RECORD in a Sentence

Learn RECORD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

307 example sentences for RECORD, such as:

1. My song for ever shall record.
2. The field includes three world record holders.
3. It was a record attendance for a midweek game.
4. He didn't flunk out, but his record isn't so hot.
5. We're particularly proud of our company's environmental record.

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 Meanings and Examples of RECORD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
record
 v.  write down piece of information so that it will be known in the future
 n.  a report, list,or achievements
Classic Sentence: (100 in 7 pages)
1  They don't need me among their number, either to brighten the record of patriotism or to increase the roll of paupers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  Every line of his slender body spoke of generations of brave and gallant men and Scarlett knew his war record by heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  "I thought you were ashamed of your war record," she said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  The lady's offences were always against taste rather than conduct; her divorce record seemed due to geographical rather than ethical conditions; and her worst laxities were likely to proceed from a wandering and extravagant good-nature.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
5  An association lurked in every fold: each fall of lace and gleam of embroidery was like a letter in the record of her past.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
6  She was the one who could be depended upon to appreciate the Caruso phonograph record, and the Chinese lantern which Mr. Marbury had brought back as his present from San Francisco.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  My song for ever shall record.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
8  One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
9  Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting record.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
10  It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
11  Then Jokubas pointed out the place where the cattle were driven to be weighed, upon a great scale that would weigh a hundred thousand pounds at once and record it automatically.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  "The guv'ner" had made threats to disinherit another of his children also, sister Gwendolen, who had married an Italian marquis with a string of titles and a dueling record.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
13  It would be pleasant to record that he swore off drinking immediately, and all the rest of his bad habits with it; but that would hardly be exact.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
14  Arms, legs, and feet were encircled in twenty folds of the thong, in less time than we have taken to record the circumstance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
15  I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (207 in 14 pages)
16  The Personnel Department keeps a record of employees absent through sickness.
17  The doctor keeps a record of all the serious illnesses in the village.
18  A cassette tape recorder can easily record sound on and play sound back from tape.
19  The company has come under intense scrutiny because of its environmental record.
20  We're particularly proud of our company's environmental record.
21  She went straight for the jugular and asked him to explain his previous criminal record.
22  The field includes three world record holders.
23  Miss dashed off into a fine record with the youth about love and hurt.
24  When we opened on the former things good record,the face will unconsciously reveal the truth's smile.
25  The fund has a good track record of investing in the equity market.
26  It was a record attendance for a midweek game.
27  The poet's voiceneed not merely be the record of man , it can be one of the props , the pillars to help him endure andprevail.
28  He didn't flunk out, but his record isn't so hot.
29  The champion ran well enough but she would have set up another world record indeed if she had tried harder.
30  This week's issue includes a round-up of the latest record releases.