REACTION in a Sentence

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For REACTION, below is one of 81 sentences:
But she was beginning to feel the strain of the attitude; the reaction was more rapid, and she lapsed to a deeper self-disgust.

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 Meanings and Examples of REACTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reaction
 n.  doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like
 n.  (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  She sat down again very suddenly, the reaction from her rage making her knees feel weak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  She looked down at the body again and now revulsion came over her as her rage and fright melted away, and her knees began to quiver with the reaction.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  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
4  But she was beginning to feel the strain of the attitude; the reaction was more rapid, and she lapsed to a deeper self-disgust.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  But with the turn of the wheels reaction came, and shuddering darkness closed on her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
6  The sudden and exquisite reaction from her anxieties had had the effect of throwing the recent past so far back that even Selden, as part of it, retained a certain air of unreality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
7  Temporarily, no doubt, however exerted, it worked for the general safety: the question was how long it would last, and by what kind of reaction it was likely to be followed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
8  But her will-power seemed to have spent itself in a last great effort, and she was lost in the blank reaction which follows on an unwonted expenditure of energy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
9  It was not till she entered her own door that she felt the reaction of a deeper loneliness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
10  THE greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  Public sentiment has had a slight "reaction" though not sufficient to stop the crusade of lawlessness and lynching.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
12  Till the reaction, when he found he had been made ridiculous.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  And in real grief, tormented by her own double consciousness and reaction, she began to weep.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
14  Harsh feelings produce harsh usage, and this by reaction quenches the sentiments that gave it birth.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
15  In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
Example Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
16  The strength of the argument for splitting the bill is evident in the reaction of the two Republican senators from Texas.
17  The job of the natural scientist is to observe, measure, and then explain that reaction.
18  Our instinctive reaction when someone causes us pain is to strike back.
19  Anger is not necessarily the most useful or acceptable reaction to such events.
20  Thus, he aided reaction and thwarted progress.
21  Three workers at the plant followed an illegal manual and caused a nuclear reaction late last month.
22  The spate of suicide bombings has provoked a massive military reaction from the Israeli government, a government which is confident of public backing.
23  The slump on Wall Street set up a chain reaction in stock markets around the world.
24  Food allergy is distinct from food intolerance, which is not caused by an immune reaction.
25  Unfortunately, the normal social reaction to atrocity is to banish it from our awareness.
26  A condensation reaction is responsible for building large molecules.
27  They suggest the sensitive spots play a major part in the aquatic reptiles' impressive reaction times and perform some of the tactile functions of human hands.
28  Many chemical reactions cannot take place without the presence of a catalyst.
29  An attack by a swarm of the reddish-brown insects can cause allergic reactions which can be fatal in extremely rare cases.
30  Science has come a long way in illuminating the development processes of an organism in terms of chemical reactions.