SPOT in a Sentence

Learn SPOT 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.

For SPOT, below is one of 263 sentences:
Though I was angry enough to resign on the spot, I had enough sense to keep myself from quitting a job in such a precipitate fashion.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPOT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
spot
 n.  a small, usually round area of color that is differently colored than the surface around it
 n.  a raised, pale red circle on the skin that is temporary
 n.  a particular place
 v.  see or notice someone or something, usually because you are looking hard
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  So desirable in every way were the apartments, and so moderate did the terms seem when divided between us, that the bargain was concluded upon the spot, and we at once entered into possession.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  When he turned the corner, he came full in sight of the spot where the fire had been lit.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  By means of this I had access to at least one spot in this great city where I could rely upon being free from interruption.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  A unanimous resolution was passed on the spot that the farmhouse should be preserved as a museum.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
5  From morning to night he was pushing and pulling, always at the spot where the work was hardest.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
6  Any animal caught singing it was given a flogging on the spot.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
7  With one accord they dashed down to the spot.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
8  They were all slain on the spot.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
9  Then the tune with its feet always on the same spot, became sugared, insipid; bored a hole with its perpetual invocation to perpetual adoration.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
10  He went his way, but she stood on the same spot, rubbing the cheek he had kissed, with her handkerchief, until it was burning red.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
11  All turned toward the spot from whence this unexpected asseveration was heard.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  He was speaking almost at the instant that the shaft left the bowstring, yet it alighted in the target two inches nearer to the white spot which marked the centre than that of Hubert.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  Wilfred, placing his foot on his breast, and the sword's point to his throat, commanded him to yield him, or die on the spot.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
14  Her room was the only gay, modern one in the house, the only spot in Wragby where her personality was at all revealed.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  He shut the gate quietly after her, and made a spot of light on the dark ground, showing the pallid flowers still standing there open in the night.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
16  The campaign against drinking and driving will include spot checks on motorists.
17  A spot is most seen on the finest cloth.
18  He wasted a golden opportunity when he missed from the penalty spot.
19  The owner said the bird may have escaped through a weak spot in the aviary.
20  In a series of spot checks, police searched buses crossing the border.
21  A simple plaque marks the spot where the martyr died.
22  The new company, to be called Sony BMG, will have roughly a quarter of global sales and will rival Universal Music for the number one spot.
23  It's heartening to know that if adults don't recognize all the dangers in glamour sports, this book may help young athletes spot them on their own.
24  Though I was angry enough to resign on the spot, I had enough sense to keep myself from quitting a job in such a precipitate fashion.
25  That place is an idyllic spot for a picnic.
26  My father was a sagacious judge of character: he could spot a phony a mile away.
27  The target for the matador is a small soft spot at the base of the bull's hump, where the sword can penetrate directly to the heart of the bull.
28  They presently separated to meet at a lonely spot on the river-bank two miles above the village at the favorite hour -- which was midnight.
29  "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" had its trip to the number one spot cut short, falling to third place. The film earned $17.5 million, bringing its cumulative domestic grosses to $263.8 million.
30  The researchers were drilling into a methane gas hot spot in the Laptev Sea from their fishing boat and trying to measure how much gas was released with their sonar.