JUNCTURE in a Sentence

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19 example sentences for JUNCTURE, such as:

1. Sowerberry returned at this juncture.
2. The talks are at a critical juncture.
3. At this juncture , I suggest we take a short break.
4. From his conduct at this juncture all who would be thought good citizens should take example.
5. Mr. Micawber looking up at this juncture to where we were standing, I had only time to repeat my caution.

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 Meanings and Examples of JUNCTURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
juncture
 n.  point in time, especially a critical point; joining point
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Mr. Micawber looking up at this juncture to where we were standing, I had only time to repeat my caution.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
2  Mr. Copperfield,' returned Mr. Micawber, 'your confidence is not, at the existing juncture, ill-bestowed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
3  This trick, a bad habit, the cracking of his fingers, always soothed him, and gave precision to his thoughts, so needful to him at this juncture.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
4  Sowerberry returned at this juncture.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  Of course, he entered at this juncture, into no explanation of his motives, and they walked on very lovingly together.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
6  I must take leave to observe, Sir Walter," said Mr Shepherd one morning at Kellynch Hall, as he laid down the newspaper, "that the present juncture is much in our favour.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  It was curious and not unpleasing, how Peleg and Bildad were affected at this juncture, especially Captain Bildad.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
8  Most fortunately, at this juncture, Elzbieta got the long-awaited chance to go at five o'clock in the morning and help scrub the office floors of one of the packers.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
9  It was as though he had been seeking of it inspiration in the present unheard-of juncture.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
10  Also, to add to the tchinovniks' troubles, it so befell that just at this juncture there came into the local Governor's hands two documents of great importance.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
11  Just at this juncture the boy felt a slow, fateful grip closing on his ear, and a steady lifting impulse.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  Fatality has points of juncture where innocence itself is stamped with crime by the gloomy law of the reflections which give color.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
13  From his conduct at this juncture all who would be thought good citizens should take example.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XLVII.
14  At these junctures in her progress a hand was invariably stretched forward to steady her, holding her firmly until smooth ground was again reached, when the hand was again withdrawn to a respectful distance.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
15  Yet, as always happens at such junctures, there were also present a score of brazen individuals who had succeeded in NOT losing their presence of mind, even though they constituted a mere sprinkling.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  At this juncture , I suggest we take a short break.
2  The talks are at a critical juncture.
3  That, really, at this juncture is our best hope of avoiding two unacceptable alternatives, a nuclear powered Iran or using military force against them.