INSPECTION in a Sentence

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For INSPECTION, below is one of 110 sentences:
"I can see that you haven't done what I told you to do," he continued to Porphyri after an inspection of the animal's belly.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSPECTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inspection
 n.  formal or official examination
Classic Sentence: (92 in 7 pages)
1  Then they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool, the spinney.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
2  With his dogs in attendance he set out and made a careful tour of inspection of the farm buildings, the other animals following at a respectful distance.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
3  A deputation of neighbouring farmers had been invited to make a tour of inspection.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
4  Apparently satisfied with his inspection, he coughed twice or thrice, and made as many efforts to open a conversation; but the girl heeded him no more than if he had been made of stone.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  A moment's inspection revealed that the encircling figures were heath-croppers, their heads being all towards the players, at whom they gazed intently.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
6  I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
7  An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary in order that he should reach the ventilator.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
8  It may possibly recur to your memory that when I examined the paper upon which the printed words were fastened I made a close inspection for the water-mark.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
9  Yes, I gather there has been violence, and that the body is left for our inspection.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
10  By an inspection of the trains, and by reckoning the time.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
11  During the traveller's inspection of his room his luggage was brought into the apartment.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
12  "I can see that you haven't done what I told you to do," he continued to Porphyri after an inspection of the animal's belly.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
13  "No, I do not admire your way of doing things," was Chichikov's unspoken comment when the inspection had been concluded and the party had re-entered the house.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
14  I hear he has come on some inspection business, remarked the visitor.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
15  The cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the soldiers.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  The woman put forward a red silk as well as a blue one for our inspection.
2  Even a superficial inspection revealed serious flaws.
3  We will have to involve the authorities before long, but we can assuredly go there first and make our own inspection.
4  The inspection was a follow-on from the review process.
5  Following an on - site inspection, the surveyor prepared a written report on the property.
6  After an inspection, the inspectors must publish a report.
7  We will publish test results, exam results and truancy rates and ensure that there is regular independent inspection.
8  Experts among his inspection team can cross-check it with existing intelligence.
9  Before agreeing to reduce American military forces in Europe, the president would stipulate that NATO inspection teams be allowed to inspect Soviet bases.
10  The customs officer inspected my passport suspiciously.
11  She inspected the rooms and found them perfectly tolerable.
12  He picked up and inspected a large semi cylinder of the thin white bark of a sycamore.
13  Boeing said Friday that discovery of a 787 Dreamliner manufacturing defect by wing-maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan means 43 of the jets have to be inspected for small hairline cracks inside the wings.
14  Please inspect your father's letter carefully.
15  Each party in the case is entitled to inspect the documents held by the other.