GENERATE in a Sentence

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232 example sentences for GENERATE, such as:

1. The older generation doesn't like pop music.
2. A lie begets a lie till they come to generation.
3. Writers like him belong to a different generation.
4. Like most of my generation, I had never known a war.
5. They are a lost generation in search of an identity.

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 Meanings and Examples of GENERATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
generate
 v.  bring into being; give rise to; produce
Classic Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  The conclusions it led him to were fortified, later in the evening, by some of those faint corroborative hints that generate a light of their own in the dusk of a doubting mind.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
2  An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In III
3  For her generation the newspaper was a book; and, as her father-in-law had dropped the Times, she took it and read: "A horse with a green tail."
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  Later, another generation had planted fruit trees, which in time had spread their arms widely across the red orange weathered brick.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
5  endlessly old, built up of layers of disillusion, going down in him generation after generation, like geological strata; and at the same time he was forlorn like a child.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  All the great words, it seemed to Connie, were cancelled for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now, and dying from day to day.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
8  Her face was averted, and she was crying blindly, in all the anguish of her generation's forlornness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  The younger generation were utterly unconscious of the old England.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  I tell you, every generation breeds a more rabbity generation, with india rubber tubing for guts and tin legs and tin faces.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
11  "Every generation has its improvements," said Miss Crawford, with a smile, to Edmund.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  During that time I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended with the last generation.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
14  Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
15  If each generation die and leave ghosts, he argued, the world at last will get overcrowded with them.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
Example Sentence: (146 in 10 pages)
16  Alarmists usually regard the rising generation as a falling one.
17  A lie begets a lie till they come to generation.
18  Her films had an immeasurable effect on a generation of Americans.
19  The environmental impact of power generation is being assessed.
20  Schools help to acculturate the second generation of immigrants.
21  Manufacturers are working on a new generation of cheaper digital radios.
22  The idea of handing down his knowledge from generation to generation is important to McLean.
23  The older generation doesn't like pop music.
24  Like most of my generation, I had never known a war.
25  She has nothing but scorn for the new generation of politicians.
26  My generation have grown up without the experience of a world war.
27  People of my generation who lived through World War II have vivid memories of confusion and incompetence.
28  She ranks above any other musician of her generation.
29  Writers like him belong to a different generation.
30  They are a lost generation in search of an identity.