PRINT in a Sentence

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For PRINT, below is one of 175 sentences:
That kind of subtlety is all right in print, but in real life it would put you on a false track in nineteen out of twenty cases.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRINT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
print
 v.  produce text or picture by applying inked types, plates, blocks
Classic Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
1  "Batty," Grace called her, as she felt on her face the divided glance that was half meant for a beast in a swamp, half for a maid in a print frock and white apron.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
2  Snobs they were; long enough stationed that is in that one corner of the world to have taken indelibly the print of some three hundred years of customary behaviour.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
3  Mr. Gradgrind was for ever working, in print and out of print, at this eccentric sum, and he never could make out how it yielded this unaccountable product.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
4  One was found to have too small a print for a child's eyes, and the other to be too cumbersome for her to carry about.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  Because he could not find it in print.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
6  It was then that it left the print which was actually observed by Dr. Mortimer.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
7  Her face was haggard and thin and eager, stamped with the print of a recent horror.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
8  It had five well-marked footpads, an indication of long nails, and the whole print might be nearly as large as a dessert-spoon.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
9  The proceedings against the page broke down for want of evidence, and the Brook Street Mystery, as it was called, has never until now been fully dealt with in any public print.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
10  It was the well-marked print of a thumb.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
11  As he held the waxen print close to the blood-stain, it did not take a magnifying glass to see that the two were undoubtedly from the same thumb.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
12  Murder by a Madman, and the contents of the paper showed that Mr. Horace Harker had got his account into print after all.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
13  They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
14  I know I can print letters if I try.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  I bought 'em so I could print a bit of a letter to mother of a Sunday.'
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
16  These stationery pages, available in Microsoft Word format, are easy to personalize and print.
17  This wasn't some fine print side effect of the medication; I was experiencing a full blown medication-induced mania and I was out of control.
18  Although the book is out of print, some copies are still extant. Unfortunately, all of them are in libraries or private collections; none are for sale.
19  That kind of subtlety is all right in print, but in real life it would put you on a false track in nineteen out of twenty cases.
20  This printer can print 40 pages in a minute.
21  Everybody has their favourite ways of breaking journalism into categories —tabloid vs. broadsheet, broadcast vs. print, sensational vs. thoughtful and so on.
22  Adolf Hitler either has a disturbingly big print run in these parts - since there are a lot of them - or gratifyingly low sales, since they're still there.
23  The head-words in this dictionary are printed in bold type.
24  The moral offen - sive remarks in the book had to be expurgated before it could be printed.
25  Each card is printed with a different message.
26  It was printed in lower case.
27  Later the Lopez family was sickened to see the poetry of Gina Celaya printed in the Citizen.
28  The mark of a man's shoe was clearly printed in the mud.
29  The computer malfunctioned and printed out the wrong data.
30  Of these the Norfolk Democrat and Suffolk Punch, both printed and carrying advertisements, were particularly impressive.