STATUS in a Sentence

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For STATUS, below is one of 106 sentences:
He had gradually slipped into the status of a member of the family and slept on a cot in the little dressing room off Gerald's room.

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 Meanings and Examples of STATUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
status
 n.  position relative to others; standing
Classic Sentence:
1  His own social status was assured because the Tarletons owned a hundred negroes and, like all slaves of large planters, he looked down on small farmers whose slaves were few.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  He hated their cool courtesy to him and their contempt for his social status, so inadequately covered by their courtesy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  He had gradually slipped into the status of a member of the family and slept on a cot in the little dressing room off Gerald's room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  Finally, with Georgia in the status of a military province, the polls had been ordered thrown open to the negroes, whether the state's laws permitted it or not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  For even if he could have taken his consulship from one man, or his status as a senator from another, he could not abolish the senatorial rank nor pass new laws.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXV
6  The legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
7  Moreover, the political status of the Negro in the South is closely connected with the question of Negro crime.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's civil status.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
9  Madeleine, had regained his status and rehabilitated himself.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Example Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
16  Within a group, each individual had a definite status.
17  The relative status of the speakers affects what language is used.
18  The party was denied legal status.
19  These documents have no legal status in Britain.
20  There are many people who wish to maintain the status quo.
21  The company has managed to maintain its status among retailers.
22  He emphasized the need to maintain the status quo.
23  Certain people always want to maintain the status quo.
24  BOINC provides web - based interfaces for account creation , preference editing and participant status display.
25  The status and availability of the original speaker is therefore of great importance in deciding whether to publish the remark.
26  How well off you are in old age is largely determined by race, sex, and marital status.
27  They are campaigning to raise the status of nurses.
28  Tax exemption only applies to those with non-resident status.
29  Women have very little status in many countries.
30  Age has status in the villages.