REGULATION in a Sentence

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121 example sentences for REGULATION, such as:

1. He has regulated all his charities.
2. Green belt development is carefully regulated.
3. The rules and regulations admit of no other explanation.
4. The activities of credit companies are regulated by law.
5. He had a military carriage, however, and regulation side whiskers.

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 Meanings and Examples of REGULATION
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regulation
 n.  act of controlling or directing according to rule; prescribed by or according to rule
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  He had a military carriage, however, and regulation side whiskers.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  And while their manners were thus the subject of sarcastic observation, the untaught Saxons unwittingly transgressed several of the arbitrary rules established for the regulation of society.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  No, in her uncle's house there would have been a consideration of times and seasons, a regulation of subject, a propriety, an attention towards everybody which there was not here.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  The same remark he considered to apply to the regulation mode of cutting the hair: which he held to be decidedly unlawful.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
6  It flew some colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
7  The gates of the Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the rest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
8  Lieutenant Theodule stood before her, making the regulation salute.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
9  Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
10  But the sea in those old times heaved, swelled, and foamed very much at its own will, or subject only to the tempestuous wind, with hardly any attempts at regulation by human law.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
11  'Your regulation is rather awkward to strangers,' said Miss Murdstone.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
12  Two hours she devoted to her diary; two to working by herself in the kitchen-garden; and one to the regulation of her accounts.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  It was a small group still, with heterogeneous figures suspended in large unpeopled spaces; but Lily did not take long to learn that its regulation was no longer in Mr. Stancy's hands.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
14  He has regulated all his charities.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
15  , regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed two hundred and fifty miracles during his lifetime, and as many as thirty-nine in one day.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
Example Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
16  The activities of credit companies are regulated by law.
17  Green belt development is carefully regulated.
18  As a general point banks in many countries were highly regulated in relation to deposits and lending conducted in their own domestic currency.
19  They might be important, they innovate, they're flexible, but the implication is they don't need to be regulated to the extent of the banking system.
20  Much enjoyment I do not expect in the life opening before me: yet it will, doubtless, if I regulate my mind, and exert my powers as I ought, yield me enough to live on from day to day.
21  In contrast to Europe, the United States is considering a variety of laws which would regulate spam but essentially allow it unless an individual specifically opts out.
22  In contrast to Europe, the United States is considering a variety of laws which would regulate spam but essentially allow it.
23  Police can invoke the law of trespass to regulate access to these places.
24  Efforts were made to regulate the conduct of crowds at football games.
25  Some retailers worry that new regulations will hurt their ability to compete in the marketplace.
26  According to the new regulations,mining engineers retire at the age of fifty-five.
27  The Act imposes more stringent regulations on atmospheric pollution.
28  The rules and regulations admit of no other explanation.
29  These ridiculous rules and regulations should have been done away with years ago.
30  They appear masters in the art of making regulations work their way.