SECONDARY in a Sentence

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Both Injun Joe and the treasure sunk into secondary importance for a moment, and Becky took the chief place in the boy's interest.

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 Meanings and Examples of SECONDARY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
secondary
 a.  not of major importance; of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
Classic Sentence:
1  The primary school imposed on all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
2  On the right bank, the belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will form the branches, and those without exit the twigs.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
3  As far as his personal fortune was concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some sort, by accident.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
4  The love with which his young wife had inspired him was a secondary sentiment, and was not strong enough to contend with the primitive feelings we have just enumerated.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
5  Both Injun Joe and the treasure sunk into secondary importance for a moment, and Becky took the chief place in the boy's interest.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  To the committee the adventure was so extraordinary and curious, that the interest they had felt for the count's safety became now quite a secondary matter.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 86. The Trial.
7  Even had there been no mother-rival, she would still have refused to accept an interest in herself that was secondary to philosophic interests.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
8  Landor's remark that to those who have the greatest power of loving, love is a secondary affair, would not have recommended Landor to Eliza.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
9  Naturally, they were not persons of much note, but merely what folk call characters of secondary, or even of tertiary, importance.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
10  No, it remained but one of a secondary kind.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
11  He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  Neither were the secondary actors in these momentous incidents forgotten.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
13  The subjects of which her heart had been full on leaving Kellynch, and which she had felt slighted, and been compelled to smother among the Musgroves, were now become but of secondary interest.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  It was true, though, that he had no secondary income from bribes and fraud, and he couldn't tell a servant to bring him a woman up to the office on his arm.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Her health is what matters - the cost of the treatment is of secondary importance.
2  He had kidney cancer, with secondary tumours in the brain and lungs.
3  Experience is what matters-age is of secondary importance.
4  Writing was always secondary to spending time with my family.
5  Most children go to public elementary and secondary schools.
6  She taught history at a secondary school.
7  Nine out of ten secondary school children are in comprehensive schools.
8  Raising animals was only secondary to other forms of farming.
9  It's a question of secondary importance.
10  As a researcher and teacher trainer, I watch dozens of lessons in primary and secondary schools.
11  Entrance to universities and senior secondary schools was restricted.
12  We now need a step change in our secondary schools to match that achieved in our primaries.
13  It takes a year to do a PGCE and then you can teach in a primary or secondary school.
14  A unique post secondary educational opportunity that blends academic ornamental horticulture studies and practical training at this school.
15  They note that half of pupils will fail to qualify for secondary school.