CORRECTION in a Sentence
Learn CORRECTION 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.
246 example sentences for CORRECTION, such as:
1. Yes, that's basically correct.
2. Your clear reasoning is quite correct.
3. Please check that these details are correct.
4. Glasses can correct most errors in your vision.
5. It's not correct to describe them as 'students'.
2. Your clear reasoning is quite correct.
3. Please check that these details are correct.
4. Glasses can correct most errors in your vision.
5. It's not correct to describe them as 'students'.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Meanings and Examples of CORRECTION
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correction
n. a rebuke for making a mistake
n. the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
Classic Sentence: (168 in 12 pages)
1 Next to him stood a motorcycle policeman taking down names with much sweat and correction in a little book.
2 After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction.
3 The very years she spoke of, were realities now, for my correction; and would have been, one day, a little later perhaps, though we had parted in our earliest folly.
4 A man like Danglars was wholly inaccessible to any gentler method of correction.
5 Sir, I do not deny the justice of your correction, but the more severely you arm yourself against that unfortunate man, the more deeply will you strike our family.
6 On Thursday it's the natives of Peru require protection and correction; we give 'em what's due.'
7 At length these subjects displayed signs of being thoroughly exhausted; and Mr. Chitling did the same: for the house of correction becomes fatiguing after a week or two.
8 Her cousin had shrunk into a corner of the settle, as quiet as a mouse, congratulating himself, I dare say, that the correction had alighted on another than him.
9 If my view of the case is correct, and I have every reason to believe that it is, this man would rather risk anything than lose the ring.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
10 There was the dead dog, however, to prove that his conjecture had been correct.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
11 Henceforward the farm was to be known as "The Manor Farm"--which, he believed, was its correct and original name.
12 I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate.
13 He hath since come to England, unexpected by his brethren," said Ben Israel; "and he cometh among them with a strong and outstretched arm to correct and to punish.
14 But the housekeeper had served Sir Geoffrey for many years, and the dried-up, elderly, superlatively correct female you could hardly call her a parlour-maid, or even a woman.
15 They're the mingiest set of ladylike snipe ever invented: full of conceit of themselves, frightened even if their boot-laces aren't correct, rotten as high game, and always in the right.
Example Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1 The correction of composition took a large part of the teacher's time.
2 The paper had to publish a correction to the story.
3 After more than two weeks of strong share-price gains that an analyst deemed "confounding," Twitter stock seemed to reach a correction stage Friday, with shares plunging 13 percent.
4 The committee lacked a correct estimate of his ability.
5 His analysis of urban use of agricultural land has been proved essentially correct.
6 What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.
7 Further information is required to determine the correct answer in any given instance.
8 I must correct some points of detail in your article on Barcelona.
9 You cannot automatically assume that everything your teacher says is correct.
10 Glasses can correct most errors in your vision.
11 Yes, that's basically correct.
12 Please check that these details are correct.
13 Please check over the speech draft and correct the mistakes, if any.
14 Your clear reasoning is quite correct.
15 It's not correct to describe them as 'students'.