RECONSTRUCTION in a Sentence

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For RECONSTRUCTION, below is one of 35 sentences:
Meanwhile I will reconstruct what is past for your benefit, so that you may know the information which I still require.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECONSTRUCTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reconstruction
 n.  restoration; activity of constructing something again
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  It is only two years since he took up his residence at Baskerville Hall, and it is common talk how large were those schemes of reconstruction and improvement which have been interrupted by his death.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
2  Let us continue our reconstruction.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
3  If, at a moment when her whole life seemed to be breaking up, she could cheerfully commit its reconstruction to the Gormers, there was no reason why such accidents should ever strike her as irreparable.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
4  Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring about the vast reconstruction which took place later on.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
5  On the contrary, it must be from one man that it receives its institutions at first, and upon one man that all similar reconstruction must depend.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX.
6  I have tried to reconstruct it from the measurements.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
7  Even if this lady should never recover consciousness, we can still reconstruct the events of last night and insure that justice be done.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
8  Meanwhile I will reconstruct what is past for your benefit, so that you may know the information which I still require.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
9  You can reconstruct what occurred.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
10  When the table was cleared, the broken bread collected, the sugar and butter safe under lock and key, she began to reconstruct the interview which she had had the night before with Polly.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
11  Moreover, the path of the practical politician pointed the same way; for, argued this opportunist, if we cannot peacefully reconstruct the South with white votes, we certainly can with black votes.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
12  In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the features of a new France were sketched out.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
13  The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the wall of a citadel had been reconstructed.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO...
14  I can be restored to the Union but I can't be reconstructed into it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  Gradually the events of the preceding night crept with silent, blood-stained feet into his brain and reconstructed themselves there with terrible distinctness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
Example Sentence:
1  But there's far less consensus on how much the EU might be willing to pay towards reconstruction in a post-war phase, now that it's clear that a conflict will not have United Nations approval.
2  They are beginning the assessment of the overall need for reconstruction and rehabilitation.
3  What we should not allow this moment to undermine, is our commitment to South Africa, to the constitution and the reconstruction.
4  The United Nations is hoping that educated Afghans will return from abroad to aid Afghanistan's reconstruction effort.
5  The bridge's reconstruction and that of surrounding buildings is costing around twenty million dollars, money provided by a World Bank loan.
6  A group of enthusiasts have undertaken the reconstruction of a steam locomotive.
7  The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.
8  The museum has reopened after nearly two years of reconstruction.
9  They've decided to reconstruct this building.
10  The government must reconstruct the shattered economy.
11  It is not enough to tinker at the edges; our objective must be to reconstruct the entire system.
12  The Huskies must reconstruct their offensive line to protect its quarterback.
13  There, a fundamental peculiarity is that the image elements do not influence each other while the image is being reconstructed.
14  Every aspect of the original has been closely studied and painstakingly reconstructed.
15  They will need months of therapy and additional reconstructive surgery in the coming years to help them recover.