NEEDN in a Sentence

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For NEEDN, below is one of 67 sentences:
A New York City Ballet dancer says a newspaper critic needn't apologize for calling her plump in a performance of "The Nutcracker.

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 Meanings and Examples of NEEDN
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Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  She needn't know anything about it if you keep quiet.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  They needn't think they can spread lies about my husband and my sister-in-law.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
3  You needn't make any promises: it's unnecessary.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
4  Mrs. Dorset, for reasons we needn't go into, did you a beastly bad turn last spring.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
5  I needn't say I'm crazy to have you.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  You needn't say anything about that to the children.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
7  People needn't have troubled themselves.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
8  You needn't dress; you look all right; fasten a belt around your waist.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XV
9  This is some passing whim of your wife, due to some cause or causes which you and I needn't try to fathom.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXII
10  "Oh, yeh needn't mind, Henry," he said.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
11  Now, I say, gal, you needn't be a bit afeard, let who will come here.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  "Dey needn't call me worn out yet," said she, lifting her shaking hands.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  Tom, you needn't get me the horses.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  You needn't be so frightened; I don't mean to make you work very hard.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  They who steal body and soul needn't talk to us.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
Example Sentence:
1  Suddenly there was a flash of light and Tom came tearing by him: "Run!" said he; "run, for your life!" He needn't have repeated it; once was enough; Huck was making thirty or forty miles an hour before the repetition was uttered.
2  A New York City Ballet dancer says a newspaper critic needn't apologize for calling her plump in a performance of "The Nutcracker.
3  We need more men of culture and enlightenment; we needn't any philistine among us.
4  "My name is Alice, so please your Majesty," said Alice very politely; but she added, to herself, "Why, they're only a pack of cards, after all. I needn't be afraid of them!"
5  "I'VE been to a day-school, too," said Alice; "you needn't be so proud as all that."
6  We needn't assume that there was a sinister motive for what she did.
7  You understand the situation; I needn't elaborate any further.
8  She needn't worry that he'll think she looks a mess.
9  You needn't finish that work today.
10  I needn't a photo to remember you.