SENSATION in a Sentence

sensation

 n.  feeling; perception associated with stimulation of a sense organ or with a specific body condition

1  The night was perfectly still, and the air so dry and pure that it gave little sensation of cold.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I

2  Ethan felt confusedly that there were many things he ought to think about, but through his tingling veins and tired brain only one sensation throbbed: the warmth of Mattie's shoulder against his.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III

3  There was a bucket of well water on the floor beside her and every now and then she lowered her blistered foot into it, screwing up her face at the stinging sensation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

4  Surely he had not placed it there, but there her head was and there was Scarlett helplessly sobbing against his thin chest, an exciting and novel sensation for him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

5  In his own mind there was only a lazy sense of pleasure, veiling the sharp edges of sensation as the September haze veiled the scene at their feet.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6

6  Gathering up her skirts, she drew aside with an impatient gesture; and as she did so she had the odd sensation of having already found herself in the same situation but in different surroundings.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9

7  The thought of the ridicule struck deeper than any other sensation: Lily knew every turn of the allusive jargon which could flay its victims without the shedding of blood.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9

8  To prolong her enjoyment of the sensation she decided to walk; but the distance was so great that she found herself glancing nervously at the clocks on the way.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11

9  The sensation made her brain reel, and she tried to shut out consciousness by pressing her hands against her eyes.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13

10  When he showed her the birds she had no sensation of blood.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V

11  She had a sensation of familiarity; a dream of sitting in a Brussels cafe and going afterward to a tiny gay theater under a cathedral wall.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII

12  She wondered about it so much that she had every sensation she had imagined.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX

13  No perceptible face or front did it have; no conceivable token of either sensation or instinct; but undulated there on the billows, an unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 59. Squid.

14  I do not think that any sensation lurks in it.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.

15  , Mrs. Marshall, one of the creme de la creme of the city, created a tremendous sensation several years ago.

Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III

1  A painful, burning sensation on the outer side of the thigh may mean that one of the large sensory nerves to your legs.

2  It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world.

3  It was the most stunning surprise of the decade, and so profound was the sensation that it lifted the new hero up to the judicial one's altitude, and the school had two marvels to gaze upon in place of one.

4  It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.

5  One sign of a heart attack is a tingling sensation in the left arm.

6  These lotions tend to give the skin a tingly sensation.

7  A young municipal utility worker has become a viral sensation after an image of him submerged in a puddle from a busted pipeline was shared around the country.

8  Mohamed Al Fayed has said he trusts the Metropolitan Police to investigate "with vigour" a sensational claim that the SAS was involved in the deaths of Princess Diana and his son.

9  Everybody has their favourite ways of breaking journalism into categories —tabloid vs. broadsheet, broadcast vs. print, sensational vs. thoughtful and so on.

10  The story has all the makings of a sensational spy thriller.

11  When something sensational happens to us, sharing the happiness of the occasion with friends intensifies our joy.

12  The affair was the most sensational political sex scandal of the century.

13  I have no way of confirming this so called sensational story, you have to dig for more stories on this to be sure.