LEARNING in a Sentence

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For LEARNING, below is one of 350 sentences:
The fact that admiration for his learning mingled with Mattie's wonder at what he taught was not the least part of his pleasure.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEARNING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
learning
 n.  the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge
 n.  profound scholarly knowledge
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The fact that admiration for his learning mingled with Mattie's wonder at what he taught was not the least part of his pleasure.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  He still liked her tremendously and respected her for her cool good breeding, her book learning and all the sterling qualities she possessed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Her face felt stiff as from pain and her mouth actually hurt from having stretched it, unwillingly, in smiles to prevent the twins from learning her secret.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  While he entertained the liveliest respect for those who had more book learning than he, he never felt his own lack.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  The inner grace from which these signs should spring, she never learned nor did she see any reason for learning it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  To all these arguments, Scarlett smiled but said nothing, unwilling to commit herself before learning how she would like Atlanta and constant association with her in-laws.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  It seemed such a terrible waste to spend all your little girlhood learning how to be attractive and how to catch men and then only use the knowledge for a year or two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  And upon learning the cause of the upset, he settled the matter with words that left no room for argument.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  I can't help you, Scarlett, except by learning with as good grace as possible to be a clumsy farmer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  If he should cause the death of one of them she would be as guilty as he was, for she had kept him in charge after learning of his brutalities.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
11  Not only was it fun but she was learning many things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
12  We're learning all of European Literature this year.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  If she was egotistic about her tiny learning, they were at least as much so regarding theirs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  He had been gassed in the trenches, had been in a hospital for two weeks, had been promoted to major, was learning French.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  But Kennicott gave promise of learning to play.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
16  Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
17  Experience without learning is better than learning without excperi-ence.
18  Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
19  The child is learning to write.
20  In some countries children don't start learning to read and write until they are six.
21  I can't drive yet I'm still learning.
22  Liberty and civilization are only fragments of rights wrung from the strong hands of wealth and book learning.
23  By learning you will teaching; by teaching you will learn.
24  Certainly, the early learning years are crucial to a child's educational development.
25  Jackie has been learning flamenco dancing at an evening class for three years.
26  A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
27  Our children's different needs and learning styles created many problems.
28  In East Germany learning Russian was compulsory.
29  The girl's earnest effort counterbalanced her slowness at learning.
30  Such learning methods encourage too great a reliance upon the teacher.