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A patrol which was returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition on it, and caused it to accompany him.

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 Meanings and Examples of REQUISITION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
requisition
 n.  act of requiring, as of right; demand or application made as by authority.
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
2  He told me that he and his companions had been chosen by the other sailors to come in deputation to me to make me a requisition which, in justice, I could not refuse.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
3  Hence it is, that at times like these the drugg, comes into requisition.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
4  A patrol which was returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition on it, and caused it to accompany him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
5  Even in the matter of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
6  In the infinite, the inexhaustible is requisite.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
7  He had had in succession, under the Empire and under the Restoration, the sorts of bravery requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the bravery of the tribune.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
8  To this end, two things are requisite, the size of Paris and its gayety.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS
9  it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
10  This one is built against the solid rock, and it would take ten experienced miners, duly furnished with the requisite tools, as many years to perforate it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
11  This same person, with almost incredible patience and perseverance, had contrived to provide himself with tools requisite for so unparalleled an attempt.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
12  As Bertuccio was leaving the room to give the requisite orders, Baptistin opened the door: he held a letter on a silver waiter.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 82. The Burglary.
13  From the same drawer she took a man's complete costume, from the boots to the coat, and a provision of linen, where there was nothing superfluous, but every requisite.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 97. The Departure for Belgium.
14  But the rest, which one night entirely sleepless, and many hours of the most wearing anxiety seemed to make requisite, was kept off by irritation of spirits.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45
15  "We have not the requisite data," chimed in the professor, and he went back to his argument.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
Example Sentence:
1  Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in daily requisition as a reception-room for callers.
2  The farm was in / under constant requisition as a base for the rescue team.
3  They failed to win the requisite twothirds majority.
4  Self-confidence is the first requisite to human greatness.
5  He lacked the requisite skills for the job.
6  Many colleges state that a student must offer three years of a language as a requisite for admission.