LAKE in a Sentence

Learn LAKE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

190 example sentences for LAKE, such as:

1. Fish are plentiful in the lake.
2. She found a pasture by the lake.
3. A fresh breeze puffed across the lake.
4. We rowed out towards the middle of the lake.
5. He ran to the edge of the lake and plunge in.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAKE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lake
 n.  a body of water surrounded by land
Classic Sentence: (138 in 10 pages)
1  Across its frozen surface, from the farther bank, a single hill rising against the western sun threw the long conical shadow which gave the lake its name.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Beyond the lawn, with its pyramidal pale-gold maples and velvety firs, sloped pastures dotted with cattle; and through a long glade the river widened like a lake under the silver light of September.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
3  The magic place was deserted: there was no sound but the splash of the water on the lily-pads, and a distant drift of music that might have been blown across a sleeping lake.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4  Kennicott brought down a fat red squirrel and at dusk he had a dramatic shot at a flight of ducks whirling down from the upper air, skimming the lake, instantly vanishing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  It was the entrance to a Chippewa Indian reservation, a sandy settlement among Norway pines on the shore of a huge snow-glaring lake.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  She found a pasture by the lake.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  Sweet winds blew from the sunny lake beside her, and small waves sputtered on the meadowy shore.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  But they were set among elms and lindens on a bluff which looked across the lake to fields of ripened wheat sloping up to green woods.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  THEY were driving down the lake to the cottages that moonlit January night, twenty of them in the bob-sled.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  When Kennicott rejoiced, "We'll have a great time this summer; move down to the lake early and wear old clothes and act natural," she smiled, but her smile creaked.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  At the lake cottage she missed the passing of the trains.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  The prairie encircled the lake, lay round her, raw, dusty, thick.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  Ray said that he would like to see the ocean; it must be a grand sight; it must be much grander than a lake, even a great big lake.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  They drove forty miles to the lake in Elder's new Cadillac.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  While the men floated on the lake, casting for black bass, the women prepared lunch and yawned.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
16  The lake came into view/We came in view of the lake as we turned the corner.
17  The castle is on an island surrounded by a deep lake.
18  From the garden you walk down to discover a large and beautiful lake.
19  He ran to the edge of the lake and plunge in.
20  Fish are plentiful in the lake.
21  The smaller lake ranges from five to fourteen feet in depth.
22  Mining would pollute the lake and denude the forest.
23  A fresh breeze puffed across the lake.
24  The little girl fell into the lake and drowned.
25  The road went in a huge loop around the lake.
26  I as if see the level of the lake two person's happy inverted images.
27  A light breeze ruffled the surface of the lake.
28  We rowed out towards the middle of the lake.
29  The hotel stands in an elevated position looking out over the lake.
30  The front of the postcard shows a picture of a lake.