REGION in a Sentence

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The hotel where he was known to live when condemned to that region of blackness, was the stake to which he was tied.

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 Meanings and Examples of REGION
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region
 n.  a particular large area, especially of land, as a part of a country
Classic Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
1  When supper was over she rose from her seat and pressed her hand to the flat surface over the region of her heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  They had been driven back once when they had tried to break through the mountain passes of that region, and they would be driven back again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  Atlanta was again the center of activities for a wide region, as it had been before its destruction, and the town was receiving a great influx of new citizens, both welcome and unwelcome.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Lily, for all her dissatisfied dreaming, had never really conceived the possibility of revolving about a different centre: it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
5  Socially, Mr. Stancy might have been said to form a connecting link between the Gormer world and the more dimly-lit region on which Miss Bart now found herself entering.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
6  The Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there, is much like some noted four corners of a great highway, where you meet more travellers than in any other part.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
7  She expressed her gratification by repairing forthwith to the region of the gasoline stove and rewarding her guest with the promised cup of coffee.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXI
8  The harvest-fever was in the very air, and no man with any spirit in him could be in that region and not catch it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
9  The party had landed on the border of a region that is, even to this day, less known to the inhabitants of the States than the deserts of Arabia, or the steppes of Tartary.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
10  When, however, they began to pass into a new region, his old fears of stupidity and incompetence reassailed him, but this time he doggedly let them babble.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  As he, leading, went across a little field, he found himself in a region of shells.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
12  And from this region of noises came the steady current of the maimed.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
13  From the Sierra Nevada to Nebraska, and from the Yellowstone River in the north to the Colorado upon the south, is a region of desolation and silence.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
14  His appearance was such that he might have been the very genius or demon of the region.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
15  The hotel where he was known to live when condemned to that region of blackness, was the stake to which he was tied.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (171 in 12 pages)
16  The committee has been charged with the development of sport in the region.
17  The talks will focus on economic development of the region.
18  The clayey soils of the region are difficult to work.
19  Relocation expenses were paid to encourage senior staff to move to the region.
20  It's in the poorer, underdeveloped eastern region of the country that the biggest problems exist.
21  For peace to exist in the region there needs to be a much improved understanding between all the parties concerned.
22  The paradox is that the region's most dynamic economies have the most primitive financial systems.
23  Our region is poised for growth once the election is out of the way.
24  The Dordogne region's gastronomic specialities include truffles and foie gras.
25  Lack of confidence is the biggest barrier to investment in the region.
26  We don't have flat land in this region.
27  The region's hard-pressed consumers are spending less on luxuries.
28  The army has been brought in to maintain order in the region.
29  A UN fact-finding mission is on its way to the region.
30  I have a pain in the region of my heart.