DAUGHTER in a Sentence

Learn DAUGHTER 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.
328 example sentences for DAUGHTER, such as:
1. My daughter has to wear a brace on her teeth.
2. Her daughter is an artist and her son is on the stage.
3. And at that point I announce that my daughter is dying.
4. We are happy to announce the engagement of our daughter.
5. Why, that scheme of carrying off the Governor's daughter.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DAUGHTER
daughter
 n.  a female human offspring
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The Governor's wife added a word or two, and then carried off her daughter to speak to some of the other guests.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
2  Indeed, his rudeness soon reached the pitch of his walking away altogether, in order that he might go and reconnoitre wither the Governor's wife and daughter had retreated.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
3  However, Chichikov slipped past the mazurka dancers, and, almost treading on their heels, made his way towards the spot where Madame and her daughter were seated.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
4  On perceiving an empty chair beside the mother and daughter, he hastened to occupy it, and though conversation at first hung fire, things gradually improved, and he acquired more confidence.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
5  Why, that scheme of carrying off the Governor's daughter.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
6  Finally, Chichikov sniffed into his superior's family and domestic life, and learnt that he possessed a grown-up daughter on whose face also there had taken place a nocturnal, diabolical grinding of peas.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
7  "Ulinka, this is Paul Ivanovitch," said the General, turning to his daughter.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
8  In fact, the house shook with his merriment, so much so that the butler and his daughter came running into the room in alarm.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
9  Meanwhile Nikolai Petrovitch had already, in his parents' lifetime and to their no slight chagrin, had time to fall in love with the daughter of his landlord, a petty official, Prepolovensky.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Her husband had long been dead, leaving her an only daughter, Fenitchka.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  One morning, Arina came into his study, and bowing low as usual, she asked him if he could do anything for her daughter, who had got a spark from the stove in her eye.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  "If I were a father and had a daughter, I believe I should love my daughter more than my sons, really," I began indirectly, as though talking of something else, to distract her attention.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
13  I knew a father who was a stern, austere man, but used to go down on his knees to his daughter, used to kiss her hands, her feet, he couldn't make enough of her, really.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
14  The one whom the daughter loves always seems the worst to the father, you know.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
15  The officers and the people are all out on the street and I set the fashion for them and the merchant's daughter and I flirted.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
Example Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
1  I hope at least my daughter was able to offer you some useful pointers.
2  They leave their daughter alone in the house on weekdays.
3  My little daughter has already smartened up for the evening party.
4  We are happy to announce the engagement of our daughter.
5  Mr and Mrs James are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Henrietta.
6  And at that point I announce that my daughter is dying.
7  Her daughter is an artist and her son is on the stage.
8  My daughter, praise the serendipity of genetics, is at ease in a troop.
9  He claims he's a big drinker, but even his daughter could drink him under the table.
10  It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.
11  Using his daughter's case as a jumping-off point, he described a justice system that ignores the rights of the victim.
12  My daughter has to wear a brace on her teeth.
13  Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can.
14  He erected a monument on the spot where his daughter was killed.
15  Her elder daughter, in whom she placed the greatest trust, failed to match her expectations.