MAGNETISM in a Sentence

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The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAGNETISM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
magnetism
 n.  attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  It is magnetism, she says, and when she dreams a thing it is sure to happen, she assures me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 66. Matrimonial Projects.
2  If the minister's voice had not kept her there, there would, nevertheless, have been an inevitable magnetism in that spot, whence she dated the first hour of her life of ignominy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
3  But as ever before, the pagan harpooneers remained almost wholly unimpressed; or if impressed, it was only with a certain magnetism shot into their congenial hearts from inflexible Ahab's.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
4  You've no magnetism: you're not a man, you're a machine.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
5  There existed between Marius and her an all-powerful magnetism, which caused her to do, instinctively and almost mechanically, what Marius wished.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HA...
6  Neither of these returnings was very pleasant or desirable: no magnet drew me to a given point, increasing in its strength of attraction the nearer I came.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  This magnet is sustained by a very strong axle of adamant passing through its middle, upon which it plays, and is poised so exactly that the weakest hand can turn it.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
8  Upon placing the magnet erect, with its attracting end towards the earth, the island descends; but when the repelling extremity points downwards, the island mounts directly upwards.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
9  When the position of the stone is oblique, the motion of the island is so too: for in this magnet, the forces always act in lines parallel to its direction.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III.
10  Arobin caught the contagion of excitement which drew him to Edna like a magnet.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
11  Slowly, slowly the great house drew him, as a magnet.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant magnetic action.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
13  The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—ATTRACTION AND EXTINCTION
14  He, however, darted not the less quickly toward Milady, yielding to that magnetic attraction which the loadstone exercises over iron.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 37 MILADY'S SECRET
15  She gave so much vehemence, such magnetic eloquence to this exclamation, that Felton in spite of himself advanced some steps into the room.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert attractive or repulsive forces on other materials.
2  He exudes a strong sexual magnetism.
3  The superiority and inferiority of PM machine is closely related with the function parameter of permanent magnet material which is being used.
4  The region has become a magnet for small businesses.
5  The north magnetic pole lies to the west of the geographic North Pole.
6  The magnetic pull of the city was hard to resist.
7  The block becomes magnetic when the current is switched on.
8  The data is stored on the magnetic tape.
9  Pigeons navigate less accurately when the earth's magnetic field is disturbed.
10  The needle on a compass always points to magnetic north.
11  Pulsating magnetic field PM low speed synchronous motor is a type of PMSM with novel structure.
12  The hard disk is covered with a thin coat of magnetic material.
13  Students are trying to test if the iron bar is a magnetic in any extent.
14  The magnetosphere is the region of electrically charged particles that are trapped in the magnetic field of the planet.
15  The Dark World is a looser, loopier hybrid of science fiction and fantasy powered by a pair of magnetic performances and leavened with a number of truly witty moments.