SEPARATION in a Sentence

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I bore up against the separation from Mr. Peggotty and Mrs. Gummidge, but my agony of mind at leaving little Em'ly was piercing.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEPARATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
separation
 n.  action or state of moving or being moved apart
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved and miserable in the separation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
2  My love, it will be scarcely a separation.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
3  Her mother's affliction was hardly less, and Elinor was the only one of the three, who seemed to consider the separation as any thing short of eternal.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
4  I was prepared to meet you with the pleasure which our separation naturally produced, with the familiarity which our intimacy at Barton appeared to me to justify.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
5  Joe and Biddy were very sympathetic and pleasant when I spoke of our approaching separation; but they only referred to it when I did.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
6  I cannot think," said Estella, raising her eyes after a silence "why you should be so unreasonable when I come to see you after a separation.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
7  These evidences of an incompatibility of temper induced Miss Betsey to pay him off, and effect a separation by mutual consent.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
8  I bore up against the separation from Mr. Peggotty and Mrs. Gummidge, but my agony of mind at leaving little Em'ly was piercing.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
9  We had a very pleasant day, though we were all in a tender state about our approaching separation.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
10  The separation has not made the impression on me, that other separations have.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
11  'Why, there's a pretty wide separation between them and us,' said Steerforth, with indifference.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME
12  The prospect of the change and separation, and all that, is, as one may say, close to her and far away from her, both at once.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
13  One thing more I have to do, before this separation is complete, and that is to perform an act of justice.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
14  Some unhappy cause of separation.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
15  He had been so cruel to me, that I might have effected a separation on easy terms for myself; but I did not.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
Example Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
16  Write a list of names on a separate piece of paper.
17  You will need to create separate fields for first name, surname and address.
18  He regarded the north of the country as a separate cultural entity.
19  They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys.
20  That is a separate issue and irrelevant to our discussion.
21  His work was important in helping establish dentistry as a separate profession.
22  They allotted a separate desk to everyone.
23  We must separate out these different factors and examine each one.
24  The government, the executive and the judi-ciary are supposed to be separate.
25  Thousnds of rivers separate us and thousands of mountains are boundless.
26  After twelve years, he decided to separate from the firm.
27  We each have a separate bedroom but share a communal kitchen.
28  He rescued the company and later spun off its textile division into a separate company.
29  The museums work closely together, but are separate legal entities.
30  They are likely to be well disposed to an offer of a separate peace deal.