TRANSACTION in a Sentence

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For TRANSACTION, below is one of 66 sentences:
The kind of institution that can best provide the protection depends on the nature of the transaction, an issue discussed later.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRANSACTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
transaction
 n.  deal; communication involving two or more people that affects all those involved
Classic Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  The transaction had justified itself by its results: she saw now how absurd it would have been to let any primitive scruple deprive her of this easy means of appeasing her creditors.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
2  Her way of glossing over the transaction with Trenor he regarded at once as a tribute to his own acuteness, and a confirmation of his suspicions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
3  The other plan depended for its success on the infliction of an open injury, while this reduced the transaction to a private understanding, of which no third person need have the remotest hint.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
4  This glimpse of his inner mind seemed to present the whole transaction in a new aspect, and she saw that the essential baseness of the act lay in its freedom from risk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
5  But the thought of being personally connected with the transaction was less agreeable; and her momentary flashes of amusement were followed by increasing periods of doubt.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
6  She had a passionate desire that some one should know the truth about this transaction, and also that the rumour of her intention to repay the money should reach Judy Trenor's ears.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7  I was so terrified and horror-stricken at the sight, that I hid myself in a closet, and dared not venture out till long after the bloody transaction was over.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  At any rate, this whole fiendish transaction was soon hushed up.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  It caused me more pain than any thing else in the whole transaction.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  But before narrating any of the peculiar circumstances, I deem it proper to make known my intention not to state all the facts connected with the transaction.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  Tom had watched the whole transaction from first to last, and had a perfect understanding of its results.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  A man of the name of Simmons, I think, was the principal in the transaction.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  I will not attempt to console you; but will simply relate the circumstances of the transaction.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
14  We are in our private and personal capacities, and we have been engaged in a confidential transaction before to-day.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLV
15  I went on with my explanation, and told her how I had hoped to complete the transaction out of my means, but how in this I was disappointed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIX
Example Sentence:
1  The kind of institution that can best provide the protection depends on the nature of the transaction, an issue discussed later.
2  He left the transaction of the matter to his secretary.
3  You can call your bank and perform a transaction using a Touch-Tone phone.
4  Neither side would disclose details of the transaction.
5  The Euro made its debut in the financial markets three years ago and it has been an option for any non-cash transaction ever since.
6  If you would like to purchase any of this merchandise, you can click on the pictures and you will be taken to a secure site to handle the transaction.
7  Companies can offer secure credit card transactions over the internet.
8  They levied religious taxes on Christian commercial transactions.
9  The taxpayer contended that the definition applied only to transactions which included an element of bounty.
10  The president had entered into fraudulent property transactions.
11  Authorities, however, are concerned that anonymous transactions conducted online are providing an avenue for illicit and criminal activities.
12  This sort of business can only be transacted in private.