PRIDE in a Sentence

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For PRIDE, below is one of 242 sentences:
Completely reassured, she shone on him through tear-hung lashes, and his soul swelled with pride as he saw how his tone subdued her.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRIDE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pride
 n.  satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements
 n.  a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Ethan felt that if he had pleaded an urgent need Hale might have made shift to pay him; but pride, and an instinctive prudence, kept him from resorting to this argument.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  "Not a bit," Ethan's pride retorted before his reason had time to intervene.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  Completely reassured, she shone on him through tear-hung lashes, and his soul swelled with pride as he saw how his tone subdued her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  Mammy was black, but her code of conduct and her sense of pride were as high as or higher than those of her owners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  And, as her love for Scarlett and her pride in her were enormous, the chastening process was practically continuous.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Filled with her own anxieties, she nevertheless watched him with affectionate pride, for Gerald was an excellent horseman.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  "There's none in the County can touch you, nor in the state," he informed his mount, with pride, the brogue of County Meath still heavy on his tongue in spite of thirty-nine years in America.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  Anger and hurt pride drove out some of the pain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  I'm glad there's pride in you, Puss.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  And I want to see pride in you tomorrow at the barbecue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  But only from life could Ellen's face have acquired its look of pride that had no haughtiness, its graciousness, its melancholy and its utter lack of humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  If Ellen had ever regretted her sudden decision to marry him, no one ever knew it, certainly not Gerald, who almost burst with pride whenever he looked at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  Then the trembling fell away from her, as happiness and pride surged through her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  He had never once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt pride and feminine vanity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  The mortification and hurt pride that she had suffered in the library with Ashley and with Rhett Butler were pin pricks to this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  Success in sport is a source of national pride.
17  The athletics win provided a much-needed fillip to/for national pride.
18  He looked at his painting with pride.
19  His parents flushed with pride when he went to receive his prize.
20  She looked with pride at the result of her work.
21  With a sense of great pride, I knocked the last nail in.
22  The sight of her son graduating filled her with pride.
23  May an old friend express his pride in your accomplishment and extend to you a wish for your continued success and happiness.
24  We take great pride in our achievements.
25  The manner in which the United States was able to assimilate immigrants during the 19th and early 20th century will always be a source of pride to Americans.
26  Some people are pride of the Great Wall; but others think it is just a line of stones.
27  John's pride in his son is transparent; no one who sees the two of them together can miss it.
28  Avuncular pride did not prevent him from noticing his nephew's shortcomings.
29  It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who, after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid.
30  Both are established companies blindsided by new innovators and troubled almost as much by pride and internal fiefs as by technology shifts.