GROSS in a Sentence

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For GROSS, below is one of 26 sentences:
Therefore, I saw that here was a sort of interregnum in Providence; for its even-handed equity never could have so gross an injustice.

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 Meanings and Examples of GROSS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gross
 a.  of huge size; excessively large; coarse; rough; not fine or delicate
Classic Sentence:
1  And, instead of turning her against him, it only made her more timidly gracious toward him because of her indignation at what she fancied was a gross injustice done him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Therefore, I saw that here was a sort of interregnum in Providence; for its even-handed equity never could have so gross an injustice.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
3  The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  I bent myself to devising ways and means for our escape, and meanwhile strove, on all fitting occasions, to impress them with the gross fraud and inhumanity of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  I should have thought it a gross violation of duty and respect.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  We see nothing of them, and this is really an instance of gross inattention.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
8  They reason thus because, blinded by the gross illusion of the flesh and the darkness of human understanding, they are unable to comprehend the hideous malice of mortal sin.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  The hair would lose its brightness, the mouth would gape or droop, would be foolish or gross, as the mouths of old men are.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
10  It uses it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and summary fashion.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
11  A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs and sold for sixty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
12  The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
Example Sentence:
1  His report was attacked as a gross distortion of the truth.
2  I feel disgusted and wonder how I could ever have been so gross.
3  The company were guilty of gross negligence.
4  The company only dismisses its employees in cases of gross misconduct.
5  I consider his remark a gross impertinence.
6  The company described reports of environmental disaster as gross exaggeration.
7  The official figures are a gross underestimate of the true number.
8  I'd put on ten kilos and felt gross in my bikini.
9  I think it would be a gross distortion of reality to say that they were motivated by self-interest.
10  He was a person of gross sexual appetites.
11  I will not tolerate such gross interference.
12  The taskforce's main recommendation is to reduce Government operating spending to 29 per cent of gross domestic product by 2012.
13  You can tell from his gross language that the man was uneducated.
14  "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" had its trip to the number one spot cut short, falling to third place. The film earned $17.5 million, bringing its cumulative domestic grosses to $263.8 million.