UNLESS in a Sentence

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For UNLESS, below is one of 263 sentences:
What she meant was, change had to come, unless things were perfect; in which case she supposed they resisted Time.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNLESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unless
 conj.  except if;
 conj.  except on the condition that
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  My health forbade me from venturing out unless the weather was exceptionally genial, and I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Surely no man would work so hard or attain such precise information unless he had some definite end in view.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
4  To-morrow is your last day, and unless you act to-night you are lost.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
5  There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
6  It is seldom that any man, unless he is very full-blooded, breaks out in this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the criminal was probably a robust and ruddy-faced man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
7  It would take till midnight unless they skipped.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
8  What she meant was, change had to come, unless things were perfect; in which case she supposed they resisted Time.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
9  We were shown, unless I mistake, the effort renewed.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
10  I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hide-bound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
11  If the same annual compliment would be acceptable there, why, I see nothing to part us, unless you do.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
12  I shall disclose some of his opinions of you, privately expressed to me, unless he relents a little.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
13  It contained neither secret passage nor trap-door, and unless where the door by which she had entered joined the main building, seemed to be circumscribed by the round exterior wall of the turret.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  I shall settle it for them both," replied Front-de-Boeuf; "they shall hang on the same gallows, unless his master and this boar of Coningsburgh will pay well for their lives.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  I expect little aid from their hand," said Front-de-Boeuf, "unless we were to hurl them from the battlements on the heads of the villains.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
16  These plans are unlikely to find favour unless the cost is reduced.
17  The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge.
18  Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
19  An employee is not eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has been with the company for two years.
20  Scientists are warning that unless carbon emissions are cut, we could be heading for an environmental catastrophe.
21  You'll fail in French unless you work harder.
22  You will fail unless you work hard.
23  Law can nerver be enforced unless fear supports it.
24  He could find himself making enemies as well as friends unless he proceeds with the utmost caution.
25  No man can be a good ruler unless he has first been ruled.
26  I tend to forget things unless I mark them down.
27  He had realized that Britain could not have peace unless she returned at least some of her former conquests.
28  None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.
29  They don't want to draw on the fund unless they have to.
30  His kidnappers have threatened that they will kill him unless three militants are released from prison.