DISCOVER in a Sentence

Learn DISCOVER 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.
367 example sentences for DISCOVER, such as:
1. He's hexed to discover the antibiotics.
2. He was alarmed to discover that his car was gone.
3. The police could not discover who he was fronting for.
4. The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
5. Thus she chanced to discover that she had nothing to do.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DISCOVER
discover
 v.  find unexpectedly
 v.  make a discovery
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He opened the barn-door and craned his head into the obscurity, half-fearing to discover Denis Eady's roan colt in the stall beside the sorrel.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Then she would make him happy again by letting him discover that, popular though she was, she preferred him above any other man in all the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  Her heart racing, she leaned from the window, her ear cocked to the far-off roaring, trying to discover from which direction it came.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  There was something wrong with Wade, but just what it was Scarlett had no time to discover.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  She not only begrudged them every mouthful they ate but she was on tenterhooks lest they discover somehow that Pork had slaughtered one of the shoats the day before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  So he knew things about her own family which she had not troubled to discover.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  He was thunderstruck to discover that she could swiftly add a long column of figures in her head when he needed a pencil and paper for more than three figures.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  If only she could see him alone, perhaps she could discover the reason.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  Even though her husband was a sorry one, it was dreadful that the poor thing should discover he had been untrue to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
10  They stood silent for a while after this, smiling at each other like adventurous children who have climbed to a forbidden height from which they discover a new world.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
11  By turns she hoped to discover that she had an unusual voice, a talent for the piano, the ability to act, to write, to manage organizations.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  She had been frightened to discover how tumultuous a feeling could be roused in her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  In her affection for Raymie's defender, in her desire to "discover artistic talent," Carol prepared to be delighted by the recital.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  Thus she chanced to discover that she had nothing to do.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  But Carol could discover no more pictures nor interesting food nor gracious voices nor amusing conversation nor questing minds.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (157 in 11 pages)
1  In almost every face and every person, they may discover fine feathers and defects, good and bad qualities.
2  The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
3  The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
4  Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth discover virtue.
5  Man cannot discover new oceans unlehe has courage to lost sight of the shore.
6  The police could not discover who he was fronting for.
7  Scientists around the world are working to discover a cure for Aids.
8  Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
9  The police are trying to discover the identity of the killer.
10  He's hexed to discover the antibiotics.
11  She was surprised to discover he was perfectly capable around the house.
12  He was pleasantly surprised to discover that he was no longer afraid.
13  He was alarmed to discover that his car was gone.
14  It's exciting to discover traces of earlier civilizations.
15  Scientists are now trying to discover if this is possible.