PROMISE in a Sentence

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For PROMISE, below is one of 342 sentences:
And now, sir, to reward you for the accurate guess, I will promise to paint you a careful and faithful duplicate of this picture.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROMISE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
promise
 v.  tell someone that you will certainly do something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1
2  This promise drew from me the warmest thanks.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
3  A change indeed had taken place in me; my health, which had hitherto declined, was now much restored; and my spirits, when unchecked by the memory of my unhappy promise, rose proportionably.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
4  My promise fulfilled, the monster would depart forever.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
5  I had now neglected my promise for some time, and I feared the effects of the daemon's disappointment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
6  I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
7  They insisted, therefore, that I should engage with a solemn promise that if the vessel should be freed I would instantly direct my course southwards.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that she'd take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses who stopped at the foot of the steps.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
11  I was relieved too for that seemed to promise another friend at Gatsby's grave.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
12  Open a passage; and I promise ye, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child may have a fair sight of her brave apparel from this time till an hour past meridian.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
13  When we last spake together," said Hester, "now seven years ago, it was your pleasure to extort a promise of secrecy as touching the former relation betwixt yourself and me.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
14  When he gave his promise to his father, he meditated within himself to increase the fortunes of his sisters by the present of a thousand pounds a-piece.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
15  But as he required the promise, I could not do less than give it; at least I thought so at the time.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
Example Sentence: (132 in 9 pages)
16  A heavy snow promise a good harvest.
17  I hope he will keep his promise.
18  He could well imagine how much his promise was going to cost him.
19  I can't promise a miracle cure, but I think we can improve things.
20  The President is backtracking on his promise to increase healthcare spending.
21  We can never promise to sail anywhere in particular, because the weather might militate against it.
22  She fobbed him off with a promise to pay him the money next week.
23  Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
24  We can't promise to publish a reply as space is limited.
25  Don't say love, a promise is a debt owed.
26  President Kaunda fulfilled his promise of announcing a date for the referendum.
27  And now, sir, to reward you for the accurate guess, I will promise to paint you a careful and faithful duplicate of this picture.
28  Jill sued Jack for breach of promise, claiming he had broken his promise to marry her.
29  In the spring, the plants that burgeon are a promise of the beauty to come.
30  Iraqi sovereignty does not neglect the U.S. promise to protect the residents of Camp Ashraf.