DETAIL in a Sentence

Learn DETAIL 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.
420 example sentences for DETAIL, such as:
1. She told me every detail of her trip.
2. The results must be analysed in detail.
3. The illustration had too much redundant detail.
4. He was careful enough to check up every detail.
5. But you never did look at Vida Sherwin in detail.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DETAIL
detail
 n.  extended treatment of particulars
 v.  assign to a specific task
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  By the time Scarlett had undressed and blown out the candle, her plan for tomorrow had worked itself out in every detail.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  But the manner of telling him was a detail that troubled her not at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  His hand on the doorknob, he turned and looked at her, a long, desperate look, as if he wanted to carry away with him every detail of her face and figure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  She was bursting to relate it in detail, so she could ease her own fright by frightening the others.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
5  Mrs. Elsing reported the contribution and the conversation in detail to Mrs. Merriwether.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
6  The suddenness added to the horror; and there were still times when Lily relived with painful vividness every detail of the day on which the blow fell.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
7  There were moments when that day seemed more remote than any other event in her life; and yet she could always relive it in its minutest detail.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
8  But you never did look at Vida Sherwin in detail.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  She remembered, and tried to forget, and remembered more sharply the vulgar detail of her husband's having observed the ancient customs of the land by chewing tobacco.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  But after detached brown years in boarding-houses, Vida was hungry for housework, for the most pottering detail of it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  All professions have their own little peculiarities of detail; so has the whale fishery.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
12  Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail upon some few interior structural features.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
13  It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
14  Rudolph told his story in great detail, with occasional promptings from his mother or father.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
15  Never would Edna Pontellier forget the shock with which she heard Madame Ratignolle relating to old Monsieur Farival the harrowing story of one of her accouchements, withholding no intimate detail.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Once a girl has made it into the major league every detail is mapped out by her agency.
2  Our history teacher is always generalising;he never deals with anything in detail.
3  Our history teacher is always generalizing; he never deals with anything in detail.
4  I must correct some points of detail in your article on Barcelona.
5  The work had been done with painstaking attention to detail.
6  Block out this unimportant detail at the top of your picture.
7  She told me every detail of her trip.
8  He was careful enough to check up every detail.
9  Ensure that your diagrams contain the appropriate level of detail.
10  We shall treat this problem in greater detail when we define the major classes of political culture.
11  He will describe it in detail sight, smell, every-thing.
12  Parents should also be carefully questioned about how they are using it and should describe in detail what they do.
13  He insisted on describing his operation in graphic detail while we were eating lunch.
14  The results must be analysed in detail.
15  The illustration had too much redundant detail.