IDENTICAL in a Sentence

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They return, spectres, but always identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are no longer in the same skins.

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 Meanings and Examples of IDENTICAL
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identical
 a.  duplicate or alike; being the exact same one
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  They were never quite the same ones in physical person but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been there before.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  This image, so nearly identical with the living Pearl, seemed to communicate somewhat of its own shadowy and intangible quality to the child herself.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
3  I believe it was the old identical steel-clasped reticule of my childhood, that shut up like a bite.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
4  For the demi-monde the members of that fashionable world believed that they despised, though their tastes were not merely similar, but in fact identical.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
5  Darya Alexandrovna felt disinclined to leave the peasant women, so interesting to her was their conversation, so completely identical were all their interests.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 8
6  Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
7  They return, spectres, but always identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are no longer in the same skins.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE
8  The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOU...
9  The croak would be almost identical.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
10  From an identical school, an identical society will spring.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
11  And again all the faces in that crowd bore an identical expression, though now it was certainly not an expression of curiosity or gratitude, but of angry resolve.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XI
12  This contradiction arises from the fact that military science assumes the strength of an army to be identical with its numbers.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II
13  Just at this moment, Eva came innocently into the room, with the identical coral necklace on her neck.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  I laid the two tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
15  Having, however, at last, satisfied himself as to his identity, the man's surprise changed to consternation.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
16  She went through an identity crisis in her teens.
17  The Communist Party was facing an identity crisis.
18  His search for his cultural identity took him to where his parents were born.
19  Many minority groups are struggling to maintain their cultural identity.
20  Australia has its own cultural identity, which is very different from that of Britain.
21  From the later fourth century, this ideal offered puzzled Christians a means to define their identity without ambiguity.
22  The police are trying to discover the identity of the killer.
23  Every employee will carry an identity card at all times.
24  They are still struggling to establish their identity as a political party.
25  Police are still trying to establish the identity of the dead man.
26  Protecting yourself from identity theft is a matter of treating all your personal and financial documents as top secret information.
27  They are a lost generation in search of an identity.
28  The net result of the long police investigation is that the identity of the killer is still a complete mystery.
29  The independence movement sought to unify the country with a national identity built around a common language.
30  Scotland has never lost its identity as a separate nation.