ROW in a Sentence

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252 example sentences for ROW, such as:

1. The children were asked to stand in a row.
2. The teacher told the children to stand in a row.
3. In the wardrobe department were rows of costumes.
4. This is the third Sunday in a row that it's rained.
5. Her smile broadened to reveal two rows of brown stumps.

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 Meanings and Examples of ROW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
row
 n.  a number of people or things in a straight line
 v.  move a boat through the water with long poles
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Down the side wall facing the window stood a row of kitchen chairs from which the older women had just risen.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Opposite the winding stair stood a walnut sideboard, too large for use in the dining room, bearing on its wide top several lamps and a long row of candles in candlesticks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  Dark trees interlaced above their heads, dark silent houses loomed up on either side and the white palings of fences gleamed faintly like a row of tombstones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  Behind the ruins the row of whitewashed slave quarters stood silent and deserted under the overhanging trees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Close to the back step of one cabin, she found a short row of radishes and hunger assaulted her suddenly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  I've hoed my row and I've picked my cotton and I can do it again if I have to.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  Surrounding the building completely and covering the square of land of which it was the center were row after row of army huts, dingy and mud splashed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  Then before her eyes there loomed a light, a row of lights, dim and flickering but none the less real.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
9  You can fancy the scandal: there was an awful row between the men, and people began to look at Lily so queerly that Mrs. Peniston had to pack up and finish her cure elsewhere.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
10  And, as Lily exclaimed, she added: "We had an awful row this morning."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
11  The row of budding trees, the new brick and limestone house-fronts, the Georgian flat-house with flowerboxes on its balconies, were merged together into the setting of a familiar scene.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
12  She recognized the row of shelves from which he had taken down his La Bruyere, and the worn arm of the chair he had leaned against while she examined the precious volume.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
13  As he approached he looked up at the triple row of windows, wondering boyishly which one of them was hers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
14  It was a row of one-story shops covered with galvanized iron, or with clapboards painted red and bilious yellow.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  A vista of heavy oak rockers with leather seats, asleep in a dismal row.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
16  I don't want to get sucked into the row about school reform.
17  It was the Republican Party's third election triumph in a row.
18  Concealed by a forbidding row of security guards, the pop-star left the building.
19  The teacher told the children to stand in a row.
20  The children were asked to stand in a row.
21  This is the third Sunday in a row that it's rained.
22  Wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.
23  The entire row along the verge is laid and brought into line with the help of a string.
24  WELL, all day him and the king was hard at it, rigging up a stage and a curtain and a row of candles for footlights; and that night the house was jam full of men in no time.
25  Leading universities including Oxford were embroiled in a row over “grade inflation” after figures suggested they awarded more top degrees than expected.
26  The audience in the front rows made room for the late comers.
27  He was miserable all the time and rows would start over petty things.
28  In the wardrobe department were rows of costumes.
29  The office was full of computers, and we had to sit back-to-back in long rows.
30  Her smile broadened to reveal two rows of brown stumps.