STATION in a Sentence

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At the hour when the suspected man was looked for, the whelp was at the station; offering to wager that he had made off before the p.

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 Meanings and Examples of STATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
station
 n.  a regular stopping place on a public transportation route
 n.  a place or building where a specified activity or service is based
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  And so running, panting, set upon reaching the Barn and taking up her station behind the tea urn before the company came, she reached the Barn.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
2  And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
3  He held no station among the Hands who could make speeches and carry on debates.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
4  I walked nine mile to the station this morning, and if I find nobody on the road to give me a lift, I shall walk the nine mile back to-night.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
5  From Mr. Bounderby I have received every acknowledgment of my social station, and every recognition of my family descent, that I could possibly expect.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
6  However, though I am not influenced by manners and station, Loo Bounderby may be.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
7  The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
8  At the hour when the suspected man was looked for, the whelp was at the station; offering to wager that he had made off before the p.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
9  But no sooner had the knights resumed their station, than the clamour of applause was hushed into a silence, so deep and so dead, that it seemed the multitude were afraid even to breathe.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  The Disinherited Knight returned to his first station, and Bois-Guilbert to his tent, where he remained for the rest of the day in an agony of despair.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  The contending archers took their station in turn, at the bottom of the southern access, the distance between that station and the mark allowing full distance for what was called a shot at rovers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
12  While indulging themselves in the pleasures of the table, they aimed at delicacy, but avoided excess, and were apt to attribute gluttony and drunkenness to the vanquished Saxons, as vices peculiar to their inferior station.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  None of mark and distinction that I can behold from this station," said Rebecca; "but, doubtless, the other side of the castle is also assailed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  As he spoke in this soothing tone, he laid his hand on the knight's bridle, as if to lead him back to his station.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
15  At the station quay they changed to a gondola, giving the man the address.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
16  Experts believe that the large number of cancer cases in the area are directly related to the new nuclear power station.
17  The soldiers commandeered vehicles in the capital and occupied the television station.
18  The train is just drawing into the station; if we hurry, we can catch it.
19  The new shopping center is close to the railway station.
20  They got to the station too late; the coach was pulling out.
21  We waited for him at the coach station.
22  The newcomer on the radio scene is a commercial station devoted to classical music.
23  He was accused of taking the radio station downmarket in order to compete with commercial stations.
24  I couldn't see how I could get home from the station - then I had a brainwave, Eric could meet me.
25  This radio station broadcasts on three different frequencies.
26  Students were handing out election leaflets at the station.
27  A new power station is being built much to the consternation of environmental groups.
28  We met in front of the main station.
29  It's a good half hour's walk to the station from here.
30  The hotel was connected with the station by a walkway.