INSTRUMENT in a Sentence

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I associated that instrument with the single weakness of his nature, and I feared the worst when I saw it glittering in his hand.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSTRUMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
instrument
 n.  a mechanical tool
Classic Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1  I can't sing without the instrument.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
2  The lawyer took that rude but weighty instrument into his hand, and balanced it.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
3  He can turn back the captivity of Judah, even by the weakest instrument.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  Edmund spoke of the harp as his favourite instrument, and hoped to be soon allowed to hear her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  She had left the instrument on the dancing being over, and he had sat down to try to make out an air which he wished to give the Miss Musgroves an idea of.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
6  Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
7  The telescope, a formidable instrument mounted upon a tripod, stood upon the flat leads of the house.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
8  His head had been shattered by a savage blow from some heavy weapon, and he was wounded on the thigh, where there was a long, clean cut, inflicted evidently by some very sharp instrument.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
9  They have been cut off with a blunt instrument, which would hardly happen if a student had done it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
10  The first ones had been caused by some one forcing an instrument through the slit between the sashes, and the second by the catch being pressed back.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
11  At last he flung down the instrument, and plunged into a detailed account of his misadventures.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
12  The instrument with which the injury had been inflicted lay upon the carpet beside him.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
13  I associated that instrument with the single weakness of his nature, and I feared the worst when I saw it glittering in his hand.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
14  It is not upon this occasion the instrument of evil, but it will rather prove to be the key which will unlock our mystery.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
15  When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  This instrument will not stand rough usage.
17  The bond market cheered such a short-term instrument as traders have been looking forward to trading in short-term papers.
18  The drum is a percussion instrument.
19  The surgical instrument unit includes a tripod having at least two articulating arms, one of which extends into a sterile operating area.
20  A chef's knife or cleaver is as sharp as a rapier, but it is not an instrument meant for killing.
21  He is not queasy about depicting mass violence, in some circumstances, as a legitimate instrument of social transformation.
22  Under the tutelage of such masters of the instrument, she made rapid progress as a virtuoso.
23  Experimental psychologists adopted the kymograph as an instrument for recording various time-related events: response times and stimulus presentations.
24  To the beginning harmonica player it seems painfully obvious that the artists on his favorite records are playing an entirely different instrument than he is.
25  All surgical instruments must be sterilised before use.
26  She was no mean performer on a variety of other instruments.
27  The main orchestral brass instruments are the horn, trumpet, trombone, and tuba.
28  Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise.
29  When a scientist studies combustion, he peers though his instruments at one of the million aspects of the one great mystery.
30  The dentist picked away several instruments.