MOUNT in a Sentence

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For MOUNT, below is one of 243 sentences:
Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing every step or two and putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOUNT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mount
 v.  go up or advance; fix onto a backing; put up or launch
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The next moment they sank to her flushed cheeks and she began to mount the stairs ahead of Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  The sudden heat of his tone made her colour mount again, not with a rush, but gradually, delicately, like the reflection of a thought stealing slowly across her heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  "There's none in the County can touch you, nor in the state," he informed his mount, with pride, the brogue of County Meath still heavy on his tongue in spite of thirty-nine years in America.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  For of these moonlight nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
5  No more monkey-jackets and tarpaulins for me; I must mount a swallow-tail, and drive down a beaver; so.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks.
6  No," she answered; "Ellen is afraid to mount the ladder.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIX
7  Her bosom rose and fell as she breathed, and her excitement seemed to mount higher and higher, and then to sink away again, like a boat tossing upon ocean surges.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
8  Laying Alice on one of the horses, he made a sign to Cora to mount the other.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
9  Then he described the nature and position of the mount whither he had led such captives as had fallen into their hands.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
10  "Your master, I s'pose, don't keep no dogs," said Haley, thoughtfully, as he prepared to mount.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing every step or two and putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
12  And he caused one of his attendants to mount his own led horse, and give that upon which he had hitherto ridden to the stranger, who was to serve for a guide.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  I am like John-a-Duck's mare, that will let no man mount her but John-a-Duck.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  It is situated on a mount at one angle of the inner court, and forms a complete circle of perhaps twenty-five feet in diameter.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
15  He soon had the nails out: then he pulled out the backboards, then the enlargement itself, in its solid white mount.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  His jet-black eyes stare out from hand-painted murals or photographs mounted in every shop, school and office in the country.
17  A very much smaller advertising campaign was therefore mounted in the press and on commercial television.
18  The release of the bold young newspaper editor-in-chief after five months detention without trial marks a significant victory for those who mounted a vigorous campaign against the injustice he faced.
19  Tokyo Electric Company said the power was cut off when a crane mounted on a boat hit high voltage power lines that crossed a river.
20  When she first mounted the horse, she was afraid to urge the animal to go faster than a gentle amble.
21  He gave her a three carat diamond mounted in a gold band.
22  I mounted the vehicle which was to bear me to new duties and a new life in the unknown environs of Millcote.
23  A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.
24  The release of the bold young man without trial marks a significant victory for those who mounted a vigorous campaign against the injustice he faced.
25  There is mounting tension along the border.
26  Pressure is mounting on the government to change the law.
27  Concern is mounting over the fate of the lost expedition.
28  The library has a policy of mounting changing exhibitions.
29  There was mounting pressure on him to resign.
30  Science museums have tried to shake off their somewhat starchy image by mounting exhibitions designed to draw in the crowds.