RESIDENCE in a Sentence

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For RESIDENCE, below is one of 202 sentences:
A residence of eight or nine years in the abode of wealth and plenty had a little disordered her powers of comparing and judging.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESIDENCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
residence
 n.  official house; large house; act of dwelling in a place
Classic Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
2  Albert Malvoisin was overwhelmed with confusion; for the unfortunate Rebecca had been confined in a remote and secret part of the building, and every precaution used to prevent her residence there from being known.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  I am conscious of being far better reconciled to a country residence than I had ever expected to be.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  You talk of giving it the air of a gentleman's residence.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  The air of a gentleman's residence, therefore, you cannot but give it, if you do anything.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  From being the mere gentleman's residence, it becomes, by judicious improvement, the residence of a man of education, taste, modern manners, good connexions.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  Certainly, sir, I have no idea but of residence.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  A residence of eight or nine years in the abode of wealth and plenty had a little disordered her powers of comparing and judging.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  Sir Thomas would not hear of it; and Mrs. Norris's anger against Fanny was so much the greater, from considering her residence there as the motive.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
10  He dismissed him within some quarter of a mile of Mr. Sikes's residence, and performed the short remainder of the distance, on foot.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  Your agents had no clue to your residence.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
12  They must have powerful motives for a secret residence, or be reduced to a destitute condition indeed, who seek a refuge in Jacob's Island.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
13  One of the least agreeable circumstances of her residence there was her being treated with too much confidence by all parties, and being too much in the secret of the complaints of each house.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  He was in orders; and having a curacy in the neighbourhood, where residence was not required, lived at his father's house, only two miles from Uppercross.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
15  A mart extensive enough for the purpose existed at Anglebury, some miles beyond the spot chosen for his residence, and there he resolved to pass the coming night.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
16  The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
17  Executive power resides in the President.
18  Margaret resides with her invalid mother in a London suburb.
19  The family resides in Southern France.
20  The family now resides in southern France.
21  The point I tried to convey is that users should have a choice - freedom to decide how and where their data resides and is used.
22  On a quiet little road in upstate New York, resides an older woman whom neighbors describe as friendly, polite, averse to drama or confrontation.
23  We reside officially in Iceland.
24  He spent most of his time in Rutherglen, where his family resided.
25  Have you been pining for your very own wearable $1,500 Google Glass but weren't sure how you, a regular nondeveloper residing in the United States, could procure one?
26  We've received permission to go ahead with the music festival in spite of opposition from local residents.
27  The road-works caused much complaint among local residents.
28  Some jurors even embraced the residents and congratulated lead plaintiffs' attorney George Chandler after the proceedings.
29  The Archbishop called upon the government to build more low cost homes for local residents.
30  Plans to build a new nightclub in the neighbourhood have enraged local residents.