SYSTEM in a Sentence

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For SYSTEM, below is one of 370 sentences:
And this is the Bibliographical system here adopted; and it is the only one that can possibly succeed, for it alone is practicable.

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 Meanings and Examples of SYSTEM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
system
 n.  a set of connected things
 n.  the world or universe
Classic Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
1  "I never heard of any system," she said crossly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  Scarlett, our Southern way of living is as antiquated as the feudal system of the Middle Ages.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  I employed a delicate system of blackmail on a friend in Washington who is quite high in the councils of the Federal government.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  This new system of leasing convicts had come into being because of the poverty of the state after the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  While Frank and his quiet churchgoing friends realized the necessity of the system, they deplored it just the same.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
6  And their negroes, who had been told nothing, knew everything too, by that black grapevine telegraph system which defies white understanding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
7  The system is open to too many abuses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
8  She remembered her helplessness and her panic at her helplessness and her hatred of the Yankees who had imposed this galling system upon the South.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
9  Regina's work-room knew to whom the headgear in her hands was destined, and had her opinion of its future wearer, and a definite knowledge of the latter's place in the social system.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
10  She was planning to revolutionize the whole system.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  He gave most of the morning lectures, droning with equal unhappy facility about poetry, the Holy Land, and the injustice to employers in any system of profit-sharing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  And this is the Bibliographical system here adopted; and it is the only one that can possibly succeed, for it alone is practicable.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
13  Beyond the DUODECIMO, this system does not proceed, inasmuch as the Porpoise is the smallest of the whales.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
14  Finally: It was stated at the outset, that this system would not be here, and at once, perfected.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
15  They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Vents allow any steam to escape if the system overheats.
17  He also deleted files from the computer system.
18  It's the abstract that is called system analysis.
19  You will be notified of any changes in the system.
20  We need a better system of keeping count of the people who attend our concerts.
21  An educational system which fails to teach basic arithmetic is seriously deficient.
22  It is an iniquitous system that allows a person to die because they have no money to pay for medicine.
23  Five of the six provinces are to become autonomous regions in a new federal system of government.
24  He wants to be the tough rebel who bucks the system.
25  Consultation is traditional in the consensual Belgian system of labour relations.
26  We're having a lot of trouble with the new computer system.
27  I don't understand your filing system.
28  The metre is the standard unit for measuring length in the SI system.
29  Litre is a unit of capacity in the metric system.
30  The company will roll out an enhanced version of its operating system in the new year.