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400 example sentences for CONTAIN, such as:
1. He could hardly contain his fury.
2. It might contain something of value.
3. Her blood was found to contain poison.
4. This drink doesn't contain any alcohol.
5. Some mushrooms contain a deadly poison.
2. It might contain something of value.
3. Her blood was found to contain poison.
4. This drink doesn't contain any alcohol.
5. Some mushrooms contain a deadly poison.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CONTAIN
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contain
v. contain or hold; have within
v. include or contain; have as a component
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses.
2 Now, the coffer was too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
3 The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, traversed Fauchelevent's pupils.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
4 Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there leaps out from them a little being.
5 It was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers.
6 Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves.
7 There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson.
8 These immense enclosures alone can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable tranquillity.
9 Great griefs contain something of dejection.
10 Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean Valjean.
11 The joy which they contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
12 Thenardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
13 All that the heart of a woman could contain of haughty contempt and disdainful words, I poured out upon this man.
14 Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters.
15 If Elizabeth, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter, did not expect it to contain a renewal of his offers, she had formed no expectation at all of its contents.
Example Sentence: (190 in 13 pages)
1 The regional editions of the paper contain specific information for that area.
2 It might contain something of value.
3 I am a does not contain any additives lunatic.
4 Nebulae contain very large amounts of ionized gas.
5 Some mushrooms contain a deadly poison.
6 To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
7 Our products contain no artificial preservatives or colourings.
8 This brand of tinned food does not contain artificial coloring.
9 He could hardly contain his fury.
10 This drink doesn't contain any alcohol.
11 Doctors are struggling to contain the epidemic.
12 Her blood was found to contain poison.
13 The records contain the bank details of all employees.
14 UN peacekeepers are struggling to contain the escalating violence.
15 Most fertilizers contain nitrogen and phosphates.