SPITE in a Sentence

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For SPITE, below is one of 237 sentences:
There is an unconscious heeling process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPITE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
spite
 n.  ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If the man is caught, it will be on account of their exertions; if he escapes, it will be in spite of their exertions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  The Boots pointed out the door to me, and was about to go downstairs again when I saw something that made me feel sickish, in spite of my twenty years' experience.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
3  He's a likely lad, and he's a Christian, which is more than these folk here, in spite o all their praying and preaching.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
4  Yet in spite of all dangers and difficulties, the hearts of the fugitives were light within them, for every step increased the distance between them and the terrible despotism from which they were flying.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
5  In spite of the shock that Snowball's expulsion had given them, the animals were dismayed by this announcement.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
6  The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
7  Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
8  The animals could not face the terrible explosions and the stinging pellets, and in spite of the efforts of Napoleon and Boxer to rally them, they were soon driven back.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
9  Three days later it was announced that he had died in the hospital at Willingdon, in spite of receiving every attention a horse could have.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
10  The Brookes have gone to Italy, in spite of everything.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
11  By ten o'clock, when the shops were closed, the by-street was very solitary and, in spite of the low growl of London from all round, very silent.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
12  That bereaved lady, fifteen years older than he, fell presently at deadly feud with her only relative, Lady Scadgers; and, partly to spite her ladyship, and partly to maintain herself, went out at a salary.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
13  Nevertheless, spite of this imperial objurgation, the short cloaks continued in fashion down to the time of which we treat, and particularly among the princes of the House of Anjou.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  The Saxon had been under very intense and agonizing apprehensions concerning his son; for Nature had asserted her rights, in spite of the patriotic stoicism which laboured to disown her.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  The same alarming distinction was conferred on Rebecca, in spite of her father's entreaties, who offered even money, in this extremity of distress, that she might be permitted to abide with him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  We've received permission to go ahead with the music festival in spite of opposition from local residents.
2  The artist painted on in spite of his family's opposition.
3  There is an unconscious heeling process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
4  In spite of the bad things he's done I still believe in his essential goodness.
5  In spite of the unfavorable weather,the grain output of the farm kept up and even increased a little than last year.
6  In spite of my efforts, the boy remained passive.
7  English became the official language for business in spite of the fact that the population was largely Chinese.
8  He's the sort of man who would let down the tyres on your car just out of/from spite.
9  Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
10  In spite of what they are told, parents have no effective choice of schools.
11  In spite of some immaturity in the figure drawing and painting, it showed real imagination.
12  The army were still fighting in spite of heavy casualties.
13  In spite of their very different backgrounds, they immediately became friends.
14  I like people who make me laugh in spite of myself.
15  The blunt comment made Richard laugh in spite of himself.