HARMONY in a Sentence

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For HARMONY, below is one of 81 sentences:
He had no wish to make her talk; her quick-breathing silence seemed a part of the general hush and harmony of things.

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 Meanings and Examples of HARMONY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
harmony
 n.  a pleasant musical sound made by different notes; an agreeable sound property
 n.  compatibility in opinion and action
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  Music for me unfolds her heavenly harmony.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
2  But, the gramophone asserted, let us retain whatever made that harmony.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
3  Notwithstanding the prescription of the genial hermit, with which his guest willingly complied, he found it no easy matter to bring the harp to harmony.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  The evening passed with external smoothness, though almost every mind was ruffled; and the music which Sir Thomas called for from his daughters helped to conceal the want of real harmony.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  The elegance, propriety, regularity, harmony, and perhaps, above all, the peace and tranquillity of Mansfield, were brought to her remembrance every hour of the day, by the prevalence of everything opposite to them here.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
6  The living in incessant noise was, to a frame and temper delicate and nervous like Fanny's, an evil which no superadded elegance or harmony could have entirely atoned for.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  Never was harmony more perfect than that between the chaos of her mind and the chaos of the world without.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
8  A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
9  An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In X
10  He had no wish to make her talk; her quick-breathing silence seemed a part of the general hush and harmony of things.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
11  The seated throng, filling the immense room without undue crowding, presented a surface of rich tissues and jewelled shoulders in harmony with the festooned and gilded walls, and the flushed splendours of the Venetian ceiling.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
12  Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
13  There was a basic harmony between Antonia and her mistress.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
14  In the group about Antonia I was conscious of a kind of physical harmony.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
15  The little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her, gave her no regret, no longing.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Once there were no two hearts so open, no feelings so in harmony.
2  I do believe it is possible for different ethnic groups to live together in harmony.
3  The couple lives in perfect harmony.
4  This design aims for harmony of form and function.
5  Imagine a society in which everyone lived together in harmony.
6  The designer's aim is to produce a harmony of shape and texture.
7  Gentlemen seek harmony but not uniformity.
8  She is going to sleep in melodic harmony music.
9  His operas synthesize music and drama in perfect harmony.
10  We lived together in unbroken harmony for twenty years
11  Their harmonious relationship resulted in part from their similar goals.
12  If they would simply go home, all under the Heavens would be harmonious once more.
13  A warm and harmonious song has accompanied us for three years.
14  I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits: more harmonious thoughts.
15  It is a simple melody with complex harmonies.