CONSIST in a Sentence

Learn CONSIST 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.
277 example sentences for CONSIST, such as:
1. The audience consisted mostly of women.
2. Health does not consist with intemperance.
3. The movie consisted of a series of flashbacks.
4. The performance consisted of dance, music and mime.
5. True education does not consist in simply being taught facts.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CONSIST
consist
 v.  be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous
 v.  originate (in)
Classic Sentence: (200 in 14 pages)
1  The access to the upper apartments in the tower which consist in all of four stories, is given by stairs which are carried up through the external buttresses.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
2  These stairs are a part of the bridge; they consist of three flights.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
3  His household used to consist of an elderly housekeeper, Mrs. Marker, and of a maid, Susan Tarlton.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
4  At dinner the conversation did not cease for a moment and seemed to consist of the contents of a book of funny anecdotes.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVIII
5  The whole family, whom he had formerly judged severely, now seemed to him to consist of excellent, simple, and kindly people.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIX
6  The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I
7  , in the recent war of Urbino; and yet, in every one of these instances, the victory remained with him who held the sinews of war to consist, not in money, but in good soldiers.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X.
8  And thus we see how natural freedom and subjection to parents may consist together, and are both founded on the same principle.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  The croquet party to which the Princess Tverskaya had invited Anna was to consist of two ladies and their adorers.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 17
12  That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Aeschylus, Dante, Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may consist.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
13  Especially in a court like this that seems to consist of nothing but woman-chasers.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
14  This idea tickled Jo's fancy and put her in good spirits, but Meg didn't brighten, for her burden, consisting of four spoiled children, seemed heavier than ever.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
15  we had another meal, consisting of a small mug of coffee, and half-a-slice of brown bread.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1  Health does not consist with intemperance.
2  Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
3  Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
4  Love doesn't consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
5  True education does not consist in simply being taught facts.
6  A home does not consist in the quality of its architecture and decoration.
7  A sudden renewed interest in action movies from the early nineties whose titles consist of three words, one of which is usually either “kill”, “law” or “justice”.
8  The destroyer's armament consist of several small cannon, two torpedo tube and a number of anti-craft gun.
9  A device consisting of a dial and an arrow that is spun to indicate the next move in some board games.
10  In geology and earth science, a plateau is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain.
11  A device for transmitting rotary motion, consisting of a handle or arm attached at right angles to a shaft.
12  A chord consisting of a root with its third, seventh, and ninth.
13  The audience consisted mostly of women.
14  The movie consisted of a series of flashbacks.
15  The performance consisted of dance, music and mime.