CRITICAL in a Sentence

Learn CRITICAL 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.
364 example sentences for CRITICAL, such as:
1. The inquiry was critical of her work.
2. The supervisor is always very critical.
3. He puckered his mouth with a critical air.
4. Tom's parents were highly critical of the school.
5. I need young critical things like you to punch me up.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CRITICAL
critical
 a.  forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
 a.  of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
Classic Sentence: (154 in 11 pages)
1  Miss Bart's immediate answer was to address a critical glance to the reflection of the countenance under discussion.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
2  When she was most ardently singing hymns or planning deviltry she yet seemed gently aloof and critical.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  I need young critical things like you to punch me up.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  But at this critical instant a sudden exclamation was heard that took every eye from the whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. The Mat-Maker.
5  But this critical act is not always unattended with the saddest and most fatal casualties.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 63. The Crotch.
6  This was a critical time in Jurgis' life, and if he had been a weaker man he would have gone the way the rest did.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
7  Each moment, however, pressed upon him a conviction of the critical situation in which he had suffered his invaluable trust to be involved through his own confidence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
8  Further words were unnecessary; for Hawkeye, merely uttering the mandate to "follow," moved along the route by which they had just entered their present critical and even dangerous situation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
9  Breathless with amazement, and heavily oppressed with the critical situation of his friend, Heyward recoiled before the look, trembling lest its meaning might, in some unknown manner, hasten the prisoner's fate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
10  Frequently over this tumult could be heard the grim jokes of the critical veterans; but the retreating men apparently were not even conscious of the presence of an audience.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  He puckered his mouth with a critical air.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  They were like critical shepherds, struggling with sheep.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
13  As she was also so white as not to be known as of colored lineage, without a critical survey, and her child was white also, it was much easier for her to pass on unsuspected.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  It's true," said St. Clare, "that Eva is very delicate, that I always knew; and that she has grown so rapidly as to exhaust her strength; and that her situation is critical.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  The plot was for Snowball, at the critical moment, to give the signal for flight and leave the field to the enemy.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Other insurers will allow you to bolt on critical illness cover to standard life cover.
2  His book provides a critical analysis of the television industry in Britain.
3  This view is contrary to the aims of critical social research for a number of reasons.
4  He is critical of the monks, whom he considers narrow-minded and self-righteous.
5  The inquiry was critical of her work.
6  Despite his great commercial success he still yearns for critical approval.
7  He remains in a critical condition in a California hospital.
8  The boy's condition has been downgraded from critical to serious.
9  He was taken off the critical list and is now in a stable condition.
10  He was in a critical condition, fighting for his life in hospital.
11  The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with.
12  The supervisor is always very critical.
13  Greg's tendency to be critical made him unpopular with his co-workers.
14  Despite the critical acclaim, the novel did not sell well.
15  Tom's parents were highly critical of the school.