CHARACTER in a Sentence

Learn CHARACTER 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.
363 example sentences for CHARACTER, such as:
1. Wealth is the test of a man's character.
2. We made a careful analysis of his character.
3. The value of culture is its effect on character.
4. It takes strength of character to admit you are wrong.
5. A man's own manner and character is what most becomes.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CHARACTER
character
 v.  engrave or inscribe characters on
 n.  an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Now, a real German invariably prints in the Latin character, so that we may safely say that this was not written by one, but by a clumsy imitator who overdid his part.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
3  He had SEEMED to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
4  In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
5  "He don't seem a very popular character," observed the latter.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
6  Utterson became so used to the unvarying character of these reports, that he fell off little by little in the frequency of his visits.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
7  I have been a determined character in later life, and I suppose I was then.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
8  His character was not unkind, all things considered; it might have been a very kind one indeed, if he had only made some round mistake in the arithmetic that balanced it, years ago.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
9  With this impression of her interesting character upon her, Mrs. Sparsit considered herself, in some sort, the Bank Fairy.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
10  When the first hour was out, Stephen even began to have an uncomfortable sensation upon him of being for the time a disreputable character.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
11  I have no further trust, than that I know something of her character and her marriage.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
12  He shall come back of his own accord to clear himself, and put all those that have injured his good character, and he not here for its defence, to shame.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
13  It was not difficult to ascertain the condition and character of one of these personages.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  Yet so loose were the ideas of the times respecting the conduct of the clergy, whether secular or regular, that the Prior Aymer maintained a fair character in the neighbourhood of his abbey.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  Prior Aymer, therefore, and his character, were well known to our Saxon serfs, who made their rude obeisance, and received his "benedicite, mes filz," in return.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
Example Sentence: (153 in 11 pages)
1  Wealth is the test of a man's character.
2  John is on equal terms with Dick, either in ability or in character.
3  It takes strength of character to admit you are wrong.
4  The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy- bearing agent to the world.
5  We made a careful analysis of his character.
6  It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
7  The author characterized the leading character in the novel as a dauntless hero.
8  The renovated buildings retain their traditional character.
9  The value of culture is its effect on character.
10  A man's own manner and character is what most becomes.
11  We may not be white is not pro but can be very character.
12  Charles was an odd character whom Kelly had never really taken to.
13  His wife was the direct inspiration for the main character in the book.
14  Education commences at the mother's knee, andevery word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character.
15  Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.