MEMBERS in a Sentence

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This preference could not of course be satisfied for all members of the troop at once since baboons groom in couples.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEMBERS
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  Some, like Ellen, were members of old families who had found life intolerable in their former homes and sought haven in a distant land.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Several of the proud mothers of members of the militia were standing close by and overheard the remark.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  But you girls must stand up for me if the church members want to run me out of town for doing it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  That afternoon the Elsing home was crowded with soldiers on leave and men from the hospitals, members of the Home Guard and the militia unit, and matrons, widows and young girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Graybeards in the Home Guard and members of the state militia, safe in Atlanta, insisted they could have managed the campaign better and drew maps on tablecloths to prove their contentions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  Once her sudden entrance abruptly terminated a conversation about what had happened to the members of Quantrill's band of guerillas, and she caught the names of Frank and Jesse James.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
7  The other members of the Ladies' Sewing Circle for the Widows and Orphans of the Confederacy eagerly laid down their needles and edged their rocking chairs closer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
8  Great care had to be taken to avoid putting members of warring factions on the same committees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
9  To the remaining members of the party Lily gave no special thought; wherever they were, they were not likely to interfere with her plans.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
10  It was Selden himself who unwittingly fused the group by arresting the attention of one of its members.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
11  Most of the Jolly Seventeen were young married women, with their husbands as associate members.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  The other members were Dr. Westlake, Lyman Cass, Julius Flickerbaugh the attorney, Guy Pollock, and Martin Mahoney, former livery-stable keeper and now owner of a garage.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  All members of the social, financial, scientific, literary, and sporting sets were at No.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  She went up to bed proving to herself that the members of the school-board were superior men.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  Her first acquaintances were the members of the Tincomb Methodist Church, a vast red-brick tabernacle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Bring the new members around to the meeting tonight.
17  The members of the town coucil disputed for hours about whether to build a new museum.
18  Party members fought side by side with trade unionists for a change in the law.
19  EU members are allowed to travel freely between member states.
20  Staff members are trained to treat customers with civility at all times.
21  This preference could not of course be satisfied for all members of the troop at once since baboons groom in couples.
22  Here is the duty roster for all the members of the scout troop.
23  They've been living and working peacefully with members of various ethnic groups.
24  There was no evidence that he had incited members of the group to violence.
25  The party leaders whipped the members in for the vote.
26  The politician was ousted from office by a vote from members of his own party.
27  Associate members do not have the right to vote.
28  Two members resigned from the board in protest.
29  He listed all the members' names on the card.
30  New members will be issued with a temporary identity card.