LOYALTY in a Sentence

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New Year should be a time of banked-up fines, the scent of flowers and wine, good talk, good memories and loyalties renewed.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOYALTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
loyalty
 n.  the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
 n.  feelings of allegiance
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  The words, hospitality and loyalty and honor, meant more to him than she did.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  Scarlett gathered that no sacrifice, even though it be muddy shoes, was too great to show loyalty to the Confederacy in so far as Miss Pittypat was concerned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  Scarlett was his wife and a wife was entitled to the loyalty of her husband.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  There were qualities of loyalty and tirelessness and love in them that no strain could break, no money could buy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  Melanie was young but she had in her all the qualities this embattled remnant prized, poverty and pride in poverty, uncomplaining courage, gaiety, hospitality, kindness and, above all, loyalty to all the old traditions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
6  It won't occur to them that women of--their profession are capable of intense loyalty or patriotism.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
7  Reverence for the Confederacy, honor to the veterans, loyalty to old forms, pride in poverty, open hands to friends and undying hatred to Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
8  Melanie had all that passionate clan loyalty peculiar to Georgians and the thought of a family quarrel tore her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
9  The implication that such loyalty would meet with a direct reward had hastened her flight, and flung her back, ashamed and penitent, on the broad bosom of Gerty's sympathy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
10  SHE tried, more from loyalty than from desire, to call upon the Perrys on a November evening when Kennicott was away.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  He preached his gospel: love of outdoors, Playing the Game, loyalty to friends.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  I wanted to cross the footlights and help the slim-waisted Armand in the frilled shirt to convince her that there was still loyalty and devotion in the world.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
13  He was accustomed to them at such times, and was too well convinced of her loyalty to doubt it.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVII
14  He strove to express his loyalty, but he could only make fantastic gestures.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
15  He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and skilfully took advantage of this loyalty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
Example Sentence:
1  Among her many virtues are loyalty, courage, and truthfulness.
2  True marriage requires us to show trust and loyalty.
3  The unions assured the new owners of the workers' loyalty to the company.
4  The company places a high premium on customer loyalty.
5  Each was an attempt to define the respective limits of integration and loyalty.
6  Despite her sharp tongue, she inspires loyalty from her friends.
7  All manufacturers want to encourage brand loyalty to their own products.
8  Elizabeth understood her husband's loyalty to his sister.
9  It is rare to find such loyalty these days.
10  As women increasingly went out to work, the possibility of a conflict of loyalties became stronger.
11  New Year should be a time of banked-up fines, the scent of flowers and wine, good talk, good memories and loyalties renewed.