills were so much, and then the books and furniture Ashley ordered from New York did run into money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
11  It must be pure bliss to arrange the furniture just as one likes, and give all the horrors to the ash-man.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
12  He followed her glance about the room, with its worn furniture and shabby walls.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
13  To attempt to bring her into active relation with life was like tugging at a piece of furniture which has been screwed to the floor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
14  Mrs. Peniston again paused, but this time her scrutiny addressed itself, not to the furniture, but to her niece.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
15  Mrs. Peniston had kept her imagination shrouded, like the drawing-room furniture.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
Example Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
16  Much of their furniture was scavenged from other people's garbage.
17  Dust-sheets were draped over the furniture.
18  I was moving some furniture and I twisted my ankle in the process.
19  The pale walls provide a perfect foil for the brightly coloured furniture.
20  Come and see our new range of furniture.
21  The orange curtains jar with the red furniture.
22  The red carpet jars with the furniture.
23  Others use optical detectors, which seem to respond more quickly to smoke from smouldering fires such as those involving upholstered furniture.
24  The new sofa was bigger than the old one, so they had to rearrange the rest of the furniture.
25  Foldaway furniture is the answer where space is at a premium.
26  The furniture has been delivered from the store.
27  There's room in the cellar to store unused furniture and what have you.
28  Make sure that the furniture is aligned in a proper fashion with a set pattern.
29  There was no superfluous ornament in the room, not one modern piece of furniture, everything looked at once well worn and well saved.
30  His furniture is in storage while he finds a new house.