RANGE in a Sentence

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For RANGE, below is one of 372 sentences:
Ahead of them, a long way off, a range of hills stained by mottlings of black forest flowed away in round white curves against the sky.

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 Meanings and Examples of RANGE
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range
 n.  limits within which something can be effective; variety of different things or activities
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  To keep out of range of the revealing rays from within he made a circuit through the untrodden snow and gradually approached the farther angle of the basement wall.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Ahead of them, a long way off, a range of hills stained by mottlings of black forest flowed away in round white curves against the sky.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  This attribute was common to most of Lily's set: they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
4  George Dorset's talk did not interfere with the range of his neighbour's thoughts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
5  Such details did not fall within the range of Mrs. Peniston's vision.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
6  She did not indeed let her imagination range beyond the day of plighting: after that everything faded into a haze of material well-being, in which the personality of her benefactor remained mercifully vague.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
7  Inherited tendencies had combined with early training to make her the highly specialized product she was: an organism as helpless out of its narrow range as the sea-anemone torn from the rock.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
8  But they were welcomed warmly enough in the kitchen, with its crisp new plaster, its black and nickel range, its cream separator in a corner.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  Miles Bjornstam, the pariah "Red Swede," had brought his circular saw and portable gasoline engine to the house, to cut the cords of poplar for the kitchen range.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  She had hoped for tiling, and a kerosene range for summer cooking, but Kennicott always postponed these expenses.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  If Sally whispered in her ear, or Charley gave her three winks, Tony would rush into the kitchen and build a fire in the range on which she had already cooked three meals that day.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
12  My own garments had been treated so badly that I never saw them again; grandmother burned them in the Cutters' kitchen range.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
13  I saw a long table, rows of wooden chairs against the wall, and a shining range in one corner.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
14  "Immense, I tell you," persisted Madame Ratignolle, surveying the sketches one by one, at close range, then holding them at arm's length, narrowing her eyes, and dropping her head on one side.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
15  Beyond opens a door into the kitchen, where there is a glimpse to be had of a range with much steam ascending from it, and many women, old and young, rushing hither and thither.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (162 in 11 pages)
16  The hotel offers a wide range of facilities and services.
17  A wide range of emotionally stressful events may trigger a relapse.
18  We sell a wide range of cosmetics and toiletries at a very reasonable price.
19  There is a wide range of choices open to you.
20  Most babies can digest a wide range of food easily.
21  We sell a wide range of ales and stouts.
22  The survey covers a wide range of industry sectors.
23  We sell a wide range of cosmetics at a very reasonable price.
24  We stocked a wide range of inexpensive wines.
25  Students will gain competence in a wide range of skills.
26  Her latest album makes extensive use of samples from a wide range of acid jazz tracks.
27  I taught a wide range of abilities.
28  This car is beyond the range of most people's pockets.
29  There are a whole range of sizes to choose from.
30  Factory shops contain a wide range of cheap furnishings.