REINFORCE in a Sentence

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The respectability of the Gopher Prairies, said Carol, is reinforced by vows of poverty and chastity in the matter of knowledge.

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 Meanings and Examples of REINFORCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reinforce
 v.  give more force or effectiveness to; strengthen; enhance
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Both the militia and the Home Guards are going to be sent in to reinforce General Johnston.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  Her dread of returning to a sleepless night was so great that she lingered on, hoping that excessive weariness would reinforce the waning power of the chloral.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
3  At the sight there was a general reining up of horses and unslinging of guns, while fresh horsemen came galloping up to reinforce the vanguard.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
4  Prince Bagration ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to reinforce the right flank.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII
5  Gavroche looked on and listened, making an effort to reinforce his eyes with his ears.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
6  They were on their way to the entrenchments that ringed the town--no shallow, hastily dug trenches, these, but earthworks, breast high, reinforced with sandbags and tipped with sharpened staves of wood.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  The soles of her slippers were practically gone and were reinforced with pieces of carpet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  He reinforced his pistol and knife with another pistol, and his fame spread far among the black population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  The respectability of the Gopher Prairies, said Carol, is reinforced by vows of poverty and chastity in the matter of knowledge.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  They are now expecting their harvest, and are reinforced with the soldiers that escaped from Torquilstone.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
11  The men I have put to flight will return reinforced; if they find us here, we are lost.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
12  My desk was made of three boards, reinforced at critical points, and my chair, borrowed from the landlady, had to be returned every night.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
13  Warm clothing, when it was obtainable at all, had risen to such prohibitive prices that Atlanta ladies were lining their old dresses with rags and reinforcing them with newspapers to keep out the wind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  She had got somebody to talk to, and she felt it her duty to talk, and that was enough; and reinforcing herself by smelling again at her vinaigrette, she went on.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  A strong note of pride reinforcing the gravity of the priest's voice made Stephen's heart quicken in response.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  We reinforce a troop again.
2  A stronger European Parliament would, they fear, only reinforce the power of the larger countries.
3  We must reinforce the troops at the front.
4  Success in the talks will reinforce his reputation as an international statesman.
5  Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes.
6  The laws will reinforce Australia's authority to turn boats away from Australia.
7  The laws will reinforce authority to turn boats away from Australia and impose prison sentences on the crews of boats which do cross the border.
8  One of the main reasons for the irreversibility lies in the fact that snow melting on tundra, and sea ice loss from around the glaciers, actually reinforce regional warming, with significant consequences on the glaciers of Northern Canada.
9  When Prime Minister welcomed two giant pandas on Monday in a specially outfitted Fed-Ex cargo jet, he called them “national treasures” of China that would reinforce Canada's relationship with its Asian trading partner.
10  The spectacle of Xerxes's defeat tremendously reinforced the traditional conviction that pride goes before a fall.
11  Radiation, coming along shortly thereafter as a therapy method, reinforced this concept of cancer as a local body problem.
12  The climate of political confusion has only reinforced the country's economic decline.
13  The experience reinforced my sense of loss.
14  The bridge is reinforced with huge steel girders.
15  They reinforced good behaviour with some kind of reward to direct a child's pattern of behaviour.