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For MAR, below is one of 30 sentences:
His own nature had revolted against the excess of anguish that had sought to maim and mar the perfection of its calm.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mar
 v.  spoil or damage; impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
2  If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
3  They would mar its beauty and eat away its grace.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
4  His own nature had revolted against the excess of anguish that had sought to maim and mar the perfection of its calm.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
5  There he paused for a moment, feeling that he was on the brink of a discovery that would either make or mar his life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
6  It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  I offered the lady marriage, but she refused it on the grounds that such a match might mar my career.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
8  The termination in mar has been added recently.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
9  The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
10  The faintest sound, as of the cackling of the geese in the Capitol, the least departure from some ordinary routine, the most trifling mistake or error, mars the whole enterprise.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXXII.
11  She had marred him for a moment, if he had wounded her for an age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
12  Yet it was watching him, with its beautiful marred face and its cruel smile.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
13  The moment she touched actual life, she marred it, and it marred her, and so she passed away.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
14  The vicious cruelty that marred the fine lines of the mouth had, no doubt, appeared at the very moment that the girl had drunk the poison, whatever it was.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
15  No winter marred his face or stained his flowerlike bloom.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
Example Sentence:
1  They attacked the victory they sought - to mar the election.
2  One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
3  Marriage makes or mars a man.
4  A young man married is a man that's marred.
5  The report was marred by a mass of superfluous detail.
6  She had to refinish the marred surface of the table.