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For VERSION, below is one of 109 sentences:
Cranly's speech, unlike that of Davin, had neither rare phrases of Elizabethan English nor quaintly turned versions of Irish idioms.

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 Meanings and Examples of VERSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
version
 n.  written work in a new form; edition; interpretation of a particular viewpoint
Classic Sentence:
1  And it had suddenly occurred to her that Rosedale, who had surprised Trenor's confidence, was the fitting person to receive and transmit her version of the facts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
2  Instantly the vision was gone; Carol was back in the long darkness; and Kennicott was giving his version of that fire and wonder: "No."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  Carol was very sick at this version of Fern's eager youth, but she was sicker as Mrs. Bogart hinted that no one could tell what had happened between Fern and Cy before the drive home.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  He has just as many thoughts as we have, and I want him to develop them, not take Gopher Prairie's version of them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  Dinah gave a very garrulous version of it, to which Tom added the particulars which he had drawn from her that morning.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  The homely version of his christian name on the lips of his friend had touched Stephen pleasantly when first heard for he was as formal in speech with others as they were with him.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  In the end he had got mixed up in some shady affair, some money transaction: at least, that was one version of his flight.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
8  The men asked him to give his version of it, and he did so with great vivacity for the sight of five small hot whiskies was very exhilarating.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
9  "Thou art as a lion of the waters, and as a dragon of the sea," saith Ezekiel; hereby, plainly meaning a whale; in truth, some versions of the Bible use that word itself.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling.
10  Cranly's speech, unlike that of Davin, had neither rare phrases of Elizabethan English nor quaintly turned versions of Irish idioms.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  He immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the abduction of a child.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
12  Although that does not mean I've abandoned what I thought earlier as the two versions are, to some extent, not incompatible.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
Example Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
16  A new version of the dictionary has been got out.
17  You will need to supply a hard copy version of all files.
18  Click on the thumbnails to view a larger version of each image.
19  You can make a reduced fat version of the cheesecake by using cottage cheese instead of cream cheese.
20  They're now shipping their long-awaited MS-DOS version of the X-Window System.
21  Some journalists have cast doubt on the authenticity of the official version of events.
22  The part of the film judged to be pornographic was cut from the final version.
23  The distributors will probably bump up the price of the software when the next version is released.
24  Some of the language in the original play has been toned down for the television version.
25  He could not get a single witness to establish independent corroboration of his version of the accident.
26  It's a jazzed up version of an old tune.
27  He looks uncommonly like a younger version of his father.
28  The band does a lively cover version of "Johnny B.
29  He stood up and rendered a beautiful version of 'Summertime'.
30  The original version of the text has been pruned quite a bit.