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For MODE, below is one of 85 sentences:
With the old horse dead, their one mode of conveyance was gone, and there was neither time nor strength for walking the weary red miles.

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 Meanings and Examples of MODE
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mode
 n.  prevailing style; manner; way of doing something; fashion or style
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  With the old horse dead, their one mode of conveyance was gone, and there was neither time nor strength for walking the weary red miles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  Daily he returned to the subject of the new house, but as to time and mode he was indefinite.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  To this she would reply that unless he changed his mode of life, she would certainly outlive him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
5  This guarded mode of existence was like living under a tyranny.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
6  I have said that this mode of treatment is a part of the whole system of fraud and inhumanity of slavery.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  The mode here adopted to disgust the slave with freedom, by allowing him to see only the abuse of it, is carried out in other things.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  The same mode is sometimes adopted to make the slaves refrain from asking for more food than their regular allowance.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  But, hard as it was, I thought it better than the old mode of getting along.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  Foremost among them was a highly-dressed young mulatto man, evidently a very distingue personage, attired in the ultra extreme of the mode, and gracefully waving a scented cambric handkerchief in his hand.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  It was Dinah's mode of invoking the domestic Muses.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  Topsy gave the short, blunt laugh that was her common mode of expressing incredulity.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
14  My mode of life in my hovel was uniform.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
15  This idea was probably suggested by the extreme agitation I had exhibited when the mode of the murder had been described.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
Example Sentence:
1  Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.
2  His mode of doing business is offensive to me.
3  Switch the camera into the automatic mode.
4  Your mode of life speaks well for your healthy condition.
5  Each department in the company has its own mode of operation and none of them are compatible.
6  Heat is a mode of motion.
7  Try using some other mode of organization.
8  Issues on establishing defendant participant mode to extend the scope of application of summary procedure should be analyzed and resol.
9  The bicycle reigned supreme as Britain's most popular mode of transport.
10  The main mode is the regular one that keeps the vehicle's straight ahead motion in check.
11  You can browse normally and in incognito mode at the same time by using separate windows.
12  They shift in snappy fashion in automatic mode, and they also have manual modes as backup.
13  Then put the camera in manual mode with a remote shutter and shoot.
14  What is contentious is the relationship between racialist and racist modes of thought, which might be called the conceptual politics of race.
15  Reines has also been engaged in pioneering experiments probing decay modes of the proton.