PRODUCTION in a Sentence

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For PRODUCTION, below is one of 272 sentences:
One night I was sitting in the chimney corner with my slate, expending great efforts on the production of a letter to Joe.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRODUCTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
production
 n.  the act or process of producing something
 n.  the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  I have often attributed my attachment to, my passionate enthusiasm for, the dangerous mysteries of ocean to that production of the most imaginative of modern poets.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2
2  But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production which I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46
3  One night I was sitting in the chimney corner with my slate, expending great efforts on the production of a letter to Joe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
4  Yet Estella was so inseparable from all my restlessness and disquiet of mind, that I really fell into confusion as to the limits of my own part in its production.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
5  After three days' delay, during which the crown prosecution stood over for the production of the witness from the prison-ship, the witness came, and completed the easy case.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LV
6  General principles, as to the cow being a machine for the production of milk, she looked on with suspicion.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 9
7  Napoleon, on the other hand, argued that the great need of the moment was to increase food production, and that if they wasted time on the windmill they would all starve to death.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
8  But under Mrs Bolton's influence, Clifford was tempted to enter this other fight, to capture the bitch-goddess by brute means of industrial production.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  "It is certainly rather a curious production," said Holmes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
10  But the production of the photograph had a remarkable effect upon the manager.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
11  Such a society functions admirably in the large production of cheap automobiles, dollar watches, and safety razors.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  I have already said that the state could not control intellectual production.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
13  Mr. Bartell D'Arcy, the tenor, a dark-complexioned young man with a smart moustache, praised very highly the leading contralto of the company but Miss Furlong thought she had a rather vulgar style of production.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
14  That is the ground which makes the fall of the first man, resulting in the production of the human race, appear evidently less free than a man's entry into marriage today.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX
15  Their division kills production.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Over - production is seriously unbalancing the EEC economy.
17  The lighting for the production made a very effective use of shadow.
18  As a multi-skilled employee, her shifts involve chemical analysis, production monitoring and work as a colourist.
19  The programme aims to make the country self-sufficient in food production and to cut energy imports.
20  We put it on and everybody said 'Oh it's a brilliant production'.
21  It would be of interest to use an immunohistochemical approach to examine the production of these and other mediators in coeliac disease.
22  We expect a rise in both our production and our cash flow.
23  He collaborated with his son Michael on the English translation of a text on food production.
24  Reports of fresh successes roll in from all fronts of production.
25  With the expanded production of North Sea oil and gas, the UK has become a net exporter of fuel.
26  OPEC has agreed to freeze its global oil production slightly in order to firm up crude prices.
27  The government is prioritising the service sector, rather than investing in industry and production.
28  What you are studying seems to be foreign to the main issue of our practical production.
29  Japan has taken the lead in car production.
30  A specialist in ergonomics will work with the team designing the production line in our new factory.