MUSTER in a Sentence

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For MUSTER, below is one of 43 sentences:
Climbing back into the wagon required all the strength Scarlett could muster, but at last it was done and she picked up the lines.

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 Meanings and Examples of MUSTER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
muster
 v.  call together; cause to come together; gather; summon up
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  From planters' homes and swamp cabins, a varied array of firearms came to each muster.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  "I do appreciate good advice so much," said Scarlett, with all the sarcasm she could muster.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  She knew she should feel sorry for Melanie, but somehow she could not muster a spark of sympathy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Climbing back into the wagon required all the strength Scarlett could muster, but at last it was done and she picked up the lines.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Carriage sticks fast, while Cudjoe on the outside is heard making a great muster among the horses.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  He'll muster some of those old overseers on the other plantations, and have a great hunt; and they'll go over every inch of ground in that swamp.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  He saw that he did not join the muster of the pursuers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
8  I couldn't muster up a single commonplace out of the thousand in my head.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  When we stopped for supper I couldn't muster courage to take any, though I should have liked it very much, but sat by the fire and said I didn't want anything.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
10  With these words, she gave Oliver her purse, and he started off, without more delay, at the greatest speed he could muster.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  Now, for such a case as the one which has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster all our resources.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
12  Nay, he even issued seignorial instructions that Selifan should go and muster the peasants about to be transferred, and make a complete and detailed inventory of them.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
13  On the square in front of the Bazaar were drummers beating the muster call.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXI
14  However, there was no other way; so with such show of cheerfulness as they could muster they called for the pipe and took their whiff as it passed, in due form.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence:
1  She managed to muster the courage to ask him to the cinema.
2  He travelled around West Africa trying to muster support for his movement.
3  His English up to this point would hardly pass muster.
4  I didn't think Charlie's parents would like me, but evidently I pass muster.
5  Thirty thousand men were to muster.
6  Fritz says if the best answer you can muster is "Georgetown," you're definitely not going to win.
7  Finally I mustered up the courage to ask her out.
8  He mustered up enough courage to attack the difficulty.