MEETINGS in a Sentence

Learn MEETINGS from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For MEETINGS, below is one of 420 sentences:
Ashley also sat up with the sick and he, too, attended the Democratic meetings and he was usually away on the same nights as Frank.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEETINGS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
meet
 v.  come together, face to face
 v.  become acquainted with; be introduced to
meeting
 n.  a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
 n.  a casual or unexpected convergence
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She wondered occasionally if these meetings were not more than accidental.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  She thought it best to let sleeping dogs lie, so she did not ask for an explanation of their frequent meetings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  But Frank evidently enjoyed the meetings for he stayed out until all hours on those nights.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  Ashley also sat up with the sick and he, too, attended the Democratic meetings and he was usually away on the same nights as Frank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
5  You must stop taking Bonnie around with you in the afternoons to political meetings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
6  SHE had often been invited to the weekly meetings of the Thanatopsis, the women's study club, but she had put it off.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  The rest telephoned their unparalleled regrets and engagements and illnesses, and announced that they would be present at all other meetings through eternity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  During the Chautauqua Carol attended three evening meetings, two afternoon meetings, and one in the morning.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  It was not Erik to whom she must escape, but universal and joyous youth, in class-rooms, in studios, in offices, in meetings to protest against Things in General.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  It was like going to revival meetings with someone who was always being converted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
11  He wanted to know what was going on at the meetings, and to be able to take part in them, and so he began to look about him, and to try to pick up words.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
12  During this parade, and at innumerable cart-tail meetings as well, Jurgis labored tirelessly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
13  For some reason the people refused to get excited over the struggle, and it was almost impossible to get them to come to meetings, or to make any noise when they did come.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
14  Then at night, when he could get off, Jurgis would attend the Socialist meetings.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
15  I seldom had much to say at the meetings, because what I wanted to say was said so much better by others.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  He was active in organizing student meetings.
17  He was thus involved in extensive travelling throughout the District, addressing meetings of branches, trade unions and co-operative societies.
18  The village hall is given over to civic functions and meetings.
19  An executive involved in the meetings told that Mrs. Bush plans to write a positive book with a minimum of criticism.
20  In the eight working days between meetings, new data showed South Korea's economy continued to wither from the effects of the global slowdown.
21  I begrudge every minute I have to spend attending meetings; they're a complete waste of time.
22  In these interfaith meetings, there must be no attempt to proselytize; we must respect all points of view.
23  Seeing no need to meet more frequently, the group held biennial meetings instead of annual ones.
24  We were not able to meet the deadline because of manufacturing delays.
25  I must apologize for not being able to meet you.
26  Volunteers need to be sensitized to the cultural differences they will meet in African countries.
27  We made a tentative arrangement to meet again next Friday.
28  It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that we'll all meet again one day.
29  We do not only meet to share each other's burdens, but also to partake in each other's joys.
30  I can't believe I am really going to meet the princess.