NOTCH in a Sentence

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For NOTCH, below is one of 14 sentences:
More than once, as tufts of grass came out in my hand or my foot slipped in the wet notches of the rock, I thought that I was gone.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOTCH
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notch
 n.  small cut; V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface
Classic Sentence:
1  He unfolded the chair and fixed the bar into the right notch.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
2  Giles, nicking his chair into its notch, turned too, in the other direction.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
3  "I will notch his shaft for him, however," replied Locksley.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  She decided she was going to take this man down a notch or two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  When you talked about notching ears and slitting noses I judged that that was your own embellishment, because white men don't take that sort of revenge.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  The frame with the notches was upside down.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
7  The smoke went up from an Etna of peat in front of him, played round the notches of the chimney-crook, struck against the salt-box, and got lost among the flitches.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
8  More than once, as tufts of grass came out in my hand or my foot slipped in the wet notches of the rock, I thought that I was gone.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
Example Sentence:
1  There was one notch in the handle of his revolver.
2  The quality of the food here has dropped a notch recently.
3  Dry seasons are growing longer, withering crops; heat spikes are a growing problem too, with countries regularly notching lethal summer temperatures.
4  Her new book is several notches above anything else she has written.
5  Acting and direction are several notches up on the standards we are used to.
6  My spirits lifted a few notches when I heard the news.