SOLUTION in a Sentence

Learn SOLUTION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

120 example sentences for SOLUTION, such as:

1. There was no solution, short of death.
2. He doped out a solution to the problem.
3. It is perhaps the best possible solution.
4. The solution to the problem lies with you.
5. There's no simple solution to this problem.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOLUTION
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solution
 n.  the act of solving a problem, question
 n.  liquid in which something is dissolved
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  The solution, as I see it, is to work harder.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
2  How she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
3  That seemed the simplest solution of the otherwise insoluble.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  At first he thought the solution lay in electricity: convert the coal into electric power.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
5  Having lived among the owning classes, he knew the utter futility of expecting any solution of the wage-squabble.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  There was no solution, short of death.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  This solution, appearing the most probable one, was adopted as the right; the dog, creeping under a chair, coiled himself up to sleep, without more notice from anybody.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
8  How to discover a solution to this riddle of death seemed a query of more importance than highest problems of the living.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
9  Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
10  But I shall come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I should like to see the solution of so tangled a business.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
11  Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
12  It is perhaps the best possible solution.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
13  But I have in my hands here a little problem which may prove to be more difficult of solution than my small essay in thought reading.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
14  I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with the case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
15  It may be that the solution of the one may prove to be the solution of the other.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
Example Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
16  The committee came forward with one viable solution.
17  A solution immediately suggested itself to me.
18  Placing a child in public care is sometimes the only solution to ill-treatment in the natural home.
19  His plan does not offer a real solution to the problem.
20  Litmus paper can be used as an indicator of the presence of acid in a solution.
21  He happened upon the perfect solution to the problem just as he was about to give up his research.
22  After running through the numbers in every possible combination, we finally hit on a solution.
23  Any possible solution to the Irish question can only come about through dialogue.
24  He doped out a solution to the problem.
25  The solution to the problem lies with you.
26  It was not the ideal solution to the problem.
27  There's no simple solution to this problem.
28  He arrived at the solution by a simple process of deduction.
29  They revealed a solution to reduce Europe's butter mountain.
30  Remove stains by soaking in a mild solution of bleach.