REALIZE in a Sentence

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For REALIZE, below is one of 347 sentences:
Scarlett did not realize that all the rules of the game had been changed and that honest labor could no longer earn its just reward.

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 Meanings and Examples of REALIZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
realize
 v.  understand a situation, sometimes suddenly
 v.  achieve something you were hoping for
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Scarlett's face did not change but her lips went white--like a person who has received a stunning blow without warning and who, in the first moments of shock, does not realize what has happened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Why, I'll bet you Ma is still so excited about the new horse that she'll never even realize we're home again till she sits down to supper tonight and sees Boyd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  When you've been talked about as much as I have, you'll realize how little it matters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  And always she wondered sneeringly why Melanie did not realize that Ashley only loved her as a friend.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  But so few people ever realize it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  It shocked her to realize that anyone as absolutely perfect as Ashley could have any thought in common with such a reprobate as Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  She did not realize that, with his encouragement, she had disregarded many of the sternest injunctions of her mother concerning the proprieties, forgotten the difficult lessons in being a lady.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  Some of the women were weeping with joy, but most looked too stunned to realize the heavy blows that had fallen upon them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  She's so frail and she doesn't realize it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  They can't realize how things stand with us, but--Scarlett, some of my men are barefooted now and the snow is deep in Virginia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  The truth was that the North was holding the South in a virtual state of siege, though many did not realize it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  And if Rhett had any decency he would realize they were true.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  I realize you still cherish the memory of the godlike and wooden- headed Mr. Wilkes, who's probably been in his grave these six months.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  She did not realize that the little boy lived shoulder to shoulder with terror too great for an adult to comprehend.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
15  Scarlett did not realize that all the rules of the game had been changed and that honest labor could no longer earn its just reward.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence: (137 in 10 pages)
16  I don't think you realize how important this is to her.
17  Some people just don't realize how much their words can hurt someone.
18  Only later did she realize her mistake.
19  The thing about teaching is that it takes more time to prepare than most people realize.
20  We did not realize the magnitude of the problem.
21  I don't think you realize the gravity of the situation.
22  He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made.
23  I must have been blind not to realize the danger we were in.
24  I didn't realize you were so unhappy.
25  Our ultimate aim is to realize communism.
26  One day someone will walk into your life, then you realize love was always worth waiting for.
27  I think my husband is the most handsome man in the world, but I realize my judgment is rather subjective.
28  I didn't realize how much this meant to you.
29  I hope you realize the seriousness of this crime.
30  Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.