INSPIRATION in a Sentence

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For INSPIRATION, below is one of 209 sentences:
I understood, as by inspiration, the nature of his love for Miss Oliver; I agreed with him that it was but a love of the senses.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSPIRATION
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inspiration
 n.  sudden intuition as part of solving a problem; arousing to a particular emotion or action
Classic Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1  Then, after a moment's pondering, almost to her own surprise she broke out with a flash of inspiration: "Well, go over and see Mr. Selden."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
2  She did not, however, propose to lie there prone, and Gerty's inspiration about the hats at once revived her hopes of profitable activity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
3  She saw it the common home and inspiration not only of the town but of the country about.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  She found no inspiration but she did find a dependable kindness in Mrs. Westlake, and at last she yielded to the old woman's receptivity and had relief in sobbing the story of Bea.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  She wasn't altogether pleased, the week after, when Erik was independent and, without asking for her inspiration, planned the tennis tournament.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  While still retaining all a child's fanciful graces, yet she often dropped, unconsciously, words of such a reach of thought, and strange unworldly wisdom, that they seemed to be an inspiration.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  "Aunt March had a good fit and sent the supper," cried Jo, with a sudden inspiration.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
8  Meg and John happened to be standing together in the middle of the grass plot, when Laurie was seized with an inspiration which put the finishing touch to this unfashionable wedding.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
9  Amy was learning this distinction through much tribulation, for mistaking enthusiasm for inspiration, she attempted every branch of art with youthful audacity.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
10  I make all my lays myself, and heaven visits me with every kind of inspiration.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXII
11  I understood, as by inspiration, the nature of his love for Miss Oliver; I agreed with him that it was but a love of the senses.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  His mind was waking slowly to a tremulous morning knowledge, a morning inspiration.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  The instant of inspiration seemed now to be reflected from all sides at once from a multitude of cloudy circumstances of what had happened or of what might have happened.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  He did not reply for a moment but looked all round him, and up and down, as though he expected to find some inspiration for an answer.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
15  In the moment when Madam Mina said those words that arrest both our understanding, an inspiration came to me.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
16  The theme of the ceremony is Isles of Wonder and draws much of its inspiration from Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
17  An increasingly familiar and seductive story has been circulating about young people who, drawing inspiration from billionaire entrepreneurs, consider dropping out of college a fast track to business success.
18  The balance performed by the Shaolin monks have insisted to inspire many Hong Kong and Hollywood martial arts movies.
19  We are looking for a man with a genteel appearance who can inspire confidence by his cultivated manner.
20  The library's main aim is to educate and inspire children who have seen arts education cut from their school.
21  Our challenge is to motivate those voters and inspire them to join our cause.
22  We need someone who can inspire the team.
23  Faith in our collective power to resolve seemingly intractable problems is a gift that should inspire us all this Thanksgiving.
24  The demonstrators inspired thousands of allies to take to the streets to protest economic inequality and corporate greed.
25  All her fellow demonstrators were busily making posters and handing out flyers, inspired by her ardent enthusiasm for the cause.
26  Katya's zeal was contagious; soon all her fellow students were busily making posters, inspired by her ardent enthusiasm for the cause.
27  This plan is inspired by ignoble motives and I must, therefore, oppose it.
28  And of course it is your experience in Indonesia that inspired your film eastern moon.
29  Her fervid enthusiasm inspired all of us to undertake the dangerous mission.
30  By her simplicity, gay prattle, and efforts to please, inspired me, in return, with a degree of attachment sufficient to make us both content in each other's society.