READER in a Sentence

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For READER, below is one of 256 sentences:
The line of open-air booths starting at the church, extended, as the reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thenardiers.

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 Meanings and Examples of READER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reader
 n.  one that reads
 n.  one appointed to read to others
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
2  At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thenardiers promptly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON M...
3  Among these details the reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we preserve out of respect for the truth.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
4  We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
5  This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
6  At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
7  If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE
8  The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going in that direction.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
9  The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad details.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
10  As for his prowess at Waterloo, the reader is already acquainted with that.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
11  The line of open-air booths starting at the church, extended, as the reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thenardiers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
12  An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further on.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
13  To-day, there are brand-new, wide streets, arenas, circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
14  The reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
15  We mention the fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the reader's mind.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
16  A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
17  You can use highly descriptive and persuasive sentences to evoke a positive response from your reader.
18  After waiting a very long time for the final instalment, the reader felt utterly let down by the way the author chose to complete the story.
19  If a title is the bait, then the subtitle is the hook and line that will draw the reader into your document.
20  "I think that to transfuse emotion," he writes, "to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer's is the peculiar function of poetry."
21  I would again admonish the reader carefully to consider the nature of our doctrine.
22  "Was there any lady of the house?" "Nay, there was naught but her, and she was housekeeper;" and of her, reader, I could not bear to ask the relief for want of which I was sinking; I could not yet beg; and again I crawled away.
23  How egocentric is it for these postmodernist writers to whip up these verbose tomes without the slightest concern about reader engagement?
24  The main stickler is that by the end of the book, the reader is left without a sense of closure.
25  It consisted in a peculiar bird-like turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short intervals in the midst of the music -- the reader probably remembers how to do it, if he has ever been a boy.
26  I agree that the reader's absorption is a measure of good writing.
27  Matilda, a brilliant mathematician and prodigious reader, is loathed by her benighted parents.
28  The editor said a lot of readers would be incensed by my article on abortion.
29  I believe that most readers will identify with the author.
30  All these changes to the newspaper have alienated its traditional readers.