INCOMPLETE in a Sentence

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A collection of my trifling achievements would certainly be incomplete which contained no account of this very singular business.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCOMPLETE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
incomplete
 a.  not yet finished
 a.  not complete; not completed
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was resting on him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
2  Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an ailing soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
3  That description is just, but incomplete.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
4  There is incomplete immensity in nature.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
5  The incomplete times in which we live.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
6  There she stood still around her stretching the vast night atmosphere, whose incomplete darkness in comparison with the total darkness of the heath below it might have represented a venial beside a mortal sin.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
7  A collection of my trifling achievements would certainly be incomplete which contained no account of this very singular business.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
8  I really had not the energy to follow it up save in a very incomplete fashion, but it gave me a basis for some pleasing speculation.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
9  I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the workshop.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
10  Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
11  I hardly know whether I shall have the power to detail it; yet the tale which I have recorded would be incomplete without this final and wonderful catastrophe.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
12  Without waking him, she went back, and after a second dose of opium she fell towards morning into a heavy, incomplete sleep, during which she never quite lost consciousness.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 26
13  He stared intently at the incomplete phrase: In no case shall the said Bernard Bodley be.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
14  Looking past that mad helmsman, who was shaking the empty rifle and yelling at the shore, I saw vague forms of men running bent double, leaping, gliding, distinct, incomplete, evanescent.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
15  Don't make yourself incomplete.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
Example Sentence:
1  This is, of necessity, a brief and incomplete account.