MEASURE in a Sentence

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Selden had in fact given her the utmost measure of his sureness, had even stretched it a shade to meet the anxiety in her eyes.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEASURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
measure
 v.  estimate the relative amount by comparison with some standard
 n.  any standard of judgment
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But the old horse was there alone, mumbling his crib with toothless jaws, and Ethan whistled cheerfully while he bedded down the grays and shook an extra measure of oats into their mangers.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Yet the serene half-light over Tara's well-kept acres brought a measure of quiet to her disturbed mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  The hot nights brought a measure of quiet but it was a sinister quiet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  When she had finished it, a measure of strength came back to her and with the strength came again the pricking of fear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  Prissy had recovered her breath and a small measure of control but her eyes still rolled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  Everything was fresh and dewy and silent and green and the sight of the cotton fields brought a measure of balm and comfort to her sore heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
7  A measure of calm had returned and with it all the natural bluntness which brandy brought to the surface.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
8  Still the words would not come, but, a measure of poise returning, she kept her eyes demurely down and tucked the corners of her mouth into a little smile.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
9  Then she passed the tape measure about her waist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
10  The name, as Gerty saw with a clutch at the heart, had loosened the springs of self-pity in her friend's dry breast, and tear by tear Lily poured out the measure of her anguish.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
11  Selden had in fact given her the utmost measure of his sureness, had even stretched it a shade to meet the anxiety in her eyes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
12  She paused a moment, glancing about her, calmly taking the measure of her situation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
13  She paused again to measure the effect of this announcement on her hearer, but the brush in Miss Bart's lifted hand maintained its unwavering stroke from brow to nape.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
14  Society did not turn away from her, it simply drifted by, preoccupied and inattentive, letting her feel, to the full measure of her humbled pride, how completely she had been the creature of its favour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
15  The unusual harshness of his tone might have shown her how much the words cost him; but she was in no state to measure his feelings while her own were in a flame of revolt.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
Example Sentence: (196 in 14 pages)
16  For a Liberal Democrat to argue that giving institutions the power to run their own affairs is a centralising measure is extraordinary.
17  John KitzEaber, a Democrat, also threatened to veto any measure that eliminated the certificates.
18  We cannot measure pain directly.
19  You measure yourself, enter measurements and the computer will print out the pattern.
20  We might have to employ someone temporarily as a stopgap measure until we can fill the post.
21  It's no sin to sell dear, but a sin to give ill measure.
22  The measure will mainly be carried out by government officials.
23  It was difficult to measure the precise impact of the labor action.
24  Landed income was the true measure of the gentry.
25  The Treasury has decided to raise interest rates as a pre-emptive measure against inflation.
26  You must measure the length by rule and line.
27  An instrument used to measure tactile sensitivity.
28  A meter is a measure of length.
29  It was fatiguing sometimes to try to measure up to her standard of perfection.
30  The party did not measure up to their expectations.