STABLE in a Sentence

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For STABLE, below is one of 164 sentences:
Then I could not stay in bed; I got up and dressed myself, and when I heard him out in the stable I thought I would come and tell you.

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 Meanings and Examples of STABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stable
 a.  not easily moved or disturbed
Classic Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
1  She must go on; and she turned in the direction of the stable.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
2  She had come into the stable yard where the dogs were chained; where the buckets stood; where the great pear tree spread its ladder of branches against the wall.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
3  The gilt hands of the stable clock pointed inflexibly at two minutes to the hour.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
4  People passed the stable yard, talking.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
5  She took her chair and looked through the smoke at a crude glass painting of a cow in a stable; also at a cock and a hen.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
6  The steed is restored to thy stable.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  And I say," replied Gurth, "he is sound, wind and limb; and you may see him now, in your stable.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  The place had always frightened him, but he had thought it more or less stable.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  Except the daughter of one of the cotters, who was their servant, and a lad who worked in the garden and stable, scarcely anyone but themselves ever entered the house.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
10  The stable lantern was fetched and lighted.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
11  Mechanically she went round to the end where the stable was, and on looking in at the stable door she saw Charley standing within.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
12  Eustacia's face was not visible to Charley as she stood at the doorway, her back being to the sky, and the stable but indifferently lighted; but the wildness of her manner arrested his attention.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
13  When she had disappeared Charley, with misgiving in his eyes, slowly came from the stable door, and going to another point in the bank he looked over.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
14  Then I could not stay in bed; I got up and dressed myself, and when I heard him out in the stable I thought I would come and tell you.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
15  Before starting in search of her I called up Charley, my stable lad.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  The situation in the country has remained relatively stable for a few months now.
17  Prices have been stable for a while, but they are beginning to edge up again now.
18  Carbon steels exist in three stable crystalline phases.
19  A stable personality and high sense of responsibility are desirable.
20  The mare has just thrown a foal in the stable.
21  Miss Curling won on two horses from Mick Trickey's stable.
22  As a parent you try to create a stable home environment for your children to grow up in.
23  If the foundations of the house aren't stable, collapse is possible.
24  He was not married, but he was in a stable relationship.
25  Resource Investigator: the team's contact with its environment, generates ideas and resources; intelligent, stable and introvert.
26  Make sure the tripod is stable.
27  The evils ensue from lack of a stable government.
28  The earthquake shattered Stuart's usual stolid demeanor; trembling, he crouched on the no longer stable ground.
29  The 64 year old man spoke slowly, almost awkwardly to his people, promising stable government in which no corruption would be tolerated.
30  The 64 year old business consultant spoke slowly, almost awkwardly to his people, promising stable government in which no corruption would be tolerated and an acceleration of the country's integration into the EU and NATO.