DESIGN in a Sentence

Learn DESIGN 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.
368 example sentences for DESIGN, such as:
1. His design in publishing this work.
2. The design certainly looks good on paper.
3. He approached me to create and design the restaurant.
4. The magazine will appear in a new design from next month.
5. It is the first car of its type to have this design feature.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DESIGN
design
 v.  intend or have as a purpose
 v.  plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect
Classic Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1  I only entertained the intention for a moment; for, not being insane, the crisis of exquisite and unalloyed despair, which had originated the wish and design of self-destruction, was past in a second.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  He accounted it a pity that so fine and talented a young man should have formed the design of going out as a missionary; it was quite throwing a valuable life away.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  But these are not Jane's feelings; she is not acting by design.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  "I see your design, Bingley," said his friend.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  I am far from attributing any part of Mr. Bingley's conduct to design," said Elizabeth; "but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
6  That he had been concerned in the measures taken to separate Bingley and Jane she had never doubted; but she had always attributed to Miss Bingley the principal design and arrangement of them.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 33
7  He left Netherfield for London, on the day following, as you, I am certain, remember, with the design of soon returning.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35
8  Since such were her feelings, it only remained, he thought, to secure and expedite a marriage, which, in his very first conversation with Wickham, he easily learnt had never been his design.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52
9  I am perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had any design of engaging my affection.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 54
10  The people had notice, by proclamation, of my design to visit the town.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV.
11  The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII.
12  I set up my sail, the wind being fair, with a design to reach the nearest of those islands, which I made a shift to do, in about three hours.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
13  Their design was to turn pirates and, plunder the Spaniards, which they could not do till they got more men.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I.
14  His design in publishing this work.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XII.
15  He came to the university with the design of making himself complete master of the oriental languages, and thus he should open a field for the plan of life he had marked out for himself.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He devoted a major section of his massive report to an analysis of US aircraft design.
2  The magazine will appear in a new design from next month.
3  They've copied the basic design from the Japanese model and added a few of their own refinements.
4  The basic design of the car is very similar to that of earlier models.
5  It is the first car of its type to have this design feature.
6  Its design makes it suitable for the computerphobe who just wants to type and see something come out looking right.
7  They wanted to design a machine that was both attractive and practical.
8  Trace around your template and transfer the design onto a sheet of card.
9  The design certainly looks good on paper.
10  She now had to transfer her design skills to a commercial environment.
11  They've gingered up the book cover with a new design, but the contents are the same.
12  The design company is planning to join up with a shoe manufacturer and create a new range of footwear.
13  He approached me to create and design the restaurant.
14  The questionnaire is to test customer reaction to the new store design.
15  Every artist should be allowed to design the retrospective box set that will define a lifetime, as has Santana.