MODEL in a Sentence

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For MODEL, below is one of 210 sentences:
He wished him to be a model of constancy; and fancied the best means of effecting it would be by not trying him too long.

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 Meanings and Examples of MODEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
model
 n.  a representative form or pattern
 n.  a type of product
Classic Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  Streatfield; a piece of traditional church furniture; a corner cupboard; or the top beam of a gate, fashioned by generations of village carpenters after some lost-in-the-mists-of-antiquity model.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
2  It was his school, and he intended it to be a model.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
3  For it was to be seen with half an eye that he was a thorough gentleman, made to the model of the time; weary of everything, and putting no more faith in anything than Lucifer.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
4  He would like me most of all to be a model for him to paint from.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
5  But only on the condition that she'll come and pose as a model for me.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
6  'Better have me as a model at the same time,' said Mellors.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  He wished him to be a model of constancy; and fancied the best means of effecting it would be by not trying him too long.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
8  'You'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' said the beadle, as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proffered snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  He thought her a most extraordinary young woman; in her temper, manners, mind, a model of female excellence.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
10  She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
11  But they were regarded in the regiment as the very model of a middle-aged couple.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
12  It was a wax-coloured model of my friend, so admirably done that it was a perfect facsimile.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
13  The only other object on the table was a small shaded lamp, the bright light of which fell upon the model.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
14  This little affair,' said the Time Traveller, resting his elbows upon the table and pressing his hands together above the apparatus, 'is only a model.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
15  So that it was the Psychologist himself who sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
Example Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
16  This new model of drilling machine can bore through solid rock ten metres deep.
17  This model does not describe accurately the way a market economy actually functions.
18  The model of the village is accurate down to the last detail.
19  The company has done some effective marketing of the new model.
20  This new model is of high quality and is not expensive either.
21  He is a model professional and an example to the younger lads.
22  The electric windows are an important design feature of this model.
23  The fashion model had a very slim figure.
24  They used a computer to model the possible effects of global warming.
25  The computer model assesses the likely impact of new pollution sources.
26  He lost one of the pieces of his model engine.
27  It is designed on the model of the Sydney Opera House.
28  I will be a role model for others.
29  The new model has a bigger boot.
30  The new model will be in production by the end of the year.