RARE in a Sentence

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For RARE, below is one of 277 sentences:
The theory is that there was a rare conjunction of certain bright planets that created the image of the so-called 'Star of Bethlehem'.

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 Meanings and Examples of RARE
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rare
 a.  scarce; infrequently occurring; uncommon
Classic Sentence: (196 in 14 pages)
1  Frome was in the habit of walking into Starkfield to fetch home his wife's cousin, Mattie Silver, on the rare evenings when some chance of amusement drew her to the village.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The strange exaltation of his mood had brought on one of his rare fits of boastfulness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  But, when Mrs. Wilkes, "a great lady and with a rare gift for silence," as Gerald characterized her, told her husband one evening, after Gerald's horse had pounded down the driveway.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  Except on rare occasions she always wore her riding habit, for whether she rode or not she always expected to ride and in that expectation put on her habit upon arising.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  But you, my dear Miss O'Hara, are a girl of rare spirit, very admirable spirit, and I take off my hat to you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  I thought: Miss O'Hara is a girl of rare spirit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  Since the return of her wedding ring, Melanie had felt that Rhett was a gentleman of rare refinement and delicacy and she was shocked at this remark.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  But Melanie, by rare luck, had come into possession of enough gray broadcloth to make a coat--a rather short coat but a coat just the same.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  Scarlett could not help noticing that the child was beginning to avoid her and, in the rare moments when her unending duties gave her time to think about it, it bothered her a great deal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  Hams in wine, pressed duck, pate de foie gras, rare fruits in and out of season, were spread in profusion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  It was one of those rare December days when the sun was almost as warm as Indian summer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  There were a thousand chances to one against her meeting anybody, but one could never tell, and she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
13  With so much time to talk, and no definite object to be led up to, she could taste the rare joys of mental vagrancy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
14  It was perhaps her very manner of holding herself aloof that appealed to his collector's passion for the rare and unattainable.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
15  It was here that her aunt received her rare confidences, and the pink-eyed smirk of the turbaned Beatrice was associated in her mind with the gradual fading of the smile from Mrs. Peniston's lips.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
Example Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
16  She has a rare, incurable disease.
17  The plastic surgeon diagnosed my illness as a rare bone disease.
18  This combination of qualities is generally supposed to be extremely rare.
19  The theory is that there was a rare conjunction of certain bright planets that created the image of the so-called 'Star of Bethlehem'.
20  Such a finding as this exquisite antique is rare indeed.
21  The school was that rare achievement - a family within an institution.
22  An extremely rare opportunity has slipped away.
23  This is the first sighting of this particularly rare bird in this country.
24  Physical perfection in a human being is exceedingly rare.
25  This species of plant is becoming increasingly rare.
26  On the rare occasions when they met he hardly even dared speak to her.
27  We should perpetuate the rare species.
28  It is rare to find such loyalty these days.
29  But, on rare occasions, microscopic metal particles can lead to a short circuit within the cell, causing overheating and potentially flames.
30  An attack by a swarm of the reddish-brown insects can cause allergic reactions which can be fatal in extremely rare cases.