TYPE in a Sentence

Learn TYPE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

228 example sentences for TYPE, such as:

1. Cotton is a type of material.
2. This sentence is in italic type.
3. Bob is a fine type of schoolboy.
4. A sauna is a type of steam bath.
5. He became a skid row type of drunkard.

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 Meanings and Examples of TYPE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
type
 n.  a category of things having common characteristics
 v.  write on a computer by pressing the keys
Classic Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
1  The lavender barred muslin was beautiful with those wide insets of lace and net about the hem, but it had never suited her type.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Her dress was of faded gingham of the type once worn only by house servants, and her sunbonnet was secured under her chin by a piece of twine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  Everyone knew that a woman of Belle's type couldn't have made enough money by herself to set up such a luxurious establishment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Usually the occupants of the rooms were former Confederate soldiers of the rougher, illiterate type, homeless men, men without families, beating their way about the country in hope of finding work.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
5  Rhett suggested "Caveat Emptorium," assuring her that it would be a title most in keeping with the type of goods sold in the store.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
6  She had never before known this type of fear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
7  She knew that Mr. Gryce was of the small chary type most inaccessible to impulses and emotions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
8  She had shown her artistic intelligence in selecting a type so like her own that she could embody the person represented without ceasing to be herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
9  He had seen men of Ned Van Alstyne's type bring their hats and sticks into a drawing-room, and he thought it added a touch of elegant familiarity to their appearance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
10  Mrs. Bogart was not the acid type of Good Influence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Within doors the appointments were perfect after the conventional type.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
12  Some of the young men you would take to be Americans, of the type of clerks, but for the fact that they wear their hats in the room.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  There had come a time when he had to set his own type, but he had held on and won out, and now his publication was an institution.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
14  He is a decent, intelligent fellow, distinctly a good, reliable type of workman, and with a headpiece of his own.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
15  We found Hildesheim in his office, a Hebrew of rather the Adelphi Theatre type, with a nose like a sheep, and a fez.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (161 in 11 pages)
16  This sentence is in italic type.
17  This type of sheet steel could stand high pressure.
18  She wanted a particular type of cactus.
19  I can't forgive that type of behaviour.
20  Cotton is a type of material.
21  I've already seen a few movies of this type.
22  A sauna is a type of steam bath.
23  For a while the children behaved well but they soon reverted to type.
24  Conditions after the war led to the emergence of a new type of political party.
25  He reordered two pairs of black leather shoes of the latest type.
26  The words in the definition are roman / are set in roman type.
27  We are looking for somebody with direct experience of this type of work.
28  Bob is a fine type of schoolboy.
29  He became a skid row type of drunkard.
30  This type of owl prefers a desert habitat.