CONTAINER in a Sentence
Learn CONTAINER 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.
400 example sentences for CONTAINER, such as:
1. Check the container for cracks or leaks.
2. Store the cake in an airtight container.
3. He drained all the old oil out of the container.
4. First, you have to drain the container of all the old oil.
5. The flat contained the basic essentials for bachelor life.
2. Store the cake in an airtight container.
3. He drained all the old oil out of the container.
4. First, you have to drain the container of all the old oil.
5. The flat contained the basic essentials for bachelor life.
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Meanings and Examples of CONTAINER
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container
n. any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for respectable people.
2 He drew from his secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the elections.
3 As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes.
4 He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him a strange and bitter aftertaste.
5 The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of Theramene, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders great services to judicial eloquence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
6 The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though they had contained but one soul.
7 She clasped her hands with an expression which contained all that is possible to prayer in the way of violence and tenderness.
8 All this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
9 Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in a scabbard.
10 This terror was the result of the quantity of revolution which was contained in him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
11 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...
12 This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
13 Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and shallots.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE...
14 The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it contained all the violence of voluptuousness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
15 The first story contained, as we have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited.
Example Sentence: (190 in 13 pages)
1 Many towns allow recyclable items to be commingled for collection in a single container.
2 Check the container for cracks or leaks.
3 Ask the children to guess what's in each container by dipping their hands in.
4 Heat the liquid in a large, wide container rather than a high narrow one, or it can boil over.
5 He drained all the old oil out of the container.
6 First, you have to drain the container of all the old oil.
7 Store the cake in an airtight container.
8 Store the peppercorns in an airtight container and grind the pepper as you need it.
9 Your owner's handbook for your car or motorbike probably tells you to use DOT3 or DOT4 from a sealed container.
10 After you sterilize the bandages, place them in a container and seal it with a hermetic seal to protect them from contamination by airborne bacteria.
11 For the last thirty-two days Nur Malena Hassan has been living in a three-by-four-meter glass container in a shopping centre, sharing it with six thousand poisonous arachnids.
12 Analysis of the wine showed that it contained dangerous additives.
13 She identified the bag as hers by saying what it contained.
14 The flat contained the basic essentials for bachelor life.
15 That small room contained the sum total of the family's possessions.