AUGMENT in a Sentence
Learn AUGMENT 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.
43 example sentences for AUGMENT, such as:
1. s presence would do nothing to augment the effect of it.
2. Armies augment their forces by calling up reinforcements.
3. The augmentation of the army began along traditional lines.
4. The former Dantes proposed to augment, the latter to remedy.
5. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which occurred to him.
2. Armies augment their forces by calling up reinforcements.
3. The augmentation of the army began along traditional lines.
4. The former Dantes proposed to augment, the latter to remedy.
5. His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which occurred to him.
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Meanings and Examples of AUGMENT
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augment
v. grow or intensify
v. enlarge or increase
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1 They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, the wrongs are not increased by them.
2 They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing could augment, their most secret and most mysterious thoughts.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY
3 Absence, as is always the case in genuine and natural sentiments, had only served to augment the grandfather's love for the ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
4 The two bridges, situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in formidable wise through the arches.
5 The former Dantes proposed to augment, the latter to remedy.
6 In twenty minutes they were at Auteuil; the steward's emotion had continued to augment as they entered the village.
7 No small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.
8 The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.
9 She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.
10 Mrs. Norris, whose attachment seemed to augment with the demerits of her niece, would have had her received at home and countenanced by them all.
11 Meanwhile, at the other end of the town there was in progress an event which was destined to augment still further the unpleasantness of our hero's position.
12 s presence would do nothing to augment the effect of it.
13 Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.
14 His discomfort was augmented by all the reflections which occurred to him.
15 What augmented Father Gillenormand's secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and did not allow its existence to be divined.
Example Sentence:
1 Armies augment their forces by calling up reinforcements.
2 While searching for a way to augment the family income, she began making dolls.
3 The augmentation of the army began along traditional lines.