TREAT in a Sentence

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For TREAT, below is one of 369 sentences:
But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture.

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 Meanings and Examples of TREAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
treat
 v.  provide with choice or abundant food or drink
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Ef you hadn't talked wid dem, dey wouldn had no chance ter treat me lak a mule or a Affikun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  Shameful to state, they treat me as one of them and I hear them talk openly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  And some of his opinions were of such a nature that she could no longer ignore them and treat them as jokes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  Carol had a suspicion that the thriftier housewives made the afternoon treat do for evening supper.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  For treat they had wild plums and crab-apples and tiny wild strawberries.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  She patted her black kid gloves, picked at a thread of her faded brown skirt, and sighed, "He's a good boy, and awful affectionate if you treat him right."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
7  But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
8  Before the autumn was over, she began to treat me more like an equal and to defer to me in other things than reading lessons.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
9  But he was older than she was, and he was too kind to treat her like that.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
10  Folks respected her industry and tried to treat her as if nothing had happened.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
11  Edna, anxious to entertain him, invited Mademoiselle Reisz to meet him, having promised him a treat in her piano playing; but Mademoiselle declined the invitation.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
12  This did not always work out in practice, however, for there was pretty sure to be a friend who would treat you, and then you would have to treat him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
13  And because this surgeon had to have bodies to demonstrate upon, he announced that he would treat the children of the poor, a piece of magnanimity over which the papers became quite eloquent.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  The packers need good men, and need them bad," continued the other, "and they'll treat a man right that stands by them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
15  He was one of those who could torture the slightest look, word, or gesture, on the part of the slave, into impudence, and would treat it accordingly.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (159 in 11 pages)
16  She was cooking fish as a treat.
17  No one knew how to treat this dreaded disease.
18  We are going to treat you like a king today.
19  It was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner.
20  She would willingly forgo a birthday treat if only her warring parents would declare a truce.
21  It's dreadful the way they treat their staff.
22  I feel nothing but contempt for people who treat children so cruelly.
23  The hospital has to treat emergencies such as car accidents.
24  I wasn't sure whether to treat her words as a jest.
25  Valium is usually prescribed to treat anxiety.
26  I should treat my family better.
27  The stigma of alcoholism makes it difficult to treat.
28  I like to give the girls a little treat every now and then.
29  This cream can be used to treat sundry minor injuries.
30  I love you like a god of plague and why I treat you like a lover.