PROGRAM in a Sentence

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For PROGRAM, below is one of 158 sentences:
The bag is full of treasures and of memories: a leather buckle, an ancient band-concert program, scraps of ribbon, lace, satin.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROGRAM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
program
 v.  arrange a program of or for
 n.  a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
Classic Sentence:
1  Unable to agree with the Gentlemen's Glee Club as to the program for their next recital, the ladies had waited on Melanie that afternoon and announced their intention of withdrawing completely from the Musical Circle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
2  The bag is full of treasures and of memories: a leather buckle, an ancient band-concert program, scraps of ribbon, lace, satin.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Carol was panting as she crept to the meeting of the Thanatopsis program committee which was to decide the subject for next fall and winter.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  Dramatic Art announces a program of four.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Now for instance, they were having winter racing in New Orleans and a syndicate was laying out each day's program in advance, and its agents in all the Northern cities were "milking" the poolrooms.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
6  The plump boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been disturbed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
7  The count got out helped by the footmen, and, passing among men and women who were entering and the program sellers, they all three went along the corridor to the first row of boxes.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII
8  Let us assume that this program was possible and had then been formulated, and that Alexander had acted on it.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER I
9  But what this program consists in these historians do not say, or if they do they continually contradict one another.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IV
10  Only then Levin recollected the title of the fantasia, and made haste to read in the Russian translation the lines from Shakespeare that were printed on the back of the program.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 5
11  The club gets such a nice magazine, Culture Hints, and we follow its programs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
16  The computer program was unable to discriminate between letters and numbers.
17  A backup copy of a computer program does not infringe copyright.
18  The chances of an error occurring in a computer program increase with the size of the program.
19  A computer program verifies that the system is working.
20  The vaccination program has been a major factor in the improvement of health standards.
21  I lost half a morning's work when the program crashed.
22  He made a huge profit from the sale of shares purchased in January under the company's stock option program.
23  I couldn't run the program because it contained a computer bug I could neither identify nor cure.
24  A program for a play contains a list of the actors' names and other information about the play.
25  Please program the computer to do the job instead of manual operation.
26  He integrated all their activities into one program.
27  She's written a program to find words which frequently occur together.
28  PMP is the world's most widely recognized PM certification program, in terms of number of individuals certified.
29  We are all faithful listeners to the program.
30  The television program is designed to educate and not merely to entertain.