RESEARCH in a Sentence

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It has sown confusion and anxiety among researchers by giving birth to the ambiguous concept of sensitive but unclassified research.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESEARCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
research
 v.  inquire into; attempt to find out in scientific manner
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  When this medical research was ended, the Saxon peasant desired humbly to have back the medicine which he had found so salutary; but the Grand Master frowned severely at the request.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  Now from this double point our research must commence, and we will begin it by presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
3  I had often endeavoured to elicit from my companion what had first turned his mind in the direction of criminal research, but had never caught him before in a communicative humour.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
4  Towards evening, however, the breaking of a test-tube brought his research to a premature ending, and he sprang up from his chair with an exclamation of impatience and a clouded brow.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
5  Returning to France, I spent some months in a research into the coal-tar derivatives, which I conducted in a laboratory at Montpellier, in the south of France.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
6  This may be some trifling intrigue, and I cannot break my other important research for the sake of it.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
7  When I found Patrick Cairns among the harpooners, my research was nearing its end.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
8  Seated in a corner like an interested student who observes the demonstration of his professor, I followed every step of that remarkable research.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
9  I will begin my research by going round and finding if each of them is at his post.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
10  The abounding good cheer of these English whalers is matter for historical research.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
11  Nor have I been at all sparing of historical whale research, when it has seemed needed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
12  In short, one needs, before doing this, to carry out a prolonged probing with the aid of an insight sharpened in the acute school of research.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
13  To us, their descendants, who are not historians and are not carried away by the process of research and can therefore regard the event with unclouded common sense, an incalculable number of causes present themselves.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I
14  She had left Thornfield Hall in the night; every research after her course had been vain: the country had been scoured far and wide; no vestige of information could be gathered respecting her.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  This view is contrary to the aims of critical social research for a number of reasons.
17  Dr Win was a major contributor to the research.
18  You need a lot of self-discipline when you're doing research work on your own.
19  We have finally finished the research work.
20  It is doubtful whether this research is of any benefit to mankind.
21  They spend a fair slice of the budget on research and development.
22  He has received many honours for his research into cancer.
23  They raffled a bottle of whisky to raise money for cancer research.
24  This research seems to give/lend some validity to the theory that the drug might cause cancer.
25  This theme is central to our research.
26  The company put out a report on commercial spin-offs from its research.
27  The results of the research should be used for the common good rather than for individual profit.
28  Leading scientists got together in Paris to compare notes on current research.
29  It has sown confusion and anxiety among researchers by giving birth to the ambiguous concept of sensitive but unclassified research.
30  They had to conduct market research, then advertise the product.