NOVEL in a Sentence

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The novel is an intensely lyrical stream-of-consciousness about an Indian woman who leaves her family home to be married.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOVEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
novel
 n.  printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  The man's novel, with which he had read himself to sleep was lying upon the bed, and his pipe was on a chair beside him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  Connie only half heard this piece of novel, masculine information.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
4  But the novel, like gossip, can also excite spurious sympathies and recoils, mechanical and deadening to the psyche.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
5  Then the novel, like gossip, becomes at last vicious, and, like gossip, all the more vicious because it is always ostensibly on the side of the angels.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  There is something distinctly novel about some of the features.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
7  Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
8  "I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime novel," said our visitor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
9  After struggling against it until two in the morning, I felt that it was quite hopeless, so I rose and lit the candle with the intention of continuing a novel which I was reading.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
10  "This is certainly very novel," said he.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
11  He too returned to his old life at school and all his novel enterprises fell to pieces.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  The porter took up his candle again, but slowly, for he was surprised by such a novel idea.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
13  Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In SECOND ACT
14  It contained the manuscript of a three-volume novel of more than usually revolting sentimentality.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In THIRD ACT
15  I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
16  The English version of the novel is due for publication next year.
17  Only an expurgated version of the novel has been published so far.
18  This is an abridged version of her new novel "The Queen and I".
19  The critics panned the film version of the novel.
20  The novel began with a flashback to the hero's experiences in the war.
21  The novel is an intensely lyrical stream-of-consciousness about an Indian woman who leaves her family home to be married.
22  Yeah, that's right - it was based on a Raymond Chandler novel.
23  The idea that there is life on other planets is the central premise of the novel.
24  The central character of the novel is a sort of underworld figure.
25  The main character in her latest novel is a composite of several public figures of that era.
26  Her novel was first laid before Chinese readers.
27  Job-sharing is still a novel concept and it will take a while for employers to get used to it.
28  The novel's central theme is the perennial conflict between men and women.
29  Despite the critical acclaim, the novel did not sell well.
30  Her latest novel has won great critical acclaim.