OMIT in a Sentence

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For OMIT, below is one of 64 sentences:
When he spoke of the execution he wanted to pass over the horrible details, but Natasha insisted that he should not omit anything.

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 Meanings and Examples of OMIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
omit
 v.  leave undone or leave out ; bypass; neglect; fail to include or mention
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  The Bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his carriage into alms.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
2  One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the galleys.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
3  Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an ailing soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
4  Eponine and Azelma had taken care not to omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on the hearth.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
5  They throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of themselves.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
6  One other example bearing on the same subject I must not omit.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII.
7  Other instances might be cited, which, not to be tedious, I shall omit, and mention only a circumstance which Titus Livius tells us preceded the invasion of the Gauls.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LVI.
8  Here I must not omit to notice the device practised by Fabius to give his army confidence, when he led it for the first time into Etruria.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
9  For in the state of nature, to omit the liberty he has of innocent delights, a man has two powers.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  When the invitation came to me, there was not one word of intimation as to what I should say or as to what I should omit.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIII.
11  I should be greatly to blame if I were to omit that, as soon as Manilov had pronounced these words, the face of his guest became replete with satisfaction.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
12  Boris rose to meet Rostov, but in doing so did not omit to steady and replace some chessmen that were falling.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
13  When he spoke of the execution he wanted to pass over the horrible details, but Natasha insisted that he should not omit anything.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XVII
14  He did not omit to avail himself of the opportunity, cautiously and briefly; too cautiously to betray his presence by the slightest noise.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  I did not omit even our sports and pastimes, or any other particular which I thought might redound to the honour of my country.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI.
Example Sentence:
1  On this account we recommend to omit from the Swedish draft the paragraphs 5.
2  Please don't omit any details, no matter how trivial they may seem.
3  The editor omitted the third paragraph from the article.
4  Some passages were omitted from the book.
5  He was controversially omitted from the World Cup side.
6  The typist omitted the last letter.
7  She was omitted from the list of contributors to the report.
8  She omitted to mention that they were staying the night.
9  Her name was omitted through an oversight.