MEMBER in a Sentence

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He had gradually slipped into the status of a member of the family and slept on a cot in the little dressing room off Gerald's room.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEMBER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
member
 n.  one of the persons who compose a social group
 n.  anything that belongs to a set or class
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Scarlett was not the only member of the household who reacted strangely and unwillingly to his presence, for he kept Aunt Pitty in a flutter and a ferment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  There was hardly a family in Georgia who could not own to their sorrow at least one male member or relative who gambled, losing money, houses, land and slaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  He had gradually slipped into the status of a member of the family and slept on a cot in the little dressing room off Gerald's room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  The questions were none too subtle but Pitty, in her pleasure at having a member of the family to talk to, did not even notice the bald way the questions were put.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  She, a member of an old and staunchly Confederate family, a planter's family, had gone over to the enemy and by so doing had brought shame on every family in the County.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  But member dis, Miss Scarlett, Ah ain leavin you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
7  He liked the ease and glitter of the life, and the lustre conferred on him by being a member of this group of rich and conspicuous people.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
8  It had occurred to Lily, however, that it might on this occasion have been resorted to by the only member of the party in the least likely to put it to its original use.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
9  Her aunt's words had told her nothing new; but they had revived the vision of Bertha Dorset, smiling, flattered, victorious, holding her up to ridicule by insinuations intelligible to every member of their little group.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
10  Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, the most brazen member of the toughest gang in Boytown.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  The membership committee retired to the sitting-room for three minutes and elected her a member.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  I don't know anything about Deacon Deuteronomy or his meeting," said I; "all I know is, that Queequeg here is a born member of the First Congregational Church.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. His Mark.
13  But strike a member of the harem school, and her companions swim around her with every token of concern, sometimes lingering so near her and so long, as themselves to fall a prey.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
14  Mrs. Shimerda grumbled, but realized it was important that one member of the family should learn English.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
15  She had been a member of Daly's famous New York company, and afterward a 'star' under his direction.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We interviewed each individual member of the community.
17  This commission would keep environmental scorecards on UN member nations.
18  She is a member of the party's national executive.
19  The cello is a member of the violin family.
20  Clare was the most vivid member of the family.
21  Every member of the government plumped for the premier's new suggestion.
22  Every member of the organization should be constant to its regulations.
23  The arrests came after a tip-off from a member of the public.
24  She was a lifelong member of the Labour party.
25  Convention demands that a club member should resign in such a situation.
26  He ceased to be a member of the association.
27  We enrolled him as a member of the society.
28  A member of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice, Miss Rafferty is well-placed to comment.
29  I am a member of the basketball team.
30  Jack quickly established himself as a powerful member of the new company.