LEAD in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for LEAD, such as:

1. She was going to lead the reel.
2. Defeat lay on her spirit like lead.
3. Don't worry, I won't lead you astray.
4. Behavior like this will lead you into trouble.
5. Family tensions and conflicts may lead to violence.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEAD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lead
 v.  go before or with to show the way
 n.  position in advance of others
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "If there's going to be any trouble I want to be there," was his vague reflection, as he threw to Jotham the unexpected order to unhitch the team and lead them back to the barn.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  She began to cry, and he felt as if every one of her tears were pouring over him like burning lead.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  It was long past the dinner-hour when the job was done, and Ethan had to give up going to the village because he wanted to lead the injured horse home and wash the cut himself.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
4  The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about him, and then gradually lead the conversation around to yourself-- and keep it there.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  I know the gentle rivalry to lead the reels very well and so-- The doctor mopped his brow and cast a quizzical glance at the corner, where his wife sat among the chaperons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Gentlemen, if you wish to lead a reel with the lady of your choice, you must bargain for her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  If only she were Scarlett O'Hara again, out there on the floor in an apple-green dress with dark-green velvet ribbons dangling from her bosom and tuberoses in her black hair--she'd lead that reel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  She was going to lead the reel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  She would lead him a chase that would make up for even that awful humiliation of the day he witnessed her slapping Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  Defeat lay on her spirit like lead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  These youngsters, following the lead of Rhett Butler, went hand in hand with the Carpetbaggers in money-making schemes of unsavory kinds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  She did not want to tell, this was not the way she had intended to lead up to the subject of her love but his hand was urgent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
13  That's not my way, and I can only say I'm thoroughly ashamed of myself for following the other women's lead.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
14  As he spoke, he was checked by an embarrassing sense of the complications to which this might lead.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
15  He kept the loading-tools he had used as a boy: a capper for shot-gun shells, a mold for lead bullets.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  He warned that the breakdown of the family unit would lead to an impoverished society.
17  You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.
18  Family tensions and conflicts may lead to violence.
19  You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
20  A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.
21  Any good weight loss regime should not lead to extreme hunger.
22  May its blessings lead into a wonderful year for you and all whom you hold dear.
23  She had the strength and stamina to take the lead and win the gold medal.
24  The world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better.
25  Don't worry, I won't lead you astray.
26  Behavior like this will lead you into trouble.
27  Exposure to lead is known to damage the brains of young children.
28  Salt intake may lead to raised blood pressure in susceptible adults.
29  If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
30  Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave.