TRANSPLANT in a Sentence

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But purchasers were slow in coming, and while he waited for them Ethan learned the impossibility of transplanting her.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRANSPLANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
transplant
 n.  act of uprooting and moving a plant to a new location
Classic Sentence:
1  Carol recognized in Washington as she had in California a transplanted and guarded Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  But as if perceiving this stratagem, Moby Dick, with that malicious intelligence ascribed to him, sidelingly transplanted himself, as it were, in an instant, shooting his pleated head lengthwise beneath the boat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
3  The higher the position in which one finds oneself transplanted, the greater is the suffering.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
4  But purchasers were slow in coming, and while he waited for them Ethan learned the impossibility of transplanting her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
Example Sentence:
1  The boy needs a life-saving transplant operation.
2  Farmers will be able to seed it directly, rather than having to transplant seedlings.
3  He was recovering from a heart transplant operation.
4  The operation to transplant a kidney is now fairly routine.
5  His comeback appearances with other clubs were swiftly curtailed by his drinking, which continued after his second wife left him and after his liver transplant.
6  After his liver transplant, John has to give up wine or any alcohol.
7  Surgeons have successfully transplanted a liver into a four-year-old boy.
8  I transplanted those flowers to the garden.
9  A group of farmers were transplanted to the island by the government.
10  The plants should be grown indoors until spring, when they can be transplanted outside.
11  After the seeds germinate and develop their permanent leaves, the plants may be removed from the cold frames and transplanted to the garden.
12  The surgeons of this hospital pioneer organ transplants.
13  Using a computer model they factored in the costs of transplants for those women who die.