APPLIED in a Sentence

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310 example sentences for APPLIED, such as:
1. He has applied to join the army.
2. He applied to become an American citizen.
3. But as applied by whalemen, it becomes so.
4. She applied to the manager for a job as clerk.
5. He's applied for admission to the local college.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of APPLIED
applied
 v.  be pertinent or relevant or applicable
 v.  avail oneself to
Classic Sentence: (181 in 13 pages)
1  It seemed very natural in the case of her mother and father, but she had never applied it to herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  The reason he had applied for transfer to the front, despite his useless arm, was that he realized, as the civilian population did not, the seriousness of the situation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  As they dashed down the street and bumped over the railroad tracks, Rhett applied the whip automatically.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  He laughed and applied himself hungrily to the cold corn pone and cold turnip greens on which congealed grease was thick in white flakes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  He had never had the term "nigger" applied to him by a white person in all his life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  He was aware that the qualities distinguishing her from the herd of her sex were chiefly external: as though a fine glaze of beauty and fastidiousness had been applied to vulgar clay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
7  It seemed to her natural that Lily should spend all her money on dress, and she supplemented the girl's scanty income by occasional "handsome presents" meant to be applied to the same purpose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  We will not speak of all Queequeg's peculiarities here; how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks, done rare.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
9  But as applied by whalemen, it becomes so.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
10  Seating himself in a wicker rocker which was there, he once more applied himself to the task of reading the newspaper.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In I
11  It was porkmaking by machinery, porkmaking by applied mathematics.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  The scout applied his fingers to his mouth, and raised a low hissing sound, that caused Duncan at first to start aside, believing that he heard a serpent.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
13  Heyward seized the paddle, and applied himself to the work with an eagerness that supplied the place of skill, while Hawkeye was engaged in inspecting the priming of his rifle.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
14  Hawkeye and the Mohicans now applied themselves to their task in good earnest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
15  Additional pursuers were sent on the trail of the fugitives; and then the chiefs applied themselves, in earnest, to the business of consultation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
Example Sentence: (129 in 9 pages)
1  The nurse applied pressure to his arm to stop the bleeding.
2  I applied for the post and was asked to attend an interview.
3  A voltage is then applied across the cell electrodes.
4  Greenpeace applied for a judicial review to challenge the court's decision.
5  He applied to become an American citizen.
6  He's applied for admission to the local college.
7  This concept has been applied successively to painting, architecture and sculpture.
8  Gradient elution chromatography was applied to determine the ginsenoside contents in Shengmai injections.
9  If the law is to be effective it must be applied equitably.
10  The taxpayer contended that the definition applied only to transactions which included an element of bounty.
11  Research opportunities exist in a wide range of pure and applied areas of entomology.
12  She was treated with scorn and ridicule by her colleagues when she applied for the job.
13  It's surprising how many people applied for the job.
14  He has applied to join the army.
15  She applied to the manager for a job as clerk.