MUTUAL in a Sentence

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Clerval continued talking for some time about our mutual friends and his own good fortune in being permitted to come to Ingolstadt.

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 Meanings and Examples of MUTUAL
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mutual
 a.  common to or shared by two or more parties; shared
Classic Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
1  Clerval continued talking for some time about our mutual friends and his own good fortune in being permitted to come to Ingolstadt.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  Our circle will be small but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
3  Here was the iron link of mutual crime, which neither he nor she could break.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
4  She believed the regard to be mutual; but she required greater certainty of it to make Marianne's conviction of their attachment agreeable to her.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
5  They speedily discovered that their enjoyment of dancing and music was mutual, and that it arose from a general conformity of judgment in all that related to either.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
6  This suspicion was given by some words which accidently dropped from him one evening at the park, when they were sitting down together by mutual consent, while the others were dancing.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  To Marianne, indeed, the meeting between Edward and her sister was but a continuation of that unaccountable coldness which she had often observed at Norland in their mutual behaviour.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
8  Your case is a very unfortunate one; you seem to me to be surrounded with difficulties, and you will have need of all your mutual affection to support you under them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
9  A mutual silence took place for some time.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
10  He dared not come to Bartlett's Buildings for fear of detection, and though their mutual impatience to meet, was not to be told, they could do nothing at present but write.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34
11  And with this admirable discretion did she defer the assurance of her finding their mutual relatives more disagreeable than ever, and of her being particularly disgusted with his mother, till they were more in private.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35
12  A short pause of mutual thoughtfulness succeeded.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44
13  I thus became aware of the mutual relations between them and Mr. Pocket, which were exemplified in the following manner.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIII
14  These evidences of an incompatibility of temper induced Miss Betsey to pay him off, and effect a separation by mutual consent.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
15  If it don't act well, or don't quite accord with our mutual convenience, he can easily go to the right-about.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The East and the West can work together for their mutual benefit and progress.
2  A deep mutual respect and understanding developed between them.
3  The campaign has abounded in mutual accusations of uncivilised behaviour.
4  Leagues are commonly made for mutual defense.
5  I don't like her, and I think the feeling is mutual.
6  Negotiations between unions and management are made more difficult by mutual distrust.
7  They shared a powerful mutual attraction.
8  The two countries made up a confederation for mutual safety.
9  The two groups have existed in a state of mutual distrust for centuries.
10  Britain's third largest building society abandoned its mutual status and became a bank.
11  They felt a strong mutual attraction.
12  The main thrust is to make progress on practical issues - with mutual trade and business at the top of the agenda.
13  Symbiotic relationships may involve an organism living on another, inside another, or organisms related by mutual stereotypic behaviors.
14  William H. Gross, the co-founder of the mutual fund giant Pimco who abruptly quit last month to join a much smaller mutual fund company, has in the past peppered his market commentary with upbeat and zany humor.
15  These two aims are not always mutually complementary: at times they conflict.