GUEST in a Sentence

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286 example sentences for GUEST, such as:

1. At last the guests began to arrive.
2. Fish and guests smell after three days.
3. Tidy the room up before the guests arrive.
4. A troop of guests was moving towards the house.
5. She received guests with a respectful attitude.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUEST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
guest
 n.  a person who is invited to visit the home
 n.  a customer at a restaurant
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Yet the newly-arrived guest kept his head sufficiently to contrive to murmur some such compliment as might fittingly come from a middle-aged individual of a rank neither excessively high nor excessively low.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  The two friends exchanged hearty embraces, and Manilov then conducted his guest to the drawing-room.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
3  Next, Manilov wondered whether, for some unknown reason, his guest had lost his wits; wherefore he spent some time in gazing at him with anxious intentness.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
4  I should be greatly to blame if I were to omit that, as soon as Manilov had pronounced these words, the face of his guest became replete with satisfaction.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
5  Nevertheless the guest did at least execute such a convulsive shuffle that the material with which the cushions of the chair were covered came apart, and Manilov gazed at him with some misgiving.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
6  Then he re-entered the drawing-room, seated himself upon a chair, and surrendered his mind to the thought that he had shown his guest most excellent entertainment.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
7  But the guest declined the proffered heel-tickling, and, on his hostess taking her departure, hastened to divest himself of his clothing, both upper and under, and to hand the garments to Fetinia.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
8  Even before the soup had been served, he had poured out for each guest a bumper of port and another of "haut" sauterne.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
9  Host and guest greeted one another in friendly fashion, and Nozdrev inquired how Chichikov had slept.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
10  This functionary conducted Chichikov into the hall, where he was met by the master of the house himself, who requested his guest to enter, and then led him into the inner part of the mansion.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
11  As host and guest crossed the dining-room Chichikov directed a second glance at his companion.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
12  At length they reached the drawing-room, where Sobakevitch pointed to an armchair, and invited his guest to be seated.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
13  Upon this Theodulia Ivanovna requested her guest to be seated, and accompanied the invitation with the kind of bow usually employed only by actresses who are playing the role of queens.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
14  In the drawing-room the company found dessert awaiting them in the shape of pears, plums, and apples; but since neither host nor guest could tackle these particular dainties the hostess removed them to another room.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
15  Somehow he seemed to have taken offence at Chichikov's almost joyous exclamation; wherefore the guest hastened to heave a profound sigh, and to observe that he sympathised to the full with his host's misfortunes.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
16  Rochester enforce this concealment? His guest had been outraged, his own life on a former occasion had been hideously plotted against; and both attempts he smothered in secrecy and sank in oblivion! Lastly, I saw Mr.
17  At the Let's Chat Talk Show, the audience members opine that the guest was in the wrong.
18  Given Jill's previous slights, Jack felt that the omission of his name from the guest list was a studied insult.
19  For years I valued him more as a guest star as with the Dizzy Big Band than as a bandleader.”
20  The main house was originally the home of Tombstone's first bank manager, while the guest rooms are in an old boardinghouse.
21  Fish and guests smell after three days.
22  The foreign guests will call on you next Wednesday afternoon.
23  The hotel flies the American flag when it has guests from the US.
24  At last the guests began to arrive.
25  I like to get everything done before the guests arrive and relax for a moment in the calm before the storm.
26  Tidy the room up before the guests arrive.
27  The room must be picked up before the guests arrive.
28  She received guests with a respectful attitude.
29  Downstairs there's a breakfast room and guests can relax in the cosy bar.
30  A troop of guests was moving towards the house.