ATTENUATE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for ATTENUATE, such as:
1. Register this attenuating circumstance.
2. In a forest, wet wood and needles attenuate the signals.
3. By withdrawing their forces, the generals hoped to attenuate the enemy lines.
2. In a forest, wet wood and needles attenuate the signals.
3. By withdrawing their forces, the generals hoped to attenuate the enemy lines.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ATTENUATE
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attenuate
v. make slender, fine, or small; weaken; lessen density of
Classic Sentence:
1 Generally when tomorrow came, the thought either did not occur at all or it was so attenuated by the delay it was not very troublesome.
2 How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely poring over his dead attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood.
3 His person, though muscular, was rather attenuated than full; but every nerve and muscle appeared strung and indurated by unremitted exposure and toil.
4 If she had had a little more self-control she would have attenuated the emotion to nothing by sheer reasoning, and so have killed it off.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
5 In the new path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating circumstances.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
6 Register this attenuating circumstance.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
7 Misfortune had struck them gracefully, cutting off their erratic histories with a catastrophic dash, instead of, as with many, attenuating each life to an uninteresting meagreness, through long years of wrinkles, neglect, and decay.
Example Sentence:
1 By withdrawing their forces, the generals hoped to attenuate the enemy lines.
2 In a forest, wet wood and needles attenuate the signals.