ORDER in a Sentence

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For ORDER, below is one of 420 sentences:
In order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle.

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 Meanings and Examples of ORDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
order
 v.  give a instruction to do something
 n.  a request to supply goods
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In order to render me more tractable, he brought me to this country house.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  The antechamber, indeed, was only encrusted with rubies and emeralds, but the order in which everything was arranged made amends for this great simplicity.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
3  Then without losing time, he and his companions went on board a galley, in order to search on the banks of the Propontis for his Cunegonde, however ugly she might have become.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
4  In the winter they break this bread up with an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it eatable.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
5  Every bishop who possesses the least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
6  I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this traveller to go to sleep, and we both went up stairs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTA...
7  In order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
8  His youth, which was packing up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
9  There is a throng of institutions in the old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the above.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
10  It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
11  He had separated the work-rooms in order to separate the sexes, and so that the women and girls might remain discreet.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
12  God shows them to us in order to induce us to reflect.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
13  Life and the social order have said their last word for her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT
14  On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had taken the name of Simplice by special choice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
15  Sister Simplice, on her entrance into the order, had had two faults which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she liked to receive letters.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The boy pulled the boat's head round in order to avoid the conflict with the boat in front of him.
17  He was having to whisper in order to avoid being overheard by their nosy neighbours.
18  They have to have a basic understanding of computers in order to use the advanced technology.
19  The police beat the door down in order to get into the building.
20  In order to do something you've never done, you have to become someone you've never been.
21  He expounded traditional Calvinism with its high doctrine of church order.
22  Low-ranking females will have young of whatever gender leaves the troop in order not to saddle the young with low rank.
23  Both sides met in order to try to resolve their differences.
24  In order that every student might understand it, the teacher explained that passage again and again.
25  It is the final proof of God's omnipltence that he need not exist in order to save us.
26  I think I'll stay home tonight, order in a pizza and watch a video.
27  They diplomatized in order to win victory.
28  We have fought scores of battles in order to win victory.
29  Get your ideas into some kind of order before beginning to write.
30  He has a full order book for his boat-building yard on the Thames.