COMBINATION in a Sentence

Learn COMBINATION 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.
176 example sentences for COMBINATION, such as:
1. You can't get no better combination than that.
2. His character is a combination of wit and kindness.
3. The two players together make a formidable combination.
4. The fleet is manoeuvring in combination with the air unit.
5. Political leadership needs a particular combination of skills.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of COMBINATION
combination
 n.  the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
 n.  an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1  Accompanying him also were the smells of chewing tobacco, well-oiled leather and horses--a combination of odors that she always associated with her father and instinctively liked in other men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Formerly he had the same combination of servility and impertinence which Wilkerson possessed but now, with Mr. Calvert and Raiford dead in the war and Cade sick, he had dropped all servility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  You can't get no better combination than that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  Perhaps it was this combination that brought back her old nightmare that evening, for she awoke, cold with sweat, sobbing brokenly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
5  Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
6  It was a peculiar combination of old-maidishness and licentiousness that made Cutter seem so despicable.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
7  In the city there was a combination of employers, representing hundreds of millions of capital, and formed for the purpose of crushing the labor unions.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
8  The law forbade prostitution; and this had brought the "madames" into the combination.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
9  They were a gigantic combination of capital, which had crushed all opposition, and overthrown the laws of the land, and was preying upon the people.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
10  I was sometimes prompted to take my life, and that of Covey, but was prevented by a combination of hope and fear.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  There was a curious red and black combination of new blood and old blood upon it.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
12  His intention had been to be absent a year at the most, but a combination of unforeseen circumstances prevented his leaving the mines for nearly five.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
13  Nor must I delay too long to bring my writing to an end; for if my narrative has hitherto escaped destruction, it has been by a combination of great prudence and great good luck.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
14  Just when his mother was beginning to tolerate one scheme he had introduced another still bitterer than the first, and the combination was more than she could bear.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
15  Now, a private pen or ink-bottle is seldom allowed to be in such a state, and the combination of the two must be quite rare.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  It is the combination of wit and political analysis that makes his articles so readable.
2  The two players together make a formidable combination.
3  His treatment was a combination of surgery, radiation and drugs.
4  The fleet is manoeuvring in combination with the air unit.
5  This standard ensures the unit is waterproof and so prevents an accidental, and potentially fatal, combination of water and electricity.
6  A combination of factors may be responsible for the increase in cancer.
7  His character is a combination of wit and kindness.
8  The city offers an appealing combination of sporting and cultural events.
9  This combination of qualities is generally supposed to be extremely rare.
10  Problems may involve complexity, criticality, conflict or indeed a combination of these problem types.
11  Technology and good management:a winning combination.
12  This combination of cheese and apples is not an invention of the north of England.
13  Political leadership needs a particular combination of skills.
14  After running through the numbers in every possible combination, we finally hit on a solution.
15  We face a combination of changes in underlying conditions not seen in almost a century.