WINDOW in a Sentence

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396 example sentences for WINDOW, such as:

1. A window slammed shut in the wind.
2. The window was unclosed by someone.
3. A cat was basking on the window sill.
4. I dragged the chair over to the window.
5. There is something wrong with this window.

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 Meanings and Examples of WINDOW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
window
 n.  an opening in a wall that admits light and air
 n.  a separate area on a computer screen that shows information and can be moved around
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I walked over to the window, and stood looking out into the busy street.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  The solitary window was so dirty that the light was hazy and uncertain, giving a dull grey tinge to everything, which was intensified by the thick layer of dust which coated the whole apartment.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  I was knocked all in a heap therefore at seeing a light in the window, and I suspected as something was wrong.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
4  Looking through the window I could see her walking feebly along the other side, while her pursuer dogged her some little distance behind.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
5  The window of the room was open, and beside the window, all huddled up, lay the body of a man in his nightdress.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
6  Then, with an inarticulate roar of fury, the prisoner wrenched himself free from Holmes's grasp, and hurled himself through the window.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
7  The other, a bull-necked youth with coarse bloated features, was standing in front of the window with his hands in his pocket, whistling a popular hymn.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
8  There are two ways out of the room," cried Ferrier; "there is the door, and there is the window.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
9  The front and back entrances are watched, but with caution we may get away through the side window and across the fields.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
10  The lights inside the house had all been extinguished, and from the darkened window Ferrier peered over the fields which had been his own, and which he was now about to abandon for ever.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
11  Opening the window very slowly and carefully, they waited until a dark cloud had somewhat obscured the night, and then one by one passed through into the little garden.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
12  Once a bullet whistled through Stangerson's window and flattened itself upon the wall within a foot of him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
13  It was but a glance of a face in a window, but that one glance told him that Cleveland in Ohio possessed the men whom he was in pursuit of.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
14  It chanced, however, that Drebber, looking from his window, had recognized the vagrant in the street, and had read murder in his eyes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
15  When I looked in at the window, I found Drebber all huddled together in a drunken sleep.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
Example Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
16  The top of the tree is level with his bedroom window.
17  You can watch the trains going by from this window.
18  There is something wrong with this window.
19  Glass motioned to him to wind down the window.
20  A window slammed shut in the wind.
21  The lamp in the window shone away for hours.
22  A cat was basking on the window sill.
23  The window was unclosed by someone.
24  The sparrows chirp outside the window every morning.
25  I looked out of the window but saw nothing.
26  The detective examined the window frame for fingerprints.
27  All the articles in the window are dummies.
28  Sounds of cheering filtered in through the closed window.
29  I dragged the chair over to the window.
30  The burglar got into the house through the bedroom window.