JOIN in a Sentence

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For JOIN, below is one of 353 sentences:
Will was acutely ill with pneumonia and when the girls put him to bed, they feared he would soon join the boy in the burying ground.

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 Meanings and Examples of JOIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
join
 v.  link, connect, take part with others
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They would swarm around her like bees around a hive, and certainly Ashley would be drawn from Melanie to join the circle of her admirers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Ashley had made no attempt to join the circle about her, in fact she had not had a word alone with him since arriving, or even spoken to him since their first greeting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Miss O'Hara--I--I had already decided that if we did fight, I'd go over to South Carolina and join a troop there.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Ellen protested but Charles pleaded with new-found eloquence, for he was impatient to be off to South Carolina to join Wade Hampton's Legion, and Gerald sided with the two young people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  A week after the wedding Charles left to join Colonel Wade Hampton, and two weeks later Ashley and the Troop departed, leaving the whole County bereft.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  They all cried to her that she must join their knitting and sewing circles and their hospital committees, and no one else's, and she promised recklessly to right and left.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  She's afraid he'll join the army if he gets out of her sight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  The two girls looked an invitation to join them, but he went onto the front porch and, seating himself on the top step, dropped his head on his cupped palm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  Gulping down the bitter brew of parched corn and dried sweet potatoes that passed for coffee, she went out to join the girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  Will was acutely ill with pneumonia and when the girls put him to bed, they feared he would soon join the boy in the burying ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  Scarlett tried to join politely in the laughter but she did not see any point to the story except that Creoles were just as stuck up as Charleston and Savannah people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  With Sam on the place, Pork could come to Atlanta and join Dilcey as she had promised him when Gerald died.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  No negro wanted to join a party made up entirely of sinners, so they hastened to join the Republicans.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
14  "Pray join me, Mrs. Butler," he said and his voice was a little thick.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
15  She remembered with dread Rhett's remark that he would even join their damned Klan to be respectable, though he hoped God would not lay so heavy a penance on his shoulders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
Example Sentence: (143 in 10 pages)
16  Please pull up a chair and join the conversation.
17  We hope that more women will decide to join the course.
18  The design company is planning to join up with a shoe manufacturer and create a new range of footwear.
19  He graduated with a good degree, only to join the ranks of the unemployed.
20  Let me join all your other friends in wishing you a happy birthday.
21  He wants to join the army when he leaves school, but I hope he'll grow out of the idea.
22  She ran away from her husband to join a women's commune.
23  She left her husband to join a women's commune.
24  Ralph patted the sofa to indicate that she should join him.
25  She beckoned him to come and join them.
26  Tie a knot to join those two pieces of rope.
27  The two estates join at this point.
28  He qualified to join the club.
29  He has applied to join the army.
30  By this time people were flocking to join the cult.