ABOVE in a Sentence

Learn ABOVE 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.
155 example sentences for ABOVE, such as:
1. Her coat blouses above the hip.
2. He raised his arms above his head.
3. Our plane is flying above the clouds.
4. Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
5. Health and strength is above all gold.
Search Quotes from Classic Book
Animal Farm by George Orwell
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of ABOVE
above
 ad.  at an earlier place
 ad.  in or to a place that is higher
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
2  Among these there was one which attracted my mother far above all the rest.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  Roger Chillingworth possessed all, or most, of the attributes above enumerated.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
4  He had not seen me then above twice, for it was before I left school.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
5  I lived rough, that you should live smooth; I worked hard, that you should be above work.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
6  At first, I kept above Blackfriars Bridge; but as the hours of the tide changed, I took towards London Bridge.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
7  By that time the river had lifted us a little, so that we could see above the bank.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
8  As long as her poor dear pretty was above the ground, she said, she would never desert her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
9  Love was above all earthly considerations, and I loved Dora to idolatry, and Dora loved me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
10  Nothing seemed to have survived that time but Agnes; and she, ever a star above me, was brighter and higher.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 60. AGNES
11  The year came round to Christmas-time, and I had been at home above two months.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
12  But one face, shining on me like a Heavenly light by which I see all other objects, is above them and beyond them all.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. A LAST RETROSPECT
13  He could not believe that what gave such great and delicate pleasure to him, and above all to her, could be wrong.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 16
14  As for me, every word was a new heap of fetters, riveted above the last.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
15  There, in the remote heights above, a mysterious change had been accomplished.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
Example Sentence: (92 in 7 pages)
1  Write to the above address, enclosing an sae.
2  Detach the lower part of the form from this letter and return it to the above address.
3  Health and strength is above all gold.
4  Never think yourself above your business.
5  Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
6  There is no wealth above the wealth of health.
7  Her new book is several notches above anything else she has written.
8  We looked up at the rocky peaks towering above us.
9  We gave them two tons over and above the amount agreed to.
10  Language has elevated humans above the other animals.
11  He raised his arms above his head.
12  Our plane is flying above the clouds.
13  There was an inch-long gash just above his right eye.
14  Her coat blouses above the hip.
15  They finished the year six places above their local rivals.