GRANT in a Sentence

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For GRANT, below is one of 206 sentences:
I grant that this Liberia may have subserved all sorts of purposes, by being played off, in the hands of our oppressors, against us.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grant
 v.  allow to have; give on the basis of merit; be willing to concede
Classic Sentence: (152 in 11 pages)
1  Scarlett O'Hara, with the County at her feet, a hundred slaves to do her bidding, the wealth of Tara like a wall behind her and doting parents anxious to grant any desire of her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
2  Let's grant that he does the best he can but I don't imagine he's much help.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  They had a great porpoise grant from the crown.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
4  At any rate, if we yield to it, we must grant a far greater age to the Right Whale than at first glance will seem reasonable.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
5  Look ye, pudding-heads should never grant premises.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
6  "I will grant you Jesus," interrupted the other.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
7  "In some respects, some of them are well off, I grant," said the lady to whose remark she had answered.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  "So, good-by, Eliza; good-by, George; the Lord grant thee a safe journey;" and, with a few tripping steps, Ruth was out of the apartment.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  Ah, well, in New England, and in the free States, you have the better of us, I grant.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  I grant that this Liberia may have subserved all sorts of purposes, by being played off, in the hands of our oppressors, against us.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
11  Should you grant that request, all will be forgotten and blotted out and pardoned, for I myself will intercede with the Throne on your behalf.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
12  I even prayed as I approached him that God would grant me determination.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
13  God grant you health and long life.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
14  May God grant that you get a generalship.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
15  Well, well, God grant it, he added, not noticing his visitor's sarcastic smile.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
16  He was finally granted access to the medical records.
17  I came into adult life clueless about a lot of things that most people take for granted.
18  The country has also been granted membership of the World Trade Organisation.
19  Most of us, however, take life for granted.
20  Activists who were involved in crimes of violence will not automatically be granted amnesty.
21  I was granted permission to visit the palace.
22  Having sought asylum in the West for many years, they were eventually granted it.
23  Do not take it for granted that the board of the directors will approve of the plan.
24  I have to take one thing for granted: that I will love you, until the last breath leaves my body.
25  The council have granted him permission to build on the site.
26  He has been granted his freedom on condition that he leaves the country.
27  The enemy besieged in a few strongholds capitulated on the condition that they would be granted to return home voluntarily.
28  The building permits are granted by the City Building Department.
29  He was granted a pardon after new evidence had proved his innocence.
30  These lands had been granted to the family in perpetuity.