LIBRARY in a Sentence

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For LIBRARY, below is one of 200 sentences:
The mortification and hurt pride that she had suffered in the library with Ashley and with Rhett Butler were pin pricks to this.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIBRARY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
library
 n.  a building or room contain books for reading and study
 n.  a collection of bookd kept for reference or borrowing
Classic Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
1  Across the wide hall was the open door of the library and she sped into it noiselessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  The library was in semidarkness, for the blinds had been drawn against the sun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The mortification and hurt pride that she had suffered in the library with Ashley and with Rhett Butler were pin pricks to this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Even Aunt Pitty, downstairs in the library, was not rocking her creaking chair in deference to Scarlett's sorrow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  He stood aside to let her pass before him into the library.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
6  Once in Scarlett's front hall, she bowed briefly to the gathering in the library, to the frightened Miss Pittypat, the stately old Mrs. Butler, Will and Suellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
7  She saw at a glance that Rhett was not in the parlor or the library and her heart sank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
8  The library at Bellomont was in fact never used for reading, though it had a certain popularity as a smoking-room or a quiet retreat for flirtation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
9  The library looked as she had pictured it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
10  Judge Milford's pedagogical scheme was to let the children read whatever they pleased, and in his brown library Carol absorbed Balzac and Rabelais and Thoreau and Max Muller.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  She almost gave up library work to become one of the young women who dance in cheese-cloth in the moonlight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  She decided that she would give up library work and, by a miracle whose nature was not very clearly revealed to her, turn a prairie town into Georgian houses and Japanese bungalows.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  Marbury tells me you're a high mogul in the public library.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  I spoke to the library about it, and they took it off the shelves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  But in her work in the library, children had become individuals to her, citizens of the State with their own rights and their own senses of humor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
16  He was an owlish figure, sitting in the corner of the library.
17  She got some books out of the library and immersed herself in Jewish history and culture.
18  They commissioned an architect to design the new library.
19  There are different categories of books in the library.
20  If you fill in this form, you can take books out of the library.
21  He has many foreign books in his library.
22  He bought a huge house to accommodate his library.
23  Other amenities, less commonly available, include a library and exercise room.
24  Your local library will be a useful source of information.
25  I'm inquiring after any information the library might have on future city planning.
26  I got this very interesting book out of the library.
27  The library has a large biology section.
28  The library has received a generous bequest from a local businessman.
29  He was grubbing about in the public library for material.
30  Maybe we ought to go down to the library and check it out.