OBSERVATION in a Sentence

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I am simply applying to ordinary life a few of those precepts of observation and deduction which I advocated in that article.

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 Meanings and Examples of OBSERVATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
observation
 n.  the act of observing; taking a patient look
 n.  the act of noticing or paying attention
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Deceit, according to him, was an impossibility in the case of one trained to observation and analysis.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  Yes, I have a turn both for observation and for deduction.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
4  I am simply applying to ordinary life a few of those precepts of observation and deduction which I advocated in that article.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
5  Tom blew his smoke aside, after he had been smoking a little while, and took an observation of his friend.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
6  The return he makes her, within my observation, is a very poor one.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
7  There was such a person in the room that night, and she shrunk from observation, thought Louisa.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
8  Formed in the best proportions of her sex, Rowena was tall in stature, yet not so much so as to attract observation on account of superior height.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  Hubert shook his head as he received with reluctance the bounty of the stranger, and Locksley, anxious to escape further observation, mixed with the crowd, and was seen no more.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  And while their manners were thus the subject of sarcastic observation, the untaught Saxons unwittingly transgressed several of the arbitrary rules established for the regulation of society.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  On such occasions he would start up, quaff a cup of wine as if to raise his spirits, and then mingle in the conversation by some observation made abruptly or at random.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  Cedric went on with his story without noticing this interjectional observation of his friend.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  The observation was extraordinary and peculiar.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  My poor aunt had certainly little cause to love the state; but, however, speaking from my own observation, it is a manoeuvring business.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  She had none of Fanny's delicacy of taste, of mind, of feeling; she saw Nature, inanimate Nature, with little observation; her attention was all for men and women, her talents for the light and lively.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (102 in 7 pages)
16  Her early writing was grounded in acute observation of the natural world.
17  Dan and Jordan must ride the Singapore Flyer observation wheel until their capsule is at the very top, which is 541 feet.
18  The only observation I have is the colors are a bit too gloomy and dingy.
19  A strong argument for the existence of high energy neutrinos from the cosmos is the observation of high energy cosmic rays.
20  Research aims to assess the response of Canada's landmass to climate change as captured by a long-term satellite earth observation records.
21  Dürer's famous watercolour and gouache drawing Young Hare is a masterpiece in observation; its impeccable rendering served as benchmark for centuries thereafter.
22  Religious observances such as fasting can be hard to follow.
23  Predators have been observed to avoid attacking brightly coloured species.
24  The police observed a man enter the bank.
25  They observed him entering the bank.
26  Troop movements can be observed from space by a satellite.
27  They carefully observed the behavior of deer.
28  Cases of child cruelty occur more often than they are observed.
29  Scientists have observed a drop in ozone levels over the Antarctic.
30  He documented the destruction he observed during the Cosovo War.