MIRROR in a Sentence

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For MIRROR, below is one of 181 sentences:
Scarlett peered anxiously in the mirror at her sixteen-year-old face as if expecting to see wrinkles and sagging chin muscles.

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 Meanings and Examples of MIRROR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mirror
 n.  polished surface that forms images by reflecting light
Classic Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  Its icy slope, scored by innumerable runners, looked like a mirror scratched by travellers at an inn.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Scarlett peered anxiously in the mirror at her sixteen-year-old face as if expecting to see wrinkles and sagging chin muscles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  As she stood before the mirror and twisted herself about to get a side view, she thought that there was absolutely nothing about her figure to cause her shame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  In the bedroom where the wraps were laid, she found Cathleen Calvert preening before the mirror and biting her lips to make them look redder.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  She crossed the room to the mirror and patted her smooth hair approvingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  This ungallant statement sent her flying to the mirror to see if she really did look twenty-eight instead of eighteen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  She flew across the room to the mirror and plopped it on her head, pushing back her hair to show her earrings and tying the ribbon under her chin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  It meant nothing to her, smiling at her reflection in the mirror.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  "Oh, dear," thought Scarlett, looking first at herself in the mirror and then at Rhett's unreadable face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  But she was not listening, for she was regarding herself pleasedly in the mirror again, thinking she would wear the bonnet to the hospital this very afternoon and take flowers to the convalescent officers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  She looked in the mirror and automatically pushed up loose strands of hair but she did not see her own reflection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  She had glanced in the mirror every morning to see that her face was clean and her hair tidy but she had always been too pressed by other things to really see herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  Dressing unaided was difficult but she finally accomplished it and putting on the bonnet with its rakish feathers she ran to Aunt Pitty's room to preen herself in front of the long mirror.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  It was so nice to know that she looked pretty and provocative, and she impulsively bent forward and kissed her reflection in the mirror and then laughed at her own foolishness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
15  "Hand me the mirror, Mammy," she said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
16  She tilted the mirror and began to comb her hair.
17  She looked at herself in the mirror.
18  He looked at himself in the mirror.
19  She looked at her image in the mirror.
20  I saw in him a mirror image of my younger self.
21  His home is two terraced houses knocked together, each the mirror image of the other.
22  Charity was a mirror image of her twin.
23  His image seemed to be reflected many times in the mirror.
24  She peered closely at her image in the mirror.
25  Art can be seen as a mirror image of society.
26  Wine is mirror of the mind.
27  She makes a mouth in a mirror before she goes out every morning.
28  A dream nobody cares,a Suigetsu mirror flower wasted.
29  You may find it helpful to perform this exercise in front of the mirror.
30  A mirror reflects a picture of you when you look in it.