ORGAN in a Sentence

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For ORGAN, below is one of 345 sentences:
That lady herself played the organ for the choir at the Methodist Church and, as an organist, had scant respect for harps or harpists.

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 Meanings and Examples of ORGAN
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organ
 n.  natural part or structure in animal or plant, capable of performing some special action
Classic Sentence: (135 in 10 pages)
1  That lady herself played the organ for the choir at the Methodist Church and, as an organist, had scant respect for harps or harpists.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
2  Out of the dusk her violin took up the organ theme, and the candle-light revealed her in a straight golden frock, her arm arched to the bow, her lips serious.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  If you are an entire stranger to their race, you might hunt over these two heads for hours, and never discover that organ.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
4  Wherefore, you must now have perceived that the front of the Sperm Whale's head is a dead, blind wall, without a single organ or tender prominence of any sort whatsoever.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.
5  From its relative situation then, I should call this high hump the organ of firmness or indomitableness in the Sperm Whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
6  After twisting and screwing the keys, he played some Bohemian airs, without the organ to hold him back, and that went better.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
7  A negro organ printed in this city, in a recent issue publishes the following atrocious paragraph: "Nobody in this section of the country believes the old thread-bare lie that negro men rape white women."
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
8  In the head and face every organ and lineament expressive of brutal and unhesitating violence was in a state of the highest possible development.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  Down far in the avenue she could hear a street organ playing.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In EVELINE
10  Mary Jane, who was then a little girl in short clothes, was now the main prop of the household, for she had the organ in Haddington Road.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
11  The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
12  And up the slope into the old church went all the kings and queens of Denmark, hand in hand, all with their golden crowns; and the organ played and the fountains rustled.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
13  And he touched the walls, and they widened out, and she saw the organ which was playing; she saw the old pictures of the preachers and the preachers' wives.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE RED SHOES
14  A bird's wing, comrades," he said, "is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
15  She waited, as one waits for the strain of an organ to die out before leaving church.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  She is a shining example of how to organize your time.
17  Do a global search for 'organise' and replace it with 'organize'.
18  The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate.
19  Teacher's Friend is a little guide we wrote to help the new weaver set up her home school and organize her materials.
20  The organization is turning to political agitation in order to achieve its aims.
21  Environmentalists argue that the organization fails to address the needs of third world farmers.
22  If this project fails it will affect not only our department, but also the whole organization.
23  Politics, as a pracitice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
24  The organization comes under the authority of the EU.
25  She undertook the organization of the whole scheme.
26  The organization works to alleviate world hunger and disease.
27  The organization has a large annual budget.
28  The move would cause irreparable harm to the organization.
29  The organization has a central office in York.
30  Poor organization was certainly a contributory factor to the crisis.