NATURE in a Sentence

Learn NATURE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for NATURE, such as:

1. Observation with me is second nature.
2. He had known human nature in the East.
3. The family is one of nature's masterpieses.
4. The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature.
5. It is important to define the nature of the problem.

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 Meanings and Examples of NATURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nature
 n.  basic or inherent features of something, especially when seen as characteristic of it
 n.  the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, and other features and products of the earth.
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Observation with me is second nature.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  I CONFESS that I was considerably startled by this fresh proof of the practical nature of my companion's theories.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
5  The hunter's mind was of a hard, unyielding nature, and the predominant idea of revenge had taken such complete possession of it that there was no room for any other emotion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
6  Happily, I have always laid great stress upon it, and much practice has made it second nature to me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
7  This time, from the expression in her eyes it was apparently something in the nature of a strait waistcoat.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
8  He had known human nature in the East.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
9  Walloping, tail lashing, the reticence of nature was undone, and the barriers which should divide Man the Master from the Brute were dissolved.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
10  I, for my part, from the nature of my life, advanced infallibly in one direction and in one direction only.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
11  The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than the good which I had just deposed.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
12  With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
13  By nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is probable she was as free from any alloy of that nature, as any human being not arrived at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever was.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
14  She clung to him as she should have clung to some far better nature that day, and was a little shaken in her reserved composure for the first time.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
15  Upon a nature long accustomed to self-suppression, thus torn and divided, the Harthouse philosophy came as a relief and justification.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature.
17  I am certainly lucky to have a kind wife who is loving by nature.
18  The legal concept of insanity is of a different nature from the medical.
19  This is a utilitarian relationship with nature, in which it becomes a treasure chest of consumer goodies.
20  It is important to define the nature of the problem.
21  They define sexual harassment as unwanted conduct of a sexual nature.
22  It's difficult to define the exact nature of the problem.
23  By its nature, terrorism is designed to strike at the heart of our democratic values.
24  Poets and artists often draw their inspiration from nature.
25  A certain element of risk is in the nature of the job.
26  Doctors found it hard to establish the precise nature of her illness.
27  It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool preserves in the error.
28  The chapter's main aim is to examine the nature of that crossroads and how best to analyse it.
29  The family is one of nature's masterpieses.
30  It is the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own.