INSURANCE in a Sentence

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Mrs. Marbury was a neighbor and friend of Carol's sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of an insurance company.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSURANCE
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insurance
 n.  protection against possible future loss by paying a company money
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Mrs. Marbury was a neighbor and friend of Carol's sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of an insurance company.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  All this profit-sharing and welfare work and insurance and old-age pension is simply poppycock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  I no more felt unduly concerned for the landlord's policy of insurance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
4  And then again, when they went to pay their January's installment on the house, the agent terrified them by asking them if they had had the insurance attended to yet.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  There was the rent to pay, and still some on the furniture; there was the insurance just due, and every month there was sack after sack of coal.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
6  The victim was an insurance agent, and he had lost a hundred and ten dollars that did not belong to him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
7  The Cooperative Commonwealth is a universal automatic insurance company and savings bank for all its members.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
8  I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
10  Their reason for choosing so unusual an hour for a consultation was obviously to insure that there should be no other patient in the waiting-room.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
11  Meanwhile, since it is too late to prevent this tragedy, I am very anxious that I should use the knowledge which I possess in order to insure that justice be done.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
12  Even if this lady should never recover consciousness, we can still reconstruct the events of last night and insure that justice be done.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
13  I came personally, Mr. Holmes, in order to insure that you would return with me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
14  To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. The Dart.
15  The least injudicious or impatient movement on the part of David might betray them, and time was absolutely necessary to insure the safety of the scout.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
Example Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
16  You should claim the cost against the house insurance.
17  You can always claim on the insurance.
18  Ask an insurance broker to obtain some illustrations for you to compare.
19  If suggested improvements are not carried out, we have the right to suspend the insurance cover.
20  Your father took out insurance to cover the mortgage.
21  I'm looking for a travel insurance policy that will cover me for any eventuality.
22  You must buy the credit life insurance before you can buy the disability insurance.
23  In the course of researching customer needs, we discovered how few families have adequate life insurance.
24  Various insurance schemes already exist for this purpose.
25  Some insurers have wised up to the fact that their clients were getting very cheap insurance.
26  In the financial sector, banks and insurance companies have both lost a lot of money.
27  He took a lowly job in an insurance firm.
28  Perks offered by the firm include a car and free health insurance.
29  It is strongly advised that you take out some form of medical insurance.
30  He plans to recapitalize the insurance fund.